For most people, the lineage of DJ scratching begins about 1982 with artists like hip-hop DJ’s Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. Those are the roots of French DJ/Producer Wax Tailor. But he’s also part of a much longer DJ tradition that goes back to fellow Frenchmen, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer. In the 1940s they…
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Lorin Ashton talks about the genesis of Bassnectar, and his latest album, Noise vs Beauty.
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Jeff Pearce talks about taking piano lessons from Phillip Aaberg and developing his own unique voice.
As we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Albums. Here’s the complete list. You can hear the top 25 of them on the Wednesday, November 19 Echoes broadcast. If you’re a subscriber to Echoes Online, you can hear all 250 in a series of “Wordless Echoes” streams. Rank Artist…
Echoes Top 25 for October, 2014Does it get any more eclectic than this? 70s space rockers from Germany, minimalist dream-poppers from Austin; a DJ turned electro-folky from England, ambient chamber music from America, and new classical chamber music from Europe, acoustic guitarist from Doylestown, an electro-lounge player self-releasing his music and a drummer from one…
Philip Selway is the drummer from Radiohead, but that information does little to prepare you for the sensitive, gentle songs of broken love and redemption that populate his second solo album, Weatherhouse. Even his first album, the more folk inclined Familial, won’t set you up for the lush textures and seductive melodies he conjures. Weatherhouse…
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Alan Howarth is best known for working with director John Carpenter in the 1970s on films like the Halloween sequels, Christine and Escape From New York.
Echoes Listeners Pick 25 Icons of EchoesAs we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Artists. Herewith, 25 ICONS OF ECHOES Hear them all tonight on Echoes. 1 Steve Roach 2 Brian Eno 3 Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard 4 Robert Rich 5 Tangerine Dream 6 Patrick O’Hearn 7 Loreena McKennitt 8 …
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We talk with cello goddess, Maya Beiser, about her music for power cello.
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Low Roar talks with John Diliberto about the influence of Iceland on his already San Francisco-chilled sound.