Category: Program Highlights

Best of Echoes 2014

Best of Echoes 2014

Today we unveil the Best of Echoes 2014. It’s a list that draws from across the Echoes spectrum, revealing the eclectic sound of the show within our framework of chilled moods.

12 Months of Echoes CD Picks

A Look Back at CD of the Month Picks for 2014Tonight on Echoes we look back at our 12 CD of the Month selections.  We’ll be playing two tracks from each spread out over the two hours of Echoes tonight.  Here they all are with links to their reviews, tracks and videos. January: Hammock Oblivion…

Echoes Top 25 for November 2014

Philip Selway - Weatherhouse

Philip Selway & Wax Tailor Lead Echoes November Top 25ECHOES TOP 25 FOR NOVEMBER 2014 Philip Selway – Weatherhouse (Sony Music Entertainment) Wax Tailor – Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra (Le Plan)  Tim Farrell – Cascadia (Tim Farrell)  Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier – Moderato Cantabile (ECM New Series)  Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek)  Chad Lawson – The Chopin Variations (Hillset)  Bonobo – The North Borders…

Wax Tailor’s Trip-Hop Symphony

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…

250 Albums for 25 Years of Echoes

Top 250 Albums

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…