Holger Czukay was a music renegade who studied with Stockhausen, co-founded the German rock group Can, and pioneered sampling before samplers influencing a generation of artists.
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Holger Czukay-Five Essential Albums
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Vangelis’ Ten Best Albums on his 75th Birthday
Vangelis is an icon of electronic music and his influence remains pervasive. On his 75th Birthday, we select 10 of his Essential CDs that represent the breadth of this dynamic composer.
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Chuck Van Zyl Live Video
Chuck Van Zyl is a veteran of the Philly electronic music scene and the host of WXPN’s Star’s End who creates his spacescapes live in the moment. Watch him do it in this fascinating video.
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Nils Frahm Live at Union Transfer 03-7-2018
Composer Nils Frahm creates a melodically layered and rhythmically driven live performance that’s a meeting of Tangerine Dream, minimalism and ambient moods at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
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Sheila Chandra’s New Voice
Sheila Chandra was one of the greatest voices of our generation. Her albums on Real World were signposts of global music in the 1990s. She can’t sing anymore, but her mind is still at work.
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Ghost Bands: The Wilted Flower Power Cruise
The trend of ghost bands from the 60s, groups with one or none of the original members touring as if they were the original band, isn’t new, but the Flower Power Cruise takes it to extremes.
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Guitarist Kaki King’s “Bruises” Video.
Guitarist Kaki King is turning out to be one of the most innovative musicians of the last quarter century. See her new video for the song, “Bruises” which goes deeper than that.
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Flashback 50: Steppenwolf and The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes and Steppenwolf both released albums in January 1968. One has classic tracks the other aspires to the classic. Read about them in a Flashback 50.
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A Flash of the Spirit-50 Years Later
Spirit was a psychedelic group who released their debut album 50 years ago. It still sounds like a new world of music 5 decades later. Read about this sometimes forgotten band.
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New Video from Air’s JB Dunckel
The French duo Air has been pretty quiet this decade but keyboardist and singer JB Dunckel has a new dreamy single out for the song “Hold On” ahead of of his album, H+.