FEATURED THIS WEEK:

Tuesday 01/10/06
ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH: BLUETECH - SINES AND SINGULARITIES
Bluetech is a Bay Area laptop composer whose latest album, SINES AND SINGULARITIES (Aleph-Zero Records) is a delirious ascent into electro-ambient designs, full of fractured melodies and kinetic, dub-inflected rhythms. With its endlessly shifting refractions, sound patterns and grooves are twisted in ecstatic, prismatic turns. It's our first CD of the Month for 2006.

Wednesday 01/11/2006
DEAN DE BENEDICTIS: DIGGING BELOW THE SURFACE
Dean De Benedictis makes an introspective brand of electronica full of literary and mystical references. He records under his own name and as Surface 10 and has also started an electronic community in Los Angeles called the Fateless Flow Collective. His latest CD, SALVAGING THE PAST (Spotted Peccary) is a recording of emotional resonance as De Benedictis looks back at his music, fusing elements of German space music, glitch electronica, operatic vocals and his Native flutes. In his studio, with jets from LAX overhead and Rte 405 outside his window, De Benedictis reflects on his latest album.

Thursday 01/12/06
A LIVING ROOM CONCERT WITH VIC HENNEGAN
It doesn't take a lot of equipment to be an electronic musician these days. Which is why Vic Hennegan can take over his tiny dining area just off his galley kitchen in Los Angeles and set up his gear. That's where he sat to play a Living Room Concert for Echoes. Vic Hennegan grew up on the progressive rock of Genesis and space music by Tangerine Dream that he heard on the local college station, WXPN. For the last several years, he’s been working in Los Angeles, creating music from techno grooves to ambient chill. His latest album is DESERT GOD (Space for Music). Vic Hennegan plays live, on Echoes.

Playlists for previous weeks can be found at our Playlists Archive.

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