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.
Reviews & Commentary
Holger Czukay-Five Essential Albums
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018-Echoes Program 1816B
Holger Czukay was master of sound collage, and a founding member of iconoclastic Krautrock band Can. A collection of the late musician’s solo works has recently been released. We profile this brilliantly eccentric musician.
Playlists
Monday, April 16th, 2018-Echoes Program 1816A
Mark Peters is the guitarist and leader of the dreamy shoegaze band Engineers, but on his own, he creates a more ambient, instrumental sound.
Playlists
Weekend, April 14 & 15, 2018-Echoes Program 1815A
We go inside the emotions of an assisted suicide when we talk to the English duo, Solomon Grey. On their poignant new album, “Human Music”.
Playlists
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018-Echoes Program 1815C
Soundtrack composer Mac Quayle plugs in for the cyber-soundtrack of TVs, Mr. Robot, the dark, sci-fi dystopian drama. We talk to him about electronic music of a disturbed mind.
Playlists
Monday, April 9th, 2018-Echoes Program 1815A
We go inside the emotions of an assisted suicide when we talk to the English duo, Solomon Grey. On their poignant new album, “Human Music”.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Brian Eno & Vangelis
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On the 40th Anniversary of Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports” and the 75th birthday of Vangelis we look back at these two iconic composers with interviews in the Echoes Podcast.
Playlists
Friday, April 6th, 2018-Echoes Program 1814E
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by the Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society with a remix of Cloudface. We’ll also hear the dubstep influenced sound of Mystral.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for March: Winterlight Wakes Up on Top
Echoes Top 25 for March is topped by our March CD of the Month, Winterlight’s The Longest Sleep Through the Darkest Days. It’s followed by Freya Ridings and Moby with April’s CD of the Month.
CD of the Month
Echoes April Cd of the Month: Moby
Moby creates an anthem for our times with Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. It’s an apocalyptic lament and plea It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for April.