Deep southern electronica from Niecy Blues. This South Carolina artist creates surreal soundscapes of R&B, hip hop, downtempo and ambient music for her album, Exit Simulation.
Moby covers a song by Cream, and it’s not one of the big ones. He takes a haunting track from Disraeli Gears and turns it slowcore. We’ll also hear something from Beautiful Chorus.
Techno DJs Felsmann & Tiley take the ambient classical pill and dial up a cinematic electronic sound on their second album, Protomensch. They explore the idiocy and ingenuity of mankind.
New music by Thunder Bae. That’s an electronic artist and singer from Düsseldorf, for whom synthesizers and computers are native instruments. We’ll hear her debut album, A Woman.
On the next Echoes, Glasgow singer Alex Amor from her debut, Heavenly Bodies. And we’ll hear the cello extended into minimalist variations by Caspar Claus from his album, Cells.
The Echoes CD of the Month takes us deep into meditative sounds. World flutist Peter Phippen & electronic artist Eric “the” Taylor create a journey of improvisations in alien soundscapes.
Steve Hackett and Steve Rothery are best known for their tenures with Genesis and Marillion. They come together on the all-instrumental release, The Roaring Waves.
Music from the atmospheric guitar ensemble Explosions in the Sky. We’ll listen back to an ominously-titled album called End. We found a cinematic track on this rocking release.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Kinobe channels 60s instrumental film sounds on his album, Over the Horizon. We’ll also hear Jeff Oster’s downtempo, low-fi ambient jazz.
David Holmes is a longtime giant of electronic music and a prolific film composer. He teams up with singer Raven Violet to create a politically-charged album, Blind on a Galloping Horse.