Brian Eno’s 70th Birthday is celebrated on Echoes with a feature profile interview and two hours of Eno’s music from solo albums to collaborations, from ambient to beyond.
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Tag: Cluster
Interview Podcast
Cavern of Anti-Matter in the Echoes Podcast
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Cavern of Anti-Matter is a group steeped in analog synthesizers and worships at the electronic altar of 70s German groups like Neu! Harmonia, Cluster and Can. We talk to band leader Tim Gane about plugging in to the sound of his youth.
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Cluster’s Dieter Moebius Unplugs – R.I.P.
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Dieter Moebius was a founding member of influential German bands Cluster and Harmonia, creating a sound that was known as Krautrock and collaborating with Brian Eno. Moebius died on July 20 at the age of 71. We go back to an interview with Moebius and bandmate Hans-Joachim Roedelius from 1996.
Program Highlights
Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole: Clustered Commotions.
Hear the Echoes Interview with Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole in the Echoes Podcast. In alternative rock circles, German bands from the 1980s are considered pioneers of sound. Kraftwerk, Can, Neu, Harmonia and Cluster are consistently name-checked by everyone from David Bowie and Brian Eno to Stereolab and Radiohead. Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a founding member…
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Lloyd Cole & Hans-Joachim Roedelius.
It’s A Meeting of an 80s’s Rocker and 70′ Electronic Pioneer. Tonight on Echoes, Cluster‘s (or Qluster) Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Lloyd Cole talk about their electronic collaboration. In alternative rock circles, German bands from the 1980s are considered pioneers of sound. Kraftwerk, Can, Neu, Harmonia and Cluster are consistently name-checked by everyone from David Bowie…
Interview Podcast
Shoegaze Ambience with Manual – Echoes Podcast
Interview with Jonas Munk a.k.a Manual in Echoes Podcast In the early 2000’s a new sound in electronic music emerged. It mixed German Space and Progressive Rock, with Shoegaze guitar and contemporary Electronica. Two of the leading lights in this sound were Manual and Ulrich Schnauss. Manual is Danish musician Jonas Munk and he’s carved…
Reviews & Commentary
Conrad Schnizler Unplugs: R.I.P. 8/4/2011
Conrad Schnitzler, a founding member of both Tangerine Dream and Cluster has passed at the age of 74. Schnitzler was one of the true conceptualists of electronic music . He was a member of Tangerine Dream on on their debut album, Electronic Meditation and founded Kluster with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. They switched their…
Reviews & Commentary
Cluster Converges and The Foundry Founders
Some bands last for the long haul, some labels struggle. Philadelphians got a surprise performance from the legendary German electronic band Cluster this past Saturday at St. Mary’s Parish Hall as part of The Gatherings series. The show was originally billed as a concert by Tim Story, Dwight Ashley and original Cluster member Hans-Joachim Roedelius…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for July: Marconi Union first Download recording to crack Top 5
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20080730.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAmbient chamber music still dominates the Echoes Top 25 for August, but for the first time, a download only album cracks the the Echoes Top 5. That CD is the purely ambient A Lost Connection by Marconi Union. Their album, Distance, from 3 years ago was among our…