The Best Albums of 2023 on Echoes. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. It was hard to choose just 30!
Best Of
The Best Albums of 2023 on Echoes
Tag: downtempo
Playlists
Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 – Echoes Program 2349C
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.
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Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023 – 12 CDs of Christmas
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards from December.
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Echoes Top 25 November: Kevin Keller at the Top
Kevin Keller’s Evensong leads the Echoes Top 25 for November, followed by Russell Walder, Brannan Lane, John Gregorius, & Sean O’Bryan Smith and 22 more great albums.
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Friday, Dec 15, 2023 – Anna: The Echoes Interview
We hear electronic sounds from Brazil when we talk to Anna. She’s creating ambient music after a career in thumping techno. Her album Intentions revels in serene melodic cycles.
Playlists
Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023 – Echoes Program 2348C
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.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023 – New Music from David Holmes
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.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023 – New Music from Niecy Blues
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.
Playlists
Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023 – Echoes Program 2346B
Mimi Page is an auteur of electronic dream pop and a composer of video game scores. But her new album, Sound Healing Vol One takes her in a more meditative direction. We talk to her on Echoes.
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Wednesday, Nov 22, 2023 – New Music from Moby
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.