Chuck Van Zyl is a veteran of the Philly electronic music scene and the host of WXPN’s Star’s End who creates his spacescapes live in the moment. Watch him do it in this fascinating video.
Day equals night. Winter is Melting. Spring is Blooming. Even if those last two aren’t true yet, Echoes has a soundscape to make you think so as we celebrate the Vernal Equinox.
Composer Nils Frahm creates a melodically layered and rhythmically driven live performance that’s a meeting of Tangerine Dream, minimalism and ambient moods at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
The Nightcrawlers were the reluctant leaders of a Philadelphia music scene that tapped the sounds of German space music. An album of their 1980s cassette releases has just been issued. We dig back to an interview with these lost pioneers of electronic space.
Echoes turns emerald green for our annual St. Patrick’s exploration of all things Celtic. We’ll hear music by Enya, Moya Brennan, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, and more
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The United States of America created one of the definitive psychedelic albums in the winter of 1968. In the Echoes Podcast we hear interviews with band members on its 50th anniversary.
We’ll hear new music by Steve Dinsdale from Radio Massacre International. It’s called Light & Dark and it’s an odyssey of electronic influences from Can to Cluster. We’ll also go Gothic, with several tracks inspired by the sounds from the Middle Ages. John Diliberto has it coming up on Echoes.
Overcoats are a folktronica duo making a deep and beautifully harmonized sound on their debut album, Young. We talk to Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell from the band on Echoes.
The Nightcrawlers were the reluctant leaders of a Philadelphia music scene that tapped the sounds of German space music. An album of their 1980s cassette releases has just been issued. We dig back to an interview with these lost pioneers of electronic space.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark were among the biggest of the first wave of English synthpop artists. In the Echoes Podcast, they take us to the beginning and the future.