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Pierre Henry virtually invented the idea of sampling. Just using phonograph recordings, many of them custom made, he sampled the world and turned it into what became musique concrète.
Tag: electronic
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Thursday August 10th, 2017-Echoes Program 1732D – Echoes
We talk with Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. With music born in the Lebanese civil war, and a nomadic life since childhood, she’s created an Arab electronica that transcends worlds.
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2017-Echoes Program 1732C – Echoes
Tom Eaton is best known as an engineer of acoustic albums for Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. But on his own, he plugs into his room of synthesizers to create ambient dreamscapes.
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2017-Echoes Program 1732B – Echoes
Coming up on Echoes, the mystical dream pop sound of Falling You. Headed up by multi-instrumentalist John Michael Zorko Falling You is more of a collective than a band with guest singers and lyricists.
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Weekend, August 5 & 6, 2017-Echoes Program 1731A – Echoes
Synthwave is all the rage in electronic circles. On the next Echoes, two musicians with a direct lineage to that sound, Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss. Each is a solo artist and a member of Tangerine Dream.
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017-Echoes Program 1731C – Echoes
50 years ago, Pink Floyd blew the minds of the London underground with their debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In a Flashback 50, we talk to Floyd drummer Nick Mason who takes us back to the seminal days of this iconic rock group from sonic experiments to chemical experiments.
Reviews & Commentary
Klaus Schulze’s 70th Birthday. Still Plugged In – Echoes
An Explorer of Sound, Klaus Schulze turns 70To those of us who came up listening to electronic music in the 1970s, Klaus Schulze was an icon. The German musician tapped directly into the growing electronic gestalt and created the template of electronic music that many, to this day, are employing. His name has faded in…
CD of the Month
August 2017 CD of the Month: Quaeschning & Schnauss
German duo and Tangerine Dream members Ulrich Schnauss & Thorsten Quaeschning create a state-of-the-art sequencer excursion called “Synthwaves.” It’s the Echoes August CD of the Month.
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 – Echoes Program 1729B
On their seventh album, Silver Eye, the English duo, Goldfrapp tackle themes of musical and sexual transformation. They talk about their metaphysical and electronic journey on Echoes.
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Weekend, July 15 & 16, 2017-Echoes Program 1728A
Lewis Scaife grew up on Hip-Hop, but when he started recording as Nym, he found a gentler, more trippy and surreal sound, mixing environmental samples and his own electronic sounds.