The New Age Grammy category is always the hardest to figure out. Every year there are obvious choices I think should win. Yet last year, in what had been one of the best collection of nominees in a while with Brian Eno, Kitaro, R. Carlos Nakai and Peter Kater, an unknown and relatively unheard nominee, Laura…
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Remembering Edgar Froese in Echoes Podcast
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/EchoesPodcast-EdgarFroese-TangerineDream.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe Remember Edgar Froese in Echoes Podcast Listen to the interview below or download the podcast from iTunes I first heard Tangerine Dream in 1974. It was the album Phaedra, and it was unlike anything I had ever heard before: no vocals, no songs, rhythms that throbbed like galactic rubber bands,…
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The Dream is Over: Edgar Froese R.I.P.
Hear our tribute to Edgar Froese tonight on Echoes. I first heard Tangerine Dream in 1974. It was the album Phaedra, and it was unlike anything I had ever heard before: no vocals, no songs, rhythms that throbbed like galactic rubber bands, textures that swirled, and sounds that were completely unfamiliar. My music world was forever changed. Now…
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New Music from Purity Ring
Purity Ring Slip Another Album on Their Fingers Purity Ring are a Canadian electronic music duo originally from Edmonton with singer Megan James and electronic musician Corin Roddick. I saw them at the Mountain Oasis Music Festival in 2013 where they were a last minute replacement for Tricky. Although they were dwarfed by the large…
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Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler in Echoes Podcast
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Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler talk about the art of improvised ambience on their CD, Slant of Light.
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Wax Tailor in Echoes Podcast
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Wax Tailor discusses his origins as a DJ and the expansive themes of his music.
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Wax Tailor’s Trip-Hop Symphony
For most people, the lineage of DJ scratching begins about 1982 with artists like hip-hop DJ’s Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. Those are the roots of French DJ/Producer Wax Tailor. But he’s also part of a much longer DJ tradition that goes back to fellow Frenchmen, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer. In the 1940s they…
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Bassnectar Bombs the Echoes Podcast
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Lorin Ashton talks about the genesis of Bassnectar, and his latest album, Noise vs Beauty.