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…
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 talk about the art of improvised ambience on their CD, Slant of Light.
Today we unveil the Best of Echoes 2014. It’s a list that draws from across the Echoes spectrum, revealing the eclectic sound of the show within our framework of chilled moods.
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Wax Tailor discusses his origins as a DJ and the expansive themes of his music.
A Look Back at CD of the Month Picks for 2014Tonight on Echoes we look back at our 12 CD of the Month selections. We’ll be playing two tracks from each spread out over the two hours of Echoes tonight. Here they all are with links to their reviews, tracks and videos. January: Hammock Oblivion…
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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Lorin Ashton talks about the genesis of Bassnectar, and his latest album, Noise vs Beauty.
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Jeff Pearce talks about taking piano lessons from Phillip Aaberg and developing his own unique voice.
Philip Selway is the drummer from Radiohead, but that information does little to prepare you for the sensitive, gentle songs of broken love and redemption that populate his second solo album, Weatherhouse. Even his first album, the more folk inclined Familial, won’t set you up for the lush textures and seductive melodies he conjures. Weatherhouse…