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Wax Tailor discusses his origins as a DJ and the expansive themes of his music.
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12 Months of Echoes CD Picks
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…
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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.
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Jeff Pearce in Echoes Podcast
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Jeff Pearce talks about taking piano lessons from Phillip Aaberg and developing his own unique voice.
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Philip Selway’s Weatherhouse CD of the Month
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…
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Horror Soundtrack Master Alan Howarth in Echoes Podcast
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Alan Howarth is best known for working with director John Carpenter in the 1970s on films like the Halloween sequels, Christine and Escape From New York.
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Thierry David – Hypnosis Echoes October CD of the Month
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Thierry David’s Electronic Hypnosishttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/MesmerizingSpirals.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear Thierry David’s Hypnosis Tonight on Echoes. I first heard about French synthesist Thierry David around 1993 when another electronic musician, Robert Rich, played some of David’s music for me. It turned out, David had been recording electronic music for several years already, but he…
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William Orbit in Echoes Podcast
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Interview: William Orbit. https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-WilliamOrbit2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Electronic provocateur William Orbit has crafted electronic hits for Madonna (Ray of Light) and Britney Spears (“Alien“) but on his own he creates sometimes quirky, often profound, electronic songs. He’s just released the fifth volume of his Strange Cargo series and a symphonic work. They’re…
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Richard Leo Johnson’s Alien Guitars in Echoes Podcast
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Ambient Americana and Aliens from Fingerstyle Guitar Masterhttps://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-RichardLeoJohnson2014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRichard Leo Johnson is an idiosyncratic guitarist who pushed the limits of Michael Hedges-style extended technique before going completely out there with an Americana music of the imagination. His new album, Celeste, posits the idea of an alien abduction as one…