OnDeadWaves self-titeled CD of the Month debut Leads the Echoes Top 25 for July and ex-Tangerine Dreamer Peter Baumann’s first album in 33 years makes the Top 10
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Echoes Top 25 for July 2016
Tag: electronica
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016-Echoes Program 1631C
On the next Echoes, a new generation of space musicians when we talk to Ascendant. They’re an electronic duo out of California who have been releasing albums of melodic electronics.
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2016-Echoes Program 1630C
The French duo called Air is both retro and “moderne,” chilled pop and ambient lounge. They created a splash in 1998 with their album, Moon Safari In 2004 they came to Echoes to play music from that album and The Virgin Suicides soundtrack.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2016-Echoes Program 1627C
The Album Leaf was among the first ambient rock groups. They have a new album coming but we go back to a 2010 performance on Echoes.
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Echoes Top 25 for June 2016
In Echoes Top 25 for June, Aukai’s debut recording leads the way. It was also the Echoes CD of the Month. He’s followed by SHEL – Just Crazy Enough, Emmy the Great – Second Love, and Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River. See the complete list.
Reviews & Commentary
Aphex Twin “CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ]” Video
Aphex Twin’s first video in 17 years was directed, edited, and produced by a 12-year-old. It’s for a downtempo track from his forthcoming EP, Cheetah.
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2016-Echoes Program 1624B
Dave Preston is a guitarist who makes the kind of ambient guitar music that would find him in the company of Robert Fripp, Jeff Pearce or Ashra, but that same music also found him in the company of Justin Timberlake.
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Echoes Top 25 for May 2016
Hammock’s Echoes CD of the Month, “Everything and Nothing” leads the Echoes Top 25 for May, followed by Haroula Rose’s “Here the Blue River,” Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise” and Radiohead’s “A Moon Shaped Pool.” See the complete list.
Reviews & Commentary
Echoes CD of the Month Bonus 1 of 3: Jean-Michel Jarre’s Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
Famed French synthesist Jean-Michel Jarre of “Oxygene” fame releases second volume of electronica collaborations with Artists ranging from Cyndi Lauper to The Orb.
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Deborah Martin in the Echoes Podcast
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Deborah Martin’s new album Eye of the Wizard is inspired by supernatural myths, but she used to be a country singer. She talks about going from country to cosmic in Echoes Podcast