Tag: electronica

Transmissions: Echoes Living Room Concerts V19

https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/NearLight.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSINCOMING MESSAGE: TRANSMISSIONS: THE ECHOES LIVING ROOM CONCERTS VOLUME 19 TRANSMISSIONS is a collection of live Echoes performances that shows Echoes moving into the future in our 25th year.  It’s a merging of electronic, new acoustic, dream pop and ambient chamber music.  This is the center of Echoes.…

Gary Numan Splinters – zerO One Codes on Echoes

On Echoes today, new music from Gary Numan.  While everyone was looking the other way, the creator of “Cars,” one of the signature songs of the 80’s New Wave, (and the whipping boy for everyone who hated that music) has forged a new identity merging metal and electronics into songs that are by turns aggressive…

Moby’s Innocents Echoes CD of the Month.

Moby Scores Echoes CD of the Month Hat Trick with Innocents. Hear Moby’s Innocents Featured Tonight on Echoes. I don’t know if Moby intended it this way, but Innocents sounds like the conclusion of a trilogy, joining Wait for Me and Destroyed, his two previous albums.  As on those recordings, Moby plays the ambient song-smith,…

Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters on Echoes

Hear Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters Interview Tonight on Echoes. It’s been an Ulrich Schnauss year here at Echoes.  He had a CD of the Month in February this year with A Long Way to Fall and we interviewed him as well.  Then he played live for us in early September and now he’s back…

Pure Bathing Culture Live on Echoes

Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Plays Live on Echoes Tonight. Tonight on Echoes, it’s dream pop from Portland when we hear Pure Bathing Culture playing live.  The band is fronted by singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman.  On their album, Moon Tides they merge 60s girl group harmonies with 80s electro-pop in a…

New Moby, Tired Pony, Cranium Fizz

The Mind Bubbles Tonight on Echoes Moby has a new CD out called Innocents that finds him pursuing the more personal style of song-writing he’s explored on albums like Destroyed  and Wait for Me.  He collaborates with several singers including UK singer, Cold Specks who we’ll hear tonight.  Tired Pony is the semi-supergroup headed up…

New Music from Austra & Dead Beat Project

Tonight on Echoes, Austra & Dead Beat Project. New music from Austra, the Canadian band fronted by the powerful voice of Katie Stelmanis, from their new album Olympia, I love her voice.  So many singers we love on Echoes barely project beyond the microphone, but I always feel like you could hear Katie Stelmanis shouting…

Greatest Songs of the 21st Century… So Far: An Idiosyncratic List.

The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium.  Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks.  But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia.  This time, the impossible assignment…

Akara – Music from Other Worlds.

“There are other worlds they have not told you about.  They wish to speak to you.” -Sun Ra Hear Akara Interviewed On Echoes Tonight The band called Akara has returned from another trip to other dimensions with a new CD The World Beyond.  Their previous CD, Extradimensional Ethnography, was an Echoes CD of the Month…