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,…
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Interview Podcast
From Beach Boys to Tangerine Dream: Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters in Echoes Podcast
Hear Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters Interview in the Echoes Podcast. 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Best Of
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…
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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…
CD of the Month
Darshan Ambient’s Little Things
Darshan Ambient’s Little Things – The Echoes CD of the Month for September Hear it featured Labor Day Evening on Echoes In the days before YouTube, iTunes and most other on-line music sources, Darshan Ambient was a minor star at mp3.com, the renowned legal music download site. He released his music there and garnered nearly…
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Echoes Interview: Northcape’s Spacescapes
Hear an interview with English electronic artist Northcape tonight Back in the early 1960s, Bell Laboratory’s inventor, Max Mathews created a lot of the early synthesizer and computer music technology. His program called Music was one of the first for making music on computers. He predicted that in the future, anyone, musicians and non-musicians alike, …