We celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance. Released in 1974, it was Schulze’s third release and the first to see him moving in the direction of music for which he’s best known.
Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.
Loreena McKennitt revisits her classic album, The Mask and Mirror. She’s currently touring that album in Europe, and released a live album from 1994 on the original’s 30th anniversary.
Moby’s Play turns 25. This influential landmark album remains an important signpost of electronic music and electronic pop and “Porcelain” might be the first standard of electronic pop.
Tori Amos’ Unrepentant Geraldines turns 10. We talked to Tori in 2014, and we revisit that interview to go behind the songs of Unrepentant Geraldines, which now has a new deluxe edition.
We have one conversation with a trio that has released an album called Seven Conversations. They are Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton. We talk to them about improvising in ambient space.
The August CD of the Month is the debut recording of Jaymie Rose Hennegan. She has spun an album of delirious sequencers and free-form synth solos, improvised live on the album, Transition.
Jaymie Rose Hennegan takes us into deep space with her debut Transition, a double CD of 2 live performances created in the moment with no computers. It’s Echoes August CD of the Month
An over-five-hour uninterrupted instrumental soundscape featuring spacemusic inspired by the futuristic vision of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, including music by Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and many more recordings, old and new.
Electronic artist Tim Blake was there at the beginning, playing synth for space rockers Gong and Hawkwind and launching his own project of synthesizers and lasers, Crystal Machine.