Get your Game controller ready for 43 years of Tron. We’ll hear from Wendy Carlos’s original 1982 Tron score, the 2010 for Daft Punk Tron Legacy and finally the new Nine Inch Nails Tron: Ares.
Music by 9 Theory and Torii Wolf from their collaboration, Soft Realms. 9 Theory is producer Gabe Lehner and Torii Wolf is a singer and producer who comes out of the Massive Attack mold.
Bluetech has been a major figure in electronic music for all of the 21st century. His new album, Spacehop Chronicles 2, is a signature release and the Echoes October CD of the Month.
Weekend listeners hear original tracks from Ludovico next to remixes by Leo Einaudi. Then we hear both album sides of Edgar Froese’s Epsilon in Malaysian Pale on its 50th Anniversary.
The return of Ancient Future. The band that coined the term World Fusion in 1978 has their first significant release in nearly 25 years. I talk to founder and guitarist Matthew Montfort.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, melodic ambient music from C37. He’s an English electronic musician with a penchant for streamlined grooves and lyrical melodies. We’ll hear from his album Beautiful Beginnings.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear a pioneer of electronic music in film, John Carpenter. The director of Halloween, Escape from New York, and Vampires also scores most of his films.
World fusion from Ravi Kulur and Barry Phillips. Kulur plays bansuri flute and Phillips plays cello, an instrument he’s used in folk music, jazz and new age music in the past.
Air’s Moon Safari album gets an epic and ambient rework by Vegyn. It’s called Blue Moon Safari. Vegyn maintains the downtempo mood of the original but takes it into new atmospheres.