We pick out our favorite Echoes albums from the first half of 2017. The Top 25 includes progressive rock icons, electronic icons, New Age Icons and Bands who have just released their debut albums.
Best Of
The Best of Echoes 2017. . . . So Far
Tag: Space Music
Playlists
Thursday June 22nd, 2017-Echoes Program 1725D
Tangerine Dream created their first film score in 1977 for Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin. Friedkin later said he would’ve used the Dream for The Exorcist if he’d known about them.
Playlists
Wednesday, June 21st, 2017-Echoes Program 1725C
Bathe in the warmth of music sunshine on an Echoes Summer Solstice Soundscape. Echoes takes through you the summer as we track the midnight sun and explore the sounds of the season.
Playlists
Friday June 16th, 2017-Echoes Program 1724E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, electronic composer Richard Bone from his Age of Falconry. And Bluetech returns with The 4 Horsemen of the Electrocalypse-The Black Horse.
Playlists
Friday June 9th, 2017 – Echoes Program 1723E
On the next Echoes we look to the skies with Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly when we hear music from their album, Planetarium. We’ll also hear music from singer-songwriter Lexie Roth, daughter of guitarist Arlen Roth.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Tom Eaton Engineering Ambience
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Tom Eaton is an acclaimed engineer and producer of acoustic music who also harbors a love of electronic music from Tangerine Dream to Tim Story. It comes out in a pair of ambient albums.
Program Highlights, Reviews & Commentary
New Video from Enter Shikari- Supercharge ft. Big Narstie
UK Electronic Punks Shakiri create riotous new animated video for their song “Supercharge” featuring rapper ft. Big Narstie, a proponent of Grime discovered on the internet.
Playlists
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017-Echoes Program 1723B
Tom Eaton is best known as an engineer of acoustic albums for Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. But on his own, he plugs into his room of synthesizers to create ambient dreamscapes.
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for May 2017: Space, Blues & Dreams
Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren’s electronic road trip, We Never Came to the White Sea leads Echoes May Top 25 followed by the airy pop of Wilsen and the deep ambient blues of Maggie Koerner.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Suzanne Ciani Returns to Electronic Music
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After abandoning synthesizers for many years, Suzanne Ciani has returned to electronic music, creating improvisations on her first electronic instrument, the Buchla Modular Synthesizer.