Opia by aeseaes, the Echoes July CD of the Month, leads the Top 25 list, with Mark Dwane, Quiet Resonance and Marcator, and 21 other great CDs, right behind.
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Echoes Top 25 July: aeseaes at the Top
Tag: Space Music
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Thursday, Aug 21, 2025 – New Music from Hollie Kenniff
We hear new music by Hollie Kenniff. She’s the singer in the dreampop duo Mint Julep with her husband, Keith Kenniff. On her solo album For Forever, she goes purely ambient.
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Monday, Aug 18, 2025 – Harmonia’s Deluxe
It’s the 50th Anniversary of Deluxe, the Second album by the German Trio Harmonia. Consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster and Michael Rother of Neu
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Weekend, Aug 16-17, 2025 – Klaus Schulze’s Timewind
It’s the 50th Anniversary of Timewind, the 1975 album by Klaus Schulze that helped launch a new genre in electronic music. We’ll hear a documentary & a good helping of this expansive album.
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Thursday, Aug 14, 2025 – Music from C37
New music by C37. That’s the moniker of British electronic artist Paul Cudby, who has been making chilled vignettes for a few years now. He has a new album, Into Thin Air.
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Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 – Music from AeTopus
New music by AeTopus from Bellingham, Washington. His latest album takes electronics into off-center rhythms and melodies that begin in abstraction and evolve into quiet grandeur.
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Monday, Aug 11, 2025 – Klaus Schulze’s Timewind
It’s the 50th Anniversary of Timewind, the 1975 album by Klaus Schulze that helped launch a new genre in electronic music. We’ll hear a documentary & a good helping of this expansive album.
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5 Best Mark Dwane CDs
Mark Dwane, who died in July 2025, was an architect of sonic delights, a composer of epic adventures and a guitar-synth master. Here are five of his best recordings.
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Obituary: Mark Dwane 1954-2025
Mark Dwane is a guitar-synthesist who created music of orchestral grandeur from another planet. He’s now gone at the age of 70, leaving a trove of cinematic music.
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Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025 – Japanese Breakfast and More
New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).