Vangelis is an icon of electronic music and his influence remains pervasive. As we celebrate his anointment as the 6th Icon of Echoes, we select 10 of his Essential CDs.
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Vangelis: Ten Essential Albums from an Icon of Echoes
Tag: Space Music
Playlists
Tuesday, Jan 19, 2021 – Echoes Program 2103B
Dave Bessell talks about his dark electronics. He is part of Node with producer Flood, and collaborates with the Greek electronic artist, Parallel Worlds. They have a new album, Phosphene.
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Monday, Feb 1, 2021 – Time Traveler’s CD of the Month
Head into the future with Time Traveler, aka Eleon. His Time Traveler debut album, Sky Falter is a melodic meeting of downtempo and space music and it’s the February CD of the Month.
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Weekend, Jan 30-31, 2021 – Desensitized Interview
Desensitized is the collaboration between electronic artists Deborah Martin and Dean De Benedictus. Then music from Grandbrothers, where all the sounds originate from a single grand piano.
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Thursday, Jan 28, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear music by electronic artist Craig Padilla and guitarist Marvin Allen. Their album Strange Gravity taps into a retro-space music sound.
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Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021 – Klaus Schulze, Icon of Echoes
The 7th Icon of 30 Icons, German electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze. We’ll look back across his career with interviews and his epic, synthesizer spacescapes.
Playlists
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021 – Echoes Program 2102C
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numuen. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
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Monday, Jan 25, 2021 – Desensitized Interview
We get Desensitized. That’s the name chosen for the collaboration between melodic electronic artist Deborah Martin and experimental electronic artist Dean De Benedictus.
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Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 – Icon of Echoes Vangelis
The 6th of 30 Icons, Vangelis. We’ll hear a profile of the legendary Greek electronic artist who won the first Oscar for an electronic film score for Chariots of Fire.
Playlists
Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021 – Echoes Program 2101C
Erik Wøllo & Michael Stearns talk about their debut collaboration, Convergence. This Echoes September CD of the Month emerged from dreams, brain tumors and pandemic.