The 19th Icon of Echoes, Kraftwerk. We’ll hear from founder Ralf Hutter as well as Moby, Jean-Michel Jarre, Orbital and Conny Plank, looking back on a band that altered the course of music.
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Wednesday, Apr 28, 2021 – 19th Icon Kraftwerk
Tag: synthesizer
Playlists
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 – Echoes Program 2115C
We flip the switch on Jean-Michel Jarre, the 17th Icon of Echoes. He brought electronic music to global popularity with his 1977 album, Oxygene, bringing the space music sound to new audiences.
Playlists
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021 – Echoes Program 2115B
Digitonal’s Set the Weather Fair was one of Echoes’ Top five Albums of 2020. Andy Dobson and Dom Graveson talk about their merging of classical moods and electronic ambiences and grooves.
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Monday, Apr 26, 2021 – Shpongle Interview
We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. They talk about their hallucinogenic sound and their deep music backgrounds.
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Weekend, Apr 24-25, 2021 – London Grammar & Desensitized
We hear from London Grammar, the seductive and serene dream pop band. The group talks about the explorations of love and politics that suffuse their new recording, Californian Soil.
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Friday, Apr 23, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation, and Tom Holkenborg, a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Grandbrothers/Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy
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Tuesday, Apr 20, 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.
Playlists
Weekend, Apr 3-4, 2021 – Programs 2113A & 2113B
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
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Friday, Apr 16, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Mark Dwane has an album called Future Tense that features his guitar actually sounding like a guitar sometimes. We’ll also hear from the collection Imaginational Anthems Volume 10, Overseas Edition.