Arcade Fire’s energetic new music video, “Creature Comfort”, explores themes of image and fame with a retro-80s synthwave sound that includes key-tar and metallic suits.
Reviews & Commentary
New Video from Arcade Fire- “Creature Comfort”
Tag: synthesizer
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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Yasmine Hamdan
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Yasmine Hamdan is a Lebanese born singer and musician who takes her Arabic culture and infuses it with the influences of everyone from the Cocteau Twins to Prince, Arabic pop to new electronic music.
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Monday June 12th, 2017-Echoes Program 1724A
We talk with Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. With music born in the Lebanese civil war, and a nomadic life since childhood, she’s created an Arab electronica that transcends worlds.
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.
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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.
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Thursday, June 1st, 2017-Echoes Program 1722D
Fall into a dream on the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. We’ll explore this psychedelic classic with originals and a covers recreation.
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Weekend, May 27 & 28, 2017-Echoes Program 1721A
Suzanne Ciani was a leading figure in New Age music with albums like Velocity of Love and Pianissimo. But behind her sweet, classically derived melodies was an avant-gardist who came of age with the Buchla modular synthesizer in the 1970s.
Reviews & Commentary
Washout 80’s Video Collage for “Get Lost.”
Things were certainly strange 35 years ago in southern California, the cultural milieu that populates the new video by Washed Out. It’s called “Get Lost” and you’ll get lost in it’s animated imagery.