A Journey through the music of #16 among 20 Icons of Echoes. While so many electronic musicians have headed off into the drone zone of sonic abstraction, Mark Dwane is an artist who still believes in the power of melody, the grandeur of a big crescendo and the stories held within a dramatic turn. His…
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MOOGFest
MOOGfest, a festival celebrating the invention of Robert Moog will be taking place October 29-31 in Asheville, NC. It’s being produced by the same people who produce Bonnaroo and the early line-up suggests it might be a little more mainstream than I’d like. Hopefully they’ll expand their musical horizons a bit. Good opportunity to have…
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TEN TANGERINE DREAM ALBUMS TO BLOW YOUR MIND
We pick ten favorite albums from over a hundred by legendary German electronic band, Tangerine Dream.
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Four Switched-On Masterworks from Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos did much more than just record Switch-On Bach. She created some of the most inventive and influential albums of the 20th century. Here’s four of them.
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Echo Location: Robert Moog’s 75th
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090520.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEchoes celebrates Moog synthesizer inventor Robert Moog‘s 75th Birthday You can hear an audio version of this blog with music here. In the front room of his London home, Mark Shreeve of the English space band, Redshift and Arc, has a massive modular Moog system full of patch…
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Synergy-Larry Fast Interview
A synthesizer pioneer reflects on his work with Peter Gabriel, Wendy Carlos and his own Synergy albums. Larry Fast was an early exponent of purely electronic and melodic space music. His album, Realizations for Rock Orchestra is still a favorite among electronic music fans. He worked with Peter Gabriel extensively in the 1970s and…
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Echo Location: Roger O’Donnell Finds the Voyager Cure
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090311.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Echoes plugs in ex-Cure keyboardist, Roger O’Donnell You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music. In his London apartment, Roger O’Donnell only has one keyboard, the Mini-Moog Voyager that he’s playing as we speak. For the last few years, the Voyager has been pretty…
CD of the Month
November 2001 CD of the Month: Erik Wøllo
Erik Erik Wøllo’s music floats with the grace of a hawk, effortlessly riding air currents that are left painted and glistening in his wake. But what sounds effortless is actually deeply layered, intricately woven and composed with a poetic language. Sometimes Erik is acoustic, as on GUITAR NOVA, sometimes all electronic, like POLAR DRONES, but…