Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”
Playlists
Tuesday, Sept 29, 2020 – Program 2039B
Tag: synthesizers
Coming Up
Weekend, Oct 3-4, 2020 – Andreas Vollenweider & Rival Consoles
Andreas Vollenweider and Rival Consoles this weekend on Echoes. Hear Vollenweider’s Quiet Places, the CD of the Month for October. Then we talk with Rival Consoles about his electronic music.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Sept 29, 2020 – Rival Consoles
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”
Playlists
Wednesday, Aug 19, 2020 – Echoes Program 2033C
Tonight’s Echoes includes music from Emancipator surrounding his interview, along with new music by Moby, Atomic Skunk and Steve Roach, as well as a classic from Sun Ra.
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Tuesday, Aug 18, 2020 – Echoes Program 2033B
Tangerine Dream invented a new genre of music. We talk to Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann, Christoph Franke, Klaus Schulze, and several more about their electronic revolution.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Aug 19, 2020 – Emancipator Interview
Emancipator is Douglas Appling, an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments like banjo and dulcimer into a hallucinatory sound. We talk to him on Echoes.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Aug 18, 2020 – Tangerine Dream’s 50th
Tangerine Dream invented a new genre of music. In the Echoes documentary we go back to their first release in 1970 with founder Edgar Froese and members from across the Dream’s 50 years.
Playlists
Weekend, Aug 1-2, 2020 – Programs 2030A & 2030B
Ben Blackett plugs in computers instead of guitars to create dance floor trances and melodic contemplations. He talks about virtual synthesizers, choir samples, and his wife’s voice on Echoes.
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Friday, July 31, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030E
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.
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Monday, July 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030A
Ben Blackett plugs in computers instead of guitars to create dance floor trances and melodic contemplations. He talks about virtual synthesizers, choir samples, and his wife’s voice on Echoes.