Synthwave is all the rage in electronic circles. On the next Echoes, two musicians with a direct lineage to that sound, Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss. Each is a solo artist and a member of Tangerine Dream.
An Explorer of Sound, Klaus Schulze turns 70To those of us who came up listening to electronic music in the 1970s, Klaus Schulze was an icon. The German musician tapped directly into the growing electronic gestalt and created the template of electronic music that many, to this day, are employing. His name has faded in…
German duo and Tangerine Dream members Ulrich Schnauss & Thorsten Quaeschning create a state-of-the-art sequencer excursion called “Synthwaves.” It’s the Echoes August CD of the Month.
Ron Boots is a prolific Dutch electronic artist who has been recording since the 1980s when he released his music on cassette. He’s a musical child of German space music and his music is full of Tangerine Dream style sequencer drive and Vangelis style drama.
Tangerine Dream created their first film score in 1977 for Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin. Friedkin later said he would’ve used the Dream for The Exorcist if he’d known about them.
Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.
Ron Boots is a prolific Dutch electronic artist who has been recording since the 1980s when he released his music on cassette. He’s a musical child of German space music and his music is full of Tangerine Dream style sequencer drive and Vangelis style drama.
While German space music was creating sequencer driven grooves Klaus Schulze created an ambient dreamscape, Mirage: A Winter Landscape in 1977. John Diliberto looks back.
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Klaus Schulze’s epic album, Mirage, an album often cited by electronic musicians like Steve Roach and Michael Shreeve.
Ron Boots is a prolific Dutch electronic artist who has been recording since the 1980s when he released his music on cassette. He’s a musical child of German space music and his music is full of Tangerine Dream style sequencer drive and Vangelis style drama.