Steve Roach is an icon of electronic music whose albums, Structures from Silence and Dreamtime Return are considered classics. In a rare east coast performance, he brought his music before a sold out audience at The Gatherings Concert series in Philadelphia.
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Playlists
Friday, September 11th, 2015-Echoes Program 1536E
Interview Podcast
Steve Roach in the Echoes Interview Podcast
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Unlock the door to your mind with when Steve Roach gives you Skeleton Keys. That’s the latest album from the legendary electronic musician. Noted for his acclaimed albums, Structures from Silence and Dreamtime Return and as a pioneer of techno-tribal and drone-zone music, Roach has carved a unique and independent path over the last 35 years. He was also voted the number one Icon of Echoes last year. He returns to his analog roots for an album of furious sequencer syncopations called Skeleton Keys. He unlocks it when we talk with him in the Echoes Interview Podcast.
Playlists
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Interview Podcast
Cluster’s Dieter Moebius Unplugs – R.I.P.
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Dieter Moebius was a founding member of influential German bands Cluster and Harmonia, creating a sound that was known as Krautrock and collaborating with Brian Eno. Moebius died on July 20 at the age of 71. We go back to an interview with Moebius and bandmate Hans-Joachim Roedelius from 1996.
Best Of
The Best of 2015…So Far
We pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the halfway point. John Diliberto then runs them down from #25 to number 1. It begins with a band we’ve never heard of before and ends with an Icon of Echoes. We’ll hear from artists who put out signature releases, others reaching for ambitious highs and still others reflecting on very long careers.
Playlists
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015-Echoes Program 1524B
CD of the Month
Echoes May CD of the Month: Steve Roach Skeleton Keys
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S. Elliott Hear Steve Roach talk about Skeleton Keys tonight on Echoes. As Steve Roach’s Skeleton Keys opens, with a reverse sequencer pattern fading-in as if going…