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Kiasmos is the electronic project of ambient chamber music composer Ólafur Arnalds and fellow Icelander, Janus Rasmussen. They talk about their techno journey.
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7and5 is the recording persona of John Nixon, a Detroit electronic artist who records jingles in his day job, but scores ambient electronic fantasies at night.
Marc Weidenbaum Dissects Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II in Echoes Podcast Hear this interview in Echoes Podcast I’m in a state right now where 20 year anniversaries don’t seem like such a big deal. After all, we just commemorated the 30th Anniversary of Steve Roach’s Structures from Silence and the 40th Anniversaries of…
I’m in a state right now where 20 year anniversaries don’t seem like such a big deal. After all, we just commemorated the 30th Anniversary of Steve Roach’s Structures from Silence and the 40th Anniversaries of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. I think that divide might say something…
Hear interview with Banco De Gaia in Echoes Podcast. Banco de Gaia fired one of the first shots of ethno-techno sounds into the previously electronic dominated rave culture of the early 1990s. Since then, he’s built a body of work by sampling the body’s of work from other musicians as well as sounds from the…
Bombay Dub Orchestra have been fusing eastern and electronic music for several years now and doing it with a grace and elegance that is unparalleled. I still go back to their 2006 eponymous debut album which sounds as fresh now as it did then. Their mix of eastern modes and musicians, with lush strings…
After supposedly calling it quits back in 2004 with the release of Blue Album, the U.K. electronica duo, Orbital are on the verge of completing the inevitable comeback they began back in 2008. A new album, Wonky, is set for April and they’ve already released a teaser single, a light, effervescent bit of alka-synth-pop called,…
There are DJ’s, beatboxers and techno-wizards and then, there is Beardyman. For 38 minutes of pure unalloyed joy, watch him in this video and keep in mind, it’s all live. I’ve seen some great Kaos Pad performances by Ulrich Schnauss and Jon Hopkins, but for pure kinetic energy, this one is unreal. You have to…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090701.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMoby releases his best album in a decade, and it’s the July Echoes CD of the Month It’s been ten years since Moby put out his multi-platinum selling album, Play. it became ubiquitous in films, TV, and commercials. You’ll hear echoes of Play in Moby’s new album, Wait…
In the days when electronic music was the province of dweeby men in white lab coats, pocket protectors and skinny ties, Delia Derbyshire was among the few woman twiddling knobs and slicing tape at the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop. This is so ancient it was even before the Beatles hit. Among her many works were the…