PRX: Echoes Interview Podcast

Krautrock Country with Immersion and SUSS: The Echoes Podcast The Echoes CD of the Month in March is going to be Nanocluster Volume 3 . by Immersion and Suss and today in the podcast, I’ve got an interview with them. Immersion is the duo of Colin Newman from the iconic new wave band Wire and Malka Spigel from the Israeli new wave band Minimal Compact. SUSS is the American Ambient Country group wit...

Electronic Explorer Steve Roach Turns 70. In 2019 Steve Roach was voted #2 of 30 Icons of Echoes for our 30 year anniversary. Five years later, he was still #2 for our 35th Anniversary and the 35 Icons of Echoes . For the 30th, we created a profile of Steve, and now that he is turning 70 on February 16, 2025,  I thought we’d take a look back at that feature. When we created Echoes, Steve Roa...

Amon Tobin's psychedelic Dreams: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast I have a lost interview when I talk to the bands Figueroa , Two Fingers and Only Child Tyrant . The only thing is, those aren’t bands, but the various recording personas o f Amon Tobin , the electronic composer who is pretty eclectic under his own name. His music has evolved, but at the core, he’s still doing what he did whe...

Explore the Big Ears Festival 2025 with founder Ashley Capps in Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we preview the Big Ears Festival 2025 taking place in Knoxville at the end of March. This is an enormous event with over a hundred artists all on the leading edge of whatever music genre they are in and at Big Ears, there are a lot of music genres, all in abundance. This year features more artists...

Days of Genius Past: Sasha's Da Vinci Genius - The Echoes Interview In the Echoes Podcast , the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci transformed into electronic sound by DJ and producer Sasha . Da Vinci Genius is an immersive exhibit on the life of the Renaissance polymath. Sasha created a score that ranges from orchestrally cinematic to electronically grooving.  You won’t find the Renaissance music...

Remembering Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese on the 10th Anniversary of his Departure with the Complete 1982 Interview in the Echoes Podcast. On this 10th anniversary of his passing, we remember Edgar Froese with this 1982 interview for the Totally Wired: Artists in Electronic Sound series. Tangerine Dream changed music. Period. There was nothing like them before their 1974 album, Phaedra and a vast...

The Roots of Electro-Pop-John Foxx's Metamatic Turns 45: The Echoes Interview In the 1980s, you couldn’t be sure now long New Wave music would last. But now in 2025, Depeche Mode , Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark and Gary Numan are still recording and touring, and newer bands like Ladytron, Washed Out, Emma Anderson, Maps and World Brain are ascending. It’s a sound that isn’t going away. This yea...

Echoes Podcast: Maps Counter Electronic Melodies and The Art of Noise 40th Anniversary.   The Echoes Podcast features two electronic artists, one from the future past and one from the present future, with James Chapman of Maps and The Art of Noise , celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise! released in June, 1984. The artist known as MAPS h...

Emma Anderson - From Lush to Independence: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, Emma Anderson. 4AD was one of the defining record labels of the 1980s and 90s with artists like Cocteau Twins , Dead Can Dance , Clan of Xymox and Wolfgang Press . Among those groups was Lush , the band fronted by the duo of Emma Anderson and Mikki Berenyi . They recorded 3 full studio albums between 1987 and 1996...

The Continuing Story 0f David Borden-An Electronic Pioneer: The Echoes Podcast Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. circa 1975 In the Echoes Podcast , a pioneer of electronic music: David Borden , the founding member of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company . In 1969, he created the group Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. They were one of the first performing...

The Ambience Between-Rena Jones & Kilowatts: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , Rena Jones and KiloWatts come on to talk about their new album Caesura . It’s a more complex take on electronica, combining synthesizers with Rena’s violin, viola and cello orchestrations. Rena Jones is a polymath musician who has been a defining voice in ambient chamber music. KiloWatts has been ar...

We Celebrate Wendy Carlos' 85th Year in Echoes Podcast We look back at Wendy Carlos on her 85th Birthday. This is actually a feature we did for Wendy’s 70th birthday that we redid for her 80th birthday. You know that a lot of time has passed when your references become dated. With its array of cords and cables crisscrossed in a patchbay, we used to compare it to a telephone switchboard gone...

Kraftwerk's Autobahn at 50: The Echoes Kraftwerk Documentary It’s the 50 th Anniversary of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn .  The iconic German electronic band switched on their debut album in November, 1970, but their breakthrough artistically and commercially came in 1974 with an album that broke all the barriers of music, especially in the Top Forty. Ralf Hutter: We could never understand why there...

On the Echoes Podcast , two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West . Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music but he also plays with Weird Al Yankovic . Go figure. Jaffe studied tabla drum in India and has picked up instruments from around the world. Together they’ve made a se...

Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes podcast  we celebrate the 90th Birthday of German Composer, Hans-Joachim Roedelius , born on October 26, 1934. He was a founding member of the bands Cluster and Harmonia , two groups who influenced artists like David Bowie on his Berlin Trilogy and especially Brian Eno , who went on to make music with these musicians as well. But while...

I Sing the Song AI-Tony Gerber and the Singing Poet Society: The Echoes Podcast AI is everywhere and so many places you don’t even know it. Last year we even programmed an entire echoes using AI. It was pretty good, but dated. You know AI is in pop and library music, but there is one musician trying to use it for Art. His name is Tony Gerber and you’ve heard him with the electronic tri...

Love, Loss Alienation with London Grammar: The Echoes Podcast   In the Echoes Podcast , the British dreampop trio, London Grammar . We talked to them in 2021 about their career and album, Californian Soil , an Echoes CD of the Month . Now they are back with their fourth album, The Greatest Love , also a CD of the Month. We’ve been told it’s a rare thing to get all three member, Ha...

A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Last week we brought you the broadcast version of our interview with Joe Boyd .  Well, it was a pretty deep, wide-ranging interview that was hard to condense into 15 minutes so today I’m giving you our entire conversation in the Echoes Podcast ..  Just to remind you you, Joe Boyd is a legendary producer and discoverer of new music from...

The Exotica Lounge of Kinobe: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast , electronic artist Kinobe takes us into his ethereal lounge inspired by Sinatra -era strings and singers, exotica lounge music, 90s’ trip-hop, and the French duo, Air . Kinobe: I grew up in a household where I would hear Nelson Riddle at least once a day, my parents are big Sinatra fans. They like all of the crooners and then...

A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast Joe Boyd is a legend in music, from producing Pink Floyd (“Arnold Lane”), Nick Drake, Maria Muldaur , Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and  Muzsikás,  to his Hannibal world music label, and more. A few years ago he wrote a great book that was a memoir of his life in the rock and roll world, White Bicycles . Now he’s written a de...

Trentemøller's Shoegaze Dream Pop and Michael Garrison, a Pioneer Remembered: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast, two features with Trentemøller and Michael Garrison Trentemøller Danish composer Trentemøller , the performance name of Anders Trentemøller, a Danish Dream Pop musician who emerged out of the techno scene at the turn of the century. But since his 2006 debut, his music has evolved...

David Arkenstone's Quest for the Runestone: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes Podcast we go on a quest with David Arkenstone . A five-time Grammy nominee, he’s been a fixture in instrumental music since his 1987 debut, Valley in the Clouds . Many of his 70 or so albums are based in themes of fantasy and mythology and his latest goes that way full bore. David Arkenstone: Yeah, you know, people...

From Transistors to Trans: Jaymie Rose Hennegan-The Echoes Podcast Vic Hennegan is an artist who has been on the show many times over the last two decades. The last appearance was broadcast in 2023 from a 2022 Echoes performance. Back then Hennegan was black, bald and masculine. He’s still black, but everything else has changed since the transition to Jaymie Rose Hennegan . Everything except...

Rich Ruth's Eclectic Fusion & Steve Roach Structures from Silence at 40 in Echoes Podcast. Rich Ruth with Mikaela Davis at Johnny Brenda’s Photo: J.Diliberto In  a double-shot Echoes Podcast we’ll hear from Rich Ruth and Steve Roach talking about the anniversary of Structures from Silence First in the Echoes Podcast we talk to Rich Ruth . That’s the performance name of Michael Ru...

Tim Blake's Crystal Cognition from Gong to Hawkwind to Crystal Machine: The Echoes Podcast Electronic artist Tim Blake was there at the beginning, playing synth for space rockers Gong and Hawkwind and launching his own project of synthesizers and lasers, Crystal Machine . Now a triple CD box of his first three albums has been released as Crystal Presence . It includes his albums, Crystal Machine ,...