Tag: Ambient music
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RC 290: Well Tempered
A listener once said they knew if it was a good podcast if I sounded pissed off at the start. Well, welcome to an extremely good episode then! A well tempered Clash, forged in the heat of online battle, which raises the question, where’s the real one? (oh it’s an old joke, and not even…
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WTIL 1969
Really nicely done. Groovy! (via The KLF Facebook page) EDIT: The original track is of course Gershon Kingsley’s Popcorn. Bit of Tony Blackburn at the end, confirming it is indeed Top of the Pops.
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Jean Jacques Ondioline
In a follow up to the previous Jean Jacques Perrey memorial post, I’d never heard his album/piece “Prélude au Sommeil”. Ian Fondue posted this excellent list of the greatest electronic albums of the 1950’s and 1960’s (listeners to the podcast and mixes would already be familiar with many of these, I was quite surprised at…
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PBS’73
It’s sunny – a rare thing in the United Kingdom of Drizzle, and blasting out new music from a band I’d not previously heard of – PBS’73 and their Viewers Like You album. I heard of them via the excellent Lloydbrary #80 and immediately tracked down their Bandcamp and bought the album. ‘Viewers Like You’,…
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Footprints In The Snow
Surprised to find out last night my partner saying that Gymnopedies by Satie was one of his favourite tunes (surprised because he’s such a Wagner/ Handel freak). Me too, along with Debussy…music impressionism, humour, experimentation, tone/texture, ambience and fighting the dominant classical form and experimenting with non-Western scales…what’s not to like? Also most modern soundtrack…
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60’s chillwave dubtronica
So for those who think their ambient nu-gaze chillwave electronica dubbed out hipster doodles are somehow new (as millennials invented *everything* first dontchano :-P), here’s electronic and lounge pioneer Dick Hyman to school you along with Mary Mayo on vocal theremin duties. Yes some of this album is dated in a samba/lounge fashion, but this…