Fear, Loss and Sticking the Landing; Marconi Union: The Echoes Interview<img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="125818" data-permalink="https://echoes.org/2025/05/19/monday-june-2-2025-marconi-union-cd-of-the-month/echoes-280/" data-orig-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/marconiunion-fb1-gen-1200.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,630" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Echoes&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Echoes&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Echoes" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/marconiunion-fb1-gen-1200-600x315.jpg" data-large-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/marconiunion-fb1-gen-1200.jpg" src="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/marconiunion-fb1-gen-1200.jpg" alt="Marconi Union" width="811" height="432" class="aligncenter wp-image-125818" />
In the Echoes podcast, Marconi Union talk about their CD of the Month, The Fear of Never Landing.  The British electronic band has been providing ambient atmospheres and deep groove on the show for 20 years and they are still creating with their latest album, <a href="https://echoes.org/2025/05/30/echoe-june-cd-of-the-month-marconi-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fear of Never Landing</a>, Echoes June CD of the Month. After losing a founding member, Jamie Crossley and Duncan Meadows have continued on with a new, refreshed sound for this ensemble. It’s not music for Tik Tok.
<blockquote>Jamie Crossley: It&#8217;s not youth music is, it&#8217;s not for teenagers probably. That&#8217;s not to say that teenagers shouldn&#8217;t listen to it, but it&#8217;s  probably more on the kind of demographic of where we are, where we are at ourselves.</blockquote>
John Diliberto is no kid. He talks to Jamie Crossley and Duncan Meadows about Marconi Union Mark 3.0 in the Echoes Podcast from PRX.
Read John&#8217;s review of <a href="https://echoes.org/2025/05/30/echoe-june-cd-of-the-month-marconi-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fear of Never Landing</a> 
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Echoes Podcast : Marconi Union 2025 Interview

The Hedonistic Hit Factory: Buzz Me In - Inside the Record Plant Studios with David Goggin and Martin Porter in Echoes Podcast.<div id="attachment_126190" style="width: 778px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126190" data-attachment-id="126190" data-permalink="https://echoes.org/2025/07/03/echoes-podcast-buzz-me-in-inside-the-record-plant/buzzwjohn-1200/" data-orig-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/buzzwjohn-1200.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,630" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="buzzwjohn-1200" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/buzzwjohn-1200-600x315.jpg" data-large-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/buzzwjohn-1200.jpg" src="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/buzzwjohn-1200.jpg" alt="" width="768" height="409" class="wp-image-126190" />John Diliberto, David &#8220;Mr Bonzai&#8221; Goggin, Martin Porter</div>
I’ve got something different for you in this weeks Echoes Podcast. I’m going to talk with Martin Porter and David Goggin about their new book,<a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0500028699/echoes0a0-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios</a>.  They look at the history of the Record Plant studios in New York, LA, and Sausalito, where many of the biggest records of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s were made. <img decoding="async" data-attachment-id="126183" data-permalink="https://echoes.org/2025/07/03/echoes-podcast-buzz-me-in-inside-the-record-plant/buzzmein-goggin-porter-cvr/" data-orig-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BuzzMeIn-Goggin-Porter-cvr.jpg" data-orig-size="994,1500" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="BuzzMeIn-Goggin-Porter-cvr" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BuzzMeIn-Goggin-Porter-cvr-398x600.jpg" data-large-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BuzzMeIn-Goggin-Porter-cvr-795x1200.jpg" src="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BuzzMeIn-Goggin-Porter-cvr-795x1200.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="290" class="alignleft wp-image-126183" />Think Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Aerosmith “Walk This Way” and The Eagles Hotel California, as well as records from Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and oh yeah, John Lennon, who recorded most of his solo albums there including the last one. Martin Porter and David Goggin talked to dozens of people who worked there, from secretaries to engineers to producers, and they have all the drug-fueled, sex and crazed producer stories, as well as the tales behind classic tracks and albums.
<blockquote>David Goggin: We just got in touch with Ed Freeman because he helped us out on the book a lot. He produced American Pie and all. He describes when he was working at Sausalito, there was a guy who would come in every morning with a briefcase with your choice of whatever you wanted. Ed asked this mysterious guy, &#8220;what do you have?&#8221; And he says, &#8220;Well, what do you want?&#8221; And opened up the briefcase and there was every variety of pot, of uppers and downers, whatever you were looking at. It was like a little inventory case.</blockquote>
David Goggin and Martin Porter talk to me about The Record Plant studios which were founded by businessman Chris Stone and engineer, Gary Kellgren, who turned it into the most hedonistic hit machine of the era. The stories they could tell. And they will.
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Echoes Podcast: Buzz Me In – Inside the Record Plant

Tape Loops and Life Loops-Terry Riley turns 90<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="126047" data-permalink="https://echoes.org/2025/06/26/tuesday-june-24-2025-terry-riley-turns-90-2/echoes-292/" data-orig-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/terryrileyturns90podcast-1200.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,630" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Echoes&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Echoes&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Echoes" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/terryrileyturns90podcast-1200-600x315.jpg" data-large-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/terryrileyturns90podcast-1200.jpg" src="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/terryrileyturns90podcast-1200.jpg" alt="" width="653" height="348" class="aligncenter wp-image-126047" />
Terry Riley, along with Philip Glass and Steve Reich, is among the holy trinity of minimalism. His compositions In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air are seminal works of that genre. He was creating tape loops works in the early 1960s, laying the foundation for over 50 years of looping artists. Without Terry Riley, there are no Fripp &amp; Eno albums, ambient music or the legions of looping musicians around today. He was a seminal influence on Eno, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Robert Rich and many others. It was a sound that emerged from the 60s counter culture and mind expansion.
<blockquote>Terry Riley: I think that echo and all these devices which change the ambience of music are drug-like in the sense that they pull the listener in deeper than he would get otherwise.  I mean it goes back to if you&#8217;ve ever sung in a cave or gotten in the Taj Mahal and whooped and hollered. I mean those experiences are very deep and moving.</blockquote>
He has continued composing and performing, notably working with Kronos Quartet on several collaborations. We celebrate the incredible, enduring legacy of this new music icon as he turns 90. In the Echoes Podcast we have a mini-documentary featuring interviews with Terry, Steve Reich, Robert Rich, Daevid Allen (Gong), Mike Oldfield, Jon Hassell and La Monte Young. Terry Riley turns 90 and John Diliberto celebrates enduring and continuing legacy of his music in the Echoes Podcast.

Echoes Podcast: Terry Riley Turns 90

Dream Pop Streaming with aeseaes: The Echoes Podcast<div id="attachment_126018" style="width: 740px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-126018" data-attachment-id="126018" data-permalink="https://echoes.org/2025/06/19/echoes-podcast-aeseaes-streaming-dream-pop/screenshot-7/" data-orig-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AESEAES-Screen-Shot-1200x630-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,630" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Screenshot" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;/p&gt;
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In the Echoes Podcast, John Diliberto talks to aeseaes (pronounced A-C-S), the husband and wife duo who you may have caught sometime over the last 10 years streaming live performances on the Twitch Platform. We discovered them on their 2017 EP Six Songs and have been enchanted ever since, even when their songs are inspired by horror like the song, &#8220;Switchblade.&#8221;.
<blockquote>Allie: I was actually kind of thinking of the story of Frankenstein and sort of like this divided self, the creator and the creature or the monster that&#8217;s been created. kind of how those things are, both of those characters are kind of eternally linked.</blockquote>
That&#8217;s Allie Eisler, one half of aeseaes. We’ll hear both halves when we talk about their lives from meeting at the University of Texas in Austin through to their new album, Opia, their perfect gem of a dream pop album, which will be the CD of the Month for July..

Echoes Podcast: aeseaes -Streaming Dream-Pop

David Helpling and Eric "The" Taylor Go Into the Dark: The Echoes Podcast<div id="attachment_125951" style="width: 845px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-125951" data-attachment-id="125951" data-permalink="https://echoes.org/2025/06/12/echoes-podcast-david-helpling-eric-the-taylor/helpling-taylor-riverside-1200x628/" data-orig-file="https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Helpling-Taylor-Riverside-1200x628-1.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,628" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Helpling-Taylor-Riverside-1200&#215;628" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="&lt;p&gt;John Diliberto, Eric &#8220;The&#8221; Taylor and David Helpling&lt;/p&gt;
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In the Echoes Podcast, David Helpling and Eric “the” Taylor talk about their new album, <a href="https://echoes.org/2025/05/03/echoes-may-cd-of-the-month-david-helpling-eric-the-taylor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Precious Dark</a> which was the CD of the Month for May. David Helpling is a guitarist turned synthesizer architect with several solo albums and duo albums with Jon Jenkins. Collectively, he has 5 previous CD of the Month picks. . Along with Helpling, Eric “The” Taylor is part of the ambient quartet Dark Sky Alliance and he is in an electronic duo with Mick Chillage called The Architects of Existence. <a href="https://echoes.org/2025/05/03/echoes-may-cd-of-the-month-david-helpling-eric-the-taylor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Precious Dark</a> is a dark.
<blockquote>David Helpling: I think a lot of the darkness comes from the textures, the drones, the lack of drums. Like if it was a landscape, it would be kind of desolate, maybe. There isn&#8217;t a whole lot of rhythmic stuff going on.</blockquote>
John Diliberto talks to them about dark ambient in the Echoes Podcast from PRX.
Read our review of <a href="https://echoes.org/2025/05/03/echoes-may-cd-of-the-month-david-helpling-eric-the-taylor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Precious Dark</a> 
Hear our interview with <a href="https://echoes.org/2024/05/09/echoes-podcast-dark-sky-alliance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dark Sky Alliance</a>

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