Chances are pretty good we don’t have to explain who Tangerine Dream are. You already knew they’ve been cemented in the annals of pioneering electronic music for their mastery of transportational soundscapes, crafted from the early 70’s on. Perhaps behind only Pink Floyd or the Grateful Dead are they considered universally as the quintessential stoned-with-headphones experience. Well, founder Edgar Froese never really stopped creating. 40+ years later Froese and his current band-mates aren’t hauling the same humongous walls of modular analog synths on the road with them, but they are on the road. In July 2012, they played the 2,300 person-capacity Club Nokia in Los Angeles. We won’t lie. It wasn’t exactly easy to arrange this interview. After much rescheduling and thumb-twiddling we were ushered backstage into Edgar’s velvety dressing room nearly an hour before the venue’s doors were to open. His friendly assistant asked if we could keep it to 10 minutes. Sure that seemed tight, but we were happy to do whatever. Then Edgar proceeded to bleed the history of the band all over us, in a super-relaxed manner, as if he had all day. – Nanny Cantaloupe Want more Tangerine Dreams? Here’s a mini-mix of some of Nanny Cantaloupe’s favorite cuts: Tangerine Dream – Cold Smoke – Electronic Meditation – Ohr 1970 Tangerine Dream – Movements of a Visionary – Phaedra – Virgin 1974 Tangerine Dream – Origin of Supernatural Possibilities – Zeit – Ohr 1972 Edgar Froese – if 810 – Macula Transfer – Brain 1976 Tangerine Dream – Atem (excerpt) – Atem – Ohr 1973 Edgar Froese – Panorphelia – Aqua – Virgin 1974 Tangerine Dream – Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares – Phaedra – Virgin 1974 Tangerine Dream – 3am at the Border of the Marsh From Okefenokee – Stratosfear – Virgin 1976 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

In Conversation

Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream in conversation with Nanny Cantaloupe (07.12.12)

On Sept. 18, The Zombies will perform a global, live-streamed concert from Abbey Road in London, where they recorded their opus Odessey & Oracle in 1967.  It will be the band’s only 2021 performance due to COVID. To celebrate the occasion, Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone sat with dublab DJ Becky Ebenkamp (Bubblegum & Other Delights) to talk about the project. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Becky Ebenkamp In Conversation with Colin Blunstone & Rod Argent of The Zombies (09.13.21)

On his weekly show, Elevation Through Sound, Ale plays the obscure gems your ears have always craved but never come across. Elevation through Sound provides lucky listeners with a journey through the full sound spectrum. Alejandro Cohen is a musician and composer from Los Angeles, California. He has worked as composer of music for TV shows, documentaries, and educational materials. Ale is also the Executive Director of dublab. This program will feature a conversation with Liz Lamere and Jared Artaud who collaborated with Alan Vega and brought to light Vega’s latest Mutator. Ale talks to Liz and Jared about Vega’s creative process, the Vega Vault Project and more. Alan Vega’s Mutator out now on Sacred Bones The visual artist, musician, and poet Alan Vega was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He co-founded the massively influential avant-garde band Suicide with Martin Rev in 1970, with whom he performed off and on throughout his life. Vega would go on to have a prolific career as a solo artist. His hit song “Jukebox Babe” led to a contract with Elektra Records, who released two albums including the cult classic Saturn Strip, produced by Ric Ocasek. From there, rejecting the commercial machine, he went back to his roots, doing a deep dive into experimenting with sound in the studio. This era resulted in new solo records coming out consistently throughout the next several decades; starting with Deuce Avenue, continuing through Dujang Prang (on Henry Rollins’ 2.13.61 imprint), and culminating with his masterpiece It. Vega considered the albums from this period the audio counterpoint to his visual art that reflected the world around him while simultaneously delving into universal themes. It makes his work as relevant today as it was then. It was during this period that he began working with Liz Lamere, who became his wife and the most crucial collaborator of his solo career. Lamere, along with fellow Vega collaborator Jared Artaud, discovered in 2019 the lost Vega album, Mutator, which they co-produced and mixed. Along with creative director Michael Handis, they are now spearheading the Alan Vega Vault project, which aims to bring rare and unreleased work from throughout Vega’s career to the public for the first time. Mutator was recorded with Lamere at Vega’s NYC studio from 1995-1996, and it serves as a document of a particularly fertile time in his creative life. He had 11 full-length solo albums come out during the ‘80s, ’90s and ‘00s — plus numerous collaborations, and Suicide records: A Way of Life, Why Be Blue and American Supreme. Mutator wasn’t shelved intentionally, but Vega’s back-to-the-grindstone M.O. meant that he had moved on to making his next record before this one was finished. At the time of the Mutator sessions, Vega was massively inspired by what was happening in the streets of New York — not only the hip hop scenes that were exploding throughout the outer boroughs, but also the literal sounds of the streets, the traffic noise and industrial ambience of city living. That influence trickled into the sounds he and Lamere captured in those sessions. That sensibility, paired with Vega’s unmistakable voice and force of personality, is what made it the great album it is now. The final piece was the production job, completed by Lamere and Artaud 25 years after the songs were first captured. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Ale — Elevation Through Sound w/Liz Lamere & Jared Artaud: Alan Vega's Mutator (07.07.21)

dublab Intermission Studio brings together musicians, sound artists and writers from the Unsound LP & Book project ‘Intermission’. This first episode features a round table discussion between Chris Watson, Jana Winderen and Kristen Gallerneaux --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Chris Watson, Jana Winderen and Kristen Gallerneaux — dublab Intermission Studio (04.24.21)

closing out the dublab intermission series is this splendid conversation between Jlin & Moor Mother with moderator Miss Modular – the pair discuss their contributions to Unsound’s Intermission project and much, much more --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Jlin & Moor Mother w/Miss Modular — dublab Intermission Studio

dublab Intermission Studio brings together musicians, sound artists and writers from the Unsound LP & Book project ‘Intermission’. This second episode features a round table discussion between musicians Tim Hecker and Ben Frost with writer Andy Battaglia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Tim Hecker, Ben Frost and Andy Battaglia — dublab Intermission Studio (05.04.21)

One of the most inspired of producer Adrian Sherwood’s many collaborations is the early-’80s dub project New Age Steppers – a loosely-configured collective of British and Jamaican musicians that primarily centered on Sherwood’s studio alchemy and the distinctive singing of Slits vocalist Ari Up. The project mixes up bright reggae songs and experimental zoners and helped pave the way for the most adventurous sounds of the ’80s and ’90s. Sherwood went on to work with Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Lee Scratch Perry, Sly & Robbie, KMFDM, Cabaret Voltaire, and many others. This year marks the reissue of all four New Age Steppers releases, along with the odds-and-ends package Avant Gardening, in a single package titled Stepping Into a New Age 1980-2021 on Sherwood’s storied label On-U Sounds. Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, hosts of dublab’s Contact Wave, host this in-depth conversation with Sherwood --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo — In Conversation with Adrian Sherwood (04.15.21)

Drum and bass producer DJ Krust does an exclusive interview with dublab at Club Vinyl. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

DJ Krust — In Conversation (03.07.00)

John Girgus from the bands Aberdeen, Languis & Legendary House Cats had the opportunity to “interview” John Cooper Clarke for dublab. Here is what he had to say: What hasn’t already been said about the great John Cooper Clarke? What already hasn’t been asked? More in the UK, but here to a degree, there has been no recent shortage of interviews with the original Punk Poet. So instead of a safe and formal interview, the idea was to try a get a more informal banter, something maybe any sensible fan would do if given the opportunity. What I was admittedly a little too nervous to convey at the start of this phone call from the man who’s works span five decades, was that I grew up an inherent fan of punk, post-punk, more importantly big hair and black jeans (values I hold dear to this day). I thought I had most of Manchester’s major exports covered… Maybe partly due to the fact that he wasn’t really making records for the period I began buying them, I completely missed him. So when the the black clad mess of hair and shades graced the screen for the 2007 Joy Division biopic, ‘Control’ later on, I was an instant fan. The look and the style adopted by the icons of my formative years with intelligence and realism to which I can still relate. And I laughed at least every minute. Everything I have ever heard anybody say since, proven true in that moment. I Googled clumsy terms ‘spoken word control joy div’, and found handfuls of stray mp3s, videos, but even eBay could be scant. I listened to what I could find, and as they say, when you met someone who knew, they knew… By then, from what must surely be a mix of pure will, luck, raw talent, and a great PR team, the poet was enjoying a full renaissance at home and recognition as a national treasure. He’s on tests, talk shows, and the Arctic Monkeys turned on of his well-known pieces into a #1 chart hit, and plays the Royal Albert Hall. Last year, when his first US visit in my lifetime touched down at Downtown LA bar La Cita (a place I’ve DJed) it was nothing short of a miracle. Lucky for us, that turned out not only to be a one time occurrence, and with an 11 date US tour, dublab’s Alejandro thought for some reason, the two of us might have an interesting conversation. After nearly chickening out (pun so intended), I instead just dialed the number with a degree of fearlessness deserved by someone who used to open punk shows with nothing but a microphone. A graciously casual conversation from the rackety Mob Museum in Las Vegas followed… I really couldn’t have hoped for a nicer legend to get the chance to chat with. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

John Cooper Clarke — In Conversation with John Girgus for dublab (05.01.15)

To coincide with the opening of the Mixing Colors Installation at Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center in Los Angeles & the announcement of ‘A Quiet Scene: LA’ film project in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, dublab welcomes Brian Eno and Roger Eno to it’s airwaves for a special interview hosted by Liz Warner about the Mixing Colours + A Quiet Scene projects. Inspired by the Enos’ Mixing Colours project, the installation will feature 100+ short films to be shown daily at Jerry Moss Plaza at The Music Center in Los Angeles from 8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. (PST) from January 22 – February 21, 2021. The experience will transform Jerry Moss Plaza into a tranquil and meditative space. Visitors can enjoy the short films and ambient, soothing music from a safe outdoor location. This installation is free and open to the public. Masks and social distancing are required. A Quiet Scene: L.A. is a free film project and screening initiative that encourages professional and amateur filmmakers alike to create a short original film that is an authentic reflection of Los Angeles during current times. Each short film should use one of the seven tracks featured on Roger and Brian Eno’s Luminous EP as its soundtrack and will be evaluated based on interpretation of “a quiet scene,” interpretation of Los Angeles, and creativity and originality of the work. Production quality and value will also be taken into consideration. A Quiet Scene: L.A. provides a Los Angeles perspective to the highly successful 2020 public audio-visual project—A Quiet Scene—created by Deutsche Grammophon and the Eno brothers in 2020 in support of their Mixing Colours album; this program featured short scenes shot by people from their newly found confined spaces at home in the first wave of the global pandemic. The competition/screening project is presented by The Music Center, Los Angeles’ performing arts center, and dublab, a community supported radio station based on Los Angeles, and in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon. For those who are unable to see the installation in person, Join dublab and The Music Center for a special 72-hour livestream of Brian and Roger Enos’ A Quiet Scene global video collaboration from the comfort of your own home, starting on Friday, January 22,2001,at noon (PST). Access the stream at https://youtu.be/5hLcrRiTnkQ or https://youtu.be/bE4anZeU3LU Learn more: www.musiccenter.org⁠⠀⠀ www.mixing-colours.com ⁠⠀⠀ Thank you to Brian and Roger Eno, as well as to our collaborators at The Music Center, Deutsche Grammophon, and Universal Music Enterprises, for making this very special installation possible.⁠ About Liz Warner: Liz Warner is a radio host and producer, DJ, voice actor and music journalist based in Los Angeles. Liz first took to the airwaves in Detroit in 1995. Over 12 years and thousands of radio hours, she provided a platform for deep music and arts exploration. Liz has a long history of interviewing both established and emerging artists of many forms – including musicians, performance and visual artists, authors, filmmakers and more – for not only radio but for print and stage. Hear Liz with “Alternate Take” monthly on dublab. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Roger Eno & Brian Eno In Conversation w/ Liz Warner

Damo Suzuki, best known as the former lead singer of the German krautrock band Can, is interviewed on dublab. Suzuki also plays some music off his latest record. Tune in! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Damo Suzuki — Interview (10.02.00)

SunEye Radio (Hashim & Akiko Bharoocha) interviewed legendary Japanese pianist, composer, producer, actor, and activist, Ryuichi Sakamoto, in 2019 at the Ace Hotel. We covered a wide range of topics with him including how he got interested in the piano, how he recorded his first solo album “Thousand Knives,” why he wasn’t that excited about joining Yellow Magic Orchestra in the beginning, electronic music, soundtracks, and overcoming cancer. We hope you enjoy this rare interview with a bona fide legend and our mix of his obscure tracks. The interview includes English translations.

SunEye Radio Presents: Ryuichi Sakamoto in conversation

This conversation was recorded for an interview published in Document in 2016. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

John Cale and Florence Welch — in conversation (09.29.20)

Michael Rother joins Ale Cohen in conversation on dublab to talk about his new release Dreaming and the Solo II retrospective box-set released in 2020. Michael and Ale discuss parts of his creative process, his take on looking back at his work through the Solo and Solo II releases, and how his work defines his personal life and vice-versa. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

Michael Rother - In Conversation

On (08.22.00) Manchester-based DJ, A Guy Called Gerald, is interviewed by Frosty. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dublab-inconversation/support

A Guy Called Gerald

dublab Radio presents In Conversation, a weekly podcast featuring interviews from its 20 years of broadcasting. Highlighting some of the most compelling interviews from dublab's archives, In Conversation offers an in-depth view into the lives and creative processes of its guests.

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