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While the rest of their electronic music contemporaries in the late 1990s reached for dancefloor ecstacy and big room bombast, French duo Air paved an influential path with a more delicate and atmospheric sound. Taking inspiration from old school film composers and vintage synthesiser wizards like Burt Bacharach, Isao Tomita and Vangelis, they shot to success with a distinct sonic world. Selected and mixed by Ian Kim Judd.

Harmonia 76

Harmonia 76

Harmonia 76 has been played on NTS over 60 times, featured on 63 episodes and was first played on 26 July 2013.

In 1976 Brian Eno visited Harmonia's studio in the Weserbergland region of northern Germany to create what would become one of the most cherished artifacts of the genre on "Tracks and Traces". Harmonia comprised of multi instrumentalists Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (also known as Cluster) with former Kraftwerk and Neu! member, Michael Rother, and together with the like-minded synth maestro Eno they created twelve tracks of seminal instrumental exploration. The album contains two extended centrepieces in "By The Riverside" and "Sometimes In Autumn", perfectly capturing the sense of pastoral beauty mixed with that free thinking and future minded spirit that they embodied. Eno's vocals creep in subtly on "Luneburg Heath", but the rest of the album is given over to shorter somnambulent tones that inspired countless young souls to explore the possibilities of the synthesizer since, tracks like the tensely cinematic "Weird Dream" or incredibly brief but sublime "When Shade Was Born". A hugely recommended listen for any synthesizer freaks.

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Harmonia 76

Harmonia 76 has been played on NTS over 60 times, featured on 63 episodes and was first played on 26 July 2013.

In 1976 Brian Eno visited Harmonia's studio in the Weserbergland region of northern Germany to create what would become one of the most cherished artifacts of the genre on "Tracks and Traces". Harmonia comprised of multi instrumentalists Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (also known as Cluster) with former Kraftwerk and Neu! member, Michael Rother, and together with the like-minded synth maestro Eno they created twelve tracks of seminal instrumental exploration. The album contains two extended centrepieces in "By The Riverside" and "Sometimes In Autumn", perfectly capturing the sense of pastoral beauty mixed with that free thinking and future minded spirit that they embodied. Eno's vocals creep in subtly on "Luneburg Heath", but the rest of the album is given over to shorter somnambulent tones that inspired countless young souls to explore the possibilities of the synthesizer since, tracks like the tensely cinematic "Weird Dream" or incredibly brief but sublime "When Shade Was Born". A hugely recommended listen for any synthesizer freaks.

Original source: Last.fm

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Welcome
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2009
When Shade Was Born
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2009
When Shade Was Born
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2015
Welcome
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2015
Almost
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2009
Aubade
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2009
Les Demoiselles
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2009
Atmosphere
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2009
Les Demoiselles
Harmonia & Eno '76
Grönland Records2015
Sometimes In Autumn (Shackleton Remix)
Harmonia & Eno (Shackleton, Sam Shackleton mix)
Amazing Sounds2009