Echoes Podcast: Tim Blake Interview

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, Blake’s New Jerusalem and Magick. John Diliberto gets in the teapot with Tim Blake on Echoes from PRX.

TIM BLAKE FEATURE PLAYLIST

ARTIST – Title – Album – (Original Album)
Tim Blake – A Return to Clouds – Crystal Presence (Magick)
Gong – The Pothead Pixies – Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt.1)
Tim Blake – Last Ride of the Boogie Child – Crystal Presence (Crystal Machine)
Tim Blake – Midnight – Crystal Presence (Crystal Machine)
Pink Floyd – See Emily Play – A Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Deep Purple – Shield – The Book of Taliesyn
Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze – Are You Experienced? 
Tim Blake – Crystal Presence  – Crystal Presence (Crystal Machine)
Gong – Radio Gnome Invisible – Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt.1)
Gong – A Sprinkling of Clouds – You (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt.3)
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra – Phaedra
Tim Blake -Synthese Intemporelle – Crystal Presence (Crystal Machine)
Tim Blake – Blake’s New Jerusalem – Crystal Presence (Blake’s New Jerusalem)
Tim Blake – Lighthouse – Crystal Presence (Blake’s New Jerusalem)
Hawkwind – Lighthouse – Live Seventy-Nine
Tim Blake – The Strange Secret of Ohm-Gliding – Crystal Presence (Magick)
Tim Blake – Floating – Caldea
Tim Blake – Song for a New Age  –Crystal Presence (Blake’s New Jerusalem)
Tim Blake – A Return to Clouds – Crystal Presence  (Magick)