Bel Canto and Cocteau Twins or something similar??

Well, like I said, this was 1995 or something. Maybe the show wasn't even that good back then, but I do know that driving around at night in the rural armpit town where I lived and listening to this show and occasionally hearing something like Cocteau Twins was a revelation. It was a gateway drug, if you will.

I found some more playlists here, but they only go back to '98. I've found links to older playlists, but they only work for me if I pull them up as cached pages through Google. But I did manage to confirm that Cocteau Twins used to be played.

http://www.echoes.org/playlists/0604C.html

i like the fact that they play stuff that i would never hear unless i bought it in a dollar bin 20 years later. which is how i listen to new age music.

It's funny how time changes our appreciation of things. I remember in the 90s knowing that Bel Canto supposedly made amazing, beautiful kinda music ... and I listened to it and thought to myself, "this is lame and cheesy."

Now that the late 80s / early 90s kinda thing has started to crop again, this stuff ain't so bad. I thought to myself, "is this another one o thems Swedish electro-pop revival things popular with the kids these days?"

On the more mimimal tip... Rhys Chatham "A Crimson Grail".. especially the first movement.

Also, obligatory Stars Of The Lid up-up

and Windy & Carl, too

Cocteausy dream pop is a specialty of mine. I suggest (for starters):

aisth - mp3 tracks from their old website (10 of which are occasionally available on slsk)

Anymore - Thistlestar ep and Umani (guitar based, they discovered electronics and became Halou)

Autumn's Grey Solace - Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest, Over the Ocean, Riverine (suffers from the Projekt curse of anemic melody, but to a lesser extent than other Projekt dream pop)

Breath of Life - Sweet Party, Silver Drops (Belgian band overlooked by mainstream due to goth background. Their vocalist is extraordinary.)

Collection d'Arnell-Andrea - Les Marronniers and Villers-Aux-Vents (Février 1916). (French, with strings, and the later album is the only great album about The Great War.)

Elysium - Glisten (one off on Brant of the old 4ad-list's label. Autumnal.)

Orange - Orange (the other great Brant label release. A rare vocalist that matches Liz Frazier's jazzy fluidity.)

Perfume Tree - The Sun's Running Out, A Lifetime Away (Vancouver dubby dreampop, a bit like Seefeel with a melodic sense. "Virgin" off A Lifetime Away is one of my very favorite tracks, ever.)

Where I've omitted album by artists above its because they were incompletely formed, or subsequent to a drift out of the dream pop genre.

Anneli Drecker's new album is just lovely, even if it makes me feel like I'm listening to a soundtrack for the Lord of the Rings at times.

Talk about someone who might as well have been on it! Hell they got Liz Fraser after all.

Perhaps I really should have said "possibly because it makes me feel like..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2mxdXpbGCw

(Maybe I'm being too influenced by the comments.)

New album is good. Close your eyes and 'Can of Worms' could almost fit onto ‘Heaven or Las Vegas'.