Bel Canto and Cocteau Twins or something similar??

"The Spanglemaker" has always been my favorite CT song.

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Also, Anneli Drecker has just released an excellent solo album, but the songs are considerably less "floating" and more pop oriented than what she used to do in Bel Canto.

They certainly play a lot of new age junk, I can't imagine them playing Cocteau Twins though??

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'.