Aug 14, 2026 · 59 min · 10 segments
From epic film scores to the latest progressive house and trance, ambient, classical, chill and breaks. 1\. William Orbit - Barber’s Adagio for Strings 2\. Strange Cargo - The Name Of The Wave…
Nick ChicaneHost
Welcome back to my very hot studio by the sea for another edition of Sunsets with me, Nick Chicane.
Um, this week is gonna be a little bit different to normal because I wanted to spend a little bit of time remembering somebody whose music has been very important to me and my life, and to electronic music in general for a very long time.
You might have seen a surprising amount of artists talking about him and saying how much of an inspiration he was, yet a lot of the general public don't really know a lot about him.
Um, now he left school at 15 and found his way into electronic music, uh, at a time when making this kind of thing, uh, was nowhere near as easy as, as it is now.
Um, there were no laptops, no enormous libraries of software, no YouTube tutorials telling you how to do it.
He experimented with technology and never seemed particularly interested in following whatever anyone else was doing.
Now, he formed an outfit called Torch Song in the early '80s and helped establish Guerilla Records, guys.
He created the Strange Cargo albums and went on to produce, and here's the list, guys: Madonna, Beth Orton, Prince, Queen, U2, Robbie Williams, All Saints, Kraftwerk, Sugababes, and so many more.
The first one, though, playing in the background is, uh, the track probably which most of you guys know him for.
Um, he did a thing called Pieces in a Modern Style, uh, from 2000, and he kind of handily reworked classical pieces.
Uh, and, uh, [laughs] the one that's playing, and the one that really sort of comes up on most people's radars is, is Barber's Adagio for Strings.
Welcome back to my very hot studio by the sea for another edition of Sunsets with me, Nick Chicane.
Um, this week is gonna be a little bit different to normal because I wanted to spend a little bit of time remembering somebody whose music has been very important to me and my life, and to electronic music in general for a very long time.
You might have seen a surprising amount of artists talking about him and saying how much of an inspiration he was, yet a lot of the general public don't really know a lot about him.
Um, now he left school at 15 and found his way into electronic music, uh, at a time when making this kind of thing, uh, was nowhere near as easy as, as it is now.
Um, there were no laptops, no enormous libraries of software, no YouTube tutorials telling you how to do it.
He experimented with technology and never seemed particularly interested in following whatever anyone else was doing.
Now, he formed an outfit called Torch Song in the early '80s and helped establish Guerilla Records, guys.
He created the Strange Cargo albums and went on to produce, and here's the list, guys: Madonna, Beth Orton, Prince, Queen, U2, Robbie Williams, All Saints, Kraftwerk, Sugababes, and so many more.
The first one, though, playing in the background is, uh, the track probably which most of you guys know him for.
Um, he did a thing called Pieces in a Modern Style, uh, from 2000, and he kind of handily reworked classical pieces.
Uh, and, uh, [laughs] the one that's playing, and the one that really sort of comes up on most people's radars is, is Barber's Adagio for Strings.
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