Double Echo began in 2012 as a studio collaboration between producers Chris Luna (San Diego, California) and Ash Lerczak (Liverpool, UK). They aimed to re-mystify the forgotten practices of post-punk and primitive electronic soundtracks in the guise of a lost band from 1982 whose demo tape 4AD never got around to listening to. Their first EP, “Black Morning,” invited listeners to “dream of another world” with floating Casio keyboards and the sound of Sad Lovers and Giants guitars. This demonstrates that Double Echos’ commitment to eighties authenticity goes beyond an aesthetic gimmick and has secured their cult status on Bandcamp. The following year, in Liverpool, Double Echo first performed as a live band. Determined not to go out as a “laptop act,” Chris and Ash performed alongside a dying time-code striped tape machine and TR626, while smoke, weird projections, and an extremely loud amplifier created an immersive atmosphere. The show convinced local label EDILS to release the “Phantomime” album on CD and cassette, shortly followed by a compilation of Double Echo’s online output by Ritual Tapes in the US. In 2015, their second album, “La Danza,” was released on CD and vinyl by Gothic Music (Finland) and Peter Out Records (Sweden). The album features new member Ellon Souter on the lead vocals and combines cold synths. This led to their first European tour, which took them to dark-wave clubs in Italy. Since then, Double Echo has been working on a series of follow-up albums at their home studios. They had nearly finished the first of these at the time of writing. In 2016, they released an EP called “Ancient Youth” and performed at Poland’s Return to the Batcave festival. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Double+Echo">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.