solipsistic NATION No. 22: Quietus
January 26, 2007 | 2 Comments
I’ve touched on ambient music on solipsistic NATION in the past but I thought it was time to have an entire episode dedicated to this genre.
Ambient music is ambiguous and open-ended in scope, including everything from Erik Satie’s Trois Gymnopédies suite to Brian Eno’s atmospheric On Land album. My own definition of ambient music is a bit narrower in that I don’t think of pieces like Satie’s Gymnopédies as ambient music. While Gymnopédies is certainly a work of quiet genius I consider it more of an instrumental piece.
I think of ambient music as music that is near formless, something that is amorphous and nebulous. It’s more about sounds that evoke a mood than a series of rhythmic patterns.
- Mel “Framed Moon”
- Insideamind “Right This Way”
- Poolbath “Auto-Exit2″
- Cinema Volta “2005-09-04″
- Janek Schaefer “All Bombing is Terrorism”
- Chris Herbert “Chlorophyll”
- Dave from Chub Creek “7777777″
- Muslimgauze “Fazisi”
- Dysphor “Self-Aware Pulsations”
- Spainful Films Soundtrack Dept. “Church Outing 20060312″
- Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard “A Long Time Ago”
- Irokez “Dark Blue”
- If Thousands “Radio Is Fine”
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1:00:00 | 54.95 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 21: Droppin’ & Poppin’ Beats
January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment
It’s funny how some of these shows come together.
I didn’t set out to do an all hip hop show for this week’s edition of solipsistic NATION. I just picked songs I’ve been grooving to. As I started flowing the songs together for the mix I realized that they were all hip hop tunes.
What’s remarkable about that is that I’m not a fan of most hip hop that comes out these days. I’m one of those people who thinks that some of the best hip hop came out of the 80’s and early 90’s. Oh, sure, there has been some great hip hop since then but I really feel that rap was hamstrung when it became next to impossible to secure the rights for sampling or the bits that come from the deejay. Laying down the most rudimentary beats backed by a cheap keyboard rarely makes for a good song. I miss the sonic brilliance that came from Hank Shocklee and Pete Rock. I celebrate turntablists like Mix Master Mike and DJ Q-bert who defied the restrictions layed down by entertainment lawyers so they could create the best music possible. And yet here I am putting out an all hip hop show. I guess it’s time for me to set my prejudices about my feelings about today’s hip hop aside.
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- DJ Jay C 3 “Hey Mr. DJ”
- DJ Uff Da & DJ Jay C 3 “I’m In Control”
- Malente “Open Secret (Radio Edit)”
- Four Tet “A Joy (Percee P Version)”
- Craig De Maio “The Circus Tent Experiment”
- Zion I & The Grouch “Trigger”
- Roscoe “Mr. Peanut Vender”
- Stereotyp “Big Flows”
- Hi-Tek “March”
- The Visionaries “Talkin’ HandJive (Ft. Shorkut)”
- Acid Reign “Word Em Up”
- Jern Eye “Power Animal”
- Chief Kamachi “Jim Kelly”
- Motion Man “Professional Experts (Ft. Kool Keith & KutMasta Kurt)”
- Edan “Beautiful Food”
- Society of Invisibles “Down”
- Agallah “The Don Bishop” “Ride Out (O.G.G.G.) (Featuring The Alchemist)”
- Mikial “I’m Honest”
- Hairdoo “Freedom”
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1:01:31 | 56.35 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 20: King Dub Champion Sound System
January 12, 2007 | 3 Comments
Today’s show, all dub.
Back when I was a DJ at WMFO I sometimes used to fill in on some shows under the guise of King Dub. I’d speak with a slight Jamaican patois and pitch shift my voice and add some echo so I would sound like some interdimensional sound selector from the deepest realms of dub.
Dub, for those of you who don’t know, began as instrumentals of songs that appeared on the flipside of 45 rpms. In time, producers like Lee “Scratch” Perry and King Tubby began processing the instruments and vocals with effects such as echo and reverb, often with the instruments and vocals dropping in and out of the mix. But almost always with a massive low bass.
Dub later made it’s presence felt in electronic music and influenced techno, jungle, dubstep, drum and bass, house music, trip hop, ambient music, and hip hop.
- Dubmatix “War, Peace & Dub”
- Spiral Soundsystem vs Jerry Mane “Sizzled Dub”
- Nalepa “Pomme Granite Dub”
- Bluetech “AD”
- RaNDom “Crystal Dub”
- Subtronix “Bushwhacked”
- Ladyman “Infomercia”
- DJ Olive “Sub Bass Commandante”
- Once11 “My Real Face”
- Disrupt “Jah Red Gold And Green”
- Power Steppers “Gates of Dub”
- Volfoniq “Heroina Dub”
- Roots Ista Posse “Hooked Mi Up Dub”
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1:01:00 | 55.88 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 19: Special Guest, DJ Wayz
January 5, 2007 | 1 Comment
solipsistic NATION is a weekly podcast that features the best of all genres of electronic music. Sometimes I jump from genre to genre on a show and other times I’ll focus on a specific genre like house. solipsistic NATION also features interviews, documentaries and, from time to time, guest DJs.
Today’s guest DJ is Wayz. Wayz has been featured on Drum and Bass Arena’s podcast which caught the attention of Breakbeat Kaos’s DJ Fresh, in turn leading to the subsequent signing of ‘Beyond’ to the high profile Dogs on Acid label. His tracks have also been featured on; Knowledge Magazine, 1xtra, and now has play support from some of the scene’s top DJ’s.
I interviewed Wayz on the small WORLD podcast back in October. After the interview I asked Wayz if he’d be willing to share his latest drum and bass mix on solipsistic NATION. If you dig today’s episode then you’ll definitely want to subscribe to Wayz’s podcast!
- WAYZ “Pain”
- Sub Focus “Swamp Thing”
- Henchman “Breakdown”
- Mutated Forms “Star Dust”
- Tactix “Black Sky”
- High Rankin “Alice”
- Mumblz & Dave Akuma “Testing Reality”
- TC & Distored Minds “Jump”
- Logistics “Girl from Mars”
- Baron “Drive In Drive By”
- Brookes Brothers “Mistakes”
- WAYZ “Pink Birds”
- Culture Shock “The Bypass”
- Paul B “Nobody Likes A Monster”
- High Rankin “Lost in a World of Ghosts”
- Cooh “Armeny (Tactix Remix)”
- Panda “Cats”
- Sub Focus “Flamenco”
- Logistics “The Divide”
- Agent Alvin “The Untouchables”
- Specialist Sound “With Avengence”
- Sub Focus “Airplane”
- Audio “No Soul”
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59:29 | 54.49 MB