solipsistic NATION No. 57: Accretions
September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment
I’m constantly contacting record labels to send me promotional CDs so I can deliver to you the finest in all genres of electronic music. Recently I received a batch of experimental electronic music CDs from Accretions, an artist-based independent music label with an ear towards experimental, improvisational and global sounds. When I checked the mailing address I was surprised to find that they are based in San Diego, California.
I regard San Diego as a patch of paradise in the US. The city is absolutely beautiful. The weather is always clement and the people are warm and friendly. But San Diego is definitely not a metropolitan city. In fact, San Diego is often referred to as a big city that think it’s a small town, so you can appreciate my wonder that San Diego is also the home to a record label that offers some of the most innovative and exciting music out there.
I asked Accretions’ Marcos Fernandes to join us on this week’s solipsistic NATION to talk about the label and play select tracks of music from their roster of artists. Prepare to have your mind blown!
- Robert Montoya “…You’re Soaking In It”
- Interview with Marcos Fernandes of Accretions
- Donkey “La”
- Hans Fjellestad “Love Dart”
- Nathan Hubbard “17 stone park stutter/breath”
- Damon Holzborn “If We’re All Going To Get It”
- Gunther’s Grass “Vulcanian”
- Panoptica “Camposanto”
- Las Cajas Del Ritmo “Com Com”
- Point Loma “Ensemble Circuits”
- Latinsizer “Falling Peni”
- Marcelo Radulovich “Unico Amor”
- Interview with Marcos Fernandes of Accretions
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1:01:54 | 57.36 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 56: Cheb i Sabbah
September 21, 2007 | 5 Comments
On today’s show we’re joined by special guest, Cheb i Sabbah.
Cheb represents, in part, the transition when DJs went from spinning music to producing music. Whereas DJ Shadow dug through crates to find the rare vinyl he would use to create his masterpiece album, Entroducing…, Cheb traveled to places like India and North Africa to record traditional music for his albums such as Shri Durga and La Kahena.
This week on solipsistic NATION we’re going to talk with Cheb and listen to a restrospective mix of his musical career so far. I want to thank Six Degrees Records and Cheb i Sabbah for making this week’s show possible.
Photo credit: James A.K.A. “cookiecrook”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Govinda”
- Interview with Cheb i Sabbah
- Cheb i Sabbah “Raja Vedalu”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Radhe Krishna (The Babu Chandidasa Mix)”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Ganga Dev (The Prakriti - Purusha Mix River of Mercury)”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Rupa Tujhe Deva (The Karsh Kale Gopi Girl Mix)”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Shri Durga (FunDaMental Organic Chill Mix)”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Jarat Fil Hub (Love’s Chalice)”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Im Ninalou (The Groovio Deep End Remix)”
- Cheb i Sabbah “Esh ‘Dani, Alash Mshit (The Rai of Light Club Remix)”
- Interview with Cheb i Sabbah
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1:03:36 | 58.92 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 55: Guest DJ, Macedonia
September 14, 2007 | 2 Comments
A while back I interviewed The Agriculture’s James Healy for the small WORLD podcast. Shortly afterwards I got a message from a cat named Macedonia telling me that he dug the interview and was fan of The Agriculture label.
Turns out that Macedonia hosted a podcast of his own called Both Sides of the Surface where he spins music, as he says, “from around the world and around the way.” Macedonia plays everything from Afrobeat to Soul but it was immediately clear that his passion was hip hop. I started tuning into his show and became a fan. That’s saying a lot because I’ve had a love/hate relationship with hip hop for years and years. I love hip hop for it’s freshness and inventiveness and for it’s honesty, even when it’s outright lying to you with a wink. I hate hip hop for crass commercialism and the coma it’s been in during the gangsta era and I hate hip hop for it’s intolerance and inflexibility. During the last 10 years I’ve had more of a hate relationship with hip hop than a love relationship. But there was Macedonia, a soft spoken deejay, rekindling everything I originally loved about hip hop.
Earlier this year I put together an Exquisite Corpse mix and when I asked Anji Bee, host of the Chillcast, which deejays I should include in the mix she unequivocally said Macedonia. Now that I’m into the second year of solipsistic NATION I plan to have more guest deejays on the show and the first guest I wanted to have on the show was Macedonia.
As I mentioned, while Macedonia’s first love is hip hop he’s not limited to that genre, as you can tell by today’s show. Everything is grist for Macedonia’s musical grill. More than that, Macedonia waxes eloquent on all forms of music for Impose Magazine. Recently he’s written about Amon Tobin’s latest release, Foley Room and Copperpot’s WYLA? (What’re You Looking At?) album.
I’ve only known Macedonia for a little over a year but after listening to his voice on BSOTS podcast after show I feel like I’ve always known him. If you’ve never listened to BSOTS, go subscribe to his podcast after listening to this week’s show. Let’s expand the circle of friends.
- Kraak & Smaak “Real Pain” (K&S Remix)”
- Someone Else “Generic Atmo”
- Christian Walt “Still Sleeping?”
- Simian Mobile Disco “Wooden”
- Tokyo507 “Body Electric”
- Jonny Sonic “Medicine”
- DJ Z-Trip “Rockstar”
- Think Tank “A Knife & A Fork”
- DJ Dope “Jimmy Kills Us”
- Goldlix “Latinozo”
- Urban Clearway “African Culture”
- David Last “Where It Falls”
- Caribou “Lovely Day (Four Tet Remix)”
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1:02:20 | 57.74 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 54: Year One
September 7, 2007 | 4 Comments
solipsistic NATION first aired on Free Radio San Diego back in June of 2004 but I don’t think the show really took off until I started doing it as a podcast last September.
Back when I was doing pirate radio I did a freeform show but I found that I was playing so much electronic music that I thought it would be best for everyone if I a separate show that just focused on the electronic music and solipsistic NATION was born.
In a sense, solipsistic NATION is still a freeform show and that was a deliberate move on my part. I love breakbeat, for example, but I would get bored very quickly if I had to play an hour of breakbeat week after week.
One of the things I love about electronic music is that it will cannibalize anything that comes across it’s way and then recontextualize it into something new and exciting. So I decided not to not limit myself to just one genre of electronic music. Instead, I wanted to play only the very best from all genres of electronic music.
The only problem is that the software that we were using to spin music on Free Radio San Diego was so crude that it was incredibly difficult to do the kind of show that I had in mind. Once I started doing solipsistic NATION as a podcast the kid gloves came off and I got very ambitious about the scope of the show.
In the last year I’ve done documentaries on Nerdcore and Chiptunes. I’ve featured live performances from Deru and Robert Rich. I’ve had guest DJs on the show such as Wayz and Eve Falcon, I’ve also interviewed people from record labels such as Nacional Records and Extreme Records and more recently I interviewed Vivian Host, the editor of XLR8R magazine.
Here’s what’s coming down the feed in the next few months…
I’m working on a documentary on Digital Hardcore that I’m very excited about. The documentary will feature interviews with Alec Empire, members of Lolita Storm and Shizou and many more as well as some music that’s going to destroy your speakers or melt your headphones. I’m also working on a documentary about the Illbient movement that come about in the mid 90s and that show will feature music and interviews from folks like Ben Neill and DJ Wally and many others. Another documentary I’m putting together will focus on electroclash. You can expect to hear interviews and music from Spray, Electrosexual, Noblesse Oblige and much, much more!
I’m also going to continue to have guest DJs on the show. In October, Mikel OD from the Most People Are DJs podcast will be spinning a mix of synthpop. I also plan to have Anji Bee from the Chillcast come on the show with a mix of her own.
I’ve got a very special show coming up in a few months that will feature an Exquisite Corpse mix put together by a dozen DJs.
I’m also going to do more shows that feature electronic music from records labels such as Accretions, Elektrotribe and Ultimae Records.
I’m also going to continue to feature recordings of live performances and the next one coming up is a set by Hol Baumann that I can promise will absolutely rock your world.
In two weeks I’m going to have Cheb I Sabbah on the show for a chat as well as a retrospective mix of his musical career.
That’s quite a list and I’ve got much, much, much more in store for you but that’s just the stuff I can tell you about!
- Ministry “Yellow Cake (Heaflouride)”
- Alec Empire “Gotta Get Out”
- Interview with Lolita Storm
- Lolita Storm “Hot Lips, Wet Pants”
- Null Object “South South West”
- Peanut Butter Disco “Technopluck!”
- DJ Mutiny “Soulrunner (Superstyle Deluxe Remix) (Botchit Breaks)”
- Interview with Kraddy
- Kraddy “I Gotcha - Lupe Fiasco [Kraddy Remix]“
- Tyson “Freedom Roc”
- Richie Hawtin “The Tunnel - Consists Of:”
- Xc-N “Syllabus”
- Ignatius “Trappings”
- Interview with Mick Harris of Scorn
- Scorn “Soon Come”
- Interview with Kush Arora
- Kush Arora “Surf’s Up”
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1:00:00 | 55.58 MB