solipsistic NATION No. 156: Freqs
August 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Today’s show is great! I’ll be talking with Jim Moynihan from Omelette Records, Great Scott from glitch.fm, Steve Nalepa and Deru.
Jim Moynihan is Spoonbill and he is also the founder of Omelette Records, a wonderful collective record label with artists that include the likes of Spoonbill, Frank Riggio and Alpha Channel.
Great Scott was our guest back in May and joins us again to talk about glitch.fm, an internet radio station featuring the best of glitch hop he helped launch a few months back.
Nalepa is another regular on solipsistic NATION. The last time I spoke with him he had just completed Flatlands:Remixes and had just begun working on the DVD version of Flatlands:Remixes.
Deru’s live performance on solipsistic NATION began a tradition of featuring live electronic music on the show that continues to this day. I’ve anxiously been awaiting the release of Deru’s new album, Say Goodbye To Useless, since he mentioned it on Twitter about six months ago.
Oh, hey, be sure to check out the related videos below for your continued edification and enjoyment.
Photo Credit: Randy Mora
- Spoonbill “Gumtree (Respoon)” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Spoonbill “Moth Adjust Stereo, Excerpt”
- Interview with Jim Moynihan, founder of Omelette Records
- Frank Riggio “Perplex People” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- HipGnosis “grainydontstop”
- Ill-Esha “spook FL”
- Interview with Great Scott, founder of glitch.fm
- Ill-Esha “kitchen sync FH2″
- Nalepa/David Last “Flatlands (David Last Remix)”
- Nalepa/RND “4th of July (RND Remix)”
- Interview with Steve Nalepa
- Nalepa/Rena Jones “Rhodes Racer (Rena Jones Remix)”
- Deru “I Want”
- Deru “Hello”
- Interview with Deru
- Deru “What Happens When You Ask”
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1:04:41 | 59.32 MB
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solipsistic NATION No. 155: #twittermix
August 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Today’s show is pretty cool. I’ll be spinning tracks that came entirely from musicians I’ve met on Twitter.
A couple of years ago my buddy Al told me that I had to get on Twitter. I was very cynical about social networks but Al had never steered me wrong in the past so I signed up.
I thought Twitter was pretty stupid and at that point there weren’t too many musicians and record labels from the electronic music scene to make it all that useful to me. I just posted notices about editions of solipsistic NATION that had been released.
I didn’t get it about Twitter. And then one day it just clicked.
Last December I was on a two week vacation from work. I was getting bored and so I just started spouting off whatever was on the top of my head, stuff related to electronic music and otherwise. I was pretty silly and pretty frank but what surprised me was the amount of conversations about some of the stuff I said generated. And that later led to other conversations.
At the same time Twitter was getting more and more mainstream attention and there were a lot of musicians and record labels joining Twitter. Suddenly Twitter became very useful.
Just for fun, I put the word out on Twitter that I wanted to do a mix of electronic music from artists on Twitter. Today’s show the result of sifting through three hours of music.
It was hard to pare down three hours of music into a one hour mix. I’ve done my best to give you a sample of the diversity of music that was sent my way.
Keeping with the Twitter theme, I asked all the people on today’s show to talk about their music in 140 characters or less, which you can read below.
I hope you enjoyed today’s show. If you did, let me know on Twitter at http://twitter.com/solipsistic If I get enough responses I’ll put out another Twitter mix in a few months.
- Wildcafe Does House “You Know (Radio Cut)”
@wildcafe I’m introducing my first release to you. It’s called Wildcafe Does House “You Know?” It’s an electro house smasher. Take a deep breath ;) - Charles Feelgood “Basshole (Charles Feelgood Remix)”
@feelgood “Basshole” Charles Feelgood Remix(Original Jon Pegnato and Matty Schol)-Jackin beats, ripping bass, with a touch of Bmore, out now on Shush Music at Beatport! - Great Scott “Defcon”
@djgreatscott “DefCon” pays homage to my favorite time of the year: the notorious hacking convention! Vox via Tim Leary’s “Tune In, Turn On, & Drop Out” - 3′OhTree “The Beast Inside”
@3ohtree A dark, angry, Dubstep track that treats sub-woofers how they are meant to be treated. Written & produced with pure hardware, no mac or pc. - hot mess “contra in a laundromat”
@neondoom “Contra” is basically taking the idea of Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon” and relating it to trying to hook up in a club. - Auditory Canvas “Let’s Go Stomp in the Mud”
@auditorycanvas Inspired by a trip to Lightning in a Bottle Festival 2008, it poured down half of the weekend. still had loads of fun though. - James & Evander “Dro”
@JamesAndEvander Dro was the first song we glitched guitar on. Its short for “Dntel Rip Off.” Lots of layers of the Moog. LAYERS! GLITCHHHH! - Phylum Sinter “Sedna_Demik”
@phylum_sinter Sedna_Demik is a chimey, noise-percussion track, taken from my album ‘from unity to segmentation’ on enpeg digital (out now!) - alka “immolated”
@_alka immolated: a condensed aural view of life. swirling tones escalate to 1:20 when pulsing rhythmatics surge + overtake until an eventual decay - bllix “In the Pines”
@bllix The disappointment you feel that it isn’t a Nirvana remix helps me relive the time I stole baby Jesus from grandma’s yard over and over. - Mystical Sun “Blue Lotus”
@mysticalsun flowers of blue dub for drifting and dreaming. - Dave Seidel “Nur”
@DaveSeidel “Nur” means light. Just intonation, micro-rhythms & acoustical beating. From upcoming release “Elementals” on @stasisfield.
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1:02:52 | 57.65 MB
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solipsistic NATION No. 154: Sleevin Records
August 14, 2009 | Comments Off
This week’s solipsistic NATION features select tracks from Sleevin Records mixed by the label’s founder, Simon Littlewood, AKA Simo.
I know Simon through Goldilox. I knew Goldilox from back in the day when she was part of Boston’s emerging electronic music scene in the mid 80s. She was a member of D.D.T. Last year I put together a show featuring D.D.T. (a few months later I would feature a live set from D.D.T. on solipsistic NATION recorded from the station that made me what I am as a DJ, WMFO.), Big Catholic Guilt, You Shriek and Think Tree. It was great to catch up Goldilox, Elaine Walker and Noel McKenna and it came up that Goldilox had sine moved to San Francisco and was helping run Sleevin Records with Simon. I made plans with Simon to have him on the show but as happens from to time, those plans never came together.
Last month I noticed that a number of albums from Sleevin Records were being promoted by IODA Promonet, a great service I use to find music to play on solipsistic NATION which reminded me of my plans to have Simon on the show. We got in touch and here you are: today’s show.
This may or may not be true but I believe San Francisco is a hot bed for electronic music. I know other cities like Los Angeles or New York have electronic music scenes but there seems to be something special about San Francisco that has countless great electronic music and a community that embraces that music. Sleevin Records is a perfect example of great electronic music coming out of San Francisco alongside the likes of OM Records, Cheb i Sabbah, Asphodel, etc… The list is long.
Enjoys today’s offering of tracks from Sleevin Records!
By the way, next week I’ll be giving aways free CDs on Twitter. Follow me at http://twitter.com/solipsistic for your chance to win some great music!
- SIMO feat. Diana Luna, Borrina Mapaka, Renee Wilson “Dub City”
- Moody Eva “Fuck Off”
- Interview with Simon Littlewood, founder of Sleevin Records
- SIMO & Drunken Monkey “Step Into”
- Moody Eva “Grab Your Tits”
- Techture “Rusted”
- SIMO “Mindless Banta”
- Interview with Simon Littlewood, founder of Sleevin Records
- SIMO & B.Smiley “It’s A Nice”
- SIMO & Drunken Monkey “Rennie’s Skank (JFlea RMX)”
- B.Smiley & Native Intelligence “Whacktrack (B.Smiley’s Dub Mix)”
- SIMO & Mancub “Punks Of Funk (Prato RMX)”
- Interview with Simon Littlewood, founder of Sleevin Records
- Moody Eva “A Little Taste”
- Techture “Signal 1″
- Techture “Cuts In Radar”
- SIMO & Drunken Monkey “Controlled Manner”
- Interview with Simon Littlewood, founder of Sleevin Records
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1:03:44 | 58.43 MB
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solipsistic NATION No. 153: Iambic, Live
August 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Once a month on solipsistic NATION I feature a live performance from an electronic music. Recent shows have included live sets from Exillon, Rena Jones and Milieu. This week’s show features a concert by Guy Andrews of Iambic recorded at the 2008 Waveform Festival.
I first discovered the music of Iambic through Travis Nobles, who runs the hiddenplace music blog. Travis has been a guest DJ on Solipsistic Nation several times (here and here) and on each show he played some beautiful tracks by Iambic. Iambic seamlessly blends Jazz, Soundscape, IDM, Post-Rock and Break Beat. I was so impressed with Iambic’s music that I knew I had to have him on the show.
Speaking of which, today’s show was originally planned to be released in June but due to scheduling conflicts I had to push it back until August. I mention this because during my interview with Guy he mentions some concerts he’ll be performing at that have since passed.
I’ve listened to Iambic’s live set recorded at Waveform Festival many times and it’s a pleasure to be able to play if for you on today’s show!
Upcoming live sets on solipsistic NATION will feature performances from KiloWatts, Terminal 11, ill.gates and Eskmo.
- Iambic “Live (2008 Waveform Festival)”
- Interview with Guy Andrews of Iambic
- Iambic “Break57″
- Iambic “Terra Firma”
- Iambic “Spirals”
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1:02:36 | 57.40 MB
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