solipsistic NATION No. 169: Pixicast
November 26, 2009 | Comments Off
The music on today’s show comes to us by our guest DJ, Marie Craven, know to many as Pixieguts. Pixieguts is a member of the bands Cwtch and PIXSID. She is also the founder of the Palace Network and co-produces the Pixicast with Dave Almgren, also know as Voide. Pixicast is a show that focuses entirely on music that comes from indie and netlabels.
Pixieguts was also kind enough to provide the show notes for today’s show.
GreenGender’s track, “Recondite Loss” is full of delicate emotion, irony, political comment and simply good to hear.
Dementio13 has been making electronic music since the 1980s and “Disappeared (The Ballad Of Milton Friedman)” is from his 2009 EP release, The Ballad of Milton Friedman. The range of Dementio13’s music mixes up and travels around various genres like post-rock, ambient, drum and bass, trip-hop, idm and alternative.
I’ve chosen Humeka’s “The Sound” because I just particularly love this one. It’s from the Discuss album which is available for free download from many sites like Internet Archive and Jamendo.
HipGnosis‘ “Underground Looms” is a deep instrumental, abstract, experimental, glitch-hop track and also has occult influences in his music including the conscious deployment of binaural sounds.
Ugress ( which means “weed” in Norwegian) is in Bergen, Norway and is sensationally eclectic and prolific electronic artist who has a number of side projects in various styles and genres as well as the main Ugress act. There’s a strong popular culture influence in his music and a fair bit of quotational genre references in it.
Crimson Death is a music project that Pixieguts frequently collaborates with. Crimson Death often has a death metal and goth influence in his music and he performs live as a black metal/drum and bass DJ (maybe the only artist doing this particular combo).
Gurdonark is Robert Nunnally and hails from Texas. Robert mixes experimental, ambient and minimal music and is a Creative Commons champion and all his music is available for free.
Reconsiderate is a really unusual rapper from Wisconsin. His lyrics tend to reflect a kind of 21st white guy angst expressed with a great deal of unique wit and verve and his music has a raw experimental edge unusual melodic qualities.
SK123’s “Ankylosing Spondylitis” is a track from the 2008 album, Skizm, and is one I play over and over. I love it and so much more of SK123’s music. SK123 plays exquisite and energetic minimal music, a kind of music you’d call minimal techno if that genre term hadn’t come to be so associated so strongly with club dance music (which is often not all that minimal really).
The Incognito Traveller is an incognito artist who is listed on the label page as ‘unidentified.’ “Marguerite” is currently the top track in the large ‘Pixies Palace‘ group tag radio at Last.fm (for which over 5000 artist, albums and tracks have been tagged to date).
- GreenGender “Recondite Loss” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Dementio13 “Disappeared (The Ballad Of Milton Friedman)” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Interview with Pixieguts, co-producer of Pixicast
- Humeka “The Sound” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- HipGnosis “Underground Looms”
- Ugress “Robot Army” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Crimson Death “Koka Kola”
- Gurdonark “Hope” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Reconsiderate “Hey, Thanks!” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- SK123 “Ankylosing Spondylitis” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- The Incognito Traveller “Marguerite” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
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46:00 | 42.18 MB
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solipsistic NATION No. 168: Nocturnal
November 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Hello, people, how are you? Me? Frankly, I’m relieved.
Why, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you.
Earlier this week I announced on Twitter that this edition of Solipsistic Nation would feature minimal techno. The only problem is mixing minimal techno is more difficult than you’d expect. Minimal techno can be surprisingly subtle and the segues just weren’t coming together.
I ditched the minimal techno mix and worked on an ambient mix but that sounded like crap, too. And so was the electro mix. And darkwave mix. You get the idea.
I was floundering but as I was pulling tracks all willy nilly a show emerged. And one that, to me, at least, captures the feel of a fall evening. I hope you like it.
Come back again next week and I’ll see if I can get that minimal techno mix together.
- Odd Nosdam “We Bad Apples”
- Yppah “Bobbie Joe Wilson”
- The Gaslamp Killer “Turk Mex”
- Telling on Trixie feat. DJ Brodii “Your Silence (Vocals Up Remix)”
- Sketches For Albinos “Tanzen als Gabe es Kein Morgen”
- Lymbyc Systym “Contemporary Art”
- Small Color “Daisy”
- Skytree “1000 Miles from Everywhere” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Broken Spindles “We All Want to Fit In”
- Jogger “Napping Captain”
- Hol Baumann “Handwritten Notes”
- 5-40 am “Alone In the Day My Dear Kristine” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- January “Careful What You Tell The Sky (Album Version)”
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53:49 | 49.37 MB
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solipsistic NATION No. 167: Room40
November 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Once a month on solipsistic NATION I showcase a record label that is putting out amazing releases that you absolutely need to know about. On today’s show we’ll talk with Lawrence English, the founder of founder of Room40, and play select tracks from his label.
I first discovered Room40 a few years back when I relaunched solipsistic NATION as a podcast. I head head about Room40’s compilation album, On Isolation, and Lawrence was kind enough to send a copy of the CD my way as well as a copy of Airport Symphony. I was immediately taken with On Isolation because those albums transported me to different places in my imagination, On Isolation with its experimental music and Airport Symphony with it field recordings.
Since then I’ve anticipated each release from Room40 because I’ve always been surprised by each release. Some albums feature field recordings, others explore the realm of experimental music, and others features quite, beautiful music. Today’s show is a perfect example of the diversity of music offered by Room40.
I’ve wanted to have Lawrence on solipsistic NATION for a long time so it’s a pleasure to finally have him on today’s show. Not only do we get to hear some fantastic music from Room40 but we also get to learn how Lawrence launched his label. In addition, we’ll learn how Lawrence approaches making music for art installation and the many music festivals he is involved in!
- Tujiko Noriko “Make Me Your Private Party”
- Tenniscoats “10.rasen6.4.7″
- Erik Griswold “Imperfect Memories”
- DNE “Track 47″
- Chris Abrahams “Can of Faces”
- Interview with Lawrence English, founder of Room40
- Steinbrüchel “Interlude 3″
- Interview with Lawrence English, founder of Room40
- Taylor Deupree “Untitled”
- Leighton Craig “Circle of Thoughts”
- Scanner “Mountain Cabin”
- Interview with Lawrence English, founder of Room40
- John Chantler “Slow Closure”
- Interview with Lawrence English, founder of Room40
- Keith Fullerton Whitman “2nd Early Monolith”
- Robin Fox & Clayton Thomas “Direct Couriers”
- Interview with Lawrence English, founder of Room40
- eRikm “Fraq 424″
- Eric La Casa “Dundee Law”
- Interview with Lawrence English, founder of Room40
- Sébastien Roux “Interlude”
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55:26 | 50.82 MB
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solipsistic NATION No. 166: Ezekiel Honig, Live
November 6, 2009 | Comments Off
New to solipsistic NATION? Okay, here’s how it works: the first Friday of each month I interview an electronic musician and accompany it with one of their live performances. It’s a kind of cool way to kick of each month.
This month our live set comes from Ezekiel Honig’s performance at the 2009 MUTEK Festival.
MUTEK was founded in 200o and is an international festival organization that is dedicated to the promotion of electronic music and the digital arts. The MUTEK festival is an annual five-day event in Montreal that takes place in late May and early June. Each year, more than 100 artists, panelists, and industry professionals participate and has become a leading event of its kind in North America.
I first came across Ezekiel back when solipsistic NATION was broadcast on Free Radio San Diego when I asked Ezekiel to send some music from his label, Microcosm Music (Ezekiel is also now the label manager of Anticipate Recordings). I believe that was around the time that Ezekiel was transitioning from drum and bass to experimental electronic music. I later interviewed Ezekiel for the Small World podcast and since then I’ve wanted to Ezekiel to be a guest on solipsistic NATION. It took a while but I’m pleased to have Ezekiel on today’s show!
Incidentally, I believe it is through my Small World interview with Ezekiel that I met Macedonia, the host of the Both Sides of the Surface podcast. Just another example of the six degrees of connections that solipsistic NATION creates.
As long as I have your eyeballs the upcoming live sets on solipsistic NATION will feature King Cannibal, Mad EP, Terminal 11 and Ill.Gates!
Oh, one more thing. During the summer I was interviewed by Eric Fox and Erik Landi for their documentary about underground music and the underground music for their final project at High Tech High. You can see their video here. I’m amazed what Eric and Erik put together. They’re learning who to use the tools as teenagers that I use as an adult. What a world!
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- Ezekiel Honig “Live at MUTEK 2009, Montreal” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Interview with Ezekiel Honig
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58:36 | 53.76 MB
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Underground and Unknown by Erik Landi and Eric Fox