solipsistic NATION No. 193: iPads, iPhones & iPods
May 28, 2010 | Comments Off
On today’s show we’ll talk with artists who are creating music with Apple’s iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch. We’ll find out why they are using these devices to make music and what are the challenges and limitations of those devices.
So why do a who featuring music created with iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch?
I think the answer is pretty simple. There are a lot of different smart phones and MP3 players but Apple is the company that got it right. These devices are incredibly powerful but easy and intuitive to use and developers have created some wonderful applications for them. And those apps are often equally easy and intuitive to use. And that means there are a lot of people walking around with these little handheld computers with the capability to create music and that’s a wonderful thing.
Apple’s iPad is not the first tablet device to hit the market but it is the first successful tablet. Wildly successful, in fact. And once again developers are coming up with some wonderful apps.
And the iPad is one of the reasons I wanted to do today’s show because a lot of people are claiming that it’s ust a media consumption device or that it’s just a big iPhone. As today’s show proves the iPad is also a media creation device and it clearly not just a big iPhone.
Our guests will be Rana June, Jared DiDomenico and Brad Naprixas from Nuclear O’Reilly, Brian Roberts of Doctor Popular, Marshall Law and Speak Onion’s Dan Abatemarco.
Rana June is Rana Sobhany and is the author of Mobilize! Marketing Mobile Content in an iPhone and iPad Era and is the world’s first iPad DJ. Nuclear O’Reilly released Phoning It In, the world’s first iPhone album. Doctor Popular is currently working on an album that utilizes the iPhone called Beeps and Smudges. William Marshall uses the iPhone as a DJ tool and Dan Abatemarco of Speak Onion uses the iPhone to bludgeon his audiences in his live sets.
I’ve got a lot of apps you can win on today’s show for your ipad, iPhone or iPod Touch so email me at solipsisticnation@gmail.com or Tweet me at http://twitter.com/solipsistic for your chance to win!
I’d like to thank the folks at Sound Trends LLC, Intua, Nanoloop, Smule and IK Multimedia for their generosity for letting me give away their fine apps on today’s show.
See you next week for a special live set from Terminal 11, Forensics and ill.gates!
- Rana June “Destroy the Silence, Volume 1″ [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Interview with Rana June
- Nuclear O’Reilly “Leeks” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Nuclear O’Reilly “Two Flumes” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Interview with Brad Naprixas and Jared DiDomenico of Nuclear O’Reilly
- Doctor Popular “Bedbugs (featuring ytCracker)”
- Doctor Popular “Last Gasp Through Bended Straw”
- Interview with Doctor Popular
- Marshall Law “House Mix”
- Interview with Marshall Law
- Speak Onion “Brecht Forum (January 10, 2009)” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- Interview with Speak Onion
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solipsistic NATION No. 192: BPitch Control
May 20, 2010 | Comments Off
Today on solipsistic NATION we’ll talk with Ellen Allien. Ellen is a musician, a DJ, a producer, a fashion designer and the founder of BPitch Control.
I’m very excited about today’s show because I have a list of music labels that I’ve wanted to feature on solipsistic NATION and I’ve wanted to do a show dedicated to BPitch Control for a very long time.
I’m not a big fan of techno because I find the genre fairly conservative and boring. Partly this is due to the constraints of the genre but mostly it is due to the lack of imagination of musicians who make techno. Not so with the artists on BPitch Control. From Modeselektor to Sasha Funke, all the music on BPitch Control is creative, fun and pushes the boundaries of what techno can be.
Ellen herself sums up all of that. She is a musician, a DJ, a producer, a fashion designer and the founder of BPitch Control. Her latest album, Dust is due for release today so the timing for today’s show is perfect! It was difficult to choose which track from Dust to choose but in the end I settled on “Huibuh” because it is a perfect example of Ellen’s ability to make techno her own by infusing “Huibuh” with Afro-Peruvian and Cuban elements without using those elements for mere exotica.
As always, whenever I have a guest on solipsistic NATION I ask people on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to contribute to the interview and on today’s show I have questions from bubblesmusic and tony_watt. If you’d like to participate in future interviews just follow me at http://twitter.com/solipsistic.
If you enjoyed today’s show then you’ll also enjoy the A/V show from October that includes an interview with Hannes Stöhr, the director of Berlin Calling, a movie who’s soundtrack was released through BPitch Control.
Join us again next when we’ll talk with Rhana June, Doctor Popular, Nuclear O’ Reilly, Will Marshall and Speak Onion. They’re connection? They all make music with iPhones and iPads.
See you then!
- Fuckpony “Orgasm On The Dancefloor Saturday Night”
- Interview with Ellen Allien, founder of BPitch Control
- AGF / Delay “Connection (Fritz Zander Remix)”
- Moderat “A Seamonkey (Untold Remix)”
- Chaim “A Thrill You”
- Interview with Ellen Allien, founder of BPitch Control
- Ellen Allien “Huibuh”
- Zander VT “Peace Of Mind feat Chopstick”
- Thomas Muller “Rebirth”
- Paul Kalkbrenner “Torted”
- Telefon Tel Aviv “Immolate Yourself (Thomas Muller Burning Man Remix)”
- Interview with Ellen Allien, founder of BPitch Control
- Jahcoozi “Watching You (Deadbeat Stalker Dub)”
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1:05:29 | 60.03 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 191: Mad EP, Live
May 7, 2010 | Comments Off
I missed last month’s live set on solipsistic NATION because my life got pretty hectic. But I’m back this month with a live set from Mad EP recorded at the TODAYSART festival in 2008.
TODAYSART believes strongly in fresh and vigorous creativity; and in the new shapes of expression, and the rising talents who boldly explore the possibilities of the new and controversial stages where they can express their talent.
I had Mad EP on the show back in September with O’ Slick to talk about their Brimstone Bangers release and asked Mad EP if he had a recording of a live set he’d like to share on the show. Mad EP said he did and set me a rocking set and I’m psyched to share it with you on today’s show!
Mad EP will also be back on the show later this month or in June with a live set he’s putting together exclusively for solipsistic NATION.
Earlier this year Hecq came on the show with a mix that covered the gamut of Hecq’s musical styles: from ambient to breakbeat. It occurred to me that as much as I dig Mad EP’s live set it’s pretty much all hip hop and doesn’t convey the range of his musical capabilities. Mad EP felt the same way after listening to Hecq’s mix we both agreed that Mad EP should do a mix too.
Unfortunately, Mad EP broke his hand so until he heals that mix will have to wait. Until then, rock out to Mad EP’s TODAYSART 2008 live set!
- Mad EP “Live, TODAYSART 2008″
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1:03:48 | 59.03 MB