solipsistic NATION No. 200: 200
July 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Two hundred shows.
I don’t usually talk all that much on solipsistic NATION. Unless I’m talking with a guest I usually just say what needs to be send and then I get out of the way of the music.
But I’ve been producing two hundred shows since 2006. Two hundred shows!
Indulge me this rare occasion to be verbose and verklempt. When you reach a milestone like that there is, I think, a natural urge to want to sum up the experience. But how do you encapsulate 200 shows?
My dad, who has been a guest on the show, by the way, was recently commenting on how remarkable it is the thousands of people who spend countless hours building and maintaining Wikipedia or publishing on their blog or, in my case, produce an electronic music show.
I shudder to think how many hours I’ve spend producing solipsistic NATION over the years: pouring over new music, putting together mixes, having guests on the show, editing interviews… It’s a lot of work and it’s a lot of time.
But it’s rewarding because I get to talk to people like Alex Paterson of The Orb or Toby Marks of Banco De Gaia. Are you kidding me? I can’t believe the number of people who have been kind enough to come on the show and let me play their music.
I’ve got a lot of them to thank. And I’ve got to thank the folks at Terrorbird, Ultimae Records, BPitch Control, Ad Noiseam and all the other record labels who have been generous enough to share their music with me and make this show possible.
I’d also like to thank the folks at KYOURadio in San Francisco for broadcasting solipsistic NATION each and every Saturday night.
I don’t do this often enough but I have to thanks all the photographers and artists whose graphics grace my website and each podcast who I’ve met on Deviant or Flickr.
I think you know where this is going.
That’s right, here’s where I thank you for listening. Without you their wouldn’t be a show.
I know the music on each edition of solipsistic NATION is good. That’s just a given. But not everybody rolls like I do, jumping from genre to genre each show. Sometimes within the same show. But you do. So… good on you.
There’s no interviews or overarching themes on today’s show. I’m just playing stuff I love.
- Banco De Gaia “Spirit Of The Age”
- The Orb “Vuja De”
- The Chemical Brothers “Dissolve”
- We Like Cats “No Ordinary Dub”
- The Phenomenal Handclap Band “You’ll Disappear”
- LCD Soundsystem “45:33 Padded Cell Remix (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)”
- Lady GaGa “Bad Romance (Larry Tee & Per QX Super Disco Party Machine Extended Mix)”
- Trentemøller “Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!”
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1:01:09 | 56.06 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 199: Jerona Fruits Recordings
July 18, 2010 | Comments Off
Back in 2006 when I relaunched solipsistic NATION I noticed that drum and bass was going through a resurgence in popular culture. I loved catching DJs at clubs spinning amazing jungle/drum and bass sets so I welcomed the renewed interest in d ‘n’ b.
At the time I was listening to a lot of music from Jerona Fruits Recordings. The music on Jerona Fruits had all the muscular leanness and high end production I loved about drum and bass and non of drum and bass’ sometimes embarrassing bombastic pretensions (although I’m a sucker for bombast when it works). I had the lads from Jerona Fruits on the Small World to talk about their label and play music form some of the artists on their roster.
Drum and bass has never gone away, of course. It’s always been there, seething below the surface, constantly mutating into new hybrids. Now is as good as time as any to check in with Baz, who is one third of Jerona Fruits, to find out what the state of drum and bass is on 2010 and how his label has grown since we last talked.
Baz is our guest DJ on today’s show and he’s got a mix of select tracks of the very best Jerona Fruits has to offer. If you like what you hear, and really, how can you not?, then show Jerona some love buy buying a few tracks from stores like Digital-Tunes and iTunes. As long as you’re at iTunes, you can subscribe to the Jerona Fruits Podcast and hear even more great music from their label!
Next month I’ll showcase music from Crammed Discs and talk to Marc Hollander, the label’s founder.
Join us again next week for the 200th edition of solipsistic NATION! Feel free to leave any comments about the show on my voice mail at 1-619-717-6322 and I’ll be sure to play it on next week’s show.
- Sabre “Floating Source”
- Madcap “Switch the Lights”
- Interview with Baz of Jerona Fruits Recordings
- The Burbs “Alone”
- Andy Skopes “Africa is Zion”
- Mijatoho & Zodiak “Curare”
- Greg Packer & MC Asassin “Landslide”
- The Burbs “That Sound”
- Mijatoho “Shape (Hidden Agenda Rmx)”
- Bungle & Ney Faustini “No Routine”
- Amaning & Dizplay “Sienna”
- Matt Domino “Papercut”
- Mijatoho “Jazgal”
- The Burbs & Mijatoho feat. Jon Jon “Coming Down”
- The Burbs “Anything”
- Andy Skopes “Bucktown”
- FX909 “Bad Attitude”
- Andy Skopes “State of Grace”
- Interview with Baz of Jerona Fruits Recordings
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1:08:29 | 62.76 MB
solipsistic NATION No. 198: DJ Spooky, Live
July 2, 2010 | Comments Off
The first Friday of each month I feature a live set from an electronic musician. But here’s the thing, I’m not sure today’s show is actually a live set.
Let me explain.
A few months back I asked Paul D. Miller (AKA DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid) if he had a recording of one of his concerts I could play on the show. Or maybe I asked him if he’s like to be a guest DJ on solipsistic NATION. I can’t exactly recall. Like I said, it’s been a couple of months.
This much I know: Paul sent me a mix that he played in Sudan and/or he made with his iPhone app. So is it live? I don’t know but I’m going to roll with it because it’s pretty awesome!
So let’s talk about Paul.
Paul is a is a turntablist, a producer and an author who has pretty much been part of my world since I first embraced electronic music back in the 90s back when he was part of the Illbient scene. Since then Paul has popped up on my radar again and again with his album and his remixes (my personal favorites are the remixes he has done for the Red Hot series).
As I mentioned, Paul is also an author and has written Rhythm Science (Mediaworks Pamphlets) and was the editor of Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture.
Paul is also a professor of music mediated art at the European Graduate School where he co-teaches with Michael Schmidt Intensive Summer Seminars in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
There is much, much more to Paul and will go over Paul’s multifaceted background when I have him back on solipsistic NATION to talk about Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture. In the meantime, enjoy today’s show, whether it’s live or not!
Join us again next week I’ll be showcasing music from Jeronoa Fruits Recordings. If you’re into drum and bass you’re going to love next week’s show!
Photo Credit: ©Jason A Layne
- Interview with Paul D. Miller, AKA DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid
- DJ Spooky “Boombox Intro”
- Public Enemy + DJ Spooky “By The Time I get to Arizona 2010″ [FREE DOWNLOAD]
- DJ Spooky “Drum Solo w/MC5″
- DJ Spooky + Rob Swift “Multiphonic”
- Damian Marley + Nas “As We Enter”
- DJ Felli Fell + Sean Paul + T-Pain “Feel It”
- Firelinks “Do Your Thing”
- Kat Deluna + Elephant Man “Whine Up”
- Madlib “Heavy”
- Mos Def “Supermagic”
- Dj Spooky featuring Emmanuel Jal “Nyakawai”
- Mos Def “Supermagic”
- Fat Joe “Ha Ha (Instrumental)”
- Talib Kweli + Hi-Tek “Ha Ha (Slow Down)”
- DJ Spooky “Afrique System”
- Magic System “Bouger Bouger”
- Awilo Longomba “Karolina”
- Dennis Christopher “Soulshakin”
- The Black Eye Peas “Boom Boom Boom”
- Rye Rye featuring M.I.A. “Bang Bang”
- Reel 2 Real “Go On Move”
- DJ Spooky “Now is the What”
- J-Star “No Diggity”
- Shabba Ranks, Bounty Killa & Johnny Osbourne “Lend Me the Chopper”
- Sanchez “Rock Bottom”
- Ky-Mani Marley “Warriors”
- Ronny Thwaites “Wicked Times”
- Ky-Mani Marley “Hypocrites”
- Johnny Osbourne & Shabba Ranks “Ice Cream Sound”
- Carol Cool “Upside Down”
- Family Circle and Sweet Lady “Reggae Beat Goes On”
- Flowering Inferno “Ciduad del Swing”
- Emmanuel Jal “Baai”
- Mulatu Astatke “Yègellé Tezeta (My Own Memory)”
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1:21:21 | 74.59 MB