One of my goals for the second year of solipsistic NATION was to release more shows featuring live performances of electronic music. I’ve been blessed with some fantastic sets by Robert Rich, Hol Baumann and and select tracks by artists recorded by the Dub Beautiful Collective. In the next few months you can expect to hear live shows from Dr. Toast and DJ Olive.
This week’s solipsistic NATION features a live performance by Nalepa, recorded by the Dub beautiful Collective in 2005.
Despite my best efforts, Nalepa’s comes up a lot on solipsistic NATION.
Five years ago I made a resolution not play a particular artists too often and never to play one of their songs more than once on my radio program. While I could do a two hour show dedicated to Meat Beat Manifesto or playing songs by Massive Attack over and over again I wanted to force myself to be more stringent on what songs would make it to my playlists. If I were going to play “Nephatiti” by 808 State, for example, I’d better be sure it was worth it because it would be a while before I played 808 State again and “Nephatiti” was never to be played on the show again.
I wanted to keep the show lean and fresh. When I relaunched solipsistic NATION as a once a week, one hour podcast, there was even less reason to repeat artists or songs. And yet Steve’s name keeps popping up.
The reason for that is because Steve’s an amazingly great musician. His stuff is damn wonderful that as try as I might, Steve’s music keeps creeping it’s way into the shows.
I’m delighted to present to you a live performance by Nalepa as well two tracks from collaborative efforts Steve is working on with The FMs and Bass Science. And you can be sure I’ll be playing more of Nalepa’s music on the podcast in the future.
- Nalepa “Live (December 3, 2005), recorded by the Dub Beautiful Collective“
- Interview with Steve Nalepa
- The FMs “Fancy Seeing You Here”
- Bass Science “Razors”