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!!!”