Author: joseph

Dubstep is a genre of music which came out South London’s dark 2step sound. “Dubstep” was coined by Ammunition Promotions and first used by XLR8R magazine on their feature on Horsepower Productions.

The dubstep sound is all about sub bass, reverb and delay and utilizes halfstep beat patterns to create a heavy and foreboding music. At it’s best you feel the bass more than you hear it while the drums are like a kick in the head.

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1. Luke Envoy “Gamma”
2. Sileni “Twitchy Droid Leg (Vex’d Remix)”
3. DLI “Forsaken”
4. Cotti “Breaking Point Mixd 2”
5. 4N General “Daylight Robbery Orgi”
6. fliPPo “Techno Ghosts”
7. subduxtion “Forewarning”
8. Burial “Spaceape”
9. Metalboxproducts “Boom Boom (0.2)”
10. Pompende “Inhouse Vibes”
11. Shonky “Talking Drum”
12. Vonboyage “Flippin Livid”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, House is one of my least favorite genres of electronic music. This week’s solipsistic NATION, however, features some of the sexiest House music you’ll ever likely to hear.

You may be wondering that if don’t like House why do I play it on solipsistic NATION. The answer is simple: I play the best of all genres of electronic music on solipsistic NATION. Even House.

Why I don’t like House is difficult to define. My initial answer is that House often sounds cheap. The cheesey synths, the lame drum tracks and boring bass lines just put me to sleep. Sounding cheap isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though. There are many artists who can craft great music out of those same elements but I think most musicians who create House music simply fall into the most overused clichés of the genre. It’s artists like Dorfmeister and Chuck Love who appear on today’s show who keep House fresh, exciting and oh so sexy!

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1. Richard Dorfmeister/Madrid De Los Austrias “Valldemossa (Parov Stelar & Raul Irie Remix)”
2. Novalima “Candela”
3. Quasimode “Ipe Amarelo (Spiritual South Skitzophremix)”
4. Spiritual South & Sleeptalker Sleepwalker “Hullabaloo”
5. Funk Harmony Park “Silence Me”
6. BangGuru “I Wanna Dance”
7. Isla Deejay “New York Mood”
8. Chris Wilson “House In The Dark”
9. Onionz “Woman Of The Sun (Hipp-E’s Stripped Out Mix Ft. El Feco)”
10. Chuck Love “Beat Down”

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1. My Robot Friend “Problems”
2. Walter Meego “Wanna Be A Star (Protman and Dangergirl Remix)”
3. Pink Punk “Yapolitical”
4. MSTRKRFT “Work On You”
5. In Flagranti “Business Acumen”
6. Momentum & Delicious Groove “Old Nasty”
7. Royal Sapien “Triple Nine (Royal Sapien Body Shot Remix)”
8. Ryan Crane “Just Like That”
9. Los Brutos “Mr. Nice (Original Mix)”
10. The Octopus Project + Black Moth Super Rainbow “Lollipopsichord”
11. Trans Mania “Boing Boom Jack (Pulsinger Remix)”
12. Plankton Man “Me Voy”
13. Urban Delights “Revolution Number 1”

Exquisite corpse is based on a parlor game. The game was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal their part of it, and pass it on to the next player for her contribution. Each collaborator adds to the composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. “The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun”) or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

What made this game so charming was the collaborative efforts in creating a piece of artwork and the unexpected results when the whole was revealed to all the particpants.

Years ago I adapted exquisite corpse for radio when I was spinning at WMFO. I would invite several DJs to the show and begin the set with a song. The next particpants had exactly the length of the song to choose a track that he thought should be played next. The DJ could stay within the same genre or mood or segue into an entirely different direction and the next DJ would do the same. It was a lot fun and made for some amazingly diverse mixes of music.

Today’s episode of solipsistic NATION is an exquisite corpse mix.

I invited the hosts of some of some of the best electronic music podcasts to participate in the exquisite corpse mix. As above, each podcaster was sent a MP3 of the song most recently added to the mix and were asked to select a song to play next. None of them has any idea what the final exquisite corps emix will sound like until the release of today’s show. The mix will be just as much a surprise for them as it will be for you!

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1. Stop Paving Roads “Spanish Evil”
   Selected by Bazooka Joe, solipsistic NATION
2. Halou “Everything Is OK (Different)”
   Selected by Anji Bee, The Chillcast
3. Pale Beneath the Blue “Inside”
   Selected by Jim Nye, Idyllic Music
4. Hexes & Ohs “Alive Until Saturday Night”
   Selected by Julien Smith, In Over Your Head
5. Christian Walt “Sooner Or Later (Once Again)”
   Selected by Jason Smith, Both Sides of the Surface
6. La Caution “Je Te Hais”
   Selected by Thomas, Yo La La!
7. Aegis “Computer Chips”
   Selected by Guy David, Advanced Electronica
8. I Am Dog Biscuit “Yakuza VS The Robots”
   Selected by Neil, Well Made Music
9. :brownstudy “Do Gets Done”
   Selected by .8bliss, Omnipresent Podcast
10. Ewun “Screw Up”
    Selected by Mr. E, The DJ Class
11. Blue Hand “Novokaine”
    Selected by Patric Bakkenist, Electron-X

Mind the Glitch!

While some consider Glitch a sub-genre of intelligent dance music, Glitch does away with traditional instrumentation, and instead focuses on the use of mechanized and non-natural sounds. While rhythm is a central focal point of Glitch, the style’s various sub-genres range from the ambient to the dance-oriented.

While putting together today’s episode of solipsistic NATION I wondered what my attraction to Glitch is. In the hands of, say, Throbbing Gristle or Ministry, Glitch would be a sonic barrage of static that would reduce a cinder block to a pile of dust. While some artists do use that approach with Glitch there are many more who prefer to use the elements of Glitch with a more ambient approach. The unnatural sounds of static, hisses, bleeps and pops become soothing and hypnotic. At the same time, the broken beats and fractured rhythms of Glitch can also for listeners to pay more attention to the music than other genres of electronic music.

In any case, Glitch captures the zeitgeist of the world we live in. The whir of harddrives, the jerky sounds of printers, the beeps of our mobile phones take on a new significance against the backdrop of Glitch.

1. Zephyr Nova “Iota”
2. Parts & Labor “Processional”
3. DJ Slip “Utopia Revealed (She’s A Time Traveller)”
4. Rik Rue “My Life With Speed”
5. Nalepa “Durian”
6. krill.minima “Holzwurm”
7. Shen “Causation”
8. Land Shark “Dangerous”
9. Drop The Lime “Try Harder”
10. Mouse On Mars “Inocular – A”
11. Deru “Tapah”
12. Socks and Sandals “Lover (OG Edit)”
13. Aerostatic “Drone Mix2 limNORM”
14. Miskate “Ditty Dumdum”
15. Ultre “Being Invincible”
16. Balún “Opening The Box”

It’s funny how some of these shows come together.

I didn’t set out to do an all hip hop show for this week’s edition of solipsistic NATION. I just picked songs I’ve been grooving to. As I started flowing the songs together for the mix I realized that they were all hip hop tunes.

What’s remarkable about that is that I’m not a fan of most hip hop that comes out these days. I’m one of those people who thinks that some of the best hip hop came out of the 80′s and early 90′s. Oh, sure, there has been some great hip hop since then but I really feel that rap was hamstrung when it became next to impossible to secure the rights for sampling or the bits that come from the deejay. Laying down the most rudimentary beats backed by a cheap keyboard rarely makes for a good song. I miss the sonic brilliance that came from Hank Shocklee and Pete Rock. I celebrate turntablists like Mix Master Mike and DJ Q-bert who defied the restrictions layed down by entertainment lawyers so they could create the best music possible. And yet here I am putting out an all hip hop show. I guess it’s time for me to set my prejudices about my feelings about today’s hip hop aside.

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1. DJ Jay C 3 “Hey Mr. DJ”
2. DJ Uff Da & DJ Jay C 3 “I’m In Control”
3. Malente “Open Secret (Radio Edit)”
4. Four Tet “A Joy (Percee P Version)”
5. Craig De Maio “The Circus Tent Experiment”
6. Zion I & The Grouch “Trigger”
7. Roscoe “Mr. Peanut Vender”
8. Stereotyp “Big Flows”
9. Hi-Tek “March”
10. The Visionaries “Talkin’ HandJive (Ft. Shorkut)”
11. Acid Reign “Word Em Up”
12. Jern Eye “Power Animal”
13. Chief Kamachi “Jim Kelly”
14. Motion Man “Professional Experts (Ft. Kool Keith & KutMasta Kurt)”
15. Edan “Beautiful Food”
16. Society of Invisibles “Down”
17. Agallah “The Don Bishop” “Ride Out (O.G.G.G.) (Featuring The Alchemist)”
18. Mikial “I’m Honest”
19. Hairdoo “Freedom”