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Today on solipsistc NATION our guest is Saltillo’s Menton J. Matthews III. He’s just released Monocyte, Saltillo’s long awaited second album. Saltillo’s Monocyte is both an album and a comic book. The comic book was released by IDW and the album was released by Artoffact Records.

Jacek Kozlowski is the founder of Artoffact Records and his label was featured on solipsistc NATION‘s label showcase back in January. Jacek prepared a great mix with select tracks from his label and introduced me to Saltillo with two tracks that were gorgeous and mysterious and very, very dark.

Ganglion is Saltillo’s first album but I’d be hard pressed to say if one was better than the other. Their both beautiful and while Ganglion is more restrained it no less powerful than Monocyte. And Monocyte is very powerful—cinematic in scope chock full of cryptic dialogue, sound effects and the music, the beautiful and haunting music.

Menton J. Matthews III is one half of Saltillo and he joins us from his studio in Chicago to talk about both his new album and the comic book.

Join us again next week. We’ll do it all over again. But completely different.

1. X:THC “Hide”
2. Zeller “Asperitatis Texture”
3. Saltillo “ABEO”
4. Saltillo “The Opening”
5. Interview with Menton J. Matthews III of Saltillo
6. Saltillo “If Wishes were Catholics”
7. Access To Arasaka “Sao”
8. C.Db.Sn “Artificial Intelligence”
9. Spyweirdos, John Mourjopoulos, Floros Floridis “The Letter After Omega”
10. Steinbruchel “narrow”

Today on solipsistic NATION we’re going to listen to select tracks from Futuresequence and talk with the labels founder, Michael Waring.

Futuresequence is based out of the UK and began as a blog but has slowly been mutating into a music label that explores the possibilities and boundaries of textures, patterns and sounds and, hopefully, pushes past those boundaries.

I’ve known about Futuresequence since their first Sequence compilation album. I recently read about the release of Sequence3 in Zite‘s electronic music section. After downloading all 41 tracks of the album and being blown away by each and every one, it was obvious that I had to feature Futuresequence on solipsistic NATION.

We’ll talk with Michael about his label and the music we’ll hear on today’s show. If you heard a track you liked on today’s mix you can always show your support by buying a track or two from the artists by clicking the links on today’s show notes.

If you like the show, you can also support solipsistic NATION simply by giving the show a quick 1 to 5 star rating on iTunes. I of course hope you’ll give solipsistic NATION a five star rating. You can also support solipsistic NATION by turning your friends on to the show.

The more people who listen to solipsistic NATION the more shows like today’s show I can produce. Each edition of solipsistic NATION is free for your listening pleasure. I just ask you share solipsistic NATION with people who enjoy good music.

I’ll see you again next week when we’ll do it all over again! But completely different.

1. Radere “I’ll Make You Quiet”
2. Sun Hammer “A Dream In Blood”
3. Interview with Michael Waring, founder of Futuresequence
4. Widesky “_____ Is Also Movement”
5. Zvuku “Untitled”
6. Radere & A Setting Sun “VII”
7. Radere “Good Evening, Ghosts”
8. Interview with Michael Waring, founder of Futuresequence

Can I share something with you that is simultaneously mind blowing and utterly mundane?

I get anywhere from 50 to 250 tracks emailed my way every week. Let me repeat that: every week. And I’ve made a pact with myself that if musicians or music labels are generous enough to send music my way to play on the show then I feel obligated to every single song.

As you can imagine, that takes a lot of time.

My strategy to deal with this constant geyser of music is to listen to a couple hours of hours a day of music on my phone that has been sent my way in the last week on random. Listening to music on random gives me an approximation what an album sounds like. I realize it’s not fair to the artists but it would take me forever to listen to each and every album from start to finish. Random’s just faster.

Anyway, whenever a really good track comes on that I flag it for consideration to play on the show. And tracks from Velapene Screen‘s album, What If They Can’t Trust You?, just kept popping up again and again, demanding my attention. Who the hell was this guy? Whoever he was, his music is slamming! I wasn’t surprised, What If They Can’t Trust You? is a Centrifuge release, and The Centrifuge puts out quality music. Check out my interview with The Centrifuge’s Wassim if you don’t believe me.

And as I was listening to yet another killer track from Velapene Screen I suddenly saw him post something to Twitter. I wondered if he’d be interested on coming on the show with a live set and sent him a Tweet. Minutes later he Tweeted back that he was interested. We talked further and the results is today’s show.

On the surface that’s not such an amazing story but if you think about it, it’s almost magical.

Musicians and music labels send me music to download which I might later play on my show, which is available as a podcast or streaming from an internet radio station. And I’m deluged in music. All. The. Time. And I listen to this stuff, anywhere I go, on my phone. And I can reach out and contact the musicians I’d like to come on the show by posting message in the aether. Can you fucking believe that shit?

Like I said: utterly mundane but completely magical.

Anyway, listen to today’s show featuring a chat with Chris Ghiraldi, the man behind Velapene Screen, and Chris’ in-studio performance! His whole life is magical. Became a touring musician at a young age, won the Philly Laptop Battle in 2004 and the New York City Laptop Battle in 2006, received attention from Rolling Stone, remixed artists including Interpol, Meat Beat Manifesto, Radiohead and Regina Spektor, etc.

Before I get out of Dodge, keep your fingers crossed because next month’s Live show may feature a set from the Stereo MCs! I hope I didn’t jinx it.

See you next week!

1. Velapene Screen “Breaks The Habit” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
2. Velapene Screen “Breathe Again (Sense’s In, Out and Around Mix)” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
3. Interview with Chris Ghiraldi of Velapene Screen
4. Velapene Screen “Live”