solipsistic NATION No. 155: #twittermix

Today’s show is pretty cool. I’ll be spinning tracks that came entirely from musicians I’ve met on Twitter.

A couple of years ago my buddy Al told me that I had to get on Twitter. I was very cynical about social networks but Al had never steered me wrong in the past so I signed up.

I thought Twitter was pretty stupid and at that point there weren’t too many musicians and record labels from the electronic music scene to make it all that useful to me. I just posted notices about editions of solipsistic NATION that had been released.

I didn’t get it about Twitter. And then one day it just clicked.

Last December I was on a two week vacation from work. I was getting bored and so I just started spouting off whatever was on the top of my head, stuff related to electronic music and otherwise. I was pretty silly and pretty frank but what surprised me was the amount of conversations about some of the stuff I said generated. And that later led to other conversations.

At the same time Twitter was getting more and more mainstream attention and there were a lot of musicians and record labels joining Twitter. Suddenly Twitter became very useful.

Just for fun, I put the word out on Twitter that I wanted to do a mix of electronic music from artists on Twitter. Today’s show the result of sifting through three hours of music.

It was hard to pare down three hours of music into a one hour mix. I’ve done my best to give you a sample of the diversity of music that was sent my way.

Keeping with the Twitter theme, I asked all the people on today’s show to talk about their music in 140 characters or less, which you can read below.

I hope you enjoyed today’s show. If you did, let me know on Twitter at http://twitter.com/solipsistic If I get enough responses I’ll put out another Twitter mix in a few months.

  1. Wildcafe Does House “You Know (Radio Cut)”
    @wildcafe I’m introducing my first release to you. It’s called Wildcafe Does House “You Know?” It’s an electro house smasher. Take a deep breath 😉
  2. Charles Feelgood “Basshole (Charles Feelgood Remix)”
    @feelgood “Basshole” Charles Feelgood Remix(Original Jon Pegnato and Matty Schol)-Jackin beats, ripping bass, with a touch of Bmore, out now on Shush Music at Beatport!
  3. Great Scott “Defcon”
    @djgreatscott “DefCon” pays homage to my favorite time of the year: the notorious hacking convention! Vox via Tim Leary’s “Tune In, Turn On, & Drop Out”
  4. 3’OhTree “The Beast Inside”
    @3ohtree A dark, angry, Dubstep track that treats sub-woofers how they are meant to be treated. Written & produced with pure hardware, no mac or pc.
  5. hot mess “contra in a laundromat”
    @neondoom “Contra” is basically taking the idea of Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon” and relating it to trying to hook up in a club.
  6. Auditory Canvas “Let’s Go Stomp in the Mud”
    @auditorycanvas Inspired by a trip to Lightning in a Bottle Festival 2008, it poured down half of the weekend. still had loads of fun though.
  7. James & Evander “Dro”
    @JamesAndEvander Dro was the first song we glitched guitar on. Its short for “Dntel Rip Off.” Lots of layers of the Moog. LAYERS! GLITCHHHH!
  8. Phylum Sinter “Sedna_Demik”
    @phylum_sinter Sedna_Demik is a chimey, noise-percussion track, taken from my album ‘from unity to segmentation’ on enpeg digital (out now!)
  9. alka “immolated”
    @_alka immolated: a condensed aural view of life. swirling tones escalate to 1:20 when pulsing rhythmatics surge + overtake until an eventual decay
  10. bllix “In the Pines”
    @bllix The disappointment you feel that it isn’t a Nirvana remix helps me relive the time I stole baby Jesus from grandma’s yard over and over.
  11. Mystical Sun “Blue Lotus”
    @mysticalsun flowers of blue dub for drifting and dreaming.
  12. Dave Seidel “Nur”
    @DaveSeidel “Nur” means light. Just intonation, micro-rhythms & acoustical beating. From upcoming release “Elementals” on @stasisfield.