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solipsistic NATION No. 256: Blotter Acid

So here’s the pitch: 100 songs on one show.

This show has been brewing for, I don’t know, the last three or four years. Since solipsistic NATION was first launched I’ve accumulated a huge library of music. To be honest, at this point it’s a constant deluge and I’ll never catch up with it. There’s only so many hours in a day.

Anyway, not only do I have this huge library of music to choose from to put together each show I’ve also got a lot of tracks that clock in at a minute or less. At some point it seemed obvious that I should put together a mix of just those brief tracks. In fact, I’ve tried to do this show several times in the past but it never gelled. I almost gave up on the idea but last weekend I rolled up my sleeves and gave it another shot and what do you know, it finally came together!

It was still a Herculean task, though. As you might have noticed, last weekend’s show didn’t go out, so Cyclopean was this project. But after much sweat and blood I stand before you diminished, but I stand before you nonetheless with, one show with 100 songs.

What I like about today’s show is that these tracks are more fragments of songs than a song proper. They suggest a song. And since there are so many tracks, I can explore a lot of different moods and ideas very quickly. So much so that the show seems more like an auditory hallucination that a mix. At least that’s how it feels from over here in the solipsistic NATION studios.

Okay, I’m wrung out like a sponge. I’ll see you next week when I’m back to full charge. See you then!

Photo Credit: ©J. Todd Olson

  1. The Death Set “I Wanna Take This Tape And Blow Up Ya Fuckin Stereo”
  2. Torn Flesh Records “No Good Can Come From This (Intro)”
  3. K’naan “Moment”
  4. Odd Nosdam “Root Loop”
  5. edIT “I Slay Crowds”
  6. Zeph & Azeem “Last Call (Interlude)”
  7. Roots Manuva Vs Wrongtom “Dub Decay”
  8. Y-Love “This Is A Test”
  9. This Heat “Radio Prague”
  10. D.N.E. “Volatile”
  11. Lapsed & Nonnon “Moff”
  12. Man Is Doomed “Intro”
  13. CX Kidtronik “Hood Rat Booty Krak Ology Science Pt. 2 Featuring Dr. Mad Vibe”
  14. Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought “Babylon Breaks”
  15. Wagon Christ “Rennie Codgers”
  16. Sunny Levine “Caffe Rhinoceronte”
  17. Pinker Tones “Many Years Ago”
  18. Quantic Soul Orchestra “Interlude”
  19. Paranoid Castle “Champagne Intro”
  20. Kamran Sadeghi “Public”
  21. Solex Vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer “Er Ez Ex”
  22. Prefuse 73 “Periodic Measurements of Infrequent Frowns”
  23. Rachel Goodrich “G-Dino”
  24. Oy “Positivili Two”
  25. Cornelius “Scum”
  26. Busy P “49ers”
  27. Eric Kupper Presents K-Scope “Outro”
  28. Leyode “Intro”
  29. Percee P “LA (Interlude)”
  30. David Vangel “Inhale & Exhale (Cool Down)”
  31. Win Win “Mother Mary Interlude “
  32. Bomb The Music Industry! “Sponge Board / Baby Waves”
  33. The Orb “Phantom of Ukraine”
  34. Panda “Interlude”
  35. Burial “Untitled”
  36. Bassnectar “Intro”
  37. Scattertape “Shelving A Tempered String (Intro)”
  38. Ford & Lopatin “Scumsoft”
  39. Brother Reade “Breakneck Interlude”
  40. Malachai “In The Hole”
  41. Christopher Willits “Branches Into Flowers”
  42. Seefeel “Step Down”
  43. Team Shadetek “Tinnitus”
  44. Memory Tapes “Musicbox(In)”
  45. Alphabets Heaven “Jung”
  46. Natacha Atlas “Matrah Interlude”
  47. Semiomime “From Memory Part 2: Eidolon”
  48. Stefano Spataro Solquest Projects “Re(verse)”
  49. master margherita “interlude”
  50. Displacer “Foggy Memory”
  51. Lyrics Born “Re-Intro”
  52. Mr Oizan “Intra”
  53. Madlib “The Rip Off (Scene 3)”
  54. Astronote “Weapon Of The Future”
  55. Massiv In Mensch “Meanwhile Back In The Jungle”
  56. CH.District “1#2”
  57. Percee P “BX (Interlude)”
  58. Now On “Here”
  59. Ascii.Disko “Intro”
  60. Natacha Atlas “Evening Interlude”
  61. Zeller “Seneretatis Mare”
  62. Barem “There”
  63. Alva Noto “pax for chain music (2003)”
  64. 5-40 am “ruin my life (intro live 06)”
  65. mark henning & j u g “moors vitabit tool”
  66. Koyxen “410b”
  67. Big Pauper “Beyond Mine, Beyond Ours”
  68. Sex In Dallas & Biladoll “The Family Tree”
  69. Igorrr “Dentist”
  70. El Remolon “Interlude Der Tirolen featuring Vanesa Strauch”
  71. Hypnolove “Oare Unde, Cine, Cînt?”
  72. Raven Chacon “My baby’s seen an evil being”
  73. Kush Arora “Intro”
  74. Life (Zebra Traffic) “Sound of The Beast (Clean)”
  75. Madlib “Masala”
  76. Lokua “Ghostrider”
  77. Zygote “Studios Of Z”
  78. Beans “Anvil Falling”
  79. Claroscent Dray “Seraphim”
  80. Black Mold “Dr. Snouth”
  81. King Cannibal “Intro”
  82. Boredoms “Super Frake 009”
  83. King Coya “Trocintro”
  84. Veil of Thorns “Waltz”
  85. JPLS “Voxplosion Escape”
  86. Meat Beat Manifesto “010130”
  87. Doctor Popular “Nu Lo Fi”
  88. Hype Williams “dragon stout”
  89. The Blow “Lets Play Boys Chase Girls”
  90. Michael Fakesch “Don’t Stop”
  91. Chromeo “Intro”
  92. Flying Lotus “Clock Catcher”
  93. Mysterious House “not only an assesment tool, it’s also a way to create winners and losers”
  94. ohGr “101intro”
  95. Infection Agenda “The Fine Line”
  96. Mothboy “Archives On Fire”
  97. Shen “Peering Down Gazing Up”
  98. Adam A Williams “Sudden”
  99. Son Lux “WEAPONS II”
  100. Kaya “Music (intro)”