When I began solipsistic NATION I didn’t make any attempt to make the show commercially viable. My mission was to play electronic music that I love and if people listening to the show happened to love what I was playing, I considered that a bonus.
I wasn’t being entirely self-serving. I was playing quality music so I knew I was bound to pick up an audience, even if it was a niche audience. And I was right. Over the years, solipsistic NATION has attracted an ever growing audience. And that’s where it gets interesting.
People often find their way to solipsistic NATION because they are just as passionate about electronic music as I am. And that shared passion sparks some wonderful conversations, which often leads to friendships.
Nearly a year ago I met Travis Nobles, who runs the hiddenplace music blog. Travis and I share similar taste in music and he constantly exposes me to new artists I most likely would have never heard about and usually those artists are on netlabels.
Travis is so dead-on about the artists he reviews that I invited him to be a guest DJ on solipsistic NATION because I knew he would select some stellar music for the show. The other reason I had Travis come on the show is because that while our tastes are comparable, he tends to pick out music that is more ethereal than I would normally listen to. But it is exactly that difference that makes listening to his music such a beautiful experience; he turns me on to stuff that I might otherwise miss. That forces me to expand my horizons and ultimately keeps solipsistic NATION fresh and exciting.
- Xurba “You Are a Circle”
- Workbench “De La Terre Á La Cime (I & II)”
- Interview with Travis Nobles of hiddenplace music
- Sabi “Dried Flowers, Mirrored World”
- Planet Boelex “Forever and Always (Feat. K)”
- Mikael Fyrek “The Tiny Greens and Whites”
- muxu “Moving at 30”
- Iambic2 “Regulus”
- Nest “Charlotte”
- Le Mépris “susu”
- Deluge “The Crush”
- Audiokonstrukte “Disfiction”
- Interview with Travis Nobles of hiddenplace music
- Promo: Fallen Nation