{"id":1993,"date":"2009-08-21T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2019-04-20T19:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T02:49:23","slug":"solipsistic-nation-no-155-twittermix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/solipsistic-nation-no-155-twittermix\/","title":{"rendered":"solipsistic NATION No. 155: #twittermix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s show is pretty cool. I\u2019ll be spinning tracks that came entirely from musicians I\u2019ve met on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago my buddy Al told me that I had<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

I thought Twitter was pretty stupid and at that point there weren\u2019t 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<\/b> that had been released.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t get it about Twitter. And then one day it just clicked.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

At the same time Twitter was getting more and more mainstream attention and there were a lot<\/i> of musicians and record labels joining Twitter. Suddenly Twitter became very useful.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s show the result of sifting through three hours of music.<\/p>\n

It was hard to pare down three hours of music into a one hour mix. I\u2019ve done my best to give you a sample of the diversity of music that was sent my way.<\/p>\n

Keeping with the Twitter theme, I asked all the people on today\u2019s show to talk about their music in 140 characters or less, which you can read below.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoyed today\u2019s show. If you did, let me know on Twitter at http:\/\/twitter.com\/solipsistic<\/a> If I get enough responses I\u2019ll put out another Twitter mix in a few months.<\/p>\n