{"id":2152,"date":"2010-08-06T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2018-11-11T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:25:37","slug":"solipsistic-nation-no-202-atom-his-package-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/solipsistic-nation-no-202-atom-his-package-live\/","title":{"rendered":"solipsistic NATION No. 202: Atom & His Package, Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when I used to DJ at Free Radio San Diego<\/a> (FRSD, incidentally, is where solipsistic NATION<\/b> was born) I was introduced to the music of Atom & His Package<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FRSD was staffed mostly by punks and there was some discussion as to whether Atom & His Package was punk rock or not. On the one hand, Atom\u2019s music was mostly played on his sequencer (many will tell you that you don\u2019t play punk rock on a sequencer), his lyrics were mostly pretty silly and sung in an almost cartoony voice. But on the other hand, the sequencer had a \u201ccheap\u201d sound and Atom waved his freak flag in his lyrics that were earnest and heartfelt with a fuck you attitude if you didn\u2019t get it or didn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think any of us took these discussion seriously but my own view was that Atom was most definitely punk. Not the conservative, thoughtless punk that dominates most of the genre and culture today. But the punk of yore, when there weren\u2019t really any rules as to what punk was.<\/p>\n

If Atom is punk then what is he doing on solipsistic NATION<\/b>, an electronic music show?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve listened to solipsistic NATION<\/b> in the past then you know I play fast and loose with what the definition of what electronic music is. Like punk, I think electronic music is pretty much open for definition. I guess the only requirement is that it should have some electronic instrumentation and so Atom\u2019s package, his sequencer, fits the bill perfectly.<\/p>\n

Atom & His Package is Adam Goren is our guest on today\u2019s solipsistic NATION<\/b> and his set was originally record live at the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n

In 2003 Adam performed his last show as Atom and His Package due to impending fatherhood and being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Adam now teaches chemistry and physics at the Shipley School located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and plays from time to time with Armalite.<\/p>\n

Join us next week when our guest will be Marc Hollander, the co-founder of Crammed Discs<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: \u00a9elawgrrl<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n