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Welcome to 2012! According to a pop interpretation of the Mayan calendar we’re going to go face-to-face with the apocalypse that we’ve all secretly hoping would finally happen. If you believe that sort of thing. Here at solipsistic NATION we’re going to kick off the new year the same way we kick off each month: [...]
Today on solipsistic NATION we’re going to select tracks from Immigrant Breast Nest, a wonderful netlabel that was founded to present NYC’s best in weird, mostly electronic, underground music.Bit of background on today’s show.Dan Abatemarco and fellow musician and partner in crime, David B. Applegate, are the agent provocateurs of Immigrant Brest Nest and they [...]
Today on solipsistic NATION we’ll talk with Charles Smith, the co-founder and COO of exfm, an online musical service that I’m very excited about. As you browse the web exfm gathers every MP3 file that you come across and builds a music library for you that you can share with your friends.I don’t get to [...]
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 [...]
Since I don’t have any guests on this week’s show so I guess I’ll take this opportunity to ramble.Today my friend Sandi and I were out driving to go grab a bite to eat. While we were waiting at a stop light a SUV pulled up next to us and playing some bass thumpingly track. [...]
One of the things that thrills me most about the label showcase on solipsistic NATION is that it gives me the opportunity to discover even more new music with a mix that is is lovingly handpicked by the labels founders. In today’s case that would be Kurt Lorenz and Bill Bendrot of Ember Music.Ember Music [...]
Speak Onion is Dan Abatemarco and Dan was our guest on last year’s show about music made with iPods, iPhones and iPads. Dan’s back again with a live set recorded at the Charleston in Brooklyn for Immigrant Breast Nest’s record release party.Dan’s music has elements of breakcore and drum and bass in it but what [...]
Today’s show is very special for me and I imagine it will be a very special show for a lot of people, because today we’ll be talking with Brian Long and showcasing music from the Excursions in Ambience compilation album series.Back in the early 1990s when I was first falling deeply in love with electronic [...]