missaw - Nonlocality Mix for Solipsistic Nation

April 2011 - A showcase of The Centrifuge on solipsistic NATION - a UK-based electronic arts collective that runs a digital record label and organises events around Europe. The Centrifuge focuses on the expression of the experimental aesthetic in electronic music, with an emphasis on electronica, glitch, ambience and minimalism, acid, IDM and drill and bass.

When I relaunched solipsistic NATION as a podcast and later as a radio program I had a mental checklist of labels I wanted to feature on the show. In the last five years I’ve slowly checked off most the of those labels. There are still plenty of labels left on that list but I’ve decided to focus more and more on exploring the blossoming of new electronic music labels. Most of these labels are netlabels, which makes sense in this age of the internet. What curious, though, is how electronic music labels often lends itself to collectivism, and that’s a theme we’ll explore on today’s show.