Solar

Broadcast live on WNYU 89.1FM in New York City on March 18, 2014

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BIS Radio Show #721 with Solar

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Solar Boiler Room x Dekmantel x IR DJ Set

This is a live recording from Solar playing RA's final Barbarellas party at The Garden Festival in Croatia. Find out more at http://www.residentadvisor.net

RA Live - 2015.07.04 - Solar, The Garden Festival, Croatia

In the first week of September we’re heading to the beautiful scenery of Tisno, Croatia, to celebrate the first edition of Dekmantel Selectors. In the run up to the festival, we’ve launched a new temporary podcast-series where we invite ten of our selectors from the festival to dig deep in their unique collections. The idea behind the mix is to create a Time Document, focusing on a specific period of time with the artist being free in choosing this period. This period could in fact entail anything: a certain decennia, the time he or she fell in love, The Cold War, November ’92 – March ’93, or the rise of Nigerian music. It’s up to the Selectors to choose and tell us a story based on their music collection.

Our next mix in our series is served up by San Francisco based selector Solar, who speaks his own, beautiful language. Often leaning towards the more sci-fi, atmospheric, and acid-lined ends of the dance music spectrum, Solar is surely adept enough to steer the party any damn direction he well pleases—a talent which has seen the West Coast jock become a much more regular presence across the globe, while still managing to hold down the fort at the helm of his home city's famed Sunset Sound System parties. 

His jacking and yet mind-blowing Selectors Time Document-podcast covers an imaginary set, and is a dedication to his friends of Wicked Sound System. "This is an imaginary set sometime in the early nineties at a Wicked Sound System Full Moon Party. These were legendary parties in the early rave days here in San Francisco, and were a massive influence on me becoming a DJ and also, the beginning of Sunset Sound System. I heard most of the records within this mix from anyone of the Wicked DJ’s. Whether it was Jeno, Garth, Markie or Thomas Bullock, I was always blown away by there live sets or mixtape. Wicked are celebrating their 25 Year Lunar Boogie this year so this is dedicated to them!"

Selectors Podcast 003 - Solar

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Solar Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival DJ Set

Recording of Solar & Cinnaman's set at Dekmantel Festival 2019.

Solar & Cinnaman at Dekmantel 2019

@SolarSF and @Mozhgan have been kind enough to let us upload their barnstormer of a set from The Island, and by gum this one’s a humdinger. 

For those of you who live under rocks, Solar and Mozhgan popped over from San Francisco to give Bristol’s best venue a proper talking to - and a proper talking to they indeed gave it. The duo took us through selections of punk-laced EBM, futurist minimal synth, headbang techno and old-school acid drivers, solidifying their status as our favourite Bay Area couple! 

As a mix, it is unpredictable, obscure and diverse, but without meandering from a central theme of dark, moody, fun-as-fuck party slammers (DJ Bigos hit us up) - we feel incredibly blessed to have been able to host these two and add this to our humble little series.

Not to mention preserving one of our favourite parties, and some fond memories with 2 of our favourite guests!

Recorded live at The Island, Bristol, 31st January 2020.

Solar

Michiel Simons