Bassnectar * North Coast Music Festival 9/4/11
18/May/12 Filed in: Guest
DJ | Bassnectar
Bassnectar live at North Coast Music Festival, September 4,
2011
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Review: North Coast Music Festival 2011, Sunday: Bassnectar
Bassnectar, a.k.a. Lorin Ashton, took the North Coast stage just after 8:30pm Sunday night, capping off a wild weekend with a set of tunes that showcased his demented and popular take on electronic music. The San Diego-based DJ mixed hip hop, pop, and indie rock samples with dubstep and breakbeats. As indicated by his name, he also brought with him a love of bass: earth-shaking, sternum-rattling bass.
The DJ is a master of tempo, and within the course of a single song, samples and beats will go from double to triple-time, to half-time, then get crushed under the weight of shock waves of wobble bass. The extended bass lines were manipulated by Bassnectar to amplify and tease out disorienting pitch changes within the walls of sound. An early sample that struck a chord with the crowd was “Closer to God” by Nine Inch Nails. While the DJ did bust out incredibly fast moments, all the better for people to thrash around to, the majority of his tunes operated at a relatively slow pace, allowing for much enthusiastic head-nodding and -banging. Certain breaks and drops felt almost punishing, challenging the audience to wrap their minds around all the glitch and throbbingly low notes.
The visuals on display were easily the most intricate and memorable of the weekend, as flashing lights of every imaginable color silhouetted Bassnectar’s frame against the screen. The DJ, who sports long flowing hair down to his waist, conjured his frenetic soundscapes from a pair of laptops, a turn table and several synths. A veteran of Burning Man, he took a moment between songs to encourage the crowd to howl at the moon, and frequently praised the energetic freak-flag-waving crowd. Festival goers sported strange accessories all weekend, and they all showed up Sunday night. Spotted throughout the throng were an octopus, a giraffe, a dolphin and a sex doll, all attached to sticks, not to mention cut outs of Optimus Prime and Mega Man. Massive beat drops spurred volleys of glow sticks and spurts from bubble makers.
The next recognizable snippet sewn into Bassnectar’s songbook was “Diserlou,” the frantic surf song popularized by the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Next came “Where is my Mind” by the Pixies. Kim Deal’s ghostly vocals sounded especially chilling and otherworldly against all the disparate sounds being thrown together. The night air was chilly, and the festival’s tagline of “Summer’s Last Stand” seemed to hold true, as the seasons apparently changed from summer on Friday to fall by Sunday. “You look so beautiful out there,” Bassnectar yelled as the night, and the festival, came to a close.
--TimeOutChicago
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Review: North Coast Music Festival 2011, Sunday: Bassnectar
Bassnectar, a.k.a. Lorin Ashton, took the North Coast stage just after 8:30pm Sunday night, capping off a wild weekend with a set of tunes that showcased his demented and popular take on electronic music. The San Diego-based DJ mixed hip hop, pop, and indie rock samples with dubstep and breakbeats. As indicated by his name, he also brought with him a love of bass: earth-shaking, sternum-rattling bass.
The DJ is a master of tempo, and within the course of a single song, samples and beats will go from double to triple-time, to half-time, then get crushed under the weight of shock waves of wobble bass. The extended bass lines were manipulated by Bassnectar to amplify and tease out disorienting pitch changes within the walls of sound. An early sample that struck a chord with the crowd was “Closer to God” by Nine Inch Nails. While the DJ did bust out incredibly fast moments, all the better for people to thrash around to, the majority of his tunes operated at a relatively slow pace, allowing for much enthusiastic head-nodding and -banging. Certain breaks and drops felt almost punishing, challenging the audience to wrap their minds around all the glitch and throbbingly low notes.
The visuals on display were easily the most intricate and memorable of the weekend, as flashing lights of every imaginable color silhouetted Bassnectar’s frame against the screen. The DJ, who sports long flowing hair down to his waist, conjured his frenetic soundscapes from a pair of laptops, a turn table and several synths. A veteran of Burning Man, he took a moment between songs to encourage the crowd to howl at the moon, and frequently praised the energetic freak-flag-waving crowd. Festival goers sported strange accessories all weekend, and they all showed up Sunday night. Spotted throughout the throng were an octopus, a giraffe, a dolphin and a sex doll, all attached to sticks, not to mention cut outs of Optimus Prime and Mega Man. Massive beat drops spurred volleys of glow sticks and spurts from bubble makers.
The next recognizable snippet sewn into Bassnectar’s songbook was “Diserlou,” the frantic surf song popularized by the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Next came “Where is my Mind” by the Pixies. Kim Deal’s ghostly vocals sounded especially chilling and otherworldly against all the disparate sounds being thrown together. The night air was chilly, and the festival’s tagline of “Summer’s Last Stand” seemed to hold true, as the seasons apparently changed from summer on Friday to fall by Sunday. “You look so beautiful out there,” Bassnectar yelled as the night, and the festival, came to a close.
--TimeOutChicago
Revenge of Whomp Massive
20/April/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
| Bass Chakra
Therapy
dBMcast #104: The Revenge of Whomp Massive
Mixed by DJ Playaduster March 2012
Featuring Love & Light * Griz * Opiuo * Sunmonx * Sugarpill * Russ Liquid * Thriftworks * Chris B. * Gladkill * Kraddy * Pretty Lights * Jamie Woon * MartyParty * Vibesquad * Nico Luminous * Bonobo remixed * Goldrush * Bassnectar // Art by Mugwort.
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The Man burns in 133 days!
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Bass Meditations
31/March/12 Filed in: DJ
Edubious | Bass Chakra
Therapy
With no more delay I offer 'Bass Meditations' for the dBM massive. This is the mix formerly known as 'Kung Fu Jedi II' However since I don't have any yoda or kung fu master vocal samples, I didn't feel it was deserving of that title. No vocal samples here, just a mix of sacred bass music.
This mix drops into the sacred bass realm and was designed as a soundtrack to your Practice. Find your flow with Kaminanda, Phuture Primative, Kayla Scintilla, Tipper, Nanda, Thriftworks and The Human Experience. This mix is a sampling of some of the freshest, most deeply studied bass chakra masters.
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dreamtime multiportal headtrip spacedub
24/February/12 Filed in: DJ
Playaduster
dBMcast episode #102
Mixed by DJ Playaduster Jan-Feb 2012
Special Guest Alan Watts lecture on “Turning the Head (On Drugs)”
A spacey soundtrack for lucid dreaming, chemical mindsurfing, mystical visions and intergalactic voyaging.
Featuring: Four Tet / Tinariwen / Floating Points / Jamie Woon / Thriftworks / Bacan Acab / Mount Kimbie / Gadi Mizhradi / Tanner Ross / SBTRKT / Ellen Allien / Apparat / Zomby / Tim Hecker / Sepalcure / Kaminanda / Pink Floyd
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Subconscious Shapeshifter Swarm
01/February/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
| Bass Chakra
Therapy
A subsonic sacred bass exploration with DJ Playaduster channeling a night at Burning Man. Imagine traveling between several different soundscapes late one night in Black Rock City: your first stop features whomp-fusion, glitch-hop and luscious low-end bass jamz to start the party. But then you wander a couple doors down the Esplanade to discover a camp spinning psychedelic progressive house and you get lost there for what seems like an eternity of booty-shaking. Robot Heart rolls by and draws you deeper out in to the open playa for a serving of dark and dubby disco-trance music. Mmmmmmm, feels so good! Right about the moment you suspect that you are going to turn in to a puddle of goo from dancing to such elastic, nerfy beats, a random art car -- perhaps a golf cart made up as a glowfish, or a pulsating fuzzy UFO -- drives by blaring Hendrix and the rawness and realness of his guitar pulls you back to corporeal form. Out at the trash fence, you stumble upon Tipper spinning an early morning set full of neuron-splintering sounds and feel your DNA literally being reprogrammed…. almost sunrise!
All of these various styles and genre-mutations sound so good to your ears -- they move your body hypnotically, swarm your subsconscious with shapeshifters and create an epic night of dancing beneath the broad dome of stars with the beautiful freaks of BRC!
Featuring Kaminanda / David Starfire / Beats Antique / ill.gates / Glitch Mob / R/D / Bassnecter / Osunlande / Tanner Ross / Round Three / Kassem Mosse / Behrouz / Jimi Hendrix (?!?) / Tipper/ more...
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Pumpkin * Live at Lightning in a Bottle 2011
22/January/12 Filed in: Guest
DJ
Adele – Rolling in the Deep (Jamie xx Shuffle Mix) Phoenix – 1901 (D.L.I.D Remix) Two Door Cinema Club – Undercover Martyn (Passion Pit remix - Pumpkin Edit) Sia – Breathe Me (Mylo Remix) Passion Pit – The Reeling (sammy bananas' big choon mix) Noah and the Whale – Love of an Orchestra (Chew Fu Killer Whale Fix) The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition (Alan Wilkis Remix) Yeah Yeah Yeah – Maps (thisguyiknow remix) Florence + The Machine - You Got The Love (The xx Mix) Dikky – Man on the Moon Mashup (Kid Cudi vs. Postal Service) Broadcast 2000 – Get up and Go (James Yuill Remix) Mumford and Sons – The Cave (Pyrotec Remix) Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (RAC Remix) Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire (Cousin Cole's Bad Desire Mix) Metric- Twilight Galaxy (The Gripp Remix) Blind Melon - No Rain (Pumpkin Remix) Noah And The Whale - 5 Years Time (Pumpkin Remix) Tina Dico - Count To Ten (Pumpkin Remix)
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Desert Pilgrims: the road to BRC
Mixed by DJ Playaduster with Kaya Rainface, Nov-Dec 2011
Featuring Ehassan Karimi / Lilt / Cheb i Sabbah / eO / Kaminanda / MiMOSA / Nicholas Jaar / SUN:MOX / Mickey Hart / An-ten-ae / Low Ryderz / Schlomo / James Blake / Welder / Matt Shadetek / DJ/Rupture / Beats Antique...
... and field recordings of Camp Get Found on the road to the Black Rock desert in northwestern Nevada: moontroll, Hannah Tangerine, Maketa, DJ Grapenuts, Scotty G, Colby, Gabriella & others in Bend, Oregon; Summer Lake Hot Springs; and crossing the portal and Getting Found.
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Kaya Rainface & the Elixir of Tears
An exploration of the alchemical/magikal energies of low-end frequencies for bass chakra therapy. Featuring excursions from the very best in sacred electro-space-bass-whomp adventurism. Inspired by meeting DJ Kaya Rainface, 11:11 and Burn Night magic.
Prelude: Hildur Guonadottir +Peter Van Hoesen * 123 Mrk * Beats Antique * Kalya Scintilla * Opuio * Nanda * Tipper * RLS * SUN:MONX * The Human Experience * Kaminanda * Grouch * Welder * Mount Kimbie * Four Tet * Radiohead * PhuturePrimitive * Coda: Hildur Guonadottir + Peter Van Hoesen
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Ready, Set, Get Found!
21/October/11 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
| Bass Chakra
Therapy
Welcome to the days leading up t0 Burning Man 2011, when Camp Get Found was visualizing their return to the playa and manifesting the SynchroniciTEA House & JuJu Parlor. In this mix, you'll find the freshest bass biscuits available from the most visionary DJs currently manipulating sounds for the benefit of Bass Chakra Therapy, combined with vocal samples taken in Seattle, Bellingham and on the road to Black Rock City. Hopefully this mix will give you a sense of the anticipation, gravity, passion, creativity and communal love that we generated in the build-up to the Burn, as well as inspire you to shake your booty to the bass!
Artists include James Blake * An-ten*ae * Beats Antique * MartyParty * Stephen Jacobs * ill.gates * VibeSquad *Knowa Knowone * Pretty Lights* Basnectar * Timonkey * Dr. Toast * Emancipator * Ooah * Heyoka * Little Dragon * Grammatik * Kaminanda * Nanda * Mount Kimbie * PhuturePrimitive * R/D
Headphones strongly recommended. Advanced practitioners only, please. Destination Burning Man cannot be held responsible for any damage to your speakers....
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The Best of Bonobo * DJ Rich-Ears
20/October/11 Filed in: Guest
DJ
Perfect Bonobo by Rich-Ears
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The Best of Quantic 2 * JRocc
16/October/11 Filed in: Guest
DJ
It has been a decade since Will Holland aka Quantic released his first album on Tru Thoughts. Twelve albums later and Quantic has a vast discography; funky, soulful vibes with the Quantic Soul Orchestra, Flowering Inferno's reggae infused dub, cumbia with The Combo Barbaro, and more. The Best Of Quantic album highlights the stunning range of his work, bringing together some of the biggest tracks from across his many projects.
To celebrate the release and a decade of music from Quantic, the world famous J.Rocc (one of the finest DJs on the planet), created the Best Of Quantic Mix that perfectly incorporates electronic, jazz, dub, hip-hop, cumbia and the many more styles to come from Quantic over the span of ten years.
Best Of Quantic Mix by J.Rocc by Tru Thoughts
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The Best of Quantic 1 * Jeremy Sole
24/September/11 Filed in: Guest
DJ
From XLR8R: While lots of folks have only recently been turned on to cumbia and other Latin rhythms, guys like Will Holland (a.k.a. Quantic) have spent years digging through dusty crates of Central and South American vinyl, constantly in search of fresh beats and breaks. Yet Holland is more than just an old-school enthusiast, as he's fronted countless projects with different artists, musicians, and aims...the Tru Thoughts label has asked KCRW's Jeremy Sole to take a closer look at Quantic's entire body of work. To that end, Sole has assembled Lo Mejor y Sabor de Quantic: A Retrospective of Will Holland, a free 44-minute mixtape that weaves through the Quantic catalog and combines what Sole sees as the man's best work.
Lo Mejor y Sabor de Quantic (by Jeremy Sole) by Tru Thoughts
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Here’s another great Quantic mix, with interview, from Tru Thoughts at http://www.tru-thoughts.co.uk/audio/Quantic/tru-thoughts-podcast-no-38
Rites of Passage: Pathways to the Portal
24/August/11 Filed in: DJ
Edubious | Playa Mixes
What does the theme Rites of Passage mean to you? Is Burning Man just a big party in the desert? These questions spark the insights and musings of Get Found 3.0 campers as we envision it, manifest it, build it, paint it, pimp it out, feel it, struggle with it, open to it, let go of it and offer it as a gift to all.
The soundtrack for this lucid stream of consciousness is a mid-to-downtempo mix of music from Mimosa, Bassnectar, Eliot Lipp, Burial, Thievery Corporation, Tipper, Pretty Lights, Marty Party, Ooah, Emancipator, Jamie Woon, Russ Liquid Sound and Tycho.
We will pass through the Portal in 6 days! We invite our fellow Burners who will be on the playa this year to visit us at 8-8:30 & G-H (approximately…look for our blue and green parachutes, teacup signs on the street corner, or check in at Playa Info) for a cup of tea at the Get Found SyncroniciTEA House & Ju Ju Parlor! You know we'll be playing good music. See you at Home.
Rites of Passage: Pathways to the Portal by Edubious
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Rites of Bassage (for Burning Man 2011)
Bass Chakra Therapy VI
Mixed by DJ Playaduster
Phuture Primitive "Cryptogenic Dreams" * RLS "Playa Stomp" * Love & Light "Funkin Lovely" * Opiuo "Good Thymes" * Heyoka "Cheesy Poof/Mold" * ill.gates "Spread Ego" * ill.gates + Bassnectar "Lions" * Eliot Lipp "It's Time" * MartyParty mix > PantyRaid mix * MiMOSA "Up In the Clouds" * R/D "Give up the Ghost" * Deathstar "Rollin' in the Deep" * Timonkey "Glyph Hop" * Bassnectar "Boomerang" * Thirftworks "Wonky Boils" * Grouch "Chops"
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The Larry Harvey Dub Experience
25/July/11 Filed in: DJ
Playaduster
Here’s a new mix from DJ Playaduster, with special guest Larry Harvey, founding visionary of Burning Man. The audio is from a recent talk he gave in San Francisco at the Burning Man Regional Convectional Caucus that was recorded and broadcast by Shouting Fire. He is pontificating on the early roots of Burning Man, some of the principles Burners adhere to, and ways in which the Black Rock City culture is spreading out in to the default world in surprising ways.
The music is a mix of style from whomp to dubstep, glitch to jazz. Many of the tracks are taken from the Ninja Tune XX compilation. Hopefully this soundscape presents many of the tempos and feelings one would get wandering around Black Rock City at night.
Featuring Amon Tobin (King Cannibal remix) * Andreya Triani (Mala remix) * Bonobo (Floating Points remix) * Anti-Pop Consortium (Four Tet remix) * Thom Yorke + Four Tet + Burial * Wolf + Lamb * The Bug * Coldcut * "White Rabbit" dubstep remix * R/D * MiMosa * Pretty Lights * Vibesquad * Eskmo (Lorn remix) * Burial * Radiohead * Dorian Concept * Jazz Jagist (Grasscut remix)
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