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Dubstep by Youngsta
09/December/08 Filed in: Guest DJ
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Yes We Can : Obama Hopecast : Part 1
22/November/08 Filed in: DJ Fundi
left speechless & shaking with an intense, spiritual joy after the 2008 presidential election, i was so happy for myself, for my country and for the whole entire world that i came to a rare loss for words.
this "hopecast" is my best attempt to describe and share some portion of the mix of emotions the election of Barack Obama has inspired in me. it is especially inspired by looking backwards, because you can't know where you're going unless you know where you've come from.
bob marley, curtis mayfield, marvin gaye, public enemy, ludacris, nas, lee "scratch" perry, maceo parker, the blind boys of alabama, george clinton, fela, prince and assorted hymns, field hollers and cameos from MLK and Dubya people this tribute. it also features excerpts of Obama's most memorable oratory as he made the transitions from junior senator to presidential candidate to president-elect -- an audio record of history in the making, set to a fitting groove.
Part one takes the listener from Obama as junior senator from Illinois on to the campaign trail and up to the Democratic Convention when he became the Democratic nominee. I'll release part two in a week or so and it will finish up the story with his acceptance speech in Chicago.
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A Lament for Tibet
17/October/08 Filed in: DJ Fundi
(LISTENING TO THIS MIX ON HEADPHONES IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!)
DJ Fundi's "A Lament for Tibet" podcast, posted a few months ago at the Podcast Cafe, is inspired by the Dalai Lama -- the Ocean of Wisdom, Holder of the White Lotus, protector of the Land of Snows and an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, Buddha of Compassion. It is dedicated to the merit of all Tibetans who are enslaved in their own homeland.
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DJ Dan * Live @ Burning Man 2008
30/September/08 Filed in: Guest DJ
welcome new earholes!
05/September/08 Filed in: Playa Mixes
As a result of 45,000+ Burners returning home from the playa and throwing themselves back into the Default World, the traffic for this website has shot through the roof. I think it has something to do with peoples being homesick for Black Rock City and searching around online for some way, any way, to keep the fires burning bright. Google, ePlaya, Tribe and many other websites are directing dusty, lost souls to our scrappy lil' website here. Happiest of all, these podcasts are getting downloaded dozens of times a day, finding new earholes to play with. Yee-haw!
We're also getting new friends coming in via the newspaper Reno Passport, which recently rated Destination Burning Man's podcast offerings as the "best Burning Man music" and wrote that "Reno Passport utilized this site for our complete ipod selection for the 2008 Burn! Hit these guys up for sure!" Read it here.
Welcome new friends! Leave a comment or send us an email to say "howdy-do": [email protected]. Also, don't hesitate to check out DJ Playaduster's alter ego DJ Fundi throwing mad music all over the place at the Podcast Cafe (www.podcastcafe.org).more…?
We're also getting new friends coming in via the newspaper Reno Passport, which recently rated Destination Burning Man's podcast offerings as the "best Burning Man music" and wrote that "Reno Passport utilized this site for our complete ipod selection for the 2008 Burn! Hit these guys up for sure!" Read it here.
Welcome new friends! Leave a comment or send us an email to say "howdy-do": [email protected]. Also, don't hesitate to check out DJ Playaduster's alter ego DJ Fundi throwing mad music all over the place at the Podcast Cafe (www.podcastcafe.org).more…?
Heart of Flame Trilogy III : RENEWAL
22/August/08 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
Here's the final installment of the Hearts of Flame Trilogy -- a podcast tribute to Burning Man I mixed in 2006 -- hopefully posted in time for some of you playa-bound Burners to download for road trip music, perhaps even for a spin in Black Rock City some night. Back story on this podcast tribute here. Part one is here, part two is here.
Incidentally, Destination Burning Man and our many burning podcasts was noticed by the newspaper Reno Passport, and they are helping spread the word about the goodies for the gettin' here at dBM with this blog post and the comment: "Reno Passport utilized this site for our complete ipod selection for the 2008 Burn! Hit these guys up for sure!"
We're sure appreciative of the exposure -- our hits and podcasts downloaded have shot through the roof over the past few days. More than anything, DJs Playaduster and Edubious are so grateful and stoked to know more and more Burners are pulling down the music, sharing in the journey and keeping flame alit all over the world, all throughout the year!
Feedback and stories from the 2008 Burn are welcome: [email protected]!
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Hearts of Flame Trilogy II : COMBUSTION
12/August/08 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
(For the backstory on the Hearts of Flames Trilogy, click here.)
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Hearts of Flame Trilogy I : IGNITION
07/August/08 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
23 days.
In a little over three weeks, the Man will burn. Over 50,000 revelers, seekers and freaks will gather around the effigy on a remote, desolate, dry lake bed in a forgotten corner of Nevada to drum, dance with fire and lose their minds to the magic of the moment.
Though I've long decided that I won't be returning to participate in The Event in the Desert in 2008, I have to admit that with the arrival of August, Black Rock City's invisible, inevitable gravitational pull is agitating my soul. I have other projects and efforts I am dedicated to this year, namely establishing a relationship and a new home with an amazing woman and very special 7 year-old boy, but that doesn't negate my natural affinity for ritual, for community gatherings in sacred spaces, for ecstatic release, for psychedelic sojourning, for intense life-reflection and inward reorientation and for creative pranksterism.
My Burn brother Edubious and I have hatched alternative plans for the Burn weekend, and we plan on some deep-delving and freestyle soul-expression in the land above tree line in Washington's North Cascades. We'll be with all y'all, if not geographically, surely in spirit. More on that journey later...
As the days lean in closer to the gathering, I feel all kinds of emotions bubbling up, all kinds of personal needs I recognize as neglected, and an intense desire to create and share with friends. The most I can muster together for now is sharing music with the listeners dialed in to this dBM network. To that end, I'm reposting my Hearts of Flame, a Burning Man tribute-trilology in a podcast formulation.
I went through a similar process of longing in 2006 during Burn week, when I was back here in the Default World but feeling the massive energy gathering on the playa (the intensity of that longing was what ultimately led me to find a way back to the Burn in 07). Night after night in Bellingham, staring at a webcam focused on Center Camp and tuning in to the video reports from TV Free Burning Man, I wove together deeply-felt musical mixes on my Macbook. The music and the vibe were inspired by Burning Man, reflecting what I learned from my first Burn in 2004.
I set out to make a cohesive 1-hour mix, but got carried away on a wave of inspiration, and didn't wind the mix up until 4+ hours later. I had to split it up and the Hearts of Flame trilogy was born. It was a mixing session that lifted my skills to a new level -- I took what I knew about serving up music mixes and then pushed my own boundaries until I ended up with a blend that was like nothing I had heard before. It was strange and lucid and inspired and unpredictable, with massively overlaid sounds morphing in to a weird soundtrack emanating from my heart.
Listening to it today, there are all kinds of things I would do different, tracks I would like to get rid of and transitions made smoother. Yet when I hear it I am instantly transported to Black Rock City, as well as to those feelings of participating in the Burn from far away. It connects me to the primary vibe of the Burn, plugs me in and takes me away.
So, yesterday I decided that to share it here on Destination Burning Man and plan on posting one chapter of it per week from today until the Burn. (I posted it in 2006 as I was creating it on my other podcasting website, The Podcast Cafe, but have a more sympathetic audience right here.)
I hope it will inspire those of you who are busy getting ready for the journey to the Black Rock Desert right now. I send it out with the intention of connecting all of us, those who are Burn-bound and those who have chosen other routes this year. If Hearts of Flame stimulates you in any way, I'd love to hear about it: [email protected]
Love and dusty kisses, DJ Playaduster
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Center Camp Circumambulation : Burning Man 2007
22/July/08 Filed in: Video
Scenes from Black Rock City's Center Camp at Burning Man 2007, set to "Enter the Chamber" by Bassnectar. Video and photos by moontroll of Bellingham, Washington--
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Intergalactic 2 : Urban Beet Pharmer
29/June/08 Filed in: DJ Fundi
This just came in from our brethren DJ Fundi over at the Podcast Cafe...here's a link if you missed Intergalactic 1...
Ike & Tina Turner
Bassnectar
Missy Elliott
The B-52's
Jamie Lidell
James Brown
Gnarls Barkley
Herbaliser
Roots Mannuva
Portishead
The Glitch Mob
The Time
Girl Talk
The Roots
Antibalas
Mr. Scruff
Alozade and Hollow
Al Green
& even more funky things to play with from Fourth Corner Soundsystem -- crank it up loud and rock the block, summerstylee!
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Ike & Tina Turner
Bassnectar
Missy Elliott
The B-52's
Jamie Lidell
James Brown
Gnarls Barkley
Herbaliser
Roots Mannuva
Portishead
The Glitch Mob
The Time
Girl Talk
The Roots
Antibalas
Mr. Scruff
Alozade and Hollow
Al Green
& even more funky things to play with from Fourth Corner Soundsystem -- crank it up loud and rock the block, summerstylee!
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"Leftfield Downtempo Hyphop" by Bassnectar
06/June/08 Filed in: Guest DJ
Recently found this mix from San Francisco DJ superstar Basnectar. He was far and away one of the best new discoveries DJs Edubious and Playaduster made on playa. There really isn't any way to describe the scene when Bassnectar is spinning, or tweaking knobs, or whatever it is he does behind the decks. We witnessed Bassnectar inspire frenzied neo-pagan communcal desert stomps at places like Entheon Village, Cirque Bezerk and the "Seizure Dome" that forced us to reassess everything we thought we knew about DJ'ing, dancing and music in general.
This podcast gives a taste of what he's up to, though it pales in comparison to hearing the nectar pour forth from massive sound installations beneath the moon in Black Rock City...
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East to West
19/May/08 Filed in: DJ Edubious
Welcome to another episode of Edubious Compilations. This session will take you on a journey into the rhythms and instruments of India. Interwoven with sitar, tabla, Hindu chants and smooth Indian diva vocals, this mix keeps the beats in the pocket and grounded in western electronica.
You'll hear a few songs from previous mixes, like the Medina Remix of Toura Toura from DJ Cheb I Sabah (who gets a lot of play in this session); and the Desert Dwellers remix of 'Manifest' from Karsh Kale. Also setting the tone for this musical journey is Bahramji & Maneesh De Moor, Indianism, Bill Laswell's Tabla Beat Science, Govinda, Suphala, Theivery Corporation, Ikarus and Phobos.
The cover art for this mix is from an incredible artist named Andrew Jones. Check out more of his work at www.androidjones.com .
As always, thanks for listenin'. I'd like to know you're out there so holla if you hear me!
[email protected]
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Playa Portraits Project : Burning Man 2004 & 2007
13/May/08 Filed in: Video
Now available as a downloadable videocast, here is a movie featuring the results of my Playa Portrait Project from Burning Man 2004 & 2007. To download it, you need to first link up to the podcast feed via iTunes -- click here to subscribe and it should download automatically. Alternatively, you can watch it over at the Films page, or at YouTube.
Feedback on this project is much appreciated: [email protected] Let me know if you see yerself or some lovely person you know in this movie!!
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"Plants & Animals" by Rootabreaka's BIM Tim
15/April/08 Filed in: Guest DJ
"DJ Playaduster!! I had such a great time at Boogie Universal, loved the crew. Sorry to hear about the structure...."
So writes BIM Tim, a DJ with the Rootabreaka soundsystem based in L.A. -- a fine group of gentlemen who define themselves thusly:
RootaBreaka: (Bassica nar nar. napoboomica) n. Also called POSSE.
1. A collective of bassavvy individuals grown underground, with roots deep in various music scenes, harvested and used to drop subalicious bass bombs on unsuspecting party people.
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I found a dusty, crusty CD in the Boogie Universal kitchen the morning after Rootabreaka performed in the Boogie Pyramid and it had this very mix on it, compliments of BIM Tim. I just had to share it with y'all. The playa seems so, so far away right now and I hope this mix brings a few particles of it back. It does for me. I made sure to ask BIM Tim if he's cool with me posting it here and he wrote back:more…?
So writes BIM Tim, a DJ with the Rootabreaka soundsystem based in L.A. -- a fine group of gentlemen who define themselves thusly:
RootaBreaka: (Bassica nar nar. napoboomica) n. Also called POSSE.
1. A collective of bassavvy individuals grown underground, with roots deep in various music scenes, harvested and used to drop subalicious bass bombs on unsuspecting party people.
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I found a dusty, crusty CD in the Boogie Universal kitchen the morning after Rootabreaka performed in the Boogie Pyramid and it had this very mix on it, compliments of BIM Tim. I just had to share it with y'all. The playa seems so, so far away right now and I hope this mix brings a few particles of it back. It does for me. I made sure to ask BIM Tim if he's cool with me posting it here and he wrote back:more…?
Green Man Trilogy III : REINTEGRATION
26/February/08 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
How to keep the flame alit? How to burn all year? How to reintegrate the lessons and the love in to the Default World?
These are the questions the Four Broke Dudes confronted as they stepped back in to their former lives in the Northwest.
"REINTEGRATION" is the final installment in DJ Playaduster's Green Man Trilogy. It follows "REORIENTATION" and "DISORIENTATION" -- both of which can be streamed or downloaded via our Podcast page.
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Green Man Trilogy II : REORIENTATION (Hyper-Primbly's Marsupial Thumbdrive)
27/January/08 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
DJ Playaduster's Green Man Trilogy, which began with "DISORIENTATION," leaves the dusty playa and begins the difficult efforts to reenter the Default World in this second installment, "REORIENTATION." You may as well just call it "Hyper Primbly's marsupial thumbdrive," if you know what I mean.
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Green Man Trilogy I : DISORIENTATION
17/January/08 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
And now it is time for DJ Playaduster's first musical commentary since his pilgrimage to the playa....
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Dubstep Sampler
06/January/08 Filed in: DJ Edubious
I have been exploring the genre of Dubstep recently. It's heavy and dark - kind of like the winter that is moving into the Northwest. Its not really a reflection of my mood, but it does reflect my wide ranging musical explorations...
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