DJ Playaduster
Grace in Bass
29/December/10 | permalink
Cleaning out the vaults of 2010 to make space for new freshness in 2011, I came across this neglected mix that hadn't been posted yet. Deep in the wintertime of 2010, working through some personal struggles in my isolated zendo on an island in Washington State, I began exploring a new system of healing: Bass Chakra Therapy. You can learn more and start your own journey on this unique musical healing path at http://www.destinationburningman.com/stuff/podcasts and http://soundcloud.com/moontrolling. Subwoofers or high-quality headphones are required; intoxicants optional but recommended.
"Grace in Bass" is the cosmic cousin of "Subsonic Sonata," a mix released last May. I mixed both from a common playlist that gathered together tracks that exemplified the healing qualities of bass in its many mysterious and mystical forms. Both mixes have a meditative quality to them and bass elements that are thick, sinuous, mostly gentle, inquisitive and with unique bass chakra massaging qualities.
"Grace in Bass" and "Subsonic Sonata" both got me through some really dark, isolated days of winter. I hope they do some good work for you too.
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Set list includes Timonkey * Heyoka * Vibesquad * Boxcutter * Mike Monday * Shackleton * Zero 7 * Luke Vibbert * Rusko * Clubroot * Four Tet * Ooah * Nosaj Thing * The Field. Artwork by Android Jones.
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LOVENESS : Got Found? (Part 2)
24/October/10 | permalink
We're back on the playa and it's late in the week -- things are moving in synchronicity through deep cosmic channels, new friends have been made, sleep is an afterthought, everything is irreversibly dusty and you love it all. The music you hear throughout the city at night is vibrating through your bass chakras and you don't know where the DJ ends and you begin anymore. In this interpretation, Beats Antique, R/D, Pretty Lights, Kid Kudi and others represent this disorienting but beautiful freakbeat madness.
If you've met a special someone during the week, things may be getting impossibly romantic as the week nears its crescendo. This mix reflects that by veering in to a Tanjalove-inspired pocket of funk and soul healing, grooves that both reflect and enhance the love that is filling your heart to overflowing: "Erotic City", "Take My Heart (You Can Have It)", "Simply Beautiful", "Love to Love You Baby", "You Make Me Smile" and "Sexual Healing." Heavy stuff, for sure, but that's how it is.
On Saturday, the Man falls right around the time that your last bit of protective armor, fear & sadness fall away, and you give in to full Loveness. A mobile soundsystem, crowned with a glowing, beating heart, plays "Love is in the Air" at the exact moment as the sun rises over the eastern horizon on Sunday morning. Bliss reigns, friends swirl, mimosas bubble, hearts swell and you dissolve in to sunlight with your dusty Beloved in your arms.
Sunday night the Temple is set ablaze and there is culmination. Sade returns with another take on "Soldier of Love" to show you how far you and your wounded heart have traveled through the week; The Cinematic Orchestra reprises your theme song, "To Build a Home"; Bassnectar & Nelly Furtado conclude the entire affair with a wise reminder: "And I say follow me, follow me, follow me / Down, down, down, down / 'Til you see all my dreams / Not everything in this magical world / is quite what it seems."
Namaste, and thanks for listening. Yours in LOVENESS, DJ Playaduster
Loveness : Got Found? Part 2 by moontrolling
Beats Antique "Prelude/Ms. Levine/Revival"
R/D "Face of God"
Pretty Lights "High School Art Class"
Big Boi "Tangerine"
Kid Cudi "Day 'n Night" (Crookers Remix)
Splatinum "It's Bigger Than Glitch Hop"
Flying Lotus "Roberta Flack" (Heartbeat Remix)
"Michael & Justin's Erotic Adventure"
Prince "Erotic City"
Bill Withers "Heartbreak Road"
Al Green "Simply Beautiful" (Lenton Remix)
Kool & the the Gang "Take My Heart"
Aloe Blacc "Make Me Smile"
John Paul Young "Love is in the Air"
Hot 8 Brass "Sexual Healing"
Sade "Soldier of Love"
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros "Home" (RAC Remix)
Get Found field recording
The Cinematic Orchestra "That Home
Nelly Furtado "Magical World" (Bassnectar Remix)
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Part one -- JOYISM -- is here.
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JOYISM : Got Found? (Part 1)
FIXED
13/October/10 | permalink
"There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills...
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust..
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home.......
Cause, I built a home
for you
for me
Until it disappeared
from me
from you
And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust…….."
JOYISM : Got Found? (Part 1) by moontrolling
The Cinematic Orchestra open up this musical mix with a beautiful and emotive song that speaks to me in these days and weeks after Burning Man 2010 : "To Build a Home." It has multiple layers of meanings for me and stirs me in places deep down inside.
Sade provides the second track in the "opening statement" of the podcast, livening up the mood with another song that is rich with meaning for me these days. I heard a DJ slyly drop in to a dance party on the playa, and I sang along to the chorus with all the lovely people on the dancefloor at the top of our lungs, "I've been torn up inside (oh!) / I've been left behind (oh!) / So I ride / I have the will to survive. I'm a soldier of love / all the days of my livf..."
With those 2 opening salvos behind us, the mix moves in to the first movement, inspired by the Pink Mammoth. One of the best daytime dance party camps on the playa, the San Francisco-based Mammoth crew was conveniently located a block away from my camp at Get Found+Chillville. Several sunsets found me and Hannah Tangerine getting down 'n dirty beneath the disco ball with a frosty fruity cocktail in hand, surrounded by some of the happiest, lovingest Burners we encountered all week long. The Pink Mammoth sessions inspired a renewed passion for disco and house music, happy music, love music, and I tried to represent this in the first half of Joyism.
But eventually the sun does set, and nighttime slips in to Black Rock City -- an entirely different mood and mindset takes over, and a different kind of musical soundtrack is needed. You'll hear this happen when the Love Committee gives way to the freakbeat bass music of Opiuo -- a DJ from Australia who played his first-ever playa set midweek at Entheon Village, on the heels of weird wobblie grooves from Heyoka and Vibesquad. Opiuo was my favorite new discovery on playa this year, and so gets two different tracks in this mix -- one ultra-funky, one deep, dark and strange like BRC at 4 am.
So, the second half takes the listener on a tour of a night spent freaking out and grooving in whomp domes all night, receiving Bass Chakra Therapy from the best soundsystems anywhere in the world, and concludes with two remixes from An-ten-ae. An-ten-ae looms large in Get Found's collective memory as the DJ who introduced us to the Wall of Whomp at Root Society Thursday night. He opened up his outrageous set with a Black Sabbath song retooled for the playa and pretty much melted the entire audiences' mind with these glitched-out power chords and Ozzy yowls.
Pretty much every song in this mix is meaningful to me in some way or another, whether because of the groove, the memory I associate with it, the lyrics or even just the song title. I will spare you all the details here, but know that this mix, especially by opening with "To Build a Home" and "Soldier of Love," is thoroughly intentional, completely infused with loving vibrations from the heart, dusty at the edges and crafted especially for my peoples at Camp Get Found. It attempts to illuminate on my ideas of Joyism as Sustainable Synergy via bass waves, soundstickingz, time warps and heartbeats.
I'll soon release the second half of the Got Found? Burning Man 2010 mix, which takes the adventure through the second half of the week via new musical directions. Absorb what you can from Joyism and prepare yourself for….Loveness!
Yours in the groove, DJ Playaduster
The Cinematic Orchestra "To Build a Home"
Sade "Solider of Love"
Jamiroquai "White Knuckle Ride" (Alan Braxe + Penguin Prison Remixes)
Sylvester "I Need You"
Harvey Mason "Groovin You"
Carrie Lucas "Dance with You"
Love Committee "Got to Have Your Love"
Opiuo "Robot Booty"
Ana Sia "International Profile, etc"
Nanda "Yoda Knowledge"
Vibesquad "Double Dutch Oven"
Bonobo "Eyes Down" (Breach Remix)
Samples "High Life"
Opiuo "Brain Blow"
Fever Ray "If I Had a Heart" (Familjen Remix)
Deya Dova "So Happy" (An-ten-ae Remix)
Black Sabbath "War Pigs" (An-ten-ae Remix)
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LOVETROPOLIS : Getting Found in
2010
17/August/10 | permalink
A musical mix about freedom, love, gifting, community, expansion and Getting Found. DJ Playaduster's final transmission before Burning Man 2010. Featuring Heyoka, Up Bustle & Out, Bluetech, MiMOSA, Pretty Lights, Tipper, Timonkey, Caspa & Rusko, Starkey, Shpongle, Four Tet, Burial, Untold, Autreche, Lillenthal, Vibesquad, Andreya Triyana and The Cinematic Orchestra. The last song in the mix is (appropriately) title "To Build a Home."
(The original working title for this mix was "Experimental Frequencies.")
This is the final transmission before leaving for Black Rock City.
LOVETROPOLIS : Getting Found in 2010 by moontrolling
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Whompadelic II : Revenge of the
GlitchStrap
20/July/10 | permalink
What happens when this....
meets this
and this
and this?
Tune in to Whompadelic 2 to and enjoy this new selection of grooves for your Bass Chakra Therapy practice, served up with a bunch of field recordings from Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons on a summer roadtrip with Fundi, Orbit and Hekter McElliott....Featuring PantyRaid, MiMosa, Pretty Lights, edIT, Chiral, Timonkey, The xx, Heyoka and ill.gates. (Whompadelic 1 is right over here.)
Burning Man rapidly approaches and the Get Found/dBM/Team Love/Boogie family is getting organized, motivated and really !!!! pumped up and ready to roll.
xo, DJ Playaduster
Whompadelic II Revenge of the GlitchStrap by moontrolling
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meets this
and this
and this?
Tune in to Whompadelic 2 to and enjoy this new selection of grooves for your Bass Chakra Therapy practice, served up with a bunch of field recordings from Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons on a summer roadtrip with Fundi, Orbit and Hekter McElliott....Featuring PantyRaid, MiMosa, Pretty Lights, edIT, Chiral, Timonkey, The xx, Heyoka and ill.gates. (Whompadelic 1 is right over here.)
Burning Man rapidly approaches and the Get Found/dBM/Team Love/Boogie family is getting organized, motivated and really !!!! pumped up and ready to roll.
xo, DJ Playaduster
Whompadelic II Revenge of the GlitchStrap by moontrolling
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Subsonic Sonata
01/May/10 | permalink
This one's dedicated to the devastating beat creator......
How does this latest mix from DJ Playaduster fit in with his recently-unleashed Bass Chakra Therapy / Wobble Chronicles series?
It is still unclear how this particularly tasty blend of bass-positive music fits in with alla that chakra therapy bidness and we are open to theorizing from dedicated listeners. But this much we know: there is still the continuity of serious down-low subwoofer-friendly basshead music mixed into a flowing river of soulful low-end revelry. One difference is that this poem is less dependent on Whomp and Glitch and other Left Coast bass-hop tomfoolery.
Instead, it moves across varying landscapes of moody, swirling, dense grooves and emotions. BASS is the only constant, the liturgy speaking to the recesses of your primal animal soul.
Subsonic Sonata features Luke Vibert / Shackleton / Fever Ray / Bluetech / Nosaj Thing / Boxcutter / Zomby / Rustie / Matt Shadetek / Mimosa / Noah D. Roomate / Roots Manuva / Coldcut / Hedfunk / Four Tet / Burial / Ana Sia / ill.Gates / Heyoka / Bassnectar / Tipper and / The Field \\.
Excellent photo of DJ Velveteen spinning live at the Samish Island Zendo by Maketa.
Subsonic Sonata by moontrolling
WHOMP MASSIVE
01/April/10 | permalink
A smokin' mix of epic booty bangers from the World of Whomp. These are the grooves that light my fuse these days. All killer, no filler. Bumpin all night. A therapeutic bath of bass for proper chakra therapy upgrades. etc etc etc
This mix tape features fresh tracks, some barely a week old, from artists including // Mimosa / Ooah / R/D / Adam Freeland / An-ten-ae / Bassnectar / ill.Gates / Beats Antique / Heyoka / Bonobo / The xx / Nosaj Thing / MartyParty / PantyRaid / Fever Ray / Pretty Lights (and more Beats and Nectar at the end) \\. Thank you DJs for the blessings of your bass!
oxox, DJ Playaduster
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(Awesome photo of Lorin in Seattle by Michael Holden.)
Glitchatronik Dubstraps * Bass Chakra
Therapy (Advanced) * The Wobble Chronicles Vol. III
02/February/10 | permalink
This is the third installment in DJ Playaduster's Wobble Chronicles project, providing a soundtrack for personal Bass Chakra Therapy explorations and practices. This episode is specially-designed for advanced practicioners as it explores the heavier, glitchier, dubsteppier side of the Whomp music. Not for casual listening, nor for the casual listener.
Soundtrack provided by //Ana Sia / Bassbin Twins / Ooah / Mochipet / Mimosa / Rusko / The Bug + Warrior Queen / Beats Antique / ill.gates / Eskmo / Ill-esha / Glitch Mob / Heyoka / Boxcutter//
Vocals harvested from various ridiculous encounters and adventures in Seattle, Samish Island and San Francisco, including field reports from New Year's Eve at the Sea of Dreams in SF. Ocean waves are from beaches at Point Reyes & Salmon Creek, CA.
Glitchatronik Dubstraps * (Bass Chakra Therapy : Advanced) * The Wobble Chronicles Vol. 3 by moontrolling
"floating purple clouds of cushy behaviors
its the blue dream sea,
no,
blue sea of dreams,
and its a sweet dream
its kinda floaty"
More Wobble Chronicles and Bass Chakra Therapy programs to support your "cerebral intake" can be found here and here. Namaste.
Whompadelic * Bass Chakra Therapy
(Intermediate) * The Wobble Chronicles Vol. II
06/January/10 | permalink
Another Bass Chakra Thearpy session from DJ Playaduster -- this time an intermediate level mix for those who have already absorbed the teachings found within the first introductory BCT session.
Vocals woven in to this session include soundstick recordings from the Halloween/Spiderball experience in San Francisco, the Get Found reunion at the Samish Island Zendo and the night Team Love danced all night in puddles to DJs on the top of the old Rainier Brewery in Seattle. This episode, in other words, tracks the post-playa adventures of our furry, fuzzy family up and down the Pacific Coast in the waning months of 2009.
Soundtrack by Lux, Nosaj Thing, An-ten-ae, Tipper, Lotus Drops, Vibesquad, ill.gates, Mihkal and Eskmo.
Whompadelic (Bass Chakra Therapy Level 2) * The Wobble Chronicles Vol. 2 by moontrolling
Stay tuned for the Bass Chakra Therapy Advanced Level mix coming soon as the Wobble Chronicles mutate, morph and evolve in harmonious complexity right in front of your very earholes.
Bass Chakra Therapy (Introductory) *
The Wobble Chronicles Vol. 1
15/November/09 | permalink
This mix is an overview of the electronik sounds I am currently filling my head with, including several DJs I learned about for the first time at Burning Man 2009. Heavy San Francisco emphasis here, naturally, as that is where my favorite grooves are coming from these days. Special guests include Maketa, Scotty G. and Suga Cubed, recorded both in Black Rock City and on the road to home post-Burn, decompressing and reorienting from the Best Burn Ever. This is one of my favorite mixes I've ever spun out -- I really dig the flow between tracks and between sections and the sacred womp of the bass is cleansing to my soul. Hope you dig it too.
xo, DJ Playaduster
Mix featuring //Bassnectar / Heyoka / ill.Gates / Beats Antique / Welder / Mimosa / An-ten-ae / edIT / Timonkey / Nosaj Thing / Vibesquad//
Bass Chakra Therapy : The Wobble Chronicles Vol. 1 by moontrolling
The Tangled Path 2 :
Convergence
23/August/09 | permalink
Convergence: The process by which a similar character evolves independently in two species.
Convergent Evolution: The evolution of species from different taxonomic groups toward a similar form; the development of similar characteristics by taxonomically different organisms.
Burning Man: A great convergence of tribes from all corners of the planet; takes place the week before Labor Day weekend each year in the remote northwest corner of Nevada on a dry lakebed in the Black Rock Desert. The combination of common intention, sleep deprivation, freedom and dust storms creates the ideal medium for convergent evolution to take place at a rapid pace; from many into The ONE.
"The Tangled Path" dyad concludes with this latter installment, "Conjunction" (subtitles include "Funk Getting Ready to Roll" and "Fuzzy Biscuit Bass for Black Rocky City".) It follows on the heels of "Loose Ends," which found our fuzzy band of traveling Burners tumbling through time and space on various personal pathways throughout 2008, on and off playa. "Conjunction" moves the story towards its conclusion as, in anticipation of Burning Man 2009, the same love-filled freedom-seeking souls begin to pull back together into something cohesive -- a dream of togetherness that won't fully be realized until we all hit the playa at the end of August 2009.
Narratives include the birth and evolution of Camp dBM with Edubious, Moontroll and Grapenuts, as well as as missives from the heart of Black Rock City from Hekter in 2008. Ramona and Scotty G. join the mob with their own insights. Artists in this audio journey include Bluetech, Major Lazer, Z-Trip, Alter Echo, Erykah Badu, Kid Cudi, Beastie Boys, TV on the Radio, Nas, Herbaliser, Boxcutter, Roots Manuva, Flying Louts, Jaydiohead, Moby, Random Rab, Massive Attack, Beats Antique, Mimosa, Bassnectar, MAd Professor, Michael Jackson, The Roots, Funkadelic and Nosaj Thing.
This progressive blend of the brand-spankin' new alongside old classics represents everything I have to say about music in Black Rock City in one long-ass, delirious, whacked-out, turn-your-ears-inside-in mix. I threw everything I had left into this, my last musical melange missive before Burning Man 2009 : Evolution.
Hope to see many of you in BRC next week!
Over & out, DJ Playaduster
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The Tangled Path 1 : Loose Ends
15/August/09 | permalink
"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us...There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved....When we look at the plants and bushes clothing an entangled bank, we are tempted to attribute their proportional numbers and kinds to what we call chance. But how false a view is this!"
--Charles Darwin, 1869
"The Tangled Path" series begins here with part one, "Loose Ends." This episode opens up with a far-flung band of Burner brothers and sisters in the days leading up to Burning Man 2008, tracking their movements towards (and away from) the playa.
Moontroll and the Most Dubious E first plan to go backpacking in the North Cascades instead of burning, but thunderstorms and snow through them off course and they briefly consider a spontaneous run to Black Rock City -- those plans are thwarted and the two end up roaming around Central Oregon instead, meditating on the Burn, which is happening concurrent to their journey, from the banks of the Clackamas, Deschutes and Metolious rivers. (They also strategically release playa dust from a vial into hot springs and headwaters of various rivers, spreading the magic of the burn across the Oregon cascades)
Listeners will also hear from Ramona Mayhem and Torsten on their various 2008 trips, and later on, Hekter McElliott as he re-enters civilization (and cell range) post-Burn.
Interwoven into these narratives are recordings from a midwinter man-gathering on Lummi Island with Hekter, E and Moontroll, along with Trail Rat and Kidd Logic -- important issues such as "negative neutral", "shiver biscuits", "solemn totems" and "fuzzy bunnies" are discussed. Scotty G. joins the conversation later on, as does DJ Grapenuts.
Artists include O.N.O, Bassnectar, Kim Hiorthoy, Tsuki, Planet Sauvage, Mike Monday, Radiohead, Fourtet, DJ Zhao, Bonobo, The Bug and Twilight Circus. Unlike the recent episodes "Darwin's Weird Beard" and "Evolutionary Psychejuju", which were designed to be booty-slammin' dance-party night-in-Black-Rock-City blowouts, "The Tangled Path" is more cinematic and ethereal in nature. Music is used to transmit texture, emotion and mystery.
The stories that this podcast shares take place over a year-and-a-half, on and off the playa, between friends meeting and separating again along the road. The routes that spring forth from the Burning Man Experience truly form a Tangled Path. Here we survey the many loose ends of that path, tangling and untangling again; in part two, we'll together move towards Convergence and Burning Man 2009 : Evolution.
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Evolutionary Psychejuju
27/July/09 | permalink
40-some days until the 2009 Burn, y'all > here's a mix from Radio DBM that is full of serious world-beat psychejuju to keep your preparations for the playa moving along on the good foot.
I was meditating on evolution while spinning out this set, particularly how species develop at different paces in different places around the planet. I love how one bird species, for example, will look and behave totally different from continent to continent, morphing form and behavior to match the physical ecosystem. But I also appreciate how all of life shares a common foundation, animated by the mysterious cosmic spark.
How does any of this apply to "Evolutionary Psychejuju"? Music is both universal as well as totally local. It begins with the heartbeat, and evolves in to a groove, a language every human can understand. I love how indigenous music is fitted to a particular place -- how the heat and aridity of Mali, the rhythm of the waves in Jamaica, the humid fecundity of Columbia have each inspired their own musical traditions. And I also love the ways in which some artists combine and blend those traditions in new and surprising ways. Musical evolution on a global scale. That's some of the thinking going on behind the scenes here at Radio dBM in the production of this here mix.
xo, DJ Playaduster
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Darwin's Weird Beard
02/May/09 | permalink
Starting to think ahead to Burning Man 2009 a bit -- can't help it. Time to start slowly crafting well-seasoned playlists of tracks that I want to bring down to the playa to share with the people. Here's a sneak peek in to some of my favorite musical goodies acquired over the past few months that are helping me to begin visualizing the next incarnation of Black Rock City. The vibe kind of swerves all over the place as lots of styles and theories are ingested in to the whole. Sources vary widely. Hope you dig it and it tickles the insides of your ears.
Do they sound like playa grooves to you or not?
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Heart of Flame Trilogy III :
RENEWAL
22/August/08 | permalink
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: destinationburningman@gmail.com!
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Hearts of Flame Trilogy II :
COMBUSTION
12/August/08 | permalink
(For the backstory on the Hearts of Flames Trilogy, click here.)
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Hearts of Flame Trilogy I :
IGNITION
07/August/08 | permalink
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: destinationburingman@gmail.com
Love and dusty kisses, DJ Playaduster
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Green Man Trilogy III :
REINTEGRATION
26/February/08 | permalink
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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DJs Playaduster & Edubious, freshly released from their Deep Playa Experience...
Very special thanks go out to Snow Flamingo Riverside Sound on the eastslope of the Cascade mountains for giving me the time & space to sort out the ideas contained in these last two installments of the Green Man Trilogy. Just when I'd start to get lost in the midst of it all, the light of the flamingo would steer me in the right direction! love, DJ Playaduster
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Green Man Trilogy II : REORIENTATION
(Hyper-Primbly's Marsupial Thumbdrive)
27/January/08 | permalink
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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Herein, the Four return to their respectable former lives in the Default World. We follow them from Smith Rock to the Nightlight Lounge to Birch Bay Beach as they attempt to keep their freshly-stoked flame alit despite confusing circumstances...
This episode was created at the Snow Flamingo Riverside Sound recording outpost in the eastern foothills of the Cascades, on the banks of the Wenatchee River -- a rare Playaduster episode recorded away from the Sunnyland Soundsystem!
You can find the first episode in the Green Man Trilogy, "DISORIENTATION", over here.
For more information on Hyper-Primbly, visit here.
A candid view of Captain Hekter McElliott Chapman in action is right here.
Green Man Trilogy I :
DISORIENTATION
17/January/08 | permalink
And now it is time for DJ Playaduster's first musical commentary since his pilgrimage to the playa....
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Following closely on the heels of DJ Edubious' post-playa After Burn podcast, DISORIENTATION is a set of music deeply influenced by the nighttime environment of Black Rock City. It is a mix made up exclusively from DJ Playaduster's nocturnal field recordings -- bits and pieces of the sound environment that pulses each night on the playa, blended together, overlapped, cut-up and reassembled.
The soundscape draws its primary inspiration from the mobile soundsystem we called The DIS, which is one-half of the larger DISORIENT sound camp, an outfit of DJs all the way in from New York City. Each night, The DIS unit would slowly pull out of the inner city and head for the Open Playa, setting up dance parties in places brilliantly random and randomly brilliant.
Each night, DJ Playaduster would be drawn to The DIS and its' otherwordly grooves like a moth to flame, seeking them out on his space cruiser bike so as to infuse his soul in the DIS blend of nerf beats, electrodub, minimalist electronica and whatever else you want to call the unnameable flow of music the crew seamlessly pumped out all night.
DIS photos by Rumble
In this podcast, there are several long clips from DIS DJ sets,
recording on a digital soundstick and later transferred, refined
and remixes on a MacBook back at Sunnyland Soundsystem. But that's
not all there is here : Playaduster, in his moonlit wandering with
Edubious and Hekter and Ramona, also picked up samples of
Bassnectar spinning at Cirque Bezerk, assorted unnamed DJs throwing
down at the Boogie Universal Pyramid, the Space Cowboys and all
sorts of odd noises emitting from sound sculptures, steam
treehouses and various vortexes of the night.
DJ Playaduster gathered this wide array of digital sound clips and
has attempted to mix them in to some sort of seamless reimagined
recreation of Black Rock City after dark. The sound quality is not
the best you'll ever hear, but if it lacks in sonic fidelity, it
excels in bringing the spirit of the playa back home to the Default
World.
If you've never been to Black Rock City before, this mix will be
quite unlike anything you've heard before. You may believe that
you've stumbled on to another planet. If you are a dusty veteran of
The Event in the Desert, then hopefully this dBM podcast will
inspire flashbacks, huge goofy smiles and spontaneous dance
parties.
DJ Playaduster would LOVE to hear your reaction to this mix. Give a
shout out at moontroll@destinationburningman.com!
Soul Body Mind Playa
01/August/07 | permalink
DJ Playaduster's mix of
soundscapes, moods and spiritual vortexes created with Burning Man
2007 present in soul, body & mind.
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DJ Playaduster will be throwing it down in the Boogie Pyramid at 9:00 & Esplanade sporadically as inspiration hits throughout the entire week, alongside fellow Northwest mixologists DJ Edubious, Rashaan and DJ Grapenuts (you won't want to miss the Party Formerly Known as the Prince Party on Tuesday from 8-10 pm.) Hope to see your funky booty shaking it down with the Boogie Crew! All thanks and praises to the One Love -- Black Rock City here we come!
(thanks to Da'Bomb & Chai Guy at Burncast.net for unwittingly supplying the interview and playa field recordings and thanks to the Boogie Universal crew for unwittingly providing the Boogie Pyramid construction conversations)
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DJ Playaduster will be throwing it down in the Boogie Pyramid at 9:00 & Esplanade sporadically as inspiration hits throughout the entire week, alongside fellow Northwest mixologists DJ Edubious, Rashaan and DJ Grapenuts (you won't want to miss the Party Formerly Known as the Prince Party on Tuesday from 8-10 pm.) Hope to see your funky booty shaking it down with the Boogie Crew! All thanks and praises to the One Love -- Black Rock City here we come!
(thanks to Da'Bomb & Chai Guy at Burncast.net for unwittingly supplying the interview and playa field recordings and thanks to the Boogie Universal crew for unwittingly providing the Boogie Pyramid construction conversations)
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Tales of Johnny Buckskin : episode 2
: "From Whitehorn to Black Rock"
12/June/07 | permalink
The Tales of
Johnny Buckskin continue in episode two and they are full of
kinetic motion and diverse strains of cosmic funksmanship.
The story begins with a quick recap of episode 1, with Johnny and his boys on the banks of the Nooksack, having a men's outing and enjoying a bracing bout of disorientation. Episode 2 jumps ahead six months and we find Johnny barreling across the state of Washington, from his outpost in the Inland Empire towards the danky northwest corner of the coastal realm. Once mossily ensconsed, and with freshly-scoured chapstraps, JB joins forces with Trail Rat and Fundi. Soon, the band of merry makers head out for Whitehorn Point on a reconnaisance mission. They are strapped to varying degrees and prepared for orgiastic clamjuice to penetrate their inner toe-sacs as they browse the primordial salad bar on the salty edge. Their "foggy arts colloquiam" ends with an order of some NOjitos at a seaside bar, and then they flee for the cozy safety of Lummi Island.
Help us bring these tales and these flowing musical soundscapes to the playa this summer. Please visit www.destinationburningman.com, click on "Support" and help fund a couple of freaks with a small financial donation.
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Tales of Johnny Buckskin : episode I
: "Man of the Nooksack"
14/May/07 | permalink
The Tales of
Johnny Bucksin begin, apropriately enough, with a blast of warped
dub and disorientating babble as the three seekers enter the upper
reaches of the Nooksack...
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Once safely ensconsed in the woods where Sasquatches are known to lurk, the men drank Schmidt and frolicked on the gravel banks of the Nooksack. The campfire was central, and the glow sticks were a pleasing diversion. They were visited in the night by a French pirate-chef, but no earwigs penetrated their inner sanctum. Just before the first light of a new day, an ancient salmon dance was invoked...
These Men of the Nooksack all hope to get to Black Rock City, home of Burning Man, this summer, and they hope to unleash the Pacific Northwest energy. They dream of bringing fresh beats and ice-col' Schmidties to the playa. You can help them share the Nooksack Vibrations by pledging your financial support to their mission.
Visit www.destinationburningman.com/support_us and give a few mossy freaks to spread the mossy love. Really, any small amount will help the cause.
"Glowsticks on the Nooksack River"
(the rhythm tracks that open the journey are from "Continental Beats" by www.bendingcorners.com. The "night on the Nooksack (dub) grooves by Jet Jaguar from www.percussionlab.com)
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