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Subterranean Homesick Blues : Dreamstep II
15/March/13 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
Mixed by DJ Playaduster, December 2012
A strange and slightly unsettling journey through bass & space music past and present, intuitively guided by DJ Playaduster in the dark heart of winter. This is a weird one, folks, where Playaduster followed the muse wherever she wandered, accepting her guidance and translating the cosmic downloads in to beats, bass and sideways swerves. Not for casual listening, but rewarding if you want to buy the ticket and take the ride!
Pantha du Prince "Walden 2"
Scuba "Lights Out"
Burial + Four Tet + Thom Yorke "Mirror"
Pantha du Prince "Saturn Strobe"
Four Tet Fabriclive 59 set (edit)
Miles Davis "Billy Preston" (Bill Laswell reconstruction)
Grateful Dead "Dark Star"
Pink Floyd "Fearless"
Phaeleh "Soulfunk"
SexyTime "Inamorata"
The xx "Angels" (Shadow Child Unofficial VIP remix)
Ricardo Villalobos medley
Osulande "Pheramones"
Pantha du Prince "Mad Rush Organ Mix > Seeds of Sleep"
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Emancipated: The Music of Douglas Appling
01/March/13 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Guest DJ
dBMcast #120: Emancipated: The Music of Douglas Appling
Mixed by DJ Playaduster, February 2013
Music from Emancipator's three official albums, random singles & remixes and the "Emancipator Remixed" record. Vocal samples from The Untz podcast and The DoLab.
Track list:
Soon It Will Be Cold Enough To Build Fires
Afterglow > Valhalla > Minor Cause
Jet Stream
Anthem
Eve 1&2
Black Lake
Outlaw
Shook
Siren
Nevergreen
Merlion
Bury Them Bones
Galapagos
Black Lake
Dusk to Dawn
Father King
Top photo by Joy from Buddha Lounge performance at Burning Man 2012; thumbnail photo from What the Festival?! by Daniel Zetterstrom.
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Nova Eclipse Photon 7
25/January/13 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Kaya Rainface
dBMcast #119: Nova Eclipse Photon 7
Mixed by DJs Playaduster & Kaya Rainface, January 2013
A gentle ambient space journey facilitated by DJs Playaduster & Kaya Rainface, anchored by the mystical string textures of The Earth Harp but with plenty of intergalactic bass transmissions from distant galaxies. Includes brand new tracks from Nosaj Thing, Pantha du Prince, Emancipator and Bonobo. Headphones highly recommended!
* Note from Playaduster: the original mix I uploaded on 1/25 had some problems with the bass levels being blown out, so I remixed it and uploaded a new version on 3/1. You can grab it via the M4A link at bottom of page, or else 1.) delete it from your iTunes 2.) unsubscribe from dBM, then subscribe again 3.) manually download "Nova Eclipse" again by clicking the download arrow next to it.
Interstellar transmissions from:
Earth Harp "Shackled" + Ursprung "Ohne Worte > Chruezegg"
Earth Harp + The Human Experience "Into the Mothership"
The Human Experience "The Bull Elk" (live)
Tor "Aperture"
Nicolas Jaar "Why Didn't You Save Me > Don't Break My Love"
Eskmo "I Just Want"
To Rococo Rot "He Loves Me" (Four Tet Remix)
Burial + Four Tet "Nova"
Four Tet "Lion" (Jamie xx remix)
Andy Stott "Luxury Problems"
Shackleton "Dipping"
Nosaj Thing "Distance > Eclipse"
Pantha Du Prince "Photon"
ChrisB + JOBOT "Sevens on the Outside"
Shipwrek "End Transmission"
Earth Harp + The Human Experience "Mothership" + Andy Stott "Leaving"
Emancipator "Minor Cause > The Longest Night of the Year"
Bonobo "Cirrus"
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Threshold (Open Me Slowly)
31/December/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Playa Mixes
Mixed by DJ Playaduster, December 2012
Here's one more dBMcast for 2012 and the first to actually feature some of the soundstick recordings captured at Burning Man 2012. dBMcast #117 features Moontroll of Get Found reporting from the road to Gerlach, and from the exciting moment when one's vehicles leaves pavement and hits the playa, and from the line to get in to the city when a whiteout dust storm stopped all movement. Moontroll is geared towards that once-a-year passage through the Portal to the other side, and his excitement is palpable. Ride shotgun with him as he approaches the Threshold to another world of magic and mystery, a journey with an undulating soundtrack of forward-leaning bass music that touches on electroboogie, dubstep, ambient, world beat, breaks and other styles.
As this mix is about thresholds, portals, journeys and crossings, you'll also hear contributions from Terrence McKenna speaking on UFOs and spirit molecules and a science report on recent NASA searches for elusive portals that spontaneously open and close in the Earth's magnetosphere.
Track list:
Break Science "Forest of Illumination"
Elliott Lipp "The Sunset"
Michael Menert "Take All You Want"
Kaminanda "The Portal"
Sugarpill "Bring It Back"
eDIT "Mildew"
Rena Jones "Open Me Slowly"
Beats Antique "Hero"
Nicholas Jaar "Colomb"
DJ/rupture "Save from the Flames All That Yet Remains"
Pantha du Prince "Stick To My Side" (Four Tet remix)
Grizmatik "Digital Liberation in Mad Freedom"
GRiZ + Big Gigantic "Power"
Minnesota "Yoga Pants"
Nico Luminous "808s & Earthquakes > Puddle Town"
Andreilien "Ganja Mashup"
EPROM "Honey Badger"
Michael Menert & Break Science "Electric Touch"
The Polish Ambassador "Live Inside a Dream > Portal Hopping"
Rena Jones "The Passing Storm"
Adam Hurst "Threshold"
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Interdimensional Lounge Music
28/September/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
Mixed by DJ Playaduster, September 2012 -- first dBMcast post-Burning Man 2012!
Well, that was a BIG FUN TIME!
Yes yes yes Burning Man 2012 served us right and now we're back home in the Default World, dusting off, processing all the brilliant stimuli we saw tasted heard and felt, and trying to bring the best of it all back to our lives and relationships and work here at our "other home." I was extremely pleased with the amount of art on the playa this year -- major installations, interactive light and sound contraptions, quiet remote pieces in Deep Playa -- and boogied my ass off most nights at dance parties both enormously over-the-top and tiny family-style. I received a walloping whomping dose of Bass Chakra Therapy from Fractal Nation, Robot Heart, False Prophet, Buddha Lounge, Bass Camp & others, and lately have been seeking mellower sounds that act as a healing balm to blown-out mind and soul.
This new mix is mostly downtempo, smooth, bubbling, spacey, warm and user-friendly. I am inspired by the sounds I heard at various lounge/chill parties where the music was soothing yet psychedelic, low-key but intriguing, somehow existing both in the background and foreground at the same time. The title is borrowed from a track featured here by The Polish Ambassador and the artwork/photographs are of my favorite interdimensional lounge of 2012: Star Seed by artist Kate Raudenbush.
Interdimensional Lounge Music features tunes by Sugarpill * The Polish Ambassador * Kalya Scintilla * Tipper * Bonobo * Pretty Lights * Nicholas Jaar * The xx * Emancipator * Thriftworks * Andreilien * & Gladkill.
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Desert Dreamers : An Indo-African Alchemy Dub Experience
14/July/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
Mixed by DJ Playaduster & Kaya Rainface in July 2012
and shared with humility in "earthy family style."
Prepare yourself for an intergalactic soundwave excursion to the Indian subcontinent and choice African destinations with DJs Playaduster and Kaya Rainface. Originally inspired by my discovery of the amazing Desert Dwellers remix project and the new Dirtwire project from Beats Antique, this musical journey invokes caravans in the desert, mystical night wanderings, starlight, throngs of pilgrims seeking visions on the playa, uttered prayers and whispered secrets, meditation, tribal gatherings, tea ceremonies, transcendent dancing, spices and scents. With plenty of earthy bass tones to ground our seekings, the mix floats towards the heavens on the wings of sitar, violin, cello, tabla, kamel ngoini and voice.
Featuring Desert Dwellers * Drumspyder * Filastine * Cheb i Sabbah * Bassnectar * Dirtwire * Kaminanda * Miles Davis * Kurt Rosenwinkel * Seun Kuti * Four Tet * Tinariwen * Issa Bagayoyo * Adham Shaikh * Eastern Sun * The Beatles * Yo- Yo Ma * Random Rab * Kalya Scintilla * Beats Antique * Nicolas Jaar * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * Massive Attack * Bobby McFerrin * Sacred System * TJ Rehmi * Mari Boine * Future Prophecies.
"With our love we could save the world / If they only knew." -- John Lennon
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Shimmer : Dreamstep for Dubheads
20/June/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
dBMcast #107: Shimmer : Dreamstep for Dubheads
Mixed by DJ Playaduster May-June 2012
With dBMcast #107, DJ Playaduster has woven a sonic tapestry designed to induce dream states and facilitate astral projections. With rumbling bass as our Earthly grounding, we float past nebuli, vortexes and voyaging spacecraft on the wings of violin, percussion, guitar, trumpet and more. If you listen closely, you'll hear Moontroll & Orbit encountering the Temple for the first time at Burning Man 2010.
Have a look around. Smell the colors. Feel the low-end textures massage the tender places in your Bass Chakra. Taste the salty stardust. Relax. Let go….There are no sharp edges or rough transitions here, so you can close your eyes, lay back and take the ride with full trust in the interstellar navigational skills of DJ Playaduster.
Featuring Liquid Stranger * Pantha du Prince * SexyTime * Sunmonx * Nicoluminous * MartyParty * Ganucheau * Shlomo * Filastine * Kalya Scintilla * GRiZ * Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
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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.
Track List:
Kaminanda - 'Conscious Droplets'
Phuture Primative - Center of Gravity
Kaminanda - The Yum Factor
Russ Liquid - VGA
The Human Experience - Entheos
Tipper - Bubble Control > Hourglass Infringment
Thriftworks - Pillow In the Woods > Greenie Beanies
Nanda - Cry of the Ages
Kayla Scintilla - Rises In The East
Kaminanda - Temple of De'Light
Kayla Scintilla - Way of the Tarrot
Phuture Primative - Ripple Effect
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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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Kaya Rainface & the Elixir of Tears
11/December/11 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Kaya Rainface
Introducing the debut mix from Kaya Rainface, December 2011.
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 11:11 and Burn Night magic.
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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!
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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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Eskmo's MiniMix for Radio4 Graz
15/July/11 Filed in: Guest DJ
A new, lovely, spacey, superchill mix from the uber-talented DJ Eskmo. He writes:
“The first European show of my EU tour this June was in Graz Austria (Pics below) for the Springfestival. I played alongside Dorian Concept, Martyn and Samiyam on Thursday and ended up staying an extra day on Friday. That extra night the good people over at FM4 asked me to come in and do a short interview and dj set. It seemed like most of the other djs coming into the studio were playing more danc-y type sets. So, given the gentle mist of rain outside, the proximity to rolling hills and a massive river, I figured I would go a more gentle route. (I admit this mix is more of something my alter ego “Welder” would put out, but the world is a weird place, you never know what can happen.) Here is the simple gentle set. Enjoy.”
Eskmo: FM4 studio mix recorded in Graz Austria 2011 by Eskmo
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Evolutionista's Nightlife Set 2
25/June/11 Filed in: Guest DJ
Evolutionista recording session, Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, CA
As promised, here is the second set to follow the first set we posted here last week. More groovy spacey ambient sounds to float away on!
Set 2 - Nightlife @ the California Academy of Sciences - 6.10.2010 by Evolutionista
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Evolutionista's Nightlife Set 1
17/June/11 Filed in: Guest DJ
My friend Torsten, who originally convinced me to go to Burning Man in 2004, lives in San Francisco and always has the inside track on good DJ music. He recently turned me on to this 2-part live set from a Bay Area DJ named Evolutionista. Don’t know much about him but this brief bio, from his website:
“Evolutionista is the design and music moniker of independent Oakland artist Griffin Crafts. As Evolutionista, Crafts delves into downtempo blending ambient curiosities with beat-centric sensibilities. Fusing a command of technology with passionate devotion to art, Evolutionista hopes to invite and ensure healthy evolution for all beings.”
I love these spacey sounds and listen to this mix often when I’m looking for soothing, inspiring sounds. Enjoy.
Set 1 - Nightlife @ the California Academy of Sciences - 6.10.2010 by Evolutionista
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biNGH: New Meat
19/May/11 Filed in: Guest DJ
Interplanetary trajectories make for systematically erratic positions and opportunities. Scattered like bits of fluff in a space dust storm, the wonders of this modality are infinite and varied. Letting go of the normal needs for position and velocity awareness leads to an almost intoxicating stupor of flavors, textures and intergalactic interactions. Such yang embodying trips, heady, rising, unsettled, bursting, glowing hot and bright, are inspired and short lived by their very nature.
In time, the fire burns low, the wind dies down, and the life returns to the earth. Internal transmissions take over the condintuitive channels of the extroversionary energies and it is time for internal reflection and grounded embodiment. Returning from far flung oRbiTal paths, tightening the circuits and letting the exploratory energy continue, with internal probes and present tense specialization, shifting from cosmic to embodied, from yang to yin, from far flung to grounded, from summer to the darker times... Out of the dying fires of extroversion, a new body is constantly discovered, New Meat is born.
This mix is a celebration and an exploration into the transition that comes over all of us, the process that is practiced, one direction or another, with sinusoidal regularity and chaotic randomness with every shift in life, with every dawning day and setting sun, with every change in the season. This is a celebration of the infinitely vast, endlessly varied, readily accessible temple that we are.
The work of the following artists is entwined with the verbage of Richard Freeman. Listen and enjoy. Taste some New Meat...
Phaeleh Bluetech Liquid Stranger Clouds Phaeleh Entheogenic Liquid Stranger Thriftworks Bluetech RD Emancipator Joker Blu Mar Ten Phaeleh Phutureprimitive
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Chiron Transmission 1 : Golgotha
16/March/11 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
Greetings from the friendly Burners here at Destination Burning Man, and welcome to the latest mix from DJ Playaduster: "Chiron Transmissions 1 : Golgotha." Much of this podcast is shrouded in mystery and codes, but it appears to be a missive sent from the outer fringes of our solar system, a musical message that originates from the proto-comet Chiron.
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Discovered in 1977 in its eccentric orbit between Saturn and Uranus, Chiron is known in some circles as the "Rainbow Bridge" or "Wounded Healer," a humble, benevolent guide that can assist humans by keeping us moving forward on our proper spiritual paths. In early February 2011, Chiron entered the watery realm of Pisces, activating the pure power of potential, the manifestation of the unconscious and transformative healing through (re)union with the divine.
The frequencies found in this podcast are believed to have originated from Chiron, with DJ Playaduster serving as a musical midwife in order that they be perceived by the human ear and widely disseminated through our dBM channels.
Contributing artists include Bill Laswell, Rena Jones, Phaelah, Tipper, Heyoka, James Blake, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, DJ/rupture, Kim Hiorthoy, Ezekiel Honig, Yo-Yo Ma, Shackleton, PantyRaid and Thriftworks, with vocal musings from Joni Mitchell, Timothy Leary, Hekter McElliott, Pema Chodron and the Tangerines.
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Classical Elements
24/May/10 Filed in: DJ Edubious
This Radio dBM broadcast serves up a healthy serving of string beats! New and not-so-new electro tracks infused with the classical elements of piano, violin and cello. This is a mostly laid back mid- to downtempo mix that crescendo's in the middle with a track from Pretty Lights. On rise and on the downstroke, you'll hear tracks from Beats Antique, Clubroot, Random Rab, DJ Rupture, Ana Sia, ill-esha, Bonobo, Rena Jones and Nitin Sahaney. This mix spans genres from glitch to dubstep, nu-jazz to drum & bass.
Through it all, two elements remain the same - strings and beats.
Enjoi.
~ Edubious
Classical Elements by Edubious
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Playa Dawning
08/August/09 Filed in: DJ Edubious | Playa Mixes
This mix from DJ Edubious flows with that 4 am, pre-sunrise come-down vibe. It also sets a different tempo than any other Radio dBM mix -- this is one is strictly downtempo but still brings some glitch, house, breakbeat and organic vocal vibes to soothe you no matter yo' mood. We're sure you'll find the right space of mind to settle into this chill electromix. Headphones and low-light highly recommended!
Less than a month until the portal opens. We'll see you on the Playa -- check in at Center Camp's camp registry to find out where we've erected Camp dBM and the dBM dome, then bike on over for a cocktail and some live mixing by the dBM crew. We know you're out there and we'd love to meet you personally in Black Rock City!
~ DJ Edubious / Radio dBM
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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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