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Through the Portal
09/March/10 Filed in: DJ Edubious | Playa Mixes
Journey through the Portal and into BRC for Evolution 2010 with Moontroll, Grapnutz, Edubious and the Destination Burning Man crew. The saga opens as the tribe, fresh off the road from the Pacific Northwest and having passed through the gates of their favorite city to the strains of Guns n' Roses, find themselves destitute wanderers in Black Rock City.
After being driven away from their scheduled rendezvous with the temple building crew at Camp Get Lost -- the blaring 24/7 death metal and over-the-top negative vibes from the neighboring Voted Best Camp sent them in to refugee status -- Camp dBM find themselves searching for peace, as well as a spare generator to fuel their dream of a small sound camp to call home.
In this mix you'll hear Telepopmusik, Random Rab, Beats Antique, Baby Mammoth, John Kennedy, Lynx & Janover, G n' R (?!), The Pixes a la Bassnectar, Bluetech, Heyoka and more.
Come in. Step through the Portal with us. Sit by our fire, for we have some flax golden tales to spin!
-- DJ Edubious
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BM09 video #8 : EVOLUTION : Burning Man 2009
24/October/09 Filed in: Video
EVOLUTION * Burning Man 2009 from moontroll on Vimeo.
Now that I've got all of the BM video shorts completed and posted, it is time to launch a video project with a broader scope -- I humbly offer up "EVOLUTION: Burning Man 2009" for your streaming and downloading pleasure. At just under a half-hour in length, this video seeks to celebrate Black Rock City in all of its ephemeral glory as well as commemorate the once-in-a-lifetime quickening of people that came together organically to form Camp Get Found at 3:30 & Lineage. This production utilized the photos and videos of many friends, as well as borrowed footage from Ben Wiggins, Mr. Nightshade and John Chavez. The soundtrack features Random Rab, Welder, ill.Gates, Ezekiel Honig, Nosaj Thing and Shpongle.
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BM09 video short #7 : Temple Burn
21/October/09 Filed in: Video
photo by Edubious
Moontroll has spun out one last video shorts from photos and videos gathered on the playa at Burning Man 2009 by himself and co-conspirator Edubious. This last episde is a team favorite as it captures a very spontaneous and random performance by a marching band who came by at the right place at the right time and created a space for all of us to move out of our temple burn hypnosis.
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BM09 video short #6 : Drumming at the Temple
14/October/09 Filed in: Video
Another Burning Man video short from Moontroll. Subscribe to dBMcasts in iTunes via link in sidebar to download this and future dBM podcasts and vidcasts. Feedback is appreciated via comments! More of Moontroll's Burning Man videos from 2009 & beyond at http://vimeo.com/album/53765.
BM09 video short #5 : Fire Dancer
09/October/09 Filed in: Video
A scene from the last night at Burning Man 2009 -- Sunday after the Temple Burn at the Hookahdome, where Thievery Corporation spun a surprise set and everybody got the last of their ya-yas out.
Another Burning Man video short from Moontroll. Subscribe to dBMcasts in iTunes via link in sidebar to download this and future dBM podcasts and vidcasts. Feedback is appreciated via comments! More of Moontroll's Burning Man videos from 2009 & beyond at http://vimeo.com/album/53765.
Another Burning Man video short from Moontroll. Subscribe to dBMcasts in iTunes via link in sidebar to download this and future dBM podcasts and vidcasts. Feedback is appreciated via comments! More of Moontroll's Burning Man videos from 2009 & beyond at http://vimeo.com/album/53765.
BM09 video short #4 : Abraxas Sunrise
02/October/09 Filed in: Video
Abraxas the Dragamuffin at night, by Loupiote
Sunrise on the playa is a special, strange time, and for my past two Burns, the artcar Abraxas the Dragamuffin has been one of the best places to be during this transformation from night to day. This video short features Mikhal on the decks playing Bassnectar's remix of Spearhead's "Skin on the Drum" on Saturday morning. Kind of reminiscent of this session from 2007: http://vimeo.com/2693400.
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BM09 video short #3 : Art Car Mayhem
28/September/09 Filed in: Video
photo by Edubious
As I was walking around aimlessly waiting for what seemed like an eternity for the Raygun Gothic Spaceship to "launch" on Thursday night, I was in awe of the collected energy and sound and lights. Everybody and their monkey had gathered in a giant circle around the spaceship, so it was not unlike Burn night, typically the only night of the week when everyone in Black Rock City are together and focused on a common something. It always makes for an intense scene when all of that madness and mayhem is concentrated like that. Anyway, I took out my beat-up playa camera and started recording video, capturing 1/100th of what I saw in the melee as I wandered around. I think the idea came to me when I heard the Spearhead remix coming out of a giant art car and I wanted to record it for my Spearhead-loving friend Edub (who was somewhere else in the chaos that night.)
Another video short from Burning Man 2009 by moontroll. Subscribe to dBMcasts in iTunes via link in sidebar to download this and future dBM podcasts and vidcasts. You can also view it on Vimeo.
BM09 video short #2 : A Gathering of Bunnies
14/September/09 Filed in: Video
photo by Moontroll
A wander through a gathering of bunnies near Center Camp before their Billion Bunny March to the Man. (The march ended in complete chaos when the bunnies were confronted by Animal Control shortly before they reached the Man.) Music by Quantic.
Another video short from Burning Man 2009 by moontroll. Subscribe to dBMcasts in iTunes via link in sidebar to download this and future dBM podcasts and vidcasts. You can also view it on Vimeo.
BM09 video short #1 : "Soma"
14/September/09 Filed in: Video
A 360 degree view of "Soma" by the Flaming Lotus Girls. Music by Ezekiel Honig.
A video short from Burning Man 2009 by moontroll. Subscribe to dBMcasts in iTunes via link in sidebar to download this and future dBM podcasts and vidcasts. You can also view it on Vimeo.
Grapenuts Playa Prefunk
21/August/09 Filed in: DJ Grapenuts | Playa Mixes
DJ GrapeNuts Live DJ set recorded August 20th at GLOW in Bellingham, Washington. Sixty minutes of head-bobbing goodness... 10 days and counting!
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The Tangled Path 2 : Convergence
23/August/09 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Playa Mixes
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 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Playa Mixes
"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.
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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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Evolutionary Psychejuju
27/July/09 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Playa Mixes
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 Furrowed Brow
23/June/09 Filed in: DJ Edubious | Playa Mixes
Edubious is back in cyberspace Dubcasting on Radio dBM! Theis Darwin's Furrowed Brow mix is a follow up to Darwin's Weird Beard - the second Burning Man Evolution-themed podcast from DJ Plyaduster. This mix is a compilation of some of the tracks that I'll be taking to the playa. According to the count down on the dBM blog page, there are only 74 days until the Man burns in Black Rock City. This mix will fuel your creative muse as you plan, build, pack and get stoked for the portal opening on the Playa. Darwin's Furrowed Brow researches the evolution of hip hop, R&B, dancehall and reggae into glitch, breaks, dubstep and house. Plenty of remixes here - Break Beat Buddha, Bassnectar, Mimosa, Obi-j, Grant Phabao, Kraddy, DJ/rupture and more!
All of us here at dBM are lighting it up and preparing for this year's Burn. We hope to see you on the playa!
Burn it down!
~ Edubious
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Darwin's Weird Beard
02/May/09 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Playa Mixes
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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Burnal Equinox Evolution
DJ Edubious and DJ Playaduster met in the secret lab at Cottage Groove Studios to begin preliminary musical explorations for Burning Man 2009: EVOLUTION. Here's what they came up with in search of a playa soundtrack for a new burn. (Read more about their early brainstorms for BM09 on the dBM blog.)
Burnal Equinox Evolution by Edubious
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