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Galaktivated Beats v1.1 : Beyond the North Borders
08/May/13 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
dBMcast#124 : Galaktivated Beats v1.1 : Beyond the North Borders
Mixed by DJ Playaduster from 4thKorner Soundsystems, March 2013
Welcome to another electro-acoustic audio journey with your friend DJ Playaduster! For this mix, we do a deep dive exploration of the new Bonobo album Beyond the North Borders, weaving in and out of the fresh Simon Green instrumental tracks with a wide variety of songs that both compliment and complicate his polyrhythmic ideas. Get ready for 1 hour 45 minutes of beat-heavy, rhythmically-dense, multiphonic groovescapes. Guaranteed to get your toe tapping in the dust! Plug in, turn on, tune out and let yourself ride on the rhythms of life…….shifting sands, bushmen rituals, broken appliances, alien jazz clubs, footsteps, dream drums, laser battles, Tibetan monks: welcome to music from the New Funk Millennium. Welcome to GALAKTIVATED BEATS!
Track list:
Little People "Aldgate Patterns"
Bonobo "Pick Up" (Four Tet remix)
Bonobo "Don't Wait > Jets"
Ricardo Villalobos "Theogenese"
Four Tet "4T"
Flying Lotus "Until the Quiet Comes"
MMW "The Dropper"
Atoms for Peace "Dropped"
Radiohead "Lotus Flower " (Jacques Greene remix)
Flume "Space Cadet > Star Eyes > Warm Thoughts"
James Blake "Retrograde" (Ion the Prize remix)
Bonobo "Emkay"
The xx "Sunset" (Jamie xx remix)
Bonobo "Antennae > Ten Tigers"
Advanced Tipperlude (for Orbit)
The Polish Ambassador "New Funk Millennium"
Little People "Moon > Waffle > Eminence Grise"
Bonobo "Know You"
Little People "Eminence Grise" (reprise)
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Lost Track of Time
22/October/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster
dBMcast #114: Lost Track of Time (320 kbps)
Mixed by DJ Playaduster, October 2012
More often than not, DJ Playaduster's dBMcasts choose a musical genre and explore the various electronic permutations of that vibe over an hour-and-a-half. In this new mix, the genres are blended, one flowing in to the next, an undulating river of blending sounds and spirits. This is a sonic exploration that goes off the map, a journey through progressive grooves and forward-leaning beats: Bass Chakra Therapy alongside deep house, Gypsy whomp vs. ambient spacestep, fractured glitchhop rubbing up against pop music remixes. Playaduster was guided by intuition on this excursion and the results are exquisitely interesting, both for a headphones chill-out session or a dance floor adventure.
We might also note that at the heart of this mix is a long cut from Pachanga Boys entitled "Time" — a bit of an unusual choice for DJ Playaduster. This was the beat that Robot Heart often played to meet and greet the first rays of the rising sun out on the playa, so it is packed with meaning and memory for many of us RH junkies at Burning Man 2012!
Other artists include Flying Lotus * Ricardo Villalobos * Nico Luminouos * Jupit3r * SBTRKT * Radiohead * Four Tet * The Polish Ambassador * Sugarpill * Nicholas Jaar * GRiZ * Beats Antique * Filastine * JoBOT
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Here are a few snapshots of Robot Heart beneath the Full Moon on Thursday night, and then the transition to sunrise Friday morning, complete with Orbital's Dieselfish mobilitea house and Moontroll's Playa Portrait Project — enjoy, and try not to get too homesick!
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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Grand Royal : A Tribute to the Beastie Boys
06/June/12 Filed in: Guest DJ
A mix of Beastie Boy greatest hits, live cuts, B-sides, remixes and more, from Mick Boogie. RIP MCA!
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Revenge of Whomp Massive
20/April/12 Filed in: DJ Playaduster | Whomp Massive
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 Artemisia.
The original Whomp Massive can be found at http://bit.ly/I0hqTe.
The Man burns in 133 days!
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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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Bass Cadet (It's a Family Affair)
As the Burnal Equinox passes us by, we slip and slide our way down the slope towards another trip to Black Rock City. Burning Man 2011 begins to infiltrate my daily thoughts as I consider what Rites of Passage will rise up to meet me and my merry band of Get Foundlings. Here's a heavy-duty blend of bass music -- dubstep, whomp, glitch-hop, lazer -- to wake us out of our winter slumber and slap us silly in to the spring. This is not your mama's bass -- get ready to be aurally spanked! This is the time of year for cleansing and new growth, and this mix is designed to knock the moss off of your bass chakras as we stumble towards the playa, alone and together.
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Deep end contributions from Vibesquad, Opiuo, Bassnectar, Datsik, Nanda, Rusko, Thriftworks, Mochipet, Caligula, HULK, ill gates, An-ten-ae, Samples and MartyParty. Those getting the remix treatment include Sly and the Family Stone, Jamiroquai, Jefferson Airplane (?!), Nas & Damian Marley, Big Boi, Ellie Goulding and Kid Cudi.
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