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!
