Bass Chakra Therapy : The Wobble
Chronicles Vol. 1
15/November/09 | DJ
Playaduster |
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Bassnectar
Heyoka
ill.Gates
Beats Antique
Welder
Mimosa
An-ten-ae
edIT
Timnokey
Nosaj Thing
Vibesquad
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
Bass Chakra Therapy : The Wobble Chronicles Vol. 1 by moontrolling
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Random Rab : Synchromystic
Last weekend I flew from Bellingham to San Francisco to take part in the many Halloween festivities in that fair & freaky city, as well as to reunite with approx. 1/3 of my playa family from Get Found. In addition to a boozy tour of the city on the Transported DJ-funbus, great meals and sock shopping on Haight Street, napping in the Panhandle and a stellar post-Halloween daytime renegade party at Toxic Beach hosted by Brass Tax, a highlight of the trip was certainly the Spiderball on Halloween night proper. It was held at the Bentley Reserve downtown -- an amazing space that used to be a federal treausry builing or something, all decked out in psychedliec Halloween vibes including a giant spider, zombie cheerleaders, Butoh performers, aerialists, bars, beds and couches, and much more -- and was obviously a gathering of mostly-local Burners, taking costumage to the next level, as we're known to do.
Music was provided by Beats Antique, Vibesquad and Random Rab -- three DJs I spent an inordinate amount of time listening to these days. Each performer brought a different vibe to the dancefloor and the party, with Beats being the most raucous and rowdy, Vibesquad bringing the heaviest, most focused bass and slamming beats, and Rab kinda chillin' the place back down with his 2-4 am set. It inspired me to post this here set of Rab spinning last spring in Seattle, around the time he released his excellent album aRose. Dig it!
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Here's a video I shot of Rab and the Spiderball dancefloor around 3 in the morning -- apologies for the horrid sound:
Now I'm starting to think anout the next Bay Area Burner throwdown, the Sea of Dreams ball on New Year's Eve, with Bassnectar, Rab, An-ten-ae, Glitch Mob, MartyParty, etc. How can I resist?!?! I cannot.click here for more...
BM09 video #8 : EVOLUTION : Burning
Man 2009
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.
View or download this and many other playa videos by subscribing to Destination Burning Man (via iTunes link or RSS feed in the sidebar) or by visiting http://vimeo.com/album/53765.
BM09 video short #7 : Temple
Burn
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.
View or download the previous 5 video shorts by subscribing to
Destination Burning Man (via iTunes link or RSS feed in the
sidebar) or by visiting http://vimeo.com/album/53765.
BM09 video short #6 : Drumming at the
Temple
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
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
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.
Subscribe to dBMcasts in iTunes via link in sidebar to download this and future dBM podcasts and vidcasts. You can also view "Abraxas Sunrise" on Vimeo. Feedback is appreciated via comments!
BM09 video short #3 : Art Car
Mayhem
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
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"
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.
The Tangled Path 2 :
Convergence
23/August/09 | DJ
Playaduster |
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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
The Tangled Path 2 : Convergence by moontrolling
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Grapenuts Playa Prefunk
21/August/09 | DJ
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DJ GrapeNuts Live DJ set recorded August 20th at GLOW in Bellingham, Washington. Sixty minutes of head-bobbing goodness... 10 days and counting!
Tracklisting: 1. Along Came Nookie (Original Mix) -Mike Monday
2. Bang the Floor (feat. Danny Breaks) _Mr. Scruff
3. Pointy _Debrut
4. Chocolate _Dam-funk
5. Re-New Real _Debrut
6. Rapperacid _ Luke Vibert
7. Hip Hop Hooray _Naughty by Nature
8. The Funnies _Wagon Christ
9. Run It (Duke Dumont mix) _EPMD
10. Flashback _ Harmonic 313
11. The Fucking Formula _Dorian Concept
12. Crambodia (U-Tern Remix) _ Plastic Little
13. Big Bad Beat _ The Beatards
14. 200007 (Siriusmo remix) _ Modeselektor
15. It's Time _ Lanu (feat. Kero One)
16. Hold On (feat. Andreya Triana) _Mr. Scruff
17. Paper Planes (DFA Remix) _M.I.A.
18. Chillin' (feat. Lady Gaga) _Wale
19. The Ripple Twist _Funkstorung
20. Rotting Flesh Bags _Luke Vibert
21. Beat Don't Stop _ A Skillz vs. Beat Vandals
Grapenuts Playa Prefunk by dirtfactoryrecords
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The Tangled Path 1 : Loose Ends
15/August/09 | DJ
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"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.
The Tangled Path : Loose Ends by moontrolling
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Playa Dawning
08/August/09 | DJ
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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 | DJ
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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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