[9/5/13 - looking for sets from Burning Man? Click here]

A lot more of the line-ups have come in now, although as always with Burning Man there are still plenty of “TBD’s” and “Special Guests”. I am stoked that my two favorite DJ’s in the world are going to be there, Deekline and Paul Oakenfold. I caught Deekline at an amazing poolside set at the Grand Sierra in Reno last year – much better dancing my ass off in the pool, than in the dust – and I saw Oakenfold once at Burning Man playing to a stonehenge (Bass Henge?) of about 50 people. Amazing.

Rockstar Librarian is on the case too, and will have something for us on the Tuesday before the burn. Her print deadline is tomorrow though, so get something to her fast if you haven’t already.

Hello lovelies! I am putting the finishing touches on a new data collection tool for this year’s RSL Music Guide and will be sending out notifications about it to all the sound camps and music camps for which I have contact information. Feel free to PM me your camp information if you believe I won’t have it already and you’d like your camp’s musical info included in the guide. Promise it is worth the wait!

VJs should meet at Digital Apex, 10 & B on Wednesday at 15:00. This VJ meet-up will provide a chance for VJs looking for gigs, to connect with camps looking for VJs

Come meet all the VJs at Burning Man. Catch up over a cold one, and meet the teams behind the projections of this years Visual Set ups. Also a good place to get booked up for VJ sets at the sound camps over the week. Hosted by Digital Apex at 10 & B

We’re missing 2 major sound camps this year – Opulent Temple and Root Society. Both camps in the past have brought large numbers of big names DJs to the Playa, then made those DJs available to other camps. Without them as anchors, this could be a big blow to the Burning Man music scene. Or, it could be a return to the roots – giving lesser known “Cargo Cult” DJs the chance to play on the equipment left behind for them by the gods. Fertility 2.0 champions Distrikt have moved 1 block further away from the Esplanade, to 9 & G. On the plus side, we have Digital Apex – a new camp spun-out from Dancetronauts; and we get a giant bamboo control tower broadcasting live RADIO KNTRL 105.1, that shoots lasers and flames, and we get White Ocean, very much a spinoff of Opulent Temple, who are bringing the resident OT DJ’s as well as some world class talent:

Opulent Temple is representing even more in the house, the Wednesday White Party is still going strong:

Opulent Temple hosts our WHITE PARTY – Wednesday Night on the Dancetronaut’s Strip Ship & BASS Station at the Control Tower!! 10pm – 3am.

Control Tower is at 3:30 & Esplanade, tune into 105.1 Radio KNTRL if you can’t find a 60-foot high tower with massive flame, lighting, and laser effects.

Fractal Planet and Bass Henge are bringing us the Lucent Dossier Experience

Wednesday:
Fractal Planet
2:00 & Esplanade

Sonic Temple Sacred
Bass Showcase

9:00 PM Akara
10:00 PM Opening
Ceremony
10:30 PM Temple Step
Project
11:30 PM Imagika Om
12:30 AM Desert Dwellers
1:30 AM Dakini
2:30 AM Liquid Stranger
3:30 AM Dragonfly
4:30 AM Kaminanda
6:00 AM Mumukshu
7:00 AM Dali Quartet
- 7:30 AM

Thursday

Fractal Planet
OMETEOTL’s Mayan
Warrior Cruise

2:00 & Esplanade

10:00 PM Austero
11:00 PM Goosebumpz
12:15 AM Sugarpill
1:30 AM SIXIS
2:45 AM Nominus
- 4:00 AM

Friday

Fractal Planet
Envision Presents:
Funkin in the Dust

9:00 PM Fractal Orchestra
10:00 PM Butta Love Yum
10:30 PM SIXIS
11:30 PM Jobot
12:45 AM Diatomaceous
Love presents
New Fangled Opry
1:15 AM Polish
Ambassador
2:30 AM Opiuo
3:30 AM Andreilien
4:45 AM Goosebumpz
5:45 AM Metamorphosis
Ballet
6:00 AM Emancipator
7:30 AM plantrae
8:30 AM Ayla Nereo
- 9:00 AM

Saturday

Fractal Planet

Fractal Burn Night Spectacular

11:00 PM Nominus
12:00 AM Lucent Dossier Experience
1:00 AM freq nasty
2:00 AM Love & Light
3:00 AM Phutureprimitive
4:30 AM Birds of Paradise
6:00 AM Random Rab

Sunday

Fractal Planet
Human Experience
Creations presents:

7:30 AM The Human
Experience
9:00 AM Desert Dwellers
10:00 AM Saqi
11:00 AM Griff
12:00 PM Kyrstyn Pixton
1:00 PM JPod
2:00 PM Mihkal
3:00 PM Erothyme
4:00 PM Tor
5:00 PM Traveler
6:00 PM The Cats Pijamas
7:00 PM Sunmonx
- 8:00 PM

Sunday night after Temple Burn

Fractal Planet – Closing
the Portal

10:30 PM Naga Babas & DJ
Swami Harami
11:15 PM Chris B
12:15 AM Lux Natura
12:30 AM jillian ann
1:30 AM Galactic Wind
2:30 AM Mouldy Soul
3:30 AM Lux Moderna
- 4:00 AM Closing the portal

Burner Ian adds this:

The Business (aka Travis Payne of LA breaks duo The Fuzz) will be playing at the Mystikal Misfits at 4:30 and C on Monday August 26th for the Fleet Week happy hour

Burner Nicholas says:

Opiuo, The Funk Hunters, Andreilien, Ill Gates, Scumfrog, and Random Rab have confirmed.

Burner Jennifer filled us in on the Liver’s End, part of Inebriation Nation:

The Liver’s End, located in the Inebriation Nation at 3:00 close to E, hosts its annual Little Black Dress party Friday night. The musical lineup is:

9-10:30 Miles
10:30-12:00 J.D. Mack
12:00-2:00 Dex Stakker

And yes, there will be folk:

John Craigie (folk music) will be playing once at Center camp and another time at the Lost Penguin

Space Cowboys ho’ down is now going to be on Wednesday, not Friday

Sacred Spaces have a weird setup for their lineup, we’re not going to the trouble of translating it for them you’ll have to wait for Rockstar lIbrarian for that, or show up there and get pot luck. They’re obviously fans of Chicks with Decks. Hard on us to know who’s playing when, though.

Distrikt have the epic DJ Kramer sunset set once more, as well as Bay Area favorite Christian Martin, who killed it at LIB this year. How they can squeeze a tribute to The Wall into 60 minutes is anyone’s guess, but hey, it’s Burning Man, time is relative.

MONDAY Aug 26th
10-11:00am The Wall (a tribute)
11:00am-1:00pm Nutelli
1:00pm-2:00pm The Quadrobe
2:00pm-3:00pm DJ Dane
3:00pm-4:30pm Jon Horvath
4:30pm-6:00pm Music Savages
6p-Close Layne Loomis

TUESDAY Aug 27th
11am-12:30pm Marko Peli
12:30pm-1:30pm Diva Danielle
1:30pm-2:30pm Brett Rubin
2:30pm-3:30pm Tamo
3:30pm-4:30pm Davi
4:30pm-6:00pm Paul Geddes
6p-Close Elite Force

WEDNESDAY Aug 28th
“DISTRIKT Black & Gold DeKaDance!”
11am-12:30pm Shooey
12:30pm-1:30pm Gravity
1:30pm-2:30pm Derek Hena
2:30pm-3:30pm Hoj
3:30pm-4:30pm Galen
4:30pm-6:00pm Christian Martin
6p-Close Matt Kramer

THURSDAY Aug 29th
11am-12:30pm Kalei Marston
12:30pm-1:30pm Ejagz
1:30pm-2:30pm Shissla
2:30pm-3:30pm Mike Balance
3:30pm-4:45pm DJ Dan
4:45pm-6:00pm Isaiah Martin
6p-Close The Scumfrog

FRIDAY Aug 30th
11am-12:30pm Jamie Schwabl
12:30pm-1:30pm AdamRoss
1:30pm-2:30pm Peter Blick
2:30pm-3:30pm John Early
3:30pm-4:30pm Tara Brooks
4:30pm-6:00pm Thugfucker
6pm-late Ben Seagren

SATURDAY Aug 31st
11am-12:30pm Deep Jesus & Marbs
12:30pm-1:30pm Jay Zimmerman
1:30pm-2:30pm Syd Gris
2:30pm-3:30pm Everyday
3:30pm-5:00pm Darren Grayson
5p-Close DJ Kramer

DISTRIKT Resident Soundcloud links here:
http://soundcloud.com/djkramer
http://soundcloud.com/ben-seagren
http://soundcloud.com/layneloomis
http://soundcloud.com/darren-grayson

Robot Heart are doing it strong again, their Wednesday night lineup with Seth Troxler, Jamie Jones and Damian Lazarus looks particularly appealing

Bootie

Charlie The Unicorn art car:

Digital Apex are debuting hard, with 75 DJs including my favorite Deekline, the Scumfrog, Polish Ambassador, Random Rab, and many more…

There will be psy-trance! Ooligan Alley is bringing it again, and even my East Coast homies from Kostume Kult too. Thanks to Burner Katie for these ones:

On Thursday night, starting at 8pm, Kostume Kult located at 3:15 and Esplanade will have a psy lineup, till daybreak on Friday morning.

And… on Friday night, Ooligan Alley located at 2:00 and B will have an all night psytrance lineup, with Perfect Stranger and Avalon headlining. Definitely the place to be that night for psy lovers.

Tuesday night, The Rising Arms, 8:30 B, psy-trance! DOOF DOOF DOOF DOOF DOOF

You asked for more Psy Trance on the playa. Well sometimes you get what you ask for.

1900 – 2000 DJ Vitor (Portugal/USA)
2000 – 2100 DJ Hypnotoad (USA)
2100 – 2200 Airavata (USA)
2200 – 2300 Nyima (Germany)
2300 – 0000 Coral (USA)
0000 – 0100 Da-La (Germany)

Here’s Disorient’s lineup. They had me at “Above and Beyond”..but lost me again when that turned out to be just the name of their night. Someone needs to bring Above and Beyond, Cosmic Gate and Emma Hewitt to the Playa: stat. What’s going on, hRh?

Tuesday

NUDISCO

Curator W + L & stage manager TJ

4 – 6PM Josh Dupont chill seance

9 – 11PM Marko PELI
11 – 6AM WOLF + LAMB & SOUL CLAP Smirk & The Crew Love Brotherhood
ALL NIGHT LONG

Wednesday

TRIBAL

Curator Milk & stage manager B3AR

4-6PM Douggie Style chill seance

9 – 10PM B3ar (Digital Native/Disorient, US)
10 – 11PM Deep Woods (3 Bridges/Heroes & Villains, US)
11 – 12:30AM Vigil (WhiteOwlJaguar/DiscoFist, US)
12:30 – 2AM Sabo (Sol Selectas, US)
2 – 4AM Milk (Trashistan/Kostume Kult, US)
4 – 6AM Resy (Modus Operandi/Disorient, US)

Thursday

DEEP TECH

Curator Erika Mysti & stage manager Adrian Ravelo

4 – 6PM Dusthead chill seance

9 – 10PM Adrian Ravelo (SoundPark, US)
10 – 11PM Erika Mysti (Disorient/SoundPark, US)
11 – 12:30AM Holosound (Pulse Radio/Playperview, US)
12:30 – 2AM Anthony Attalla(Incorrect Music, US)
2 – 4AM Maxxi Soundsystem (FutureBoogie, UK)
4 – 5AM Lovecraft (No.19, US)
5 – 6AM Bedouin (Tamer Malki & Rami Deejay) (Supernature, US)

Friday

DEEP PROGRESSIVE

Curator RB & stage manager Shaul

4 – 6PM Douggie Style chill seance

9 – 10PM Coyoti (Disorient, Black bird,US)
10 – 12AM Lexel (Disorient, US)
12 – 2AM Journeyman (Disorient, JDJ,UK)
2 – 4AM BEHROUZ (Yoshitoshi, US)
4 – 6AM Reda Briki (Disorient, Annaba, US)

Saturday

ABOVE & BEYOND

Curator RB & stage manager

4 – 6PM Gina Calderoni (Good Vibe/Chicks with desks) chill seance

9 – 11PM Loomer (Disorient, US)
11 – 12AM Isaiah (Disorient, US)
12 – 2AM Scumfrog (Armada, US)
2 – 4AM SYD GRIS (Opulent Temple w/ Peter Blick, US)
4 – 6AM David hôhme (US)

Sunday

CHILL VIBRATION

Curator & stage manager

Space Cowboys

Monday Day – Garage Mahal (8:45 between F&G)
1-2pm Deckard
2-3pm Tamo
3-4pm Shissla/ShOOey

Monday Night – Peter Hudson’s Eternal Return
10-11pm Tommy
11-12pm Myagi
12-1am DingDong/JoJo
1-2am Kirk
2-3am Erik Hz.

Tuesday Day – Pink Mammoth (8:30 & F)
Noon – 2pm Space Cowboy DJ’s

Weds Night – BLACK ROCK HOE DOWN (Apocolypse Saloon) (Outer Playa)
10-11pm Myagi
11-12pm Erik Hz.
12-1pm Deckard
1-2am Shissla
2-3am Tamo
3-4am Deekline
4-5am Kapt N Kirk
5-6am Shooey
6-8am M3 & Anthony Mansfield (sunrise)
8-?am Bob V

Thurs Day – Lingerie Party at Chinchilla Camp (7:20 & H)
2-3pm Bob V/Andreas
3-4pm Matt Kramer
4-5pm Tamo
5-6pm Jim Shissla

Thurs Night – Dusty Rhino (8:15 & Esplanade)
11-12pm Tamo & Shissla

Friday Day – Space Cowboy’s Hootenanny (Space Cowboy’s camp & 4:45 & A (behind Death Guild))
Noon – 6pm Space Cowboy DJ’s with guests Lego Guys, Derek Hena, & Icon.

Friday Night – Control Tower (Outer Playa)
11-12pm Kapt N Kirk
12-1am Kramer
1-2am Dane
2-3am Erik Hz.
special guest tba

Playa Jazz Cafe is back for 2013. Live jazz every night till dawn. 8:30 & Rod’s Road.

Basshenge are bringing a TurboSound sound system, with 28 dual-18″ subwoofers. BOOM! And Lucent Dossier 1am Friday, woo-hoo!

BEATS BOUTIQUE LINEUP______
Beats Boutique
Were open 11am to 7pm

Wednesday

11-1 Epyk Allstars (opening party) zmajlee, demarco cruz, steven macwithey, grom zuks (electronica, techno, tech, midtempo stuff. deep)

1:00 – 2:30 J West – (Deep tech)

2:30 – 4:00 Rob & Annalisa (big room, electro progressive tech)

4:00 – 5:30 Einstyles (Glitch / bass / dub)

5:30 – 7: 00 Juicy Jay – (Bass music)

Thursday

11:00 – 12:30 Brad Holhut aka DJ ABEAR (deep house)

12:30 – 2:00 Brett Rubin (Tech house)

2:00 – 4:00 L Boogie Vs Crime (breaks / electro funk)

4:00 – 5:30 Dr Nobz (Bass Music)

5:30 – 7:00 Michael Toast (dubstep, bass)

Friday

11 – 12:20 Dj Purple (Deep house)

12:20 – 1:40 Cyril Noir (Tech house funk)

1:40 – 3:00 Grom Zuks (Melbourne bounce/ electro tech)

3-5 Demarco Cruz (electro, techno, BIG ROOM stuff, bass)

5-7 Zmaj Lee (bass music, electro)

Sunday

11:00 – 12:30 Lt Daaan (deep tech)

12:30 – 1:30 Chris Towers (Progressive tech)

1:30 – 2:30 PopnFresh (house, funky electro tech)

2:30 – 4:00 Well Groomed – (big house/ electro)

4:00 – 5:30 Kevin Bombino (electro house)

5:30 – 7:00 Huggie Bear (Glitch, bass music)

Monday (labor day)

11 – 1 Epyk Allstarz, progressive house, techno

1-3 Tino aka badbeat, tech house

3-5 Ej tha Dj (dancetronauts) – electro bigroom

5-7 Epyk Allstarz Closing rager!! ELECTRO DUBSTEP!! TRAP!!! DRUM N BASS!! BIG ROOM HOUSE!! ALL DAT FILTHY NASTYNESS!!!

________

Bubbles and Bass, 7:45 & Esplanade

The BUBBLES are chillin and the BASS will be coming strong!

We’ll be rockin’ you out from first light (5:00am) till Noon with bubbly bass-tastic house music as you watch the sunrise over the playa and dance the AM hours away… drink some bubbly while you boogie @ 7:45 & Esplanade.

LIFTOFF ! Wednesday AM Aug 28th (Tues Night -> Weds AM)

5-7am Big Daddy
7-9am Reda Briki
9-10:30am Marko Peli
10:30-12noon Perezidents

LOVIN’ THE WAY YOU MOVE Thursday AM Aug 29th (Weds Night -> Thurs AM)

5-6:30am Eduardo Castillo
6:30-8am Rafael DeLaCruz
8-9:30am Coyoti
9:30-11am Justin Aubuchon
11-12noon Gindi

THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM ! Friday AM Aug 30th (Thurs Night -> Fri AM)

5-7am Alex Funk
7-9am Everyday
9-10am Vito Fun
10-11am Big Jawn
11-12noon Hohme

AINT NO STOPPING US NOW Saturday AM Aug 30th (Fri Night -> Sat AM)

5-6:30am Small Change
6:30-8am Dj Resy
8-9:30am Wally
9:30-10:30am Deep Woods
10:30-12noon Marques Wyatt

SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST Sunday AM Sep 1st (Sat Night -> Sun AM)

5-6:00AM GWEG O BLASTER
6-7:00AM DJ-NEE
7-9:00am Sabo
9am-10:30am 2MELO
10:30-12noon Miss Sabado

OF COURSE THE BUBBLY WILL BE FLOWING ALL MORNING LONG!!!

KOSTUME KULT’s 2013 Line-Up    3:15 & Esplanade
MONDAY - THE SWEET SENDUP
6:00pm – 8:00pm Jean Dominique
8:00pm – 10:00pm Ginkgo
10:00pm – Midnight Andy Warren
Midnight – 2:00am Naveen G
2:00am – 4:00am Deep Woods
4:00am – 6:00am Travisty

TUESDAY - BEYOND THE LAKE BED OF THE DOLLS
Noon – 1:00pm Alizarin
1:00pm – 4:00pm 2Melo & Mettabbana
4:00pm – 6:00pm Charlie Dayburn
The Feminine Mystique
6:00pm – 8:00pm Dollpartz (of WhiteOwlJaguar)
8:00pm – 10:00pm Jocelyn Love
10:00pm – Midnight Orange Krush
Midnight – 2:00am Mysti
2:00am – 4:00am Sarah Meyers
4:00am - Daybreak Dopeshoes

WEDNESDAY - CRACKING WIDE PANDORA’S FAUX FUR BOX
30,000 Watts of Futures Past
Noon - Daybreak Your Move, Create Her & company featuring Marko Peli

THURSDAY - ANCIENT FOOLS AND PSYCHEDELIC ASTRONAUTS
It Came From Outer Space
Noon – 2:00pm Tim The Enchanter
What A Fool Believes
2:00pm – 6:00pm $mall ¢hange, Catalyst & DarKat
The World is B3ar’s
6:00pm – 8:00pm B3ar & Guy Freeman
Set the Controls for Psytransic State
8:00pm - Daybreak Light O’Matic & his Psytrance Tribe

FRIDAY - BLINKY BELLS AND WHISTLES
Roundi Mountain High
Noon – 2:00pm Jerad Hioki & Nasty Nate
The Dusty Decks Consortium of Black Rock City presents Dusted Dreams
2:00pm – 3:00pm Milk
3:00pm – 4:00pm Will Spencer
4:00pm – 5:00pm Dan Sherman
5:00pm – 6:00pm Blackstock
6:00pm – 7:00pm Mark Slee
7:00pm – 10:00pm DDC B2B
Deep Stratos
10:00pm – Midnight Alex K
Midnight – 2:00am Kellam
2:00am – 4:00am Jigsaw
4:00am - Daybreak Milk

SATURDAY - CRASH & BURN
12:00noon – 1:30pm Teo Dee
1:30pm – 3:00pm Lucky
3:00pm – 5:00pm Havok
5:00pm – 7:00pm Xander Phoenix

https://www.facebook.com/events/228474430633991/

Here is Kazbah, located at 10:00 & GDP

Monday 2-8
Kazbah Rezidents Playa-Tech Sound Check
Chemical Ali
Elz
Hef
Papa Lu

Tuesday 2-10
Desert Hearts Take Over
Jon Dadon
Marbs
Deep Jesus
Mikey Lion
Porkchop
Lee Reynolds
Kevin Anderson

Wednesday 2-10
Anthony Attalla
Benjamin Alexander
Öona Dahl
Chemical Ali
Elz & Lawson
Papa Lu
Hef
David Gregory

Thursday 2-10
Play On The Playa
John Dill v. Swamy
Naveen G v. Nikita
Atish v. Mighty Kat
& Very Special Guest

Friday 10am-10pm
Touch of Class Presents “Dirty Hands”
Nico Stojan
Signal Flow & Jonny Cruz
Tone Of Arc
South Of Chihuahua
Rami Dee Jay
Rich Korach
Navid Izadi
Aquarius Heaven
Davi

Saturday noon-7
Rob Garza (Thievery Corporation)
Greg Pidcock
Ataxa
Lovecraft
& Very Special Guest

Look Out For Additional Unannounced Parties and Surprise Guests All Weeks

Camp Charlie…

Pink Mammoth 8:30 & F

Stagedom has produced an interactive music guide to Burning Man 2013. It’s pretty comprehensive, and sorted by day and time. You can click through to any artist to read their profile, listen to their music, get yourself psyched.

Thanks to Burner Shahar for this, looks like a lot of work went into it.

Rockstar Librarian’s printable guide will be out tomorrow, we will have a link for you.

Get it here and print it yourself:

20-page mini-booklet

40-page guide

Time To Burn app (Android)

Time To Burn app (Apple)

Printing suggestion:

You may have different setting on your printer, but here is what worked for me on the booklet.
- Print on both sides of paper
– Flip on short edge of paper
- Print Landscape

For individual camp lineups, also check out our (much less organized!) 2013 music line-up coverage.

Rockstar Librarian is getting married at Burning Man, and we’re all invited:

You are invited to the burning nuptials
of Michael and Kate, aka Rockstar Librarian, Thursday morning, just
following the White Procession, as the sunrises and laughter ensues
(615am or thereabouts) on the 9:00 side of the Temple.
Reveling to follow at Bubbles & Bass, 745 & Esplanade.

Congratulations Michael and Kate!

I recommend everyone come and support my friend the lovely Miss Emma Nation, midnight Tuesday at Chakralicious, 2:30 & E, part of Club Exotica presents Seduce Me.

Brass Tax will be killing it at Friday 5pm, The Sunset Trip Village at Esplanade & 8:30

Opulent Temple will be back after all, in stealth mode (sort of)…their annual White Party is on Wednesday night at the Control Tower, 3:30 & Esplanade, in conjunction with Dancetronauts. Tune in to radio KNTRL 105.1, for an alternative to the eclcectic and often crappy tunes of BMIR.

Open Playa – The Opulent
Temple White Party will
take place around the
Dancetronauts Bass Station
@ Control Tower (lazer art
piece located on the Open
Playa) on Wednesday ONLY!
10:00 PM – 3:00 AM
11th Annual Opulent Temple
White Party

They’re up against the other mobile sound extravaganza Robot Heart, who are bringing the techno triumvirate of Seth Troxler/Jamie Jones/Damian Lazarus

They’re starting to come out

Here’s Hernan Cattaneo at White Ocean

Vitamin Devo Phoenix sunrise

Beli3ver

DJ Tommy T

AppleCat

Isaiah Martin

Peter Hirshberg Playa Skool Art Car Parade

Swami Harami Fractal Planet Temple Burn

Mike van Houten

DJ Funktor Decadent Oasis

Indecent Noise

K-Dust Live @ Abraxas

TYMK Bass Couch set

Rootz Underground live at Shadyville

Rockstar Librarian seems to have been working hard on her honeymoon. She’s compiled an epic list of 161+ live sets from Burning Man 2013, for our listening pleasure – more than 200 hours worth.

Click HERE to see the full list.

Burners.Me bonus:

Here’s an hour+ of Blondish’s set at the Mayan Warrior (my favorite new art car)

This is Tech Monkey at Pink Bunny

https://soundcloud.com/techmonkey-music/pink-bunny-sunrise-set1
https://soundcloud.com/techmonkey-music/pink-bunny-sunrise-set2

Here’s the Scumfrog at Robot Heart, sunrise set.

Here’s DJ Trav Nasty of Dancetronauts at the White Party

And in case we missed any, here’s Maitdog’s collection of 65 sets

https://soundcloud.com/maitland/sets/maitdogg-burning-man-2013-live

The Reno-Gazette Journal, always fans of Burning Man with great coverage, are branching out into the Brave New World of multimedia content. They’ve published a very interesting look at the music of Burning Man 2013, featuring interviews with Trance pioneer Paul Oakenfold, Opulent Temple (who, despite pulling out of Burning Man this year were conspicuous by their presence)’s Syd Gris, and everyone’s favorite music curator Rockstar Librarian.

Watch HERE

photo by Butch McIntosh, GoochApparel.com

by Whatsblem the Pro

Haley Dahl, 18, has been attending Burning Man since she was 9.

Where the subject of children attending Burning Man comes up, controversy follows. Strong opinions run the gamut, from people who believe that radical inclusion necessarily means juveniles too, to those who look askance at parents who bring their children to an adult party in a hazardous environment, or even call the practice a form of child abuse.

We’ve explored this topic before, but there’s an important demographic that remains unheard in the controversy: children who grew up going to Burning Man.

Haley Dahl is eighteen years old, and has been going to Burning Man since she was nine. She lives in Los Angeles, where she rocks out with her band, Sloppy Jane.

I met Haley on the playa, and she promised to write to me after the burn and tell me all about her experience growing up in Black Rock City. This is what she wrote:

When I was a child and my family was still an unbroken unit, we would take trips to my Grandpa Yab’s country house in upstate New York every summer. I have only a few vague memories of these traditional family retreats; holding my Raggedy Ann doll in a bed that smelled like leaves, walking in the forest with my grandpa to go see butterflies, and a sense of normalcy that I at this point in my life feel totally disconnected from, because once upon a time in 2004 my dad approached me and said “so this summer we have a few options. We can either go to the country house, or we can do a weird mystery thing that I’m not going to tell you anything about.” And this was how nine-year-old me ended up at Burning Man.

We went, just my dad and I. I remember at that point there was still no cell phone service in Gerlach. We left the last gas station in Nixon and called my mom, her voice quivered on the phone when she said goodbye to us right before we went over a metal bump that signified the end of cell range. I’ll never forget the way she sounded, it was as if she thought that we were never coming back. And I guess, in a way, we never really did. We never went back to the country house. And as we passed through Gerlach, my dad pointed into the desert and said “that is where we are going.” And I said “you mean by the giant cloud of dust?” He looked at me and said “the cloud of dust is where we are going.”

When we got in it was dark. We went to Kidsville. The mayor was wearing a top hat and a diaper. We walked to Center Camp and we thought it was all of Burning Man, and we were totally blown away by it. We put up our tent, it blew away. We spent the rest of the week in the car. I had no costumes so I painted myself blue and wore a mylar emergency blanket as a toga.

The next day we walked around and I remember feeling so overwhelmed by all of the colors, the costumes, the art, it was a world I felt like I had made up in my imagination that had materialized in front of me. I teared up and it made my dad panic. He asked if I was doing okay and asked if I was going to need to go home. I looked up at him and said “thank you for bringing me here.”

Haley Dahl, age ten

I think Burning Man is an excellent environment for children if you are willing to be a parent. Not a fly-little-birdy-go-experience-life-Mommy’s-on-acid kind of parent, but the kind of parent that actually DESIRES to treat Burning Man like a family vacation. Let me explain that a little better; I have talked to a lot of adults who have said “oh, so your parents gave up their Burning Man experience for you.” That is not how I feel about it. My parents are not polyamorous drug-takers or heavy drinkers. They weren’t “giving up” the right to go to the Orgy Dome; they wouldn’t have wanted to go anyway. So it was pretty easy for them to steer me away from anything too raw. I think having attended Burning Man as a child was one of the best things that could have happened to me. It gave me a very strong sense of self at an early age, I entered middle school with self-esteem and totally did not give a shit if I was ostracized for it because I knew I was cool as shit. And in case you didn’t know, that is incredibly rare for a middle school girl.

THAT BEING SAID, I STRONGLY SUGGEST AGAINST BRINGING YOUR FUCKING TEENAGE DAUGHTER TO BURNING MAN. Bringing your child to Burning Man as a child is awesome because they get to spend their early developmental stages being told that it’s totally fine to be an individual. Once your kid is a teenager, especially a girl, I think it’s advisable to take a few years off.

People really like to act like Burning Man is a really safe environment where everyone has evolved past normal human bullshit. That just isn’t true. I’m an attractive young woman who has lived in both Los Angeles and New York, places known for having high scumbag populations. It is safe to say that I have experienced more blatant sexual harassment confrontations at Burning Man than I have anywhere else I have ever been.

Because I attended Burning Man as a child, I grew up pretty fast mentally, and because of hormones in food (or something) I grew up pretty fast physically too. I was an old fourteen, and that was around when Burning Man started becoming less safe for me. People like to pretend that because it’s Burning Man it’s totally okay to catcall and/or be aggressively sexual towards women. That is not okay, especially if the woman is in fact a fourteen-year-old girl.

I remember being drunk and in one of the big dance camps and making out with some random guy. I said “how old are you?” he said “I’m twenty-five.” I said “I’m fourteen.” He paused, looked slightly surprised, and said “I won’t tell if you won’t. . .” and thus began a long saga of disgusting men taking advantage of my naivety and teenage drunkenness.

Haley Dahl, age eleven

Fast-forward two years to my (now ex) douchebag post-2009 burner boyfriend in his five-hundred-dollar fire-spinning attire drunkenly spitting at me and screaming in my face about how I didn’t know how to experience Burning Man because I wouldn’t let him be free and sleep with other people.

The main problem with growing up at Burning Man is that Burning Man grows up with you. It’s not the home it used to be. The increase in popularity and rise in prices has turned it into a playground for bourgeois assholes who like to act like taking ecstasy and cheating on your wife with a nineteen-year-old white girl wearing a bindi and a feather headdress is enlightenment.

I will always wonder if Burning Man has really changed so hugely since my childhood, or if I am just seeing different sides of it because I’m older now. I’m sure it’s a combination of the two, but ever since Bad Idea Theater closed I’ve spent all of every night at the Thunderdome. . . because if I wanted to go to a fucking rave I would just go to downtown L.A. and pay ten bucks instead of five hundred, you know?

Anyway, by the time I was seventeen I was bored of drugs. Now I’m eighteen, I’ve quit smoking, I don’t drink much, and I go to the gym every day. I never go to parties and I’m not even going to college because my career has already started. If there is anything that Burning Man has robbed me of (other than a fucking normal life), I’d say it robbed me of my twenties. I watch Fraser. Enough said.

Do you have a first-hand story about growing up at Burning Man? Tell us all about it in the comments after you check out Haley’s band, Sloppy Jane, playing the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood:

$teven Ra$pa — PHOTO: Chronicle / Mike Kepka

The Org’s own Steven Raspa has just released detailed information about this year’s Decompression in San Francisco!

Burning Man Presents, for the benefit of the Burning Man Project. . .

San Francisco DECOMPRESSION Heat the Street FaIRE! 2013

Sunday, October 13th, 2013

Starts at Noon!

Outdoor sound ends 10pm, except Mariposa which ends 11pm

Indiana St between Mariposa and 22nd St in San Francisco, California

Public Entrance: 19th St. & Minnesota; 2nd entrance at 20th St. & Minnesota from 2:00 – 7:00pm

$15 donation before 4:00pm; $20 after; free schwag while it lasts

All ages (under 12 free); 21+ inside Cocomo

Food and beverages available with sales benefitting public art and culture programs. Eat for Art!

See full schedules and map at:
http://www.burningman.com/blackrockcity_yearround/special_events/decompression/decom2013.html

For the quickest updates and info visit
http://on.fb.me/1fFMSYJ (Facebook event)

PLEASE TAKE MASS TRANSIT, BIKE and CARPOOL: (Muni bus #22, #48 and BART connects with the 3rd Street T-line), ride your bike and avoid driving on Minnesota St completely! Inexpensive parking available at UCSF lot (3rd St at 16th St). Or park on Terry Francois Blvd.

Welcome to the 14th Annual Decompression Heat the Street Fair!   
This year is explosive with creativity! Come at Noon SHARP to enjoy all the installations, performances, fire, dance, theme camps, circus arts, live music, DJs, Burning Man 2013 imagery, and MORE!!! All six blocks, the park, and stages will showcase a stunning variety of creative expression! Bring your imagination to share and BE the art you wish to see in the world!!! Full Schedule and partial list of pARTicipants here.

THEME CAMPS & BURNING MAN GROUPS:

• 50 Dancing Dragons
• 9 Energies
• Airpusher
• Black Rock Scouts
• Burners Without Borders
• Black Rock Arts Foundation
• Black Rock Solar
• Burning Man Regional Network
• BMIR
• BRCPO
• Bubble City
• Cuddlefish Productions
• Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet
• Disco Knights
• Desert Pearl Chill Zone
• DMV
• Everywhere
• Flirt Camp
• Friends of DPW
• Gate, Perimeter, and Exodus
• Gender Blender Camp
• Hiney Hygiene Station Tattoos
• Hooptopia
• Interactive Photo Booth
• Jerk Church
• The Kazbah
• Kidsville
• Mission Country Club
• Party Jitsu
• PlayaTerps
• Rangers
• Shipwreck Tiki Lounge
• Skinny Kitty Tea House
• SunShrine
• Tactile Meditation Dome
• The Black Rock Beacon
• The Klownge
• The Painted Pygmy
• Twilight Spaghetti Theatre
• World Hoop Day
• WOW! AND MORE!!!

ART CARS & MUTANT VEHICLES:

• Angler Fish Disco
• Apis Inlusio
• Beezus Christ, Super Car
• CDC (Cat of a Different Color)
• Co-Exist
• DFT Whale
• H2O-pache
• Janky Barge
• Landau the Dragon
• Nautilus X
• The “Electro Bounce Chariot”
• The Dusty Rhino
• Rub a Dub Dub 3 in a Tub
• Second Frumming
• Psychic Taxi
• Area 351
• Wet Dream
• AND MANY MORE!!

ART & FIRE ART:

• A Vortex for Vultures
• Psychic Taxi
• The Chakraland Game!
• The Critical E.E.A.R.Z. (Experience/Expectation Adjustment/Realignment Zone)
• Art by Rez
• The Ha Ha Box
• Man Pavilion Zoetropes
• The Light Orchestra
• Bossy Dice
• Fire Dance
• Pimpsnaxx
• The Story Portal
• The Aspiration Wall: Collaborative Interactive Art Creation
• Man Pavilion Murals
• Helix
• Zonotopia
• You Are The Key
• Line of Fire
• Spawn of Dodgasourus
• Into the Flame
• The Union Mural Team
• AND MORE!!

LIVE PERFORMERS, DJS & BANDS:

• Beautiful Machines
• Brass Band: Mission
• Burning Band
• Chance’s End
• Gamelan X
• Materialized
• Megaflame
• Papa Bear and the Easy Love
• PiNeal’s Intergalactic Cultural Exchange Program
• Pixel Memory
• Priize
• The Shape
• CelloJoe
• Fontain’s M.U.S.E.
• International Human Color Wheel – A Dance 4 Positivity
• Jade Foxes
• Samba Stilt Circus
• Slinkycat
• Third Seven
• TrashKan Marchink Band
• Ziggy Dayz
• Tamo
• Dex Stakker
• DJ Loomer
• Anthony Mansfield
• Be Calm Honcho
• Dane Jouras
• El Jefe Rojo
• BASEHEAD
• LT.D
• Galen
• Sesh
• M3
• Ed Mazur
• DJ Dane
• DJ Alvaro Bravo
• MYSTR HATCHET
• DJMK
• DJ Clarkie
• Nugz
• Snarkle
• Phleck
• Matt Haze
• MoPo
• Shouts!
• AIRsmith
• Alex Kane
• Borris
• Conandrum
• Dave Mak
• DJ E10
• DJ Feral
• DJ ICON
• DJ Valarien
• DJ Loomer
• Everett Wayne
• Grumples Z Clown
• Holly Rich
• Kaweh
• Michelangelo
• MotorHome Music
• naudible
• Nerm
• SAYER
• SenedracHunter
• Shissla
• Kapt’n Kirk
• ShOOey
• Brad Robinson
• Mancub
• 8Ball
• Chemical Ali
• David Gregory
• PapaLu
• AND MANY, MANY MORE!!

VJ PROJECTIONS:

• VJ CaroLuna
• Diana Maxwell
• Hugh Kimbrough
• VJ Maliepono
• Mark McGothigan
• VJ Musashii
• Ron Halbert
• AND MORE!!

TO VOLUNTEER:
Email SEvolunteers(at)burningman(dot)com or complete this form.
We also need volunteers to come back 11am Monday, Oct 14th to Indiana and 19th for our annual neighborhood clean up so we can leave the neighborhood cleaner than we found it! We’ll have donuts, coffee, great thank you schwag, and new friends!
EVERYONE should read the Survival Guide before you come.

HELP US OUT BY DOING THESE THINGS:

1. ARRIVE EARLY! Enjoy the full day & keep the line shorter
2. Take mass transit or bike; bike parking at 19th & Minnesota; No driving on Minnesota between 19th and 22nd this year. PARK cars at UCSF lot at 16th and 3rd — discount rate till Midnight!
3. Respect our neighbors, no loud noises entering or leaving, don’t block driveways, use OUR toilets.
4. NO boom boxes, renegade sound systems or unapproved fire and keep noise down after 10pm!
5. Pack out all trash you bring, properly separate any discards you get from the event by putting them in the right bin, and LEAVE NO TRACE! We have 70% waste diversion and want to do even better!
6. Come back Monday at 11am to help with our neighborhood-wide clean-up and help leave things cleaner than they were!
7. Read the DECOMmandments/Survival Guide below.

FYI: Smoking is now prohibited on any open air public property in the city of SF, including the park as per Article 191: Prohibiting smoking in city park and recreation areas.

THANK YOU for your part in bringing the spirit of Black Rock City to SF and for making this a year-round community! Special thanks to ALL the artists, performers, theme camps, volunteers, our neighbors in the Dogpatch, Dogpatch Neighborhood Network, SFFD, Bayview Police Dept, ISCOTT, Entertainment Commission, and others involved with this day. Thank you and HOORAY!!!

Filmed at Burning Man 2013, and starring all kinds of white-face freaks. Just because they’re in a tutu, doesn’t mean she’s a lady people.

This video has been associated with science fiction author religious cult leader L Ron Hubbard’s great-grandson, Jamie DeWolf. Scientology at Burning Man? Cool, if they bring the Specter-Kill like this. However Mr DeWolf’s facebook page promotes serial killing, the Folsom St Fair and touching his ginger body…hmmmm. As always, Burners, our advice to you is read the fine print on the cult before you fully commit to it.

The clowns are a troupe from San Francisco – did I see some of them at Miss Emma Nation‘s birthday? (BTW, come and see her fantabulous cabaret show at SF Decom, 5-7pm Cosmic Lovedust). Without wanting to sound racist, all these clowns kinda look alike to me!

Paul Oakenfold is one of the few DJs who has been big in the 80′s, 90′s, Naughties, and is still going strong into the Teenies. He is as big today as he was 20 years ago, currently ranked the #69 DJ in the world. I don’t think he has ever been out of DJ Magazine’s Top 100 since the poll began. He has been the opening act for U2 and Madonna on their world tours, and remixed everything from Elvis to the James Bond theme. He also signed Salt-n-Pepa, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and “Fresh Prince” Will Smith when he was an A & R guy in New York, and he was the agent for the Beastie Boys in the UK before he was known as a DJ. He found the rave sound in Ibiza and Goa and spread it to every country in the world. He also threw the biggest rave ever in America, in Fresno.

DJ Paul Oakenfold at the Green Man, Burning Man 2007

I saw him playing in a stonehenge-type circle at Burning Man in 2004, playing whatever he wanted for about 7 hours to 50 or so people. It was one of the best nights I’ve ever had at Burning Man. He played a few times at Cargo Cult, I caught a bit of his set at White Ocean but was sadly disappointed. Simon Patterson and Asterix blew him out of the water, in my opinion. He is brilliant at playing to the crowd and he did seem to be giving them what they wanted. He’s one of the biggest names in the whole music business, in some circles even bigger than Diddy, and it’s great to have him still supporting the party.

Now we can all see a bit of what it’s like to be Oakey at Burning Man, thanks to the magic of Google Glass – yes, Oakey has joined the pack of Glassholes. Look for more “Burning Man from the DJ’s perspective” videos coming soon, I would like to see some Robot Heart sunrise ones perhaps.

The best place to see Paul Oakenfold is in Las Vegas, recently he was inducted into the Hard Rock Hotel Hall of Fame, for his services to Rehab…

[Update 11/19/13] Oakenfold has posted his set from Cargo Cult online.

New York-based DJ and producer Lee Burridge has gone to Mixmag with his 4-hour set which was recorded at Burning Man 2013. He says that Burning Man is the best party in the world:

by Whatsblem the Pro

The principle of Decommodification that so many burners hold dear takes yet another brutal pounding this week as Australian chartbusting singer-songwriter-actress Missy Higgins releases her new music video. . . ‘We Ride,’ also known as the theme from the film Spark: A Burning Man Story. The single, along with the rest of the Spark soundtrack, is now available on iTunes.

The film, featuring footage shot at Burning Man 2011 – in other words, images of thousands of unconsenting, uncompensated burners and the art they built and transported to the Black Rock Desert at their own expense – would be forbidden by the Decommodification rule, if not for the fact that the people who forbid you from doing things like making commercial films at Burning Man happen to have a large financial stake in this one.

If you or I attempted to release a documentary shot at Burning Man, and followed it up with a soundtrack and a single by one of Australia’s top musical acts, the corporation that runs Burning Man would initiate legal proceedings against us in the name of protecting the culture from commercial exploitation. The fact that they have no problem with that kind of profiteering as long as they themselves have a financial stake in it and get a cut of the money should tell us something: that, once again, they’re not at all interested in protecting us or our culture, and care only about making money and protecting their monopoly on exploiting us and our creativity.

If the culture, the event, and burners as a group need to be protected from predators with commercial interests, then there should be no exceptions.

When challenged on what some consider their money-grubbing hypocrisy, the Org typically has one of two general responses, depending on the nature of the complaint: either they take the stance that Burning Man is a culture in an attempt to justify the exploitation of so many hard-working volunteers, uncompensated artists, and other unpaid participants, or they take the stance that Burning Man is a business entity in an attempt to justify their iron grip on the trademarks associated with it.

How long will we allow them to have their cake and eat it too? If Burning Man is a culture, then everyone who participates in and contributes to that culture should share ownership of the trademarks, and either be equally allowed to profit from them, or equally forbidden from doing so. . . no exceptions! If Burning Man is a business, on the other hand, then there shouldn’t be a single volunteer putting in a single minute of unpaid work on it. So which is it?

The film has already made over a quarter of a million dollars since it was released less than three months ago.

It may be worth noting while watching this film that the general consensus among old school burners seems to be that it sanitizes quite a lot of the dark side of Burning Man, and functions a little too heavy-handedly as pro-Org propaganda, and not an accurate reflection of reality.

What else should we have expected? Caveat emptor. . . and caveat possessorum, too.

[update from BurnersXXX] – note the “ignite.me” in the video credits, that seemed like an independent site to me at first, but now it appears to be yet another sales and propaganda channel for BMOrg. It was launched in December 2012 and the movie premiered at SXSW in Austin in March 2013…

by Whatsblem the Pro

They even have digital Ex-Lax — IMAGE: Oda-Dik

Los Angeles television station KTLA ran a news item this week giving parents everywhere something new to worry about: that their children might be getting blitzed out of their young minds. . . on digital drugs.

“From online predators to simply too much screen time, we’ve all heard about the potential dangers of the Internet and our children. . . but have you heard of something called ‘i-dosing?’ Parents warn it’s an alarming new trend where kids could be using their iPads and iPods to get intoxicated. They’re called digital drugs. They’re free — accessible — and legal. But do these beats alter the brain the same way street drugs do?”

Digital technonarcotics? It sounds like something straight out of science fiction, or the weirder elements at Burning Man. . . even if – especially if – it’s just a silly prank.

KTLA isn’t the first TV newsroom to trot this one out, and surely won’t be the last. Back in July of 2010, Wired ran a write-up about Oklahoma’s City’s Channel 9 News reporting the same story, warning parents that “digital drugs” – a euphemistic name for something science calls “binaural beats” – could be a gateway to doing real drugs. The Daily Mail, second-most popular newspaper in the United Kingdom, also picked up the story.

“Kids are going to flock to these [web] sites just to see what it is about and it can lead them to other places,” said Mark Woodward, who Channel 9 identified as a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Citing the use of digital drugs as an indication of willingness to experiment with real narcotics, Woodward was clearly sounding an alarm.

“So that’s why we want parents to be aware of what sites their kids are visiting and not just dismiss this as something harmless on the computer,” he elaborated. “If you want to reach these kids, save these kids and keep these kids safe, parents have to be aware. They’ve got to take action.”

Gosh, Mr. Woodward! That sounds serious!

Not surprisingly, both KTLA’s coverage and the Channel 9 piece were a bit on the lurid side. The Channel 9 reporter actually claimed that “websites are luring kids with free downloads” in an attempt to equate downloading an mp3 file with a visit from that perennial bugaboo of straitlaced parents everywhere, the schoolyard drug dealer who tells kids that the first one is free. Goddamn the pusher man!

The less conservative among us who have actually had some experience with recreational drugs may be tempted to speculate that kids who try to get wasted by wearing headphones are probably already partying it up to some extent, and are simply trying to score their drugs for free. Regardless, it seems prudent to ignore the alarmist tone and the dark warnings about so-called “gateway drugs,” and take all this with a large grain of salt and tongue pressed firmly into cheek. Still, one has to wonder. . . is there any truth at all to any of this talk about getting high on mp3 files?

If you’re willing to abandon all skepticism and believe whatever you’re told by J. Random Internetperson, then the sheer number of web sites touting binaural beats and YouTube videos of teenagers allegedly exhibiting dramatic reactions to them might make a true believer out of you. If, however, you prefer actual science as an information source over the dark and vast wellsprings of mis- and disinformation that make up the bulk of the Internet, you might be disappointed; as shocking as it sounds, people on the Internet sometimes do say things that are not true. Some of them believe what they’re saying; some do it just for fun; some are trying to sell you something.

So what is a binaural beat?

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove

Back in 1839, a German scientist by the name of Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered that if you play a tone into your left ear at a particular frequency, and play a similar tone into your right ear at a slightly different frequency, the brain plays a little trick on itself, and you hear a beat where no beat exists, at a frequency that is the difference between what your left ear hears and what your right ear hears. The two tones must be below 1,000 Hz, and the difference between them cannot exceed 30 Hz. . . so if you’re listening to a 400 Hz tone in one ear and a 410 Hz tone in the other, you’ll hear a 10 Hz beat even though both tones are constant. The beat is all in your head.

The explanation given by web sites that sell recordings of binaural beats is that this has the power to radically reshape your mental state through a process called ‘entrainment,’ in which the beat frequency influences your brainwave activity and basically alters it by force. While it all sounds more or less plausibly scientific, the truth is that controlled tests of binaural beats and their effect on the human brain fall quite a bit short of producing the dramatic effects claimed by purveyors of binaural beat recordings. One of the more popular vendors, a site called iDoser, offers a dizzying array of audio files that they claim have the same effect on people as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, psilocybin, LSD, or even Viagra. 

To some extent, the jury is still out on whether or not you can have any sort of profound effect at all on the human brain with binaural beats (aside from what you get from music in general); some studies suggest that they may be helpful as an adjunct to surgical anesthetics, while other studies seem to directly contradict those findings, or show that the effect is no different than what happens when you listen to Mozart, jazz, or dubstep. Some examples:

At Duke University Medical Center, a study in which psychiatrists tested the effects of binaural beats on academic performance found that, on average, subjects who listened to them performed better on an alertness test and were in a better mood than subjects who listened to normal recordings of “pink noise.” A person’s mood is a pretty subjective thing, though, and there was no comparison with ordinary music. . . so it’s possible that anything with a good beat would have the same effect, binaural or not.

Another study conducted in the Anesthesiology Department of Yale Medical School measured the relative anesthesia requirements for sixty patients, split into two groups: one group listened to a binaural beats recording both before and during surgery, and the other group listened to a blank tape. There was no difference in the levels of anesthesia required between the two groups. . . but a different study, at Ninewells Hospital’s Department of Epidemiology in Dundee, Scotland, claimed that patients listening to binaural beats required significantly less of one type of anesthetic – fentanyl – than patients who listened to classical music or a blank tape.

At New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine, researchers played binaural beats to thirty people undergoing either a stomach bypass or lower back surgery, and found that while the bypass patients needed less anesthesia than a control group, the lower back patients needed slightly more.

What does it all mean? The idea that you can get high on sound is certainly an interesting one, but even in the studies that seem to show a reduced need for anesthesia, the focus was more on the effects of stress than on the allegedly narcotic power of Heinrich Wilhelm Dove’s parlor trick. You might be able to improve your mood or slow down your pulse a bit by strapping on a pair of headphones and listening to a binaural beat (and you might not), but there’s simply no reason at all to believe that you can simulate the effects of different recreational drugs just by grooving to an audio recording. If you’re a concerned parent, relax; those teenagers you see on YouTube freaking out over what’s coming through their headphones are just mocking the gullible.

Oklahoma City News 9 reports on the terrors that lurk in your child’s iPod

If you want to experiment with binaural beats for yourself, there’s no need to pay anyone or trust some stranger’s YouTube videos. You’ve even got a choice: both Gnaural and rival DIY binary beats suite SbaGen are free of charge and available for Windows, MacOS, or Linux.

Coda from Interstellar Transmissions, aka Burner William Jerome, debuted this blinky light powered piano at this year’s Burning Man. He performed the song “Galaxy”, accompanied by drummer Nathan Wilson on custom made bike drums.

The Luminescent Grand is the world’s first all acrylic, midi reactive, interactive LED grand piano. 

“We compose this music with only one intention in mind: to exalt, illuminate, uplift, and empower. If you are moved by it, it is not us but your own magnificent reflection that you are experiencing. It is the sound of us saluting all of the amazing and inspiring beings that we have been blessed and honored to know.”

Using Arduino and Cool Neon “Total Control Lights” this all acrylic grand piano responds to midi commands when played to give a mesmerizing light show to accompany any pianist who plays it!

-Interstellar Transmissions

For more info check out facebook.com/interstellartransmissions
For updates on Interstellar Transmissions and the Luminescent Grand follow @InterstellarBus on Instagram!

Footage credits to Raymond Daigle ( daigledigital.com)

bicycle drumkit by Nathan Wilson

Here’s a promo video for Interstellar Transmissions from 2010. The piano will definitely add a whole new dimension to their act. They might want to consider putting some blinky lights on the belly dancer too.

I’m no librarian, but I’m in a good mood today because I got my visa and I’m…

So this one’s for all the ravers, all the players, all the player haters, all the lovers, and all the Burners. A round-up of what’s on Soundcloud from Burning Man 2013, organized by camp. By now, most of the DJs have had the time to upload their sets. Some camps like to “trickle” them out. Maybe there’s some still to come. I can’t say I’m going to continually update this post through the year, as every new DJ sends a mix in. Check the comments for other mixes, I might do 1-2 passes of updates. Nor can I promise that I’m going to do this every year; take it as my Chinese New Year gift to you all for the Year of the Horse.

For the haters, hey, this is nothing special. It takes no special skills, not like Chicken John’s beloved “comments of the olden days”. Whatever that means! Any one of 68,000 people at the party last year and 530,000 on the Burning Man group could have done this for you at any time.  Even one of the year-round BMOrg’s 50+ employees could’ve been tasked to do this, squeezing it into their busy schedule of inventing themes and schemes.

But, the thing is, they didn’t.

Maybe something along these lines would be a better present from the people who bank the buck$, to the Burners and DJs and Sound Camps and Art Cars who gave so much…instead we’re blessed to bask in the wisdom of the Jacked Rabbit, and pay new taxes so we can fund Larry’s international fatherhood trips and tips. These are the official ways that customers of Burning Man can  Gift the Globe with culture.  

Apologies if I’ve missed anyone (I’m sure I have) , or associated any DJs with the wrong camps, or the grammar . Please correct in the comments.

Distrikt

Brett Rubin

Darren Grayson

Elite Force

Fort Knox Five

Isaiah Martin

Kramer

Kramer (Saturday)

The Scumfrog

Syd Gris

Disorient

David HÔhme

Erika Mysti

Loomer (Burn Night)

Wolf and Lamb

Abraxas

K Dust live sunrise

Ashram Galactica

Kenny Harris

Boomrock Saints

Sundae Sushi – Camacho

Camp Feral Fauna

King Plow

Camp Pink Fuzzy Monkey

Mike Van Houten (Sunset)

Camp Questionmark

Anthony Motto

Danis of Chains and Frames

Camp Random

Lord Pyro

Camp Tetrion

Beat Freak (live)

Circles and 3′s

Apple Cat

Cosmic Giggle

Ras Gonzo

Dancetronauts

Dancetronauts Mix

Philthy Phil Temple Takeover

Darwin Fish Tank

Loomer

Decadent Oasis

Bunny Bill

Chipper

Cosinzero (Fri)

Dave Simon (Mon)

Dave Simon (Fri)

DJB Live (Fri)

DJB (Sat)

Erc

Funktor

Hijinx (Mon)

Hijinx (Fri)

J Miah

Joseph Lee

Kem (Mon)

Kem (Thu)

Kev/null

LeftCtrl

Left/Right

Lt Daaan

Lt Daaan and Lisa Rose Tag Team

Mo Corleone

Neon bunny

Shrimp

Telene

Trespass

Xane Fm Live (Fri)

Digital Apex

David Isaac

Gydyr

Dirty Beetles Boogaloo Car

iPunx

Disco Knights

Anthony Mansfield (live)

Dustfish

SaneDrac Hunter

Fractal Planet

Swami Harami Temple Burn

Giant Cock Car

Loomer

Heart Phoenix

Alistair

AM Rebel (Burn Night)

Vitamin Devo

Zita Molnar

Hookah Dome

Kanizzle

Mayan Warrior

Blond:Ish

Dharma (Wed – Pt 1)

Dharma (Wed -Pt 2)

Galen and Adnan Sharif (live)

Jason Kendig (live)

Rick Korach

Shadyvil (Part 1)

Shadyvil (Part 2)

Music Savages

Waifs and Strays

Mystical Misfits

OZan

Nexus

Feathericci

Nutz Camp

Elite Force/Simon Shackleton

Kramer (live)

Opel 

Syd Gris

Osiris

3PO’s

Dirt Junkee

Icon

Pink Love Bunny

Techmonkey Sunrise (pt 1)

Techmonkey Sunrise (pt 2)

Pink Mammoth

Adnan Sharif

Andy Caldwell

Gravity

Jonathan Will

Marques Wyatt

Rolf (Wed)

Tara Brooks

Vivi-ann (BLONDish) vs Phillip Jung (M.A.N.D.Y)

Zack Walker

Play)a(Skool

Lexel

Peter Napoli

Reverse Cowgirl Creamery

Linzi Oliver

Robot Heart

Art Department (Live)

Bedouin

Behrouz

Benjamin Alexander

Blond:ish

Bob Moses (Live)

Damian Lazarus / Rebel Heart

Damian Lazarus

Eduardo Castillo

Hoj

Lee Burridge

Pachanga Boys

Pauline Rochas

Robert Reyesp

Swamy and John Dill – Burn Night

Tennis

The Scumfrog

wAFF

Shadyvil

Dharma – Roots Underground

Dharma – Daytime Disco

Slut Garden

Pope Rajulio

Space Cowboys

Shisla

Tiki Village

Loomer – Thursday 

Loomer – Burn Night

Treehouse

Mike Gano

Scott Meyer

Skez – Black Light

Sylvain Perron

UFOm

B.B. Tschack

BELI3VER

White Ocean

Kimba

Paul Oakenfold

Tek Freaks Saturday Night Live

Psytrance

Coral

Other DJs

Ceri’s set from Jamie Jones and friends party

Cargo Bleep

Chongbomb

 - Bass Set

- Sunrise Set

Chris MacKechnie

DJ E10

Hernan Cattaneo (what! can’t believe I missed him)

Indecent Noise (Live)

Kelly Kidd

Lord Vishnu

Maxx Polishuk (vinyl set)

Michelangelo

Robbie Rickard

Tommy T (if it was Tommy Trash he would probably say that, right?)

TYMK

Yental Beats

About. Fucking. Time. Let’s hope this spreads.

From White Raver Rafting:

http://whiteraverrafting.com/new-las-vegas-club-will-ban-mainstream-records-and-lazy-artists/2014/02/01/

New Las Vegas Club Will Ban “Mainstream Records” And “Lazy Artists”

A new after hours club will be opening February 1st on the infamous Las Vegas strip and they plan to put an end to all of the generic sounds in Sin City. AFTER, the club, will be holding it down for the underground by enforcing some strict rules on the kind of sound they want their party goers dancing to from 3:30 – 8:30AM on Saturday nights (Sunday mornings if we want to get technical). Check out AFTER’s list of “DJ Rules AFTER 3AM” above. [oh shit, what do they play before 3AM then! - Ed]Important Note: WhiteRaverRafting got in touch with the Mira, the Marketing Director for AFTER Las Vegas, to find out if this photo is legitimate. She was kind enough to inform us that the “DJ Rules AFTER 3AM” rules were created by AFTER’s Managing Partner, Thom Svast. She also said, “Yes, they are real (with a sense of dry humor of course), and they will be posted in our DJ booth, starting with our grand opening Saturday February 1st.”This picture of AFTER’s DJ booth rules has been circling Twitter and has people rejoicing:

 AFTER’s grand opening is February 1st , tonight, and will offer sets from their two resident DJ’s, Black Boots and Spacebrydz. A set from Los Angelos DJ/producer Steve Prior is also on the menu. And once their patio opens in March, Brett Rubin will join the resident team. AFTER is located inside the Tommy Wind Theatre, formally known as the Utopia/Empire Ballroom. All locals and ladies will receive free entry, with a minuscule rate of $20 for non local males.

Read more: http://whiteraverrafting.com/new-las-vegas-club-will-ban-mainstream-records-and-lazy-artists/2014/02/01/#ixzz2sHzBiGmC

Welsh-born DJ Jamie Jones is part of the “underground techno” crew, including Seth Troxler and Damian Lazarus (who owns the Crosstown Rebels record label). This group have managed to become  very popular on the San Francisco dance music scene, despite playing a style of music that’s not dubstep.

Jones is playing a late night set on Sunday at Marquee nightclub in Vegas. He just gave an interview to the Las Vegas Review Journal where he singled out Burning Man as his favorite place to play in the world.

“I play some really weird house and techno, to stuff that’s upbeat and groovy and bouncing,” he says. “I’m quite a party DJ, and I’m most comfortable when the room is really vibing.”

Jones performed at Electric Daisy Carnival without compromising that underground vibe with pop songs, and it worked out great, proving yet again today’s American dance-music crowds don’t need to be spoon-fed Rihanna distortions.

Jones really likes Marquee and EDC, but he says his favorite place to DJ is Burning Man.

Burning Man?

“I’m in love with that festival,” he says. “I love the fact there’s no money there. … It really makes people think about what they have to provide.

“You can go there with absolutely nothing — nowhere to stay, no clothes on your back, and you’ll be taken care of.”

Jones likes providing free music there.

“It’s a really magical environment,” he says. “You can really push the boundaries. You can dig out all the records that you never thought anyone else would like, that are so weird and crazy or different. You can really try them out and 90 percent of the time, they really work.

“And then, you can take them to the club, and they don’t work as well.”

Wait, so Jones digs both the hippie craziness of Burning Man and the ultrasleekness of Marquee?

“I love challenging myself to all environments, whether it is a club like Marquee, which more typically revolves around table service, and Burning Man, where there’s no money involved.

“To me, it’s all people who want to have fun and listen to good music. To bring it into different environments makes this job more interesting. If you were playing the same thing every week in the same place, I don’t think I’d last too long. I get bored too easily.”

Here’s a mix of Jamie Jones playing at the BPM festival in Mexico last month. More at his Soundcloud page. You also might enjoy this mix of Rebel Rave from Exit 2011 – Jamie, Seth, and Damian.

Ceasefire have released their latest music video for “In The Dead Of Night”, which features a lot of footage shot at Burning Man. The band were happy to ignore the anti-feather crowd.

Was it authorized? It doesn’t appear to be, according to this comment from Burner Dante at the Burning Man facebook group:

“BM Media Team has already gotten a half dozen tips on this one, The video is also on YouTube, and they used playa art on their Facebook Ad. The Intellectual Property team is notified and on the case. The best punishment is for the video to get as few views as possible before it comes down, so I wouldn’t mention on local lists unless someone asks. But if someone does ask, yes Burning Man knows and preparing for action.”

Ceasefire’s manager Gabriel Lee had this to say:

I only manage the band, so wasn’t really involved too much in the production side of making the video. Our Production Company took the necessary steps to make sure all the core members who were part of the music video signed a consent letter to be shown in the video. If you are uncomfortable with being in the video, please let us know at what time you’re visible and we’ll work on editing you out. We’ll also be redesigning the promo pics so that we’re not using any of the BM artist’s artwork for promotion. We worked with many members of the BMorg to make sure everyone was okay with the making of this video. We used the video to promote the band, content, and the beauty of Burning Man. The song is available on line for free download. We want to showcase Burning Man, not make profits off of it.

So it appears that many members of BMOrg did know about this and were okay with it.

Personally, I like the video, not a fan of this style of music though. I’ll wait for the dubstep remix.

Is “cease fire” an ironic clue that Burning Man 1.0 is officially dead now – assimilated into the   global capitalist consumer culture? Movie soundtracks, glamor shoots, champagne sponsors, Taco Bell ads, Bank of (un)America logos, $150 merchandise items, corporate raiders handing out french toast, politicians making guest appearances, P.Diddy…all are welcome in the caravansery, as long as they come bearing gifts.

Coming soon…Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, live from the Temple.

Opulent Temple has been one of the most popular sound camps for a decade. They have brought some of the biggest names in electronic music out to the playa, and have showcased artists of many different styles. They took a break from Burning Man last year, which was hailed by some as a sign of the End of Days, but actually made room for a couple of new sound camps to come on the scene. This year they’re returning, refreshed and better than ever. Thanks to OT Leader Dr. Syd Gris for this interview…

P.Diddy came to Burning Man this year, and rocked it. He threatened to come back with a real n___ga sound system. We shall see…personally, I doubt it.In the mean time, here’s Rabbit, aka Dr Dre’s tea boy, aka world’s greatest rapper Eminem…I’m hoping to hear these kind of tracks at Burning Man this  year. See second video if you think you know/don’t know about rapper skillz…[dub step]

Yes…that’s dope. However, it seems lame when compared to this shizzeh. Eminem, and Dr Dre, please come to Burning Man, we want you guys not pee dido…

Of course there’s the OG OG…

…or this…