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White Morning Embrace
Tatiana Mikhailova has posted this beautiful moment from the burn. After burn of Embrace riding my bike in a middle of the desert I saw White Baby Grand Piano build by the Genius every note light up as...
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Diplo-Matic Situation Escalates
deephouseamsterdam picked up the story about booing at Robot Heart, saying: Being a multi-million dollar grossing DJ doesn’t necessarily mean that you will get the same amount of adoration everywhere...
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San Francisco Parties Into The Next Weekend
Burning Man’s official Decompression is not until October 12, but for those who still have the beats of the Playa ringing in their ears and wish they were back there, there’s plenty of good stuff...
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2014 Music
Here’s a selection of what has been released so far. Want more? JedenTagEinSet has compiled a Soundcloud playlist of 58 Burning Man 2014 mixes The Scumfrog – Driving to Burning Man Syd Gris –...
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Sander van Doorn Shoots Promo Vid at BM
Great video. I guess this is our new future. Anyone can use Burning Man footage to promote themselves, their web sites, their DJing, Google glass, whatever. Why not? Filed under: Music Tagged: 2014,...
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Behind The Scenes At A Sound Camp
MC2 Audio has a story about what goes into the sound at Ooligan Alley. It’s heavy on technical details, which will be interesting to some readers. A team from the UK brought out a serious system,...
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Seth Troxler Speaks Out On Robot Heart Incident
image: Rolling Stone Seth Troxler is about to tour Australia, and he’s given an interview to Henry Johnstone at Pulse Radio. When asked about the infamous Robot Heart incident, he pulls no punches:...
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See The Music
The best thing about science is that to the uninitiated, it can look like magic Nigel Stanford from my home town of Wellington, New Zealand, presents Cymatics. It’s spectacular. thank you :) it was a...
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2014 World’s Top 10 DJs
Coming to us thanks to Approach Mag, is an article about the top earners in the EDM world. They are Calvin Harris $66m David Guetta $30m Avicii $28m Tiesto $28m Steve Aoki $23m Afrojack $22m Zedd $21m...
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Remember When DJing Used To Mean Something?
David Guetta is one of the world’s most popular DJs. He ranked # 7 last year in MixMag’s Top 100 DJ poll (down from 2 the year before). He’s #2 after Calvin Harris in Forbes list of top earning DJs,...
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Strike 2 in EDM War: Opulent Temple Denied Placement for 2015 [Updates]
When news came out that Dancetronauts had been banned for at least a year for being Too Loud For Burning Man, we wondered if there might be more to the story. Was this part of a bigger pushback to...
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Burning Man Kicks Off Outside Lands Hackathon
Last weekend as part of the build up to the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, they threw a Hackathon at Weebly’s playful office in the Financial District. The idea was...
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2015 Music Lineups
Did you download the free Rockstar Librarian Music Guide? This year, it seems a little light – listings from major camps like White Ocean and Robot Heart are not there at all. If you were...
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Daft Punk – Back Once Again
Image: Timothy Stoner | Facebook Just when you thought that the horse was dead and had been flogged beyond a bare semblance of a carcass…we get Daft Punk. At the trash fence. Burning Man 2015. Earlier...
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The Man Behind The Music
Image: IRDeep via Spin Spin magazine has an interview with Opulent Temple founder Syd Gris. Some highlights: The organizers behind Burning Man deny any affiliations of being a “music festival,” but,...
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Your Own Personal Burning Man Jesus
The latest Burning Man music video is out, from ThE DuCk. If you like the song you’ll probably like the video, I like the song, YMMV… Filed under: Music
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Burners Get Bohemian for New Years
Got your New Years plans locked in? It looks like New Bohemia NYE at the Armory is where Bay Area Burners will be gathering to see in 2016. Production crews Opel & Vau de Vire are bringing out a...
View ArticleRocking Robots
Artist Nigel Stanford sent us this unique take on industrial music. It’s not something you see every day…but don’t expect to see this band on the Playa any time soon
View ArticleHot Enough to Ride, Sparkle Pony?
From the Wheel of Life Fortune Wheel at Burning Man 2013: Cargo Cult.
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Diplo and Skrillex Booed Off the Decks at Robot Heart [Updates]
Jack U got jacked. It seems the Burner ear is slightly more discerning than “Turn down for what” PulseRadio breaks it down: ...One [story] that has just come our way involves Seth Troxler, Skrillex and...
View ArticleLooking For A Certified Freak
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...
View ArticleOakey-Eyed View of Burning Man [Update]
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 …...
View ArticleLee Burridge Robot Heart Sunrise Set
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: Burridge does a...
View ArticleThey Ride Roughshod
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...
View ArticlePssst, Hey Kid. . . the First One’s Free
by Whatsblem the Pro 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...
View ArticleLuminescent Grand Launched at Cargo Cult 2013
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...
View ArticleMusic of Cargo Cult Camp Compendium [Updates]
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 …...
View ArticleBye, Bye USB Stick? Vegas Club bans DJs from playing Pre-Mixed sets, Dubstep,...
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...
View ArticleJamie Jones Loves Playing at Burning Man
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...
View ArticleInvasion of the Boy Bands
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...
View Article“Paris Hilton Tag Teaming the Avici Dwarfs”– OT Returns
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...
View ArticleSatan – Why Be a King, When You Can Be a God?
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...
View ArticleHow Much Does It Cost To Book Your Favorite DJs? [Updated]
At Burning Man, the music is free. That’s because someone else paid to gift that to you. What would it cost to get these DJs to your party normally? The answers are astonishing, even if DJs are...
View Article“Dance Festivals Are The Best And Worst Places In The World”– Seth Troxler
DJ Seth Troxler has spoken to VICE about what he really thinks of festivals, and he’s not pulling any punches. A good read, containing some real wisdom about today’s “EDM Scene”. Seth sees Burning Man...
View ArticleRave of Thrones
Groan all you like hippies, rave is reigning supreme. This is going to be the summer of EDM. To help you prepare for the Doof Onslaught, Ishkur has created this interactive guide to musical sub-genres....
View ArticleOpulent Temple’s New DJ Booth
After a break last year, Opulent Temple are returning to the Playa in 2014. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help them get a new DJ booth. They’ve raised about half of the money they need,...
View ArticleVictory for Ravers! White Ocean Lineup Announced
Oakey’s back to the burn! One of my favorite DJs ever, especially since I spied him rocking away on the dance floor as a civilian to someone else’s set at the Earthcore stage at Melbourne’s St Kilda...
View ArticleDeep Space Embrace
One of the big events at Caravansary is going to happen at Embrace, an 80-foot high statue of two figures embracing. Dancetronauts are organizing “Deep Space Embrace”, which promises to be one of the...
View ArticlePlaya Pirate Radio List
Thanks to Sick Dog from Ohm Kamp, a new camp this year at 10 & D, for this unofficial list of unofficial stations. There are 30 on the dial so far. If you have any more, please comment. The...
View ArticleFlower Crowns Light Before Kanye Flop
Beyonce and Jay-Z have been in town, chilling at the St Regis in the Presidential Suite. Definitely a Burner friendly hotel, for those who can afford it – $30,000 per night for J, B, and their child...
View ArticleHelp Fuel the Dancetronauts
Dancetronauts are running an Indiegogo campaign to help them purchase the fuel and propane needed to bring the popular Strip Ship out to the Playa. There are 11 days left to go in the campaign, and...
View Article2014 Music Lineups [Updates]
Some information is coming out about the musical talent that will be gifted to you for free by generous Burners this year. Keep checking this page because we will update it. If you have more...
View ArticleAmazing Acoustic Project
Subatomica have created a track using only sounds recorded in Black Rock City. Listen at Soundcloud. Almost one year ago to date, Joshua and I were running around the playa with a recorder capturing...
View Article2014 Music Guide Released
A big thanks to Rockstar Librarian for putting this guide together once again. This year’s guide contains 34 pages of music listings. Download here – or see rockstarlibrarian.com for other print formats.
View ArticleCaravansary Street
A hippy tune for you to get in the mood for Caravansary. Kumbayah bitches! Thanks to Burner Mari for sharing this.
View ArticleInterview with Paul Oakenfold
The Reno Gazette Journal has interviewed mega-DJ Paul Oakenfold, whose White Ocean camp boasts an incredible lineup of world class talent. Oakey has been to Burning Man 9 times, and he’s been looking...
View Article2014 Burning Man: The Big Tracks
Mixmag has asked some of the DJs playing this year for their Burning Man playlist. Some great tracks here, including remixes of some old classics. Look out for these on the Playa, or download them now...
View ArticleFTP: Now That’s What I Call A Burn
Hope Sergei and Larry and Eric and all the rest of the Googlers and Nooglers are having a spiffing time out on the Playa. For everyone else, there’s this:
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