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...
View ArticleDiplo-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...
View ArticleSan 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...
View Article2014 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 –...
View ArticleSander 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,...
View ArticleBehind 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,...
View ArticleSeth 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:...
View ArticleSee 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...
View Article2014 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...
View ArticleRemember 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,...
View ArticleRockStar Librarian – Going Strong For Ten Years
Now this is an art project I can get behind. https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/1933397/video-553634-h264_high.mp4 Rockstar Librarian has been publishing a guide to the music of Burning...
View ArticleStrike 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...
View ArticleBurning 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...
View ArticleThe Techno Ghetto – the History of Dance Music at Burning Man
Recent announcements from the Org make it seem like Burning Man is trying to deal with Electronic Dance Music like it’s a new problem. In fact, this is not the case. Burning Man has been taking place...
View Article2015 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...
View ArticleDaft 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleYour 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
View ArticleBurners 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
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