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El Chapo vs Bowie
Posted: January 18, 2016 in 2016, drug war, History, Music, News, QuotesTags: Bowie, Cher, David Bowie, El Chapo, Sean Penn, Superman
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A Good Few Months of Music
Posted: November 16, 2015 in 2015, MusicTags: Aphex Twin, Floating Points, Luke Vibert, New Order, Rustie
New Order – Music Complete
Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008
Luke Vibert – Bizarster
Floating Points – Elaenia
Rustie – EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE
2014 Album of the Year: Kim Dotcom
Posted: December 30, 2014 in 2014, Music, SatireTags: 2014 Album of the Year, Kim Dotcom
Trance Returns to the Burn!
Posted: July 16, 2014 in 2014, BurningMan, MusicTags: Above and Beyond, Burning Man 2014, Hernan Cattaneo, Opulent Temple, Paul Oakenfold, Progressive, Progressive House, Trance, White Ocean Camp
Hat Tip to Burners.me:
Opulent Temple, nee White Ocean announced a massive trance and progressive line up for Burning Man 2014 – Cargo Trance.
After year of trance and progressive being pushed to the sidelines in favor of undance-alicious Dubstep and other nonsense, its back!
Check out this line up:
Juno Reactor blows.
However…
Hernan Catteneo/Nick Warren late night to dawn tag team set? Yes Sir!
And that Wednesday night set looks pretty fantastic.
Check out Cattaneo’s epic set from last year at the Burn:
Daft Punk to play Burning Man 2013?
Posted: July 31, 2013 in 2013, Bumblepuss, BurningMan, Music, NectarVillage, SatireTags: Bassnectar, Burning Man, Burning Man 2013, BurningMan, Cargo Cult, coachella, Daft Punk, department of mutant vehicles, french electronic duo, Monaco Grand Prix, steambath project, Vogue
Gerlach, NV (CB) – While you can be certain you’ll be hearing ‘Get Lucky’ and the golden throated voice of Giorgio Morodor all over the playa this year, will the French electronic duo actually perform at Burning Man for the first time since 2002?
Young Daft Punk perform at Opulent Temple in 2002.
The answer is almost certainly a qualified ‘wee’. After having passed on the opportunity to expand their customer base at Burning Man 2011, Consumption Blog believes Daft Punk has been slowly building themselves up to a massive tour and are actively sending out unmistakeable signs Burning Man is their launching pad.
Behold the following FACTS:
- The Daft Brothers chose not to perform at Coachella, instead staying backstage and watching the opiated masses swoon over their ad. Performers at Coachella are required to sign an exclusivity contract saying they will not play at other hot festivals in the desert. By not playing Coachella, Daft Punk left the door wide open to playing Burning Man. BassNectar, not so much.
Daft Punk Tackle Monaco
- Daft Punk sponsored an art car at the Monaco Grand Prix. The DMV just raised the speed limit to 205mph and added a wicked set of double S turns in deep playa beyond the Temple. Coincidence?
The speed limit is 205 mph right?
- The mini-documentaries Daft Punk created in the lead up to the release of ‘Random Access Memories’ featured only males geeking out about technical musical minutiae and not remembering the night before.
Giorgio doing his best Larry Harvey impersonation, perhaps just a bit too happy…
- In an interview with Vogue in which they posed with a sparkle pony modeling playafied hair, Guy Monte Cristo stated their undying love of steambaths and lavender. “Lavender after a nice steambath with a bunch of naked hippies increases your Alpha rays which have been proven to increase play and creativity.” “Guy is correct,” interjected Tommy Bangin’ Bass . “We hit the steambath every chance we got while making this album and hope to be doing so again real soon.”
Two Punks and a Sparkle Pony Walk into a bar…
So there you have it fellow Burners and jaded ravers. That’s as close to a ‘yes’ as you are ever going to get from the soundtrack challenged French Electronic Duo of Some Repute. So expect to see Daft Punk performing at Burning Man this year. Perhaps not at one of the large sound camps already overbooked with dub step acts of dubious quality but perhaps wherever you might find a combination of lavender and a wood burning Finnish designed steambath.
Live Blogging Symbiosis 7: James Blake Set List
Posted: May 20, 2012 in 2012, Music, Satire, SymbiosisTags: James Blake, Pyramid Lake, Symbiosis 2012, Symbiosis Gathering
Pyramid Lake, NV (CN) -Symbiosis Gathering 2012 Final Night.
I got James Blake’s set list!
After all the solar eclipses, chemtrails and auto tune HAARP machine dutep antagonism James threw down a great set!
Live Blogging Symbiosis 5: Pre-Eclipse and Russell Liquid
Posted: May 20, 2012 in 2012, Music, SymbiosisTags: russ liquid, solar eclipse 2012, Symbiosis 2012, Symbiosis Gathering
Pyramid Lake, NV (CN) – Stay tuned for live updates of the solar eclipse from Symbiosis Gathering right here. In the meantime off to enjoy a great brassy bass set from Russell Liquid…
Check out Russ Liquid on Soundcloud
And twitter @russliquid
Live Blogging Symbiosis 3: James Blake Arrives, Photek Leaves
Posted: May 19, 2012 in 2012, Music, Satire, SymbiosisTags: Auto-tune, DC-3, Eclipse, James Blake, Lunar Eclipse, NV, Photek, Pyramid Lake, RAF, Symbiosis Gathering
Pyramid Lake, NV (CN) – Arriving a day ahead of his career critical Eclipse set at Symbiosis Festival James Blake landed at the Naval Air Station a few miles away in Fallon, NV. Accorded the preferential treatment all British Pop Stars receive from Her Majesties Royal Air Force, Blake was flown from Leuchars Airforce base in the UK to Nevada on a RAF DC-3.
James Blake, his entourage and the worlds largest Auto-tune machine arrive at NAS Fallon 1700 hours 19th May, 2012.
After landing Star and Stripes asked Blake if he had any special plans for the Lunar Eclipse set.
“Americans ruined dubstep. They are probably ruining it right now at Pyramid Lake.” The military and music paper of record asked what he is going to do different. “Me and the moon and the sun are going to take it back,” said James elliptically. “Me, the moon, the sun, and my big auto-tune machine. Just wait!”
James Blake’s British Military I.D.
In other news: After a massive Friday earlier am wham bang boom set Photek left Symbiosis in stunning fashion:
Photek Blasts Off To Next Gig After Massive Pyramid Eclipse Set
Symbiosis Gathering Music Preview 05: Photek
Posted: May 9, 2012 in 2012, Music, Reviews, Satire, SymbiosisTags: Bulgarian Folk, David Bowie, dubsmart, Evanescence, Glitch Mob, James Blake, Photek, Pinch, Roni Size, Symbiosis 2012, Symbiosis Gathering, tribal trendsetters
Pyramid Lake, NV (CN) – Photek has everything going for him. Not only is he from England, he resides in Los Angeles! He has a handsome, gaunt, serious face best captured in black and white.
Photek was one of the pioneers of drum and bass; his first release coming out in 1994. A master producer, he’s done remixes of everyone from Pinch to David Bowie to Roni Size to, yes, Evanescence. You’ll find movie soundtracks and a Grammy nomination in his CV. And yet Photek isn’t a headliner; he is in the same milieu as the Venice Beach Dub Kirtanistanis and some dude from Glitch Mob.
Photek represents the tension more mainstream electronic acts have encountering the Burner/New Age festival scene. He wants to be there, playing to all these dubsmart tribal trendsetters. If only he could just translate Photek into sanskrit, incorporate some samples of Bulgarian folk music into his set and jingle when he walked he’d be top of the bill.
For all that Symbiosis has it right.
Photek will probably sell as many tickets and bring as much enthusiasm to the dusty dance floor as can be expected of a DJ listed 21st on the bill. You wonder if flavor of the month James Blake ain’t exactly selling Symbiosis tickets like honey from a telephone either.
Part of this is Photek’s fault. He music veers to the minimal, icy matte steel halls of some dystopian Japanese sci-fi flick.
Japanese Sci Fi or 90s DnB?
But give Photek his due – his well crafted tunes play complex, deep and like Burial get under your skin.
If you still associate Photek with 90s DnB hits like Rings Around Saturn (still an awesome track), listen to some of his new tunes like Fountainhead and go check him out at Symbiosis, you may just have your sonic socks blown off.
Twitter: @photek
photek.fm
Symbiosis Gathering Music Preview 04: Paul vs Paul
Posted: May 7, 2012 in 2012, Music, Politics, Satire, SymbiosisTags: Abelton, Andy Gibbs, Bloomberg News, Goldie, Jeff Mills, Linstrom, Mauro Picotto, Mises Human Action, Paul Krugman, Photek, Prins Thomas, Ron Paul, Symbiosis 2012, Symbiosis Gathering
Pyramid Lake, NV (CN) – In perhaps the most eclectic musical act at Symbiosis this year is ‘Paul vs Paul’. A DJ smackdown of styles that could not contrast more without the magnetic poles reversing. Like a set featuring Photek vs Goldie – this could be massive so long as no MCs are involved. It’s recommended the audience listen to this set on a heavy dose of 2C-E seated on the ground while attempting to levitate a copy of Mises ‘Human Action’.
Ron Paul – A mechanic on the decks Paul only spins vinyl; goes heavy on the 808s and loves that soft purrrrrr analog equipment provides. “You have to use gold connector banana plugs or it just doesn’t sound right,” says Paul. You’ll never see DJ Paul peeking over a laptop during a live set. He tends to spin on the edge of mainstream electronic music. At a live Ron Paul set you’ll likely hear a strange combination of uncomfortable Acid House, Byzantine Belgium 2-Step and Jeff Mills fueled rabbit quick Detroit House ending in mid-90s symphonic, wet DnB reminiscent of Future Loop Foundation. Somehow he manages to hold it together in a dialectical techno whole.
Paul Krugman – Eschews vinyl in favor of knob twisting. “This dj runs Abelton live on a Macbook Pro outputting to an Apoge emsemble soundcard with 4 stereo outs from the ensemble to a Pioneer DJM-800 set up,” said DJ Krugman about himself. “Recently I’ve employed a 16×16 Monome controller and touch screen Lemur thrown in for extra crowd stimulus.”
Krugman revels in bringing the masses through the hills and valleys of symphonic trance in the style of early Italian Mauro Picotto trance and DJ’s with ‘van’ in their name. Paul also likes to throw in old school sounds from 70s disco with overtones of Andy Gibbs morphed into the modern Nordic welfare state space disco of Prins Thomas & Lindstrøm.
The less groovy Bloomberg Music recently held a preview of what you can expect:
For their Symbiosis performance Ron Paul has stated he will grow a beard and make amends with Julio Iglesias. For his part Paul Krugman said he will be studying Roman economic policy and attempting to communicate with the spirit of his last past life as a Long Island fifties house wife hooked on sherry, black beauties and ironing pillowcases.
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