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// / dBMcast #177: string_theory ~ summer soulstice 2017 / DJ Playaduster \ \\ It’s been a couple months since our last dBMcast mix was launched in to the cosmos and this one has been slowly marinating for several moons, grooves gestating beneath the waning and waxing moon. The last mix “Balanced Light” was made under the influence of spring equinox energies, as winter gave way to spring, from darkness towards the emergent light. DJ Playaduster offers this medicine now as spring ripens in to summer, and the summer solstice is nigh. This musical exploration has a theme of stringed instruments blended with the electronic grooves & dub, the organic dancing with the synthetic, ancient & future intertwined: violin, guitar, sitar, cello, oud, fingers dancing on strings...

: NOCTURNAL RESEARCH ~ Bass Medicine 6 mixed by DJ Playaduster for Destination Burning Man.com and Sacred Bass.org in eager anticipation of the Oregon Eclipse gathering /// the journey: Erothyme "Parting the Horizon" + Yellowstone thunderstorm & birds / Spoken Bird "Nocturnal Research" (CharlestheFirst Remix) / ill.gates "Spread Ego"/ Ooah "Lelly" / PANTyRAID "Beba" / Duffrey "Split Reality" feat 2birds / CloZee "Harmony" / Thriftworks "Off the Hill > Vanilla Pea Milker" / TPA "Punjab Shuffle" / Hedflux "Sacralicious" / TPA "Midnight Radio" / emancipator ensemble "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough" /  Mr. Moo "Krunk Temple" (debut! exclusive!) / Dirtwire "Mueve" / Tor "Two Suns" (CloZee remix) / Tor "Days Gone" (emancipator remix) / Bonobo "Samurai" / EurythmY "Innen > Shako" / AtYyA "Fortress Of Light" (Yaima Remix) /// the low-end vibrations coming off of these songs we're hard to get a handle on, hard to wrangle and get consistent with each other, so some tunes clip, warp, get fuzzy...hang in there and learn to appreciate life's imperfections :) subscribe to the dBMcast iTunes feed at apple.co/196sHNZ grateful for donations: bit.ly/1akNba2

dBMcast#179: Mind Shadows: Bass Medicine 7 curated+mixed by DJ Playaduster / Fall Equinox 2017 a few of our favorite (mostly) downtempo tracks from the summer, inspired by lurking in a festival forest at night while bass reverberates through the woods. Dig these choice tracks and low-end dubby flow: Frameworks "Komorebi" / EurythmY "Inward Gazing" / charlesthefirst "Katana" / charlesthefirst "The Mist" w/ CloZee / Desert Dwellers "Saraswati's Twerkaba" (CloZee & LuSiD Remix) / AtYyA "Oceanic" (Desert Dwellers Remix) / Kendrick Lamar "DNA" (Dimond Saints remix) / AtYyA "Prioprioception" (Living Light Remix) / Goopsteppa "Midnight > Extractions" / Frameworks "Nami" / Barbatuques "Baiana" (CloZee Remix) / RJD2 "Ghostwriter" (CloZee remix) / Duffrey "Cirrocumulus" / Frameworks "Harvey Leonords" / emancipator "Ghost Pong" / charlesthefirst "Opia" / EurythmY "Release to Elsewhere" / goopsteppa "Through the Dark > Habibou" (mantras by Yungchen Lhamo) / charlesthefirst "Falling Leaves" / Erothyme "May the Starlght Guide You Home > Lightpost Angel" \\ grateful for donations / energy exchanges: www.bit.ly/1akNba2 subscribe to the dBMcast iTunes feed at www.apple.co/196sHNZ . . . www.destinationburningman.com www.facebook.com/destinationBM
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BMcast#180!! BADGERUP : Bass Medicine 8
Here’s a nutritious autumnal bass tonic made up of the freshest musical ingredients we could forage up. Stout yet nimble, weird but honest, an elixir fir for a bass badger….drink deep, headphones + loud volume a must for full-spectrum enjoymentz, tracks // Eurythmy "Take What's Mine" / Tipper "Lattice" / SaQi "Chashm e" SaQi Ft. Fanna Fi Allah /TPA "Sri Gurvastakam Feat. Kirtaniyas" (Anchor Hill remix) / AtYya "Drippin" (Mbanza remix”) / AtYya "Above the Clouds" (Spirit Traveler remix) / Kalya Scintilla + Whitebear "Sipapu" / Hedflux "Sananga Seranade" / CloZee "Flow Like Water" / emancipator "Daffodil Pickles > Mako" / Giyo "Deep Trouble" / TPA "Float With Me" / CharlestheFirst "Work While You Talk” / Eurythmy "Innen" / CloZee "Secret Place" (Antandra Remix) / Kalya Scintilla "Dragon Tree" / Tor "Cymbol" (Little People remix) / emancipator "Time for Space" \\ subscribe to the dBMcast iTunes feed at apple.co/196sHNZ grateful for donations: bit.ly/1akNba2

Looking back at the musical highlights of Summer 2017 with my Get Found family + the SynchroniciTEA House Project crew at festivals across the Pacific Northwest, this mix invokes the sights, sounds, smells and sense of communal wonderment and soulful inspiration of another epic ride round the sun. Speaking of the sun, our highlight of the year was most definitely the moment the moon’s shadow slipped in front of the sun as we gathered in a field in eastern Oregon with 60,000+ other souls to witness the total eclipse at the Symbiosis Gathering. TOTALITY, truly a mind-blowing, heart-orienting, life-activating moment that we will never, ever forget. This bass chakra therapy journey is dedicated to everyone who got to share in that experience, and to the musicians in this mix who guide and inspire ~ Tipper "Dreamsters VIP" / Edamame "Passim" (feat. emancipator) / Four Tet "Alap > Lush" / Axel Thesleff "Bad Karma" + Sigur Ros / Deya Dova "Myth of the Cave" (Drumspyder remix) / Subaqueous "Invoco (ft. Marya Stark and Boaz Drum) / Kiasmos "Blurred (Bonobo Remix) / emancipator "Goodness" / Charlesthefirst "The Prophet" / Goopsteppa "Heavyweight" ft. Ill Chill / Sol Rising "The Journey" / Nico Luminous "Flying Colors" / CloZee "Foundation" / Elephant Revival "Raven Song" (Ponder & Pathway remix) / Aether "Watching You Fake a Smile" / Four Tet "Planet" / Poranguí "Sueños de la Selva" (Yaima remix) / Poranguí "Sueños de la Selva" (AtYyA remix) / Random Rab & Lapa "39 Circles" (CloZee remix) / Eurythmy "Let It Happen" subscribe to the dBMcast iTunes feed at apple.co/196sHNZ /// grateful for donations: bit.ly/1akNba2

dBMcast #181: UNDULATIONS: Bass Medicine X {the final dosage!} A playful exploration of modern bass-medicine music, selected and woven together in to a undulating journey by the one & only DJ Playaduster and his wingnut-sidekick Kaya Rainface ~ from deep dub to global grooves to dreamy downtempo to psychedelic explorations of low-end frequencies. The Bass Badger emerges from his deep, dark winter den, blinking in the spring sunshine, hearing new songs and smelling new scents.... tracks: CloZinger "Forest Echo > Smoke Signals > Light Knight" / goopsteppa "Wonders > Prophet" (ft. Storm Boi) / Shigeto "Pulse" / Acid Pauli "Amadou" / Four Tet "Planet" / Laurence Guy "Saw You For The First Time" / Adèle & Zalem "Ritual" (SOOHAN Remix) / SOOHAN "Missy Tribute" / SaQi "Puja" Ft. Aima (House remix) / emancipator "Abracadabra" / Beatfarmer "Jedi Shake" / Random Rab "Euclid" (Forever & Ever Remix) / SaQi "Whirlwind Chimes" / SaQi "The Dark Rift" / Chynna "The Conversation" (CharlestheFirst Remix) / AtYya "Undulations" \\\ invocation by Robert Sund + Get Found field notes NYE Seattle + Carl Spackler's Dalai Lama teaching

Lunar Drift : SOULstice Bass Transmission

Happy Fall Equinox! It’s been three months since we shared our last mix-journey with you on the Summer Soulstice, and so it’s fitting that we’re ready withthe next installment here at the Fall Equinox. I’m so grateful for the summer and the way it has unfolded — all the friends, music, adventures, camping, swimming, festivals, road trips, moonlight & starshine — and I’m so happy to be welcoming in Autumn, the slower rhythms and the turn within. For the transition we’re all currently, here’s a mixtape of favorite tracks and musicians from the past several months, blended together just for YOU! This one’s just fo' fun, so enjoy friends, met & unmet. I appreciate your comments and feedback, to know who you are, where you are and how the mix is landing. xoxo tracklist // VOLO "Mystic" / Al Green "Happiness" (CloZinger remix) / Jon Kennedy "Modus Operandi" / Mystral "Open Source" / ?? "Bag of Money" / Nico Luminous "Puddle Town" / Soohan "Hollywood Swingin'" / Rocknrolla Soundsystem "Back to Cali" / Bill Withers "Who Is He (and What Is He To You)" (Rafael Cancian Re-Edit) / The Polish "Dark Wizardry" / DJ Koze "Scratch This > Jesus" / Manic Focus "Stochastic Resonance" (emancipator remix) / Random Rab ft. Lapa "39 Circles" (CloZee remix) / Aretha Franklin "Chain of Fools" (Flabaire Remix) / Goopsteppa "Midnight" (ATYya remix) / Drumspyder "Hidden Temple" / El Buho "Pauraque" / The Scumfrog "Orche Strada" / Lapa "Empty Space" / Jon Hopkins "Echo Dissolve" \\ . . Artwork by Hannah Yata: hannahyata.com. we're grateful for donations to keep the spacestation in orbit: www.bit.ly/1akNba2 / subscribe to the dBMcast iTunes feed at www.apple.co/196sHNZ. www.facebook.com/destinationBM

A gentle ambient space journey facilitated by DJs Playaduster & Kaya Rainface, anchored by the mystical string textures of The Earth Harp but with plenty of intergalactic bass transmissions from distant galaxies. Includes brand new tracks from Nosaj Thing, Emancipator and Bonobo. Headphones highly recommended!
   Earth Harp "Shackled" + Ursprung "Ohne Worte > Chruezegg" Earth Harp + The Human Experience "Into the Mothership" The Human Experience "The Bull Elk" (live) Tor "Aperture" Nicolas Jaar "Why Didn't You Save Me > Don't Break My Love" Eskmo "I Just Want" To Rococo Rot "He Loves Me" (Four Tet Remix) Burial + Four Tet "Nova" Four Tet "Lion" (Jamie xx remix) Andy Stott "Luxury Problems" Shackleton "Dipping" Nosaj Thing "Distance > Eclipse" Pantha Du Prince "Photon" ChrisB + JOBOT "Sevens on the Outside" Shipwrek "End Transmission" Earth Harp + The Human Experience "Mothership" + Andy Stott "Leaving" Emancipator "Minor  Cause > The Longest Night of the Year" Bonobo "Cirrus"

The music of Australian producer/audio alchemist Kalya Scintilla, mixed and refractalized by DJ Kaya Rainface. Tracks are from the Merkaba Music release "Kalya Scintilla Remixed" and Kalya Scintilla's remixes of Nina Simone, Desert Dwellers and Joni Mitchell. High-quality Sacred Bass to inspire and inform our tribes. www.destinationburningman.com destinationburningman@gmail.com

Here's one more dBMcast for 2012 and the first to actually feature some of the soundstick recordings captured at Burning Man 2012. dBMcast #117 features Moontroll of Get Found reporting from the road to Gerlach, and from the exciting moment when one's vehicles leaves pavement and hits the playa, and from the line to get in to the city when a whiteout dust storm stopped all movement. Moontroll is geared towards that once-a-year passage through the Portal to the other side, and his excitement is palpable. Ride shotgun with him as he approaches the Threshold to another world of magic and mystery, a journey with an undulating soundtrack of forward-leaning bass music that touches on electroboogie, dub step, ambient, world beat, breaks and other styles. As this mix is about thresholds, portals, journeys and crossings, you'll also hear contributions from Terrence McKenna speaking on UFOs and spirit molecules and a science report on recent NASA searches for elusive portals that spontaneously open and close in the Earth's magnetosphere. Track list: Break Science "Forest of Illumination" Elliott Lipp "The Sunset" Michael Menert "Take All You Want" Kaminanda "The Portal" Sugarpill "Bring It Back" eDIT "Mildew" Rena Jones "Open Me Slowly" Beats Antique "Hero" Nicholas Jaar "Colomb" DJ/rupture "Save from the Flames All That Yet Remains" Pantha du Prince "Stick To My Side" (Four Tet remix) Grizmatik "Digital Liberation in Mad Freedom" GRiZ + Big Gigantic "Power" Minnesota "Yoga Pants" Nico Luminous "808s & Earthquakes > Puddle Town" Andreilien "Ganja Mashup" EPROM "Honey Badger" Michael Menert & Break Science "Electric Touch" The Polish Ambassador "Live Inside a Dream > Portal Hopping" Rena Jones "The Passing Storm" destinationburningman.com destinationburningman@gmail.com

dBMcast #116: Beautiful World Mixed by Kaya Rainface, November 2012 (320 kbps) Music by The Polish Ambassador * Stephan Jacobs * Gladkill * Emancipator * Sugarpill * Michael Meneirt * SBTRKT * Paper Diamond * Russ Liquid * Andreilien * JoBOT * Bassnectar. "Its a beautiful world we're livin' in…" With this simple phrase repeated over and over like a mantra on the title track from Stephan Jacob's new album, DJ Kaya Rainface heard the possibility of a new mix celebrating the ephemeral glory of being alive on Planet Earth here at the end of the Mayan calendar. "What happens after 12/21/12? Nobody knows! Will our world look different the next morning? Or will the changes all take place inside of us?" Rainface mused in a recent conversation over steamy oolong tea. "Whatever goes down, 12/21/12 gives provides all of us a centering of attention, a cosmic quickening, and a chance to refocus our intention. I felt the call to create a mix that celebrated how fortunate we all are to be here, in this place, at this time. Beautiful world for sure!" Elements that hold this musical journey together include 1.) heavy participation from the Headtron crew in California, including Sugarpill, Gladkill, Andreilien, Stephan Jacobs, Russ Liquid and JoBOT, 2.) an exploration of tracks that use the human voice in interesting ways: looping, mutating, glitching out, bending and folding and chopping singers' voices until they are barely recognizable as human, becoming instruments instead, disembodied androids offering fractured vespers, and 3.) an interconnected mosaic of midtempo tracks that marry intergalactic space travel, melodic beauty and deep, nutrient-rich bass whompage. The Beautiful World Choir includes voices from Sade, Jay-Z, Yukimi Nagano, Linval Thompson and the glorious wispy vocals of Thao Nguyen on Emancipator's track "When I Go," which is presented here in a mashup of the original with the Michael Menert remix. "The Headtron tribe is putting out some of the most interesting bass music happening today. They are way out there on the leading edge of electronic music, creating pretty, emotional music that also slays you with bass" Rainface mused, "I love how they are each distinct artists yet sharing a common aesthetic in making music. Putting them together in a mix made it really easy for me to keep the flow moving forward. It developed very organically. The mix knew what it wanted to be and I just helped facilitate its manifestation!"

An old school outing of jazz-funk, electrobeats, triphop, turntablism, soul and downtempo grooves from DJs Playaduster and Fundi. Featuring Mr. Scruff, Bonobo, St. Germain, Quantic, DJ Logic, Q-Tip, Thievery Corporation, Boozoo Bajou, Monta at Odds, Medeski Martin & Wood, Jurassic 5, Jamie Woon, Jon Kennedy and Zero 7. destinationburningman.com podcastcafe.org feedback: destinationburningman@gmail.com or djfundi@podcastcafe.org

dBMcast #114: Lost Track of Time (320 kbps) Mixed by DJ Playaduster October 2012 More often than not, DJ Playaduster's dBMcasts choose a musical genre and explore the various electronic permutations of that vibe over an hour-and-a-half. In this new mix, the genres are blended, one flowing in to the next, an undulating river of blending sounds and spirits. This is a sonic exploration that goes off the map, a journey through progressive grooves and forward-leaning beats: Bass Chakra Therapy alongside deep house, Gypsy whomp vs. ambient spacestep, fractured glitchhop rubbing up against pop music remixes. Playaduster was guided by intuition on this excursion and the results are exquisitely interesting, both for a headphones chill-out session or a dance floor adventure. www.destinationburningman.com destinationburningman@gmail.com

Well, that was a BIG FUN TIME! Yes yes yes Burning Man 2012 served us right and now we're back home in the Default World, dusting off, processing all the brilliant stimuli we saw tasted heard and felt, and trying to bring the best of it all back to our lives and relationships and work here at our "other home." I was extremely pleased with the amount of art on the playa this year -- major installations, interactive light and sound contraptions, quiet remote pieces in Deep Playa -- and boogied my ass off most nights at dance parties both enormously over-the-top and tiny family-style. I received a walloping whomping dose of Bass Chakra Therapy from Fractal Nation, Robot Heart, False Prophet, Buddha Lounge, Bass Camp & others, and lately have been seeking mellower sounds that act as a healing balm to blown-out mind and soul. This new mix is mostly downtempo, smooth, bubbling, spacey, warm and user-friendly. I am inspired by the sounds I heard at various lounge/chill parties where the music was soothing yet psychedelic, low-key but intriguing, somehow existing both in the background and foreground at the same time. Interdimensional Lounge Music features tunes by Sugarpill * The Polish Ambassador * Kalya Scintilla * Tipper * Bonobo * Pretty Lights * Nicholas Jaar * The xx * Emancipator * Thriftworks * Andreilien * & Gladkill.