Media at Black Rock City
DJs we heard at Burning Man whose names I know:
Most of them are dubstep.
Beats Antique
Mimosa
Bassnectar (twice)
Freq Nasty
Ana Sia (twice)
Tipper (actually only Adam and Trent saw him)
Most of the electronic music at Burning Man is really bad, though. Really really bad. A camp near us played awful awful trance at earsplitting volumes day and night until several people complained (there are designated areas for loud sound camps; we were not near them) and they finally cut it out on like Friday (Adam is convinced that one of the reasons they stopped is that they were Israeli, and when he went to talk to them he said "Shabbat Shalom" which partially won them over; plus it was just after sunset on Friday). Most of the big sound camps played boring house music. Almost all the art cars play really loud music, and most of it is bad techno and trance. We only heard jungle a couple times. I guess the jungle/drum'n'bass scene is pretty dead. Too bad. I got tired of dubstep by the end of the week because it was the only other good thing other than this one camp we found on Tuesday afternoon which was playing some good tech house.
The overwhelming majority of music at Burning Man is electronic, although there's always something analog happening at Center Camp, and a lot of the older people (of which there are many) listen to rock music and stuff like that. Older people tend to hang out more at their own camps and invite people over for drinks, though. All the big electronic camps are mostly people in their 20s and 30s.
We also walked past a geodesic dome in the deep playa, and when we went in, Blade Runner was playing. We watched a good half-hour of it (from the part before Rachel gets tested, to the part where the eyeball design guy gets roughed up by the androids).
Other than music, there is a huge abundance of performers of the hippie-circus variety. Of course fire performance is the biggest: before the burning of the man, every fire performer gets together and does a huge performance together, 360 degrees all the way around the Man. There were hundreds of people performing in that. Hula hoops and poi and staffs and jump ropes, and anything else you could possibly do with fire. In terms of non fire performance, contact improv is a big thing, as is aerial performance, and hula hooping, and of course dancing. We saw a lot of good dancers at the sound camps.
Dune really does link up pretty well with Burning Man. So much so that we saw two art cars shaped like sandworms (one with a mouth that opened and closed), and there's a theme camp called Arrakis. We also wore camelbacks every time we ventured out, which reminds me of stillsuits.
It's time for breakfast. Many more entries to come.
Most of them are dubstep.
Beats Antique
Mimosa
Bassnectar (twice)
Freq Nasty
Ana Sia (twice)
Tipper (actually only Adam and Trent saw him)
Most of the electronic music at Burning Man is really bad, though. Really really bad. A camp near us played awful awful trance at earsplitting volumes day and night until several people complained (there are designated areas for loud sound camps; we were not near them) and they finally cut it out on like Friday (Adam is convinced that one of the reasons they stopped is that they were Israeli, and when he went to talk to them he said "Shabbat Shalom" which partially won them over; plus it was just after sunset on Friday). Most of the big sound camps played boring house music. Almost all the art cars play really loud music, and most of it is bad techno and trance. We only heard jungle a couple times. I guess the jungle/drum'n'bass scene is pretty dead. Too bad. I got tired of dubstep by the end of the week because it was the only other good thing other than this one camp we found on Tuesday afternoon which was playing some good tech house.
The overwhelming majority of music at Burning Man is electronic, although there's always something analog happening at Center Camp, and a lot of the older people (of which there are many) listen to rock music and stuff like that. Older people tend to hang out more at their own camps and invite people over for drinks, though. All the big electronic camps are mostly people in their 20s and 30s.
We also walked past a geodesic dome in the deep playa, and when we went in, Blade Runner was playing. We watched a good half-hour of it (from the part before Rachel gets tested, to the part where the eyeball design guy gets roughed up by the androids).
Other than music, there is a huge abundance of performers of the hippie-circus variety. Of course fire performance is the biggest: before the burning of the man, every fire performer gets together and does a huge performance together, 360 degrees all the way around the Man. There were hundreds of people performing in that. Hula hoops and poi and staffs and jump ropes, and anything else you could possibly do with fire. In terms of non fire performance, contact improv is a big thing, as is aerial performance, and hula hooping, and of course dancing. We saw a lot of good dancers at the sound camps.
Dune really does link up pretty well with Burning Man. So much so that we saw two art cars shaped like sandworms (one with a mouth that opened and closed), and there's a theme camp called Arrakis. We also wore camelbacks every time we ventured out, which reminds me of stillsuits.
It's time for breakfast. Many more entries to come.