JD Mack, Opulent Temple
We heard some wicked tunes this year, and there were certainly some amazing DJ’s on the Playa. We’re getting a bit tired of our friends saying “put on Robot Heart!”, because they don’t know where to find it. So here’s some links for you, some of these DJs are our friends, others are from camps whose music we enjoy. As I write this, there are 500+ mixes on Soundcloud under “Burning Man 2012”. We don’t have time right now to listen to them all and offer our opinion as to what’s the best, so here’s a selection of DJs and hour-plus mixes that we think will deliver the goods. Please let us know if there’s any dope mixes that we are missing.
Loving this one! 11,000 views you’ve got to be kidding me. This is going to be a million-pluser, I predict. We have it on high rotation right now at Burners.Me HQ. Spot your friends…
As well as our selection, which we will be updating so check back here, please also try some other links from Rockstar Librarian and Destination Burning Man
big thanks to Yental Beats for his help with our sound system
Yental Beats – Robot Heart afterburn mix
Yental Beats – Robot Heart the Road Home
Robot Heart – Swami and John Dill, Burn night 4 hour set
Blondish get Physical on the Bus – Full Moon set
Hoj – Friday night Robot Heart deep house
The Scumfrog – Wednesday morning sunrise at Robot Heart
DJ Kramer (Distrikt) – Studio Mix – I’m calling his Saturday afternoon at Distrikt as my favorite set of the entire Burn
DJ Kramer – Saturday afternoon set
Deekline – not his Burning Man mix, a promo mix, but still, Nick Deekline is the man. He played 5 times in one night this year at Burning Man. I was lucky enough to catch him at the Grand Sierra in Reno post-Burn, what an amazing surprise and so good to dance to this awesome music in the pool!
Kyle Cross (Root Society – Womb Stage)
Isaiah Martin – Sunday School (PlayaSkool)
Isaiah Martin – Endless Summer
The Scumfrog – Driving To (and From) Burning Man
Elite Force – 4 Hour Sunrise Set at Nutz
Isaiah Martin’s amazing Electrolux art car
DJ Lexel (Alex Lloyd) on the Disorient DEX
Ralph Lawson – sunrise at Nexus
Gabriel Gilmour – psytrance at Ooligan Alley
Gabriel Gilmour – glitch-hop Australia Day Party at Tsunami Bass Experience
TEH – dawn set at Tsunami Bass Experience
Emuin at Area 51/Fractal Nation – dubstep
Galactic Wind – Fractal Nation deep Playa closing set
Kassy Nova in Alex Grey’s Garden of Sacred Visions
Christopher*Robin, Friday night at GlamCocks
SaneDracHunter – played at Tetris, DustFish
DJ Runaway – live electro set at Fractal Nation/Area 51
Can anyone confirm the rumor that Depeche Mode played this year?
Deekline, my favorite musician in the world and one of the nicest DJ’s I’ve ever met. He absolutely rocked the Grand Sierra sunset pool party
Does your website have a contact page? I’m having problems locating
it but, I’d like to shoot you an e-mail. I’ve got some recommendations
for your blog you might be interested in hearing.
Either way, great site and I look forward to seeing it expand over time.
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This list almost single-handedly motivated me to paint my entire house. THANKS!
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Ive been on the road and finally got good enough stable net to upload my glitch-hop set i did for the Australia Day Party with Tsunami Bass Experience.
http://soundcloud.com/gabriel_gilmour/burning-man-2012-tbe
burnersxxx and co if you like what you hear feel free to chuck it up on the list. If you dont want two from the same guy totally understand, delete this post. Just havent heard anything like it in the list, thought you guys might enjoy 🙂
loving the mixes, keep em coming.
cheers
this is my mix BM inspired!
http://soundcloud.com/mymaryann/got-burnt
enjoy playa creatures. much love
niiice 🙂 really digging this one
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This is amazing!
Please consider listing my live set performed Thursday night on the main Fractal Nation/Area 51 stage at Burning Man.
http://soundcloud.com/dj_runaway/burning-man-2012-live
Thanks!
Glad you included yourself. I was there and welcome this. nice work!
Hey author,
Any chance of getting the style of music for the set listed, or if multiple styles listed with commas in between, in parentheses after each link? It’d be nice to know if I’m looking at a dubstep, house, breaks, or whatever, set at a glance.
lol you’re opening a can of worms there. categorizing electronica, another hobby of mine, but not sure if it’s a good one to introduce on this blog. Don’t even get me started on what is glitch versus electro versus techno…let alone breaks. It is mostly progressive house. Would love more breaks, psy-trance, and trance mixes if there are any out there.
Hey, thanks for getting back to me.
I’m not suggesting a track-by-track definition, but maybe some general tagging. I know how tricky that gets, though. Not to mention time consuming.
On another front, speaking of breaks, any of these sets putting their broken foot foward, that you know of? I’ve been starving for ’em lately.
Blondish Get Physical on the Bus, Robot Heart 2012
http://soundcloud.com/robot-heart/blondish-get-physical-on-the
It’s sad how this entire page confuses “music” and “DJs”. The best part of Burning Man 2012 for me was that we had seriously good LIVE MUSIC there, for example the funk cover band playing nightly at Crossroad in the 9:00 plaza.
It’s unfortunate that you don’t consider the product of what DJs do to be music. Even if you just consider them to be a jukebox (as a DJ it pains me to say that), I’d still say a jukebox produces music. I come from a wide background when it comes to music, so don’t get me wrong, live instrumental and vocal performances are something I thrive on. I’d say the title of the page is certainly all-encompassing but then, unfortunately, presents a very narrow showcase of the music that was actually there.
If the page-author is paying attention, perhaps you’d consider getting some of the followers or coordinators of the live music scene from this year to contribute some of their best recordings of bands/sets/artists?
If they send it to us we will post it
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Thanks so much for the round-up! Here’s a great one:
http://soundcloud.com/sanedrachunter/sanedrachunter-burningman-giftmix-2012
Some great recordings here from DJ Alex Funk:
http://soundcloud.com/alex-funk/sets/bm12/
And here’s one from from the Friday night GLAMCOCKS camp party, by DJ christopher*robin:
http://soundcloud.com/chrisfettin/glamcocks-redux-part-one
Atish @robot heart- great mix –
http://soundcloud.com/robot-heart/atish-robot-heart-burning-man-2012
thanks, added
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if anyone has sets from Abraxas, please let me know.
Hey, if you’re going to use a picture of me for your cover shot, how about putting one of my mixes up? 🙂
http://soundcloud.com/jd-mack/10-jd-mack-live-at-atomic
-JD Mack (Opulent Temple)
done. You got any Burning Man mixes?
Sweet! As far as I know, both my sets at opulent temple were recorded. It usually takes us a while to get them up though, but I’ll post when I do. I think I have both 2008 and 2009 at OT somewhere though. Idk what happened in 2010 or 2011.
AWESOME! This is GREAT !!! thank you…..thank you……thank you !!
oh and pretty pretty please put up the Audiofly set from robot heart! thurs night i think. Absolutely killed it, fav set of the week for sure.
sorry its another robot heart request! They were so good is all. If you have it would be really keen to have a listen. Cheers 🙂
any links? Couldn’t find Audiofly on Soundcloud
ah damn, was hoping it was floating out there somewhere. no luck on the audiofly search here either.
Cheers again for chucking the set up, and thanks for a crazy beautiful week 🙂
Ah cheers dudes!! Awesome you guys dug the set 🙂 Massive props to Ooligan Alley crew for having me on. Rock on
I have a few pieces of performances I was able to capture on video. (most are just one song in the set) I do talk to the camera on a few of them, sorry about that.
Crystal Method at Fractal Nation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1-WQhwFWP4
Q-Bert at Root Society: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI5Nm3ukXXU
Q-Bert at Root Society: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhI9TAH5dCs
Q-Bert at Root Society: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N91kbgv46mA
Aphrodite at Opulent Temple: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWPQdHU9qQ
Lazy Rich at Osiris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophCflw62y8
Desert Dwellers at Sacred Spaces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5AjHDEYO4
Many thanks and blessings!
Thanks for the props, glad you had such a great time on Saturday afternoon. We’ll be releasing my Saturday Closing set this Wednesday Sept. 26th on the DISTRIKT Podcast, so you can re-live that last DISTRIKT sunset! http://distrikt.podomatic.com/
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Thanks so much, I am really enjoying the mixes. Wow my 7th year and I just discovered robot heart’s vibe. Great stuff. I can confirm that Depeche did play, everywhere I went in the backstreets, it was epic. There is some splendid music being created at burning man but when DMode plays their hits thats where my world gets rocked the hardest! Dava Gahan ate his Wheaties for our sins.
Wait, Are you confirming that the David and Martin were actual at BM this year, or did you just hear there music everywhere.
Plus Ralph Lawson – sunrise set at Nexus: http://soundcloud.com/ralphlawson/ralph-lawson-sunrise-over
thanks so much – I’m a big Ralph Lawson fan but missed this, can’t wait to hear it. Renaissance baby!