Listening over in 2024 and this is one of the the best sets for me

BM 2014 - Still Building

After six years of believing that I was fully done with Burning Man, the stars happened to align this summer when I got a calling to go. 

Back in 2016, I never thought that Burning Man would allow me to press the reset button and relieve myself from many things I was carrying emotionally. Then suddenly when I was out on the playa in my element, I began to feel myself again: connected, worry-free, present. 

Thanks to 11 days of complete disconnection from my computer and phone, I was left at the mercy of nature’s elements which brought me back to a place of peace and serenity.  

It was such a joy to take part in Burning Man’s social experiment, one that unites a community of like minded beings from various backgrounds. 

I loved getting my hands dirty while building the camp, helping out with a friend's art structure and chatting with new and old friends every single day.  This was a whole new experience for me; an experience that filled my heart and inspired me in powerful ways. 

For the first time, I can safely say that I have been transformed by my time on the playa, and for that I feel grateful and humbled. 

Memorable moments like riding solo on my bike, letting go of plans, eating nourishing food, getting totally lost in the city, visiting random camps and more often than not connecting with strangers was pure magic. For me, this is the essence of Burning Man: an experience of contribution, full of serendipity and spontaneity. 
 
Here’s a personal highlight of mine that I’d like to share: 
It’s Friday evening, and I have been chosen to set the mood on the Robot Heart bus (which I must admit was one of my favorite nights out there). Here I am pre-set drinking Sake and sharing stories with my dear friend Benjamin Alexander.  The bus is parked at camp when I jump on top and begin to play for 20 minutes before the wheels start turning. Our drive to the deep playa begins, and with that a brutal dust storm follows.  I was instantly taken back in time to my 2015 Burn when I was fascinated by the fairy-lit bicycles chasing the bus, lighting up the space with an array of moving colors.  Eventually, after an hour of driving around, the wind stops, the dust settles, and the bus finds its parking spot for the night.  I finally remove my dust mask and watch the vast space in front me light up as I finish my set.  An unforgettable moment, visual, crowd…everything was perfect. 
 
To all of you who are reading this who were there dancing and glowing on the playa, I would like to say a huge thank you!  I will cherish that moment for the rest of my life.  You inspired me to smile and shine. 
 
Until next year.
 
Julien aka YokoO xx 
 
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YokoO - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2022

The hypnotic momentum of the night passes to the hands of DJ Three as light begins to fill sky and the new day creeps ever closer.  For forty breathless minutes we wait… until at last the sun breaks over the horizon, and a collage of verbal musings, psychedelia and ornate music fills the air.  Toying with echoes and teasing with nuance, shutters fluttering to capture the fleeting moment…a moment not soon forgotten for those who were lucky enough to be there, at sunrise on Sunday, Black Rock City, Burning Man, 2014.   And then, just as easily as we are led into that place, a whole movement of sound and energy returns the dance floor.
 
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Track List:

Bambounou - Ignition (Laurent Garnier remix) - 50 Weapons
Angel Moraes - Welcome To The Factory - Hot N Spycy
DJ Koze - Nices Wolkchen (Robag's Bronky Frumu Rehand) - Pampa
POB - The Essence (Clanger remix) - Platipus Records
Teste - Spatial K - Plus 8
Human Traffic (soundtrack) - What Was I Talking About? - London Records
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Loom - Epic Records
Uzect Plaush - Violet Cell Edit - Apollo Records
QUAD - Aquaville - Kinetix Recordings
Jam & Spoon - LSD Nikon - Epic Records
Aqua Regia - Big Band Shadow - Irdial Discs

Metuo - Subway (Andrea Rucci remix) - Sumo Productions
Santiago Salazar - Arcade - Macro Recordings
Kane Roth - Essential - Groom Records
United Space - Mindwalk - Space Records
Oona Dahl & Jonny Cruz - Oceans - Hallucienda
Barbarella - My Name Is Barbarella (Casper Pound & Peter Smith mix) - Harthouse UK
Altiply - Spooky Action At A Distance  - Hallucienda (unreleased)
Guy Gerber - So Close So Far Away - Supplement Facts
Love And Rockets - Resurrection Hex (Deep Dish Luv N Dub mix) - Red Ant Entertainment
Second Hand Satellites - Orbit 1.1 - Hallucination Recordings
Second Hand Satellites - Orbit Redux 1.5 - Hallucination Recordings
North Lake - Moonwalker - Phonica Records
North Lake - Suomi Kutsuu - Phonica Records
Shaboom - Totally (Last Daze Of The Mecca dub) - Shaboom
Mr G - Space-Bassed - Rekids
The Bystanders  feat. Linda Lamb- History Is Not Shrinking (Reverse Commuter's Lesson In Lies mix) - Hallucienda
Reverse Commuter feat. Douglas J. McCarthy - Whispers In - Hallucienda
Blonde Redhead - (We Are A Real Team) Harry & I - 4AD
Thom Yorke - The Eraser (Sasha CoMa remix) - Global Underground

DJ Three - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

Following our good friend Lee Burridge past the sunset and well into the day as sandstorms whipped past us in the background we stood amongst friends and strangers (who are just friends we’ve yet to meet) and we danced and celebrated together, participating in the beauty of a shared moment that can only be held in our memories as a mere shadow of what we truly experienced… What an honor to be part of it all. A big thank you to everyone who helped make that moment happen.

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Thugfucker - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

This was my first ever Burning Man experience. I am in fact still trying to find the right words to describe my experience there. 
Moreover the Robot Heart performance. But sometimes music really shouldn't be described with words. At least in my position being an artist & composer. 
So thank you that this magical journey of mine was recorded!
It was quite something to be on top of that bus as the burners rode in on their bikes. And when the bus took off watching everyone jump right back on their bikes and follow the bus in what I can only call a ‘mass exodus’ onto the playa. I decided to dig deep into my old productions and new and some of my favourite journey tracks for this mix.
Thank you, big hug and love to all who joined in and danced along, and to Camp David, Robot Heart & Jonny for getting me involved.
I hope to be a part of this again. Either way, I’ll See you again next year for sure!
 
-Volta.

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Eric Volta -  Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

Tuesday night, Burning Man, 2014. 1AM. Starting at 10 and L and ending up somewhere in deep Playa. Being the so called "captain of the bus", driving into the middle of nowhere with an endless tail of flickering lights behind me, was an experience I will never, ever, forget.

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Track list:

Unknown - Unknown
Red Axes - Too Late To Samba
&ME - After Dark
Bicep - Satisfy (John Talabot Rain Mix)
Lindstrøm - The Contemporary Fix
Unknown - Unknown
Frankey & Sandrino - Cephei
Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrünn Gebrünn
Unknown - Unknown
Penner & Muder - Let The Music Play
Williams - The Shivering (Pitch & Hold In Camera Obscura Remix)
Ralph Falcon - The Dig (Radio Slave Remix)
Rennie Foster - Devil's Water
Moderat - Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze Remix)
Frankey & Sandrino - Lost (feat. Jinadu)
Caribou - Can't Do Without You (Tale Of Us & Mano Le Tough Remix)
Le Dust Sucker - Everybody Used To (Rebolledo Remix)

Job Jobse - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

Ibiza Boat Party - Es Vedra Sunset

It's Tuesday night, we enter Burning Man a day late due to the rain. It's my first burn, and Sarah my girlfriend, it's her third. With little time to settle at our camp, we can't set up our newly purchased bikes. So we venture out in search of Robot Heart by foot. Arriving onto the playa for the first time at night is incredibly intense, the place is so vast. The lights, sounds and atmosphere is other worldly. It's distracting, let alone the fact we need to somehow find Robot Heart by foot in amongst all of this brilliant and mesmerising noise. We start walking in any direction, Sarah being an experienced burner knew full well the bus could be out deep in the desert far away. We ask people if they have seen it. Mixed answers get us nowhere. Scanning the horizon for anything that resembles a heart. So many things look similar. Somehow my eyesight pays off and the saving grace was the giant Robot held up high. Finally arriving and panic over we run straight into Phillipp from M.A.N.D.Y. With some time to spare before I play he asks us if we want to go for a quick cruise around to explore. With the obvious lack of our bikes he purposefully and very quickly introduces us to Benjamin and the crew from Robot Heart, who throw us both on the bus immediately. To our surprise the bus suddenly starts driving away. Everyone follows. An amazing experience as we watch thousands of bikes, lights and art cars slowly following the bus. It was like the bus was leaking - spewing out these bikes, lights and art cars all over the desert floor, leaving this incredible trail behind itself.
A good 30 minutes pass, the bus and gathered crowd is settled and in its final place for the night. I begin to play - my first gig at Burning Man, my first time on Robot Heart, all on my first night at BM in this crazy desert. All brilliantly overwhelming. Even after everything though, I am completely relaxed. It's a setting and experience I'll never forget. Playing and looking out over everything down below. You could take a picture of what you see in front of you and look at all of the different things for hours. But this was real life and in motion, always changing, so much to take in. By far one of the most enjoyable moments of my life. Which was topped only by mine and Sarah's fun wedding ceremony we had later that week in front of the Temple. The picture is our first kiss as newly weds!

Thank you Robot Heart and Burning Man! I definitely hope I can return to the Bus and the playa every year now!

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Track list:

1) Moon Stroller (Emanuel Satie Remix) - Dream Awaken - Electronique
2) Straight Ahead - Andre Butano, Miguel Lobo - Brise
3) Little Flies (Buttrich Unreleased Remix) - Tim Green - cdr
4) Tilt - Loic Tambay - cdr
5) The Last Day (David Meyer Remix) - Moby, Skylar Grey - Little Idiot
6) November Rain (Mario Basanov Remix) - Watergate
7) Fangtango - Matthew Dekay - Maeve
8) Scar - Tim Green - Disc Over Music
9) Pictures (Himan’s Frame Work remix) - Florian Mindl, Jukka Reverberi - Flash
10) Les Gobelins - Villanova - Cocoon
11) Nuevo Romance - Mathias Schaffhauser - Noice!
12) White Flowers - Nikola Gala, GummiHz - Claap
13) Clouds (Boso Reversion) - Few Nolder - Boso
14) Just People - Tim Green - Disc Over Music
15) Lead Balloon - Richard Seeley - Zombie Soundsystem

Tim Green - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

There's something incredibly special about the world renowned Stereobar in Montreal. The sound, the staff, the dancer: it all come together to provide a high quality experience to everyone involved. I had the chance to play and blend music styles for 5 hours that night, and here are the last 3,5 hours. From acid to house to indie to italo to dico to techno, we covered it all. That night still lives in my head as one burst of hedonism fuelled by music, joy and being present in the moment, thanks to the no-phone policy.

With love
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Gab Rhome - Live At Stereobar [06.24]

This set was recorded from the Front Rite's 11th anniversary party held in Montreal on November 23rd, 2024 where I had the opportunity to open for the legendary Sven Väth. I hope many of you get to relive this memorable night.

Enjoy <3

Opening For Sven Väth, Front Rite Montreal 11.23.2024

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Lee Burridge - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

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PREMIERE: Cora M - Touche Moi (Dragomir Remix) [KUSH082]

Guy Gerber on the bus during the Catacomb of Veils burn - Friday morning sunrise

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Catacomb rises like a rocky outcropping off the desert floor. It is a ruin, a remnant of our collective search for moments of quiet, introspection and reflection. It is a journey of discovery and a descent into a subterranean world.

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DJ Tennis - Robot Heart Ten Year Anniversary - Burning Man 2017

Garden of Dreams with Dixon I Innervisions I Berlin
Line up: Dixon, After Affair
Date: 10 - 3 - 2018
Location: Dom mladih, Sarajevo

It was the perfect night in the amphitheatre. Seductive lights, sound and the hypnotised crowd - all under one roof. This is a small part of that magic.
Together we dance alone.

After Affair @ Garden Of Dreams with Dixon

Behrouz, Seth Troxler, Guy Gerber & Ryan Crosson B2B live @ Wall Lounge in Miami during the WMC for the Behrouz & Friends show.

Recorded live on Be@Tv: http://www.be-at.tv/brands/wmc/wall-lounge/behrouz-and-friends/behrouz-guy-gerber-and-seth-troxler.go?0

Behrouz, Seth Troxler & Guy Gerber b2b live @ Wall Lounge WMC (19.03.12) Behrouz & Friends WMC 2012

"2018 at BM was only my second burn and after my first (4 years prior) I did not think it could get any better… But this year somehow was 100 times better! I think this was due to camping with the amazing Pink Mammoth crew and family. Arriving there a few days early to help set up was incredible to acclimatise and hang out. So many people at PM are already close friends, but this year I met loads of new people who, I can now call family. 

At my first BM I also played at PM, although none of us can work out how I ended up playing there specifically haha! We think Derek knew I was coming and asked if I would like to play. Thankfully he did, because I instantly fell in love with the camp and playing there. Four years on, (and playing many times for PM at their events) it felt like coming home. Its so satisfying playing somewhere where you feel completely relaxed to play what you want to play, in a perfect environment.  

This set also was made extra special by an amazing (pre planned) marriage proposal mid set between Harrison and Felicity. Harrison had told me a couple days prior that my song “In Love” was one of his and Felicity's favourite songs that they shared together. He wanted to propose and asked if I could play the song for them whilst he did so. I of course was completely honoured so myself and Harrison arranged that I would play it mid set, about an hour in and would give him a nod to signal it. With his broken ankle (he’d broken it just a day prior!), they both climbed up onto the speaker, and to Felicity’s surprise, just as “In Love” started to come in, he proposed in front of the whole crowd! Of course she said yes ;)

So you’ll hear in this mix the volume dip at the start of “In Love”, which is a lovely memento forever recorded in this mix! Hope you all enjoy! Tim.”

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Robot Heart is a community and a family, and our events are an extension and celebration of that community, bound together by shared values of inclusion, giving, environmental responsibility and mutual respect.

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