Recording of these pure 3hours magic with you on the beach floor of Sisyphos. 
Through the sun and the rain, nothing stopped us to dance. What a closing, thank you so much. 

II II

Parallelle @ Sisyphos Berlin I 07.08.21 - Beach Floor

Nico Stojan & Tooker: The Crosstown Mix Show 045

It has been quite some time since the last time we gathered for a night of MBTS. I wanted to take some time after the pandemic to be quiet and see how the dance music scene would evolve, and what sounds would come out of the standstill that was Covid. Now that I have a good sense of where I want to be sonically, and what kind of energy I want to spread onto dance floors, I am ready to restart MBTS in 2023. Stay tuned for more info, and enjoy this preview of what's to come.

Much love, 
The Scumfrog

M.B.T.S. (Most Below The Surface) 2023

After shutting down the bot following an incredibly powerful and meaningful temple burn for our camp, many of you thought that was the end of our 2022 Burning Man. However, a few hours later, the bus appeared in deep playa with Nico Stojan at the helm, just in time for one last sunrise. Here's looking forward to many more surprises and unscheduled moments together in 2023.
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"What an honor it was to return to the Robot Heart bus for the final sunrise set of last year’s Burn! 

Originally, the Robot Heart team wasn’t planning on playing music Monday morning, so I was super happy when they asked me to play the last sunrise on the playa.

When I arrived at camp early Monday, the RH crew was just waking up and the bus was still sleeping, but there was an excitement in the air - so often it is those unplanned experiences at Burning Man that create the most magic.

We drove out to deep playa in the dark and before long had gained a wonderful crowd, everyone coming together to dance away their final hours in the dust. People were exhausted, but also energized from their week in the desert and not ready to return to the default world.

It was a super chilled last sunrise set that I thoroughly enjoyed - an unexpected morning that turned out to be unforgettable!" 
- Nico

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John Dill

Nico Stojan - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2022

Third year in a row bringing in the new day during the 4th of July festivities, and I still cannot believe how epic it keeps getting year after year during the closing of the CAMP festival. This year we came fully prepared with an array of live singers and musicians for my set. Kicking it off with Tory Stolper and myself performing our track Surya Rising live, to having our sunrise electronic dance music sermon delivered by the talented writer and poet Lauren Ducrey, and flanked by the A-Team with Noah & Mendeleyev.

3.5 hrs flew by, and as we still had to Burn the majestic Sloth effigy built by the talented Jacob, I decided to keep the closing sunrise affair measured under 5 hrs... LOL. (Maybe next year we will push a little longer into the daytime vibes...)

Thankful to Brad, Gil, Sarah, Therapy Sound and all of the people who tirelessly set up this magical fairy forest stage for us to weave musical magic. 

This was one of the most meaningful morning for me, thank you for coming along for the ride. From darkness to light and all of the ephemeral magic that exists in-between. <3

illich Mujica - Live @ CAMP Festival 2023 Closing Fairy Forest Sunrise on 4th of July

Illich Mujica Live @ CAMP Festival 2023 Closing Fairy Forest Sunrise On July 4th

2015 was my seventh year on the Robot Heart bus, and my fourth RH sunrise. As this set posts, I am in full preparation for my 2016 sunrise, and I hope this soundtrack gets you in the mood for yet another journey to that dusty bed we call home. See you there!

@thescumfrog

Photo credit: John Curley

Track list:

0:00:00 D-Nox & Beckers ­ Orient Express
0:05:30 Audio Junkies ­ Arpeggio
0:11:30 Benn Finn ­ Tohuwabohu
0:16:23 Oscar Offermann ­ Fluffer
0:21:45 Maceo Plex, Maars, Florence Bird ­ Going Back (dub)
0:25:10 The Scumfrog ­ Just Before Dawn
0:36:30 James Last ­ Here Comes The Sun (The Scumfrog sunrise remix)
0:40:56 Amber Long & Robert Mason ­ Aquatica (Jamie Stevens Dub)
0:45:11 Eric Sneo ­ Long Ways
0:50:50 Kotelett & Zadak ­ Tizia
0:57:00 Tim Sheridan ­ Bionic Language (Adultnapper Remix)
1:02:26 Troyanova ­ Die Goldene Flote (Flute Edit)
1:04:27 Markus Wesen ­ Neustart
1:09:08 Ytre Rymden Dansskola ­ Afterski (Magnus International Remix)
1:17:24 Sechzig ­ Track Five (Edit)
1:20:57 Paresse ­ Little Wanderer
1:28:05 The Rolling Stones ­ Play With Fire (The Scumfrog Remix)
1:34:25 Barnt ­ Cherry Red (Tale Of Us Remix)
1:43:08 Spirit ­ Taurus
1:44:25 Solomun ­ Zora
1:53:14 Donna Summer ­ Love To Love You Baby (The Scumfrog Remix)
2:01:18 Lee Oskar VS E-Man ­ Enter The Haunted Temple

The Scumfrog - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2015

It was the last morning of the 2016 Burn and there was a small, but beautiful crowd of dedicated burners gathered, as most had already continued back to the outside world. We were feeling very spent, tired, dusty and freezing, but powered through the transition from night until dawn and once the sun broke through, it brought warmth to our bones and it turned into very special morning indeed...

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Photo credit: Julien Vergely

Art piece: Pulse & Bloom 

Pulse & Bloom is an interactive art installation that visualizes participants' heartbeats with the hope of syncing human heartbeats in a rhythmic pattern.

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Nico Stojan & Holmar Filipsson (from Thugfucker) aka Lovestruckk - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2016

Since I am not playing any sets this Halloween season, as I’ve benched myself again till I can figure out how to make my ears happy and tinnitus calm. I've decided to release this 1.5 hour slice of a 6.5 hour set. Some of my favorite good vibe tunes at the time - old and new - well all old now ;) This mix is from 4 years ago. Halloween afterparty at 159. I was rocking a wig the whole night and morning... by the weeeeeeeeeeee hours, it looked legit from all the sweat and shenanigans. It was one of those flow state sets where tracks were just melting into each other and choosing each other… lots of love in the air and smiles all around.  Thus the name of the mix - AphroDILLiac, my nickname from the party. Hope you enjoy this little flashback..xo Dill

Aphrodilliac - Halloween 159 AfterParty - Sunday October 27 2013

After 6 years of creating sunrise soundtracks from atop the Robot Heart bus, it is a challenge to avoid submitting to a formulaic approach. One of the biggest perks of producing a Robot Heart sunrise is that you can take risks; explore soundscapes and dynamics, knowing that the mystical Deep Playa setting allows for pauses and quiet moments that don’t translate in loud clubs or multi-stage festivals. This year, the set was a journey starting with robots and ending with humans. I wanted the sun to come up to the sound of arguing AI robots. What you heard was a transcript from the actual negotiation between two AI bots at Facebook earlier that summer;
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/06/19/facebooks-ai-accidentally-created-its-own-language/
Other than it creating a surreal environment as the sun came up, it also proved a perfect palette cleanser to transition from night into day. The sounds of flutist Claire Chase immediately afterwards set the tone for the 90 minutes to follow. I remembered Robert Miles (we lost him this year) with a beautiful guitar version of his song "Children", and then introduced spiritual emcee and rising star Elliott LaRue. He delivered a chilling live message from the top of the bus about our challenges and responsibilities as humans. And that about summed up the Scumfrog sunrise from 2017. Enjoy the memories! 

@thescumfrog

Tracklist:

01) Duelling bots
02) Orche/Strada ft.Claire Chase - Calligraphy
03) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - Shiva Manas Puja
04) Lord Of The Isles - Weh-In
05) Rabo & Snob - Let You Know
06) &Me - Avalon
07) Basti Grub - Ko Sar Ra Di
08) Del Gado - Children (Tini Monteca VS Saffa Remix)
09) Marc Lamarche - Ethiopo (Edit)
10) Gabrielle Aplin - Run For Cover (The Scumfrog Dub)
11) Amevon - Fuchsia (Mathias Hinds & Simon Kisk Remix)
12) Dee Montero - Aeon (Reprise Mix) VS Shlomi Aber - Foolish Games
13) Elliott LaRue - Morning Sermon
14) Lizards - Frontier (The Scumfrog Remix)
15) Joe Goddard - Home (Eric Kupper Remix)

Photo: John Dill

The Scumfrog - Robot Heart - 10 Year Anniversary - Burning Man 2017

There are only a handful of places on the planet where electronic music is treated like art.  The bus is one of them, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to share music on it.   The tracks in this set are my own original compositions or edits. I consider this to be an album release.   The music is, for the most part, tuned to 432hz in Just Intonation. This tuning follows the harmonic series, and is in harmony with the mathematics of nature.   I hope you feel it with as much love as I put in. Finally, I want to thank the Robot Heart team for working on the system through the night to get the bus out that morning. Your effort meant a great deal to me.

SoundCloud: @jason_douglas 
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Photo: Jean Sini

Jason Douglas - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2019

Sunrise at Burning Man
It is high on the list of the things I could write a book about.

The relentless wrench that is 2020 forced us to consider and reconsider almost every aspect of our lives and routines, including Burning Man. In the quest of finding solutions for all this disruption, we all came up with some pretty cool stuff so far, and the creative forces that take the spectacle of Black Rock City to increasingly bigger heights each year went into overdrive to create and a virtual version of our beloved dust bowl. 

Comparing the virtual Burning Man to its IRL counterpart is as foolish as comparing ‘2019 Burning Man’ to the 1998 edition. Each year is different, and 2020 forced us to adapt to a new kind of different. Playing a sunrise set on the real playa is incomparable to doing one in VR, where only one out of the 24 global time-zones experiences the actual sunrise while the music unfolds; where there are no collective goosebumps, shivers and hugs, and where you can probably not feel the bass like when you’re standing in front of a battalion of dusty sub-woofers. 

However, there were elements of yesterday’s sunrise that made it uniquely special for me. The most important element was the inspiration to make a long three-hour Deep House journey again, which I had not done in months. Quarantine had made me explore different genres and moods, dismissing Deep House as something pointless that should only be played in the presence of collective energy. But even though a streaming event and a VR event are ‘cheating’ when it comes to collective energy, this one still had that feeling that the moment is being experienced by many people at once. 

I very much enjoyed the act of imagining the full extent of collective energy, even though my screen only revealed the implication of this energy. I am very proud of this musical journey and I published it for re-listening. I hope you enjoy it too, and you too can close your eyes when listening, and imagine the moment when we are all standing in front of those bass-bins again, and we can scream, shout, gaze, and hug. The power of music is an incredible force, and I am honored to be a link in its chain. 

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The Scumfrog - Burning Man sunrise 2020 (multiverse VR edition)

Robot Heart is a collective of doers and dreamers, artists and entrepreneurs. Our home is in the desert dust of Burning Man, and the streets of New York City, Detroit, Bay Area and Hong Kong. Home is wherever the Heart is.

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.

Music is our first language, and our mission is to bring love and beats to the world. We work with and support artists, technologists and visionaries of all types in order to create incredible experiences and connected moments. To create love and beats, for you.

The Scumfrog - Robot Heart - 10 Year Anniversary - Burning Man 2017

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