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

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