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September 10, 2006
Burning Man has become a
festering pit of some of
the worst music imaginable.
It's largely a populist event,
and combined with the common And there are apparently
kitsch esthetic, that leads to many people around ready
things like the camp "Where to engage in radical
pancakes are served when soft self-expression by
rock is heard." blasting "Sweet Home
Alabama" at high volume.
It is, admittedly, funny hanging
around with a tent full of
hipsters doing ironic sing-alongs ("Goddamn it, KFOG
with Billy Joel music... but a is what I'm about!")
little of this goes a long way.
Then there's the endless
techNO-techNO-techNO-techNO,
which is complained about so
often that they make an effort I have a higher tolerance for this
to create a ghetto for it over music than many people do -- I used
on the two-o'clock side of the to listen to it voluntarily back in
horseshoe. the mid-90s when it was new.
Back then the styles of VISION
Then you get to techno-house were constantly
listen to it blasting shifting. You wouldn't hear
all night from the the same track two weeks
roving party-mobiles running.
(I mean, "art cars").
But here we are ten years later and
We were hiding out nothing could be more generic...
on the 9 o'clock side
this year, but we Deeet deet-deet deet-deet
were in the chaotic Deeet deet-deet deet-deet
outskirts where any
one could drive up.
Next door someone
set-up a bar, with
a sound system The sound system:
across the street an ipod pushing
and a small sign: the limits of something
"Camp Loud". barely better than a
car stereo.
What's better than
loud, bad music?
*Distorted* loud, bad
music, without any bass!
DEATH_OF_HIFI
The techno is not
the worst of it... Funk music parties
by people who've
never heard of
George Clinton.
But still:
Once again we didn't get to
do "Death Guild/Thunderdome",
and they were presumably And we were doing a quickie
doing their usual okay 4-5 day run. Arguably we
80s/gothic-industrial mix. should've been there longer,
and stayed away from the
There was a chill space party-party weekend scene
playing Chopin Nocturnes this surrounding the burn of the man.
year, which we went looking
for but had trouble finding.
I was considering trying to get into
Hookah Dome, which often plays some
good middle-eastern music -- but the
long lines, and the inevitable smoke
held us off.
I used the computer system
at Center Camp to do
searches on "Morrocan":
found a few hits, but didn't Quip from a friend: "It
get to follow them up. would be funny if an
underground scene
developed at Burning Man."
Places you can go
to get away from
the mainstream...
It's a thought:
The Ice-Man
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We did hear some
good good live music:
o female/male vox (with throat singing) (Center Camp)
o kid with a tiny casio and lots of filters (Center Camp)
o guy on an acoustic guitar (Spirt Wind Cafe)
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