From Mark Lakata Sent Tue, Sep 8th 1998, 18:21
From Mark Lakata Sent Tue, Sep 8th 1998, 18:21
> NNNNNNNNNO! dont go 2 th@! i saw a story about it on Strange Universe > (among other shows). it just a bunch of naked, stanky old hippies, > running around and trying 2 find their primal instincts. its also a > marketing scam (but what isn't). seems really stupid. tell me if this > is/is not what u c when u go there. It's too bad that you watch TV. Burningman is about doing what you want to do. This is not limited to naked hippies. Our group ran Frequency Publica, where we invited DJs to come an spin whatever they wanted to. The quality of music was incredibly good. Most people spun IDM, including me. Some people played some great Cuban music, one guy played nothing but Tangerine Dream (he brought 75 CDs of nothing but TD material and spin offs), two English guys who run a club in London played nothing but "Smack my Bitch up" for an hour. There must have been 20 camps with DJs spinning on 2 turntables. Some really good speed garage stuff, and some boring 4x4 trance, but always something happening. The 18 foot Tesla coil was the coolest thing out there. Imagine lightning slowly growing out of this monolith, until the arcs are 30 feet long and then smashing a 5 feet in front of you into the ground, with everyone around screaming and jumping up and down. The 10 watt laser shooting across the desert was cool. The UFOs in the air, the gigantic gasoline fireballs, the molotov cocktail training camp, Electrobot (a man inside a metal suit touching the Tesla coil), the trebuchets (medieval catapults), the cirque du flambe, and the Man himself exploding into megacandle-watt flares. And everyone is so fucking excited! I mean where else can you see people yelling and dancing up and down to the crackle of the Tesla coil?! Did I mention the phantom blue horse that ran across the desert? BTW, I remained fully clothed except when I took a shower.