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The Bounce Festival 2012 Preview

By Drift Dodgers at May 18, 2012 | 11:55 am | 1 Comments

The Best Festival I Have Been To By Lupe The Bounce Festival is the best festival I have been to! It's hard to narrow something like that down- it's like choosing a favorite beer- so many lovely ones to choose from. Held at a family-owned resort sorta place, on the Feather River, the scenery is outstanding. You can be dancing on the sand, or bopping around on a more...

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The Do Lab Audio Interview – Making Event Production an Artform

By Drift Dodgers at May 17, 2012 | 12:59 pm | 0 Comment

I caught up with Josh and Jesse Flemming, twin brothers who, along with their father and brother Dede, founded the West Coast's premier event production team, The Do Lab. Known for massive wooden art constructions, unique stage set-ups and inspirational creativity and professionalism, the guys have raised the bar on what is possible in event production. Using wooden more...

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For Your Head: Chaos Control Live Dubstep Set

By Drift Dodgers at May 5, 2012 | 12:34 pm | 0 Comment

Chaos Control is the collaboration of veteran producers Planewalker from New Mexico and Mister Chill'R of Portland. Planewalker has been making psytrance for years before beginning to successfully experiment with dubstep. We hope he sticks with the genre, for his unique, nuanced style and production skill make for some dynamic dub. Mister Chill'R is a talented and more...

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Solar Fields’ “Random Friday” Preview, Glade 2012 Promo Mix D/L

By Drift Dodgers at May 4, 2012 | 9:37 am | 1 Comments

"Random Friday is a sleek and buoyant uptempo album by Swedish composer Solar Fields in the same vein as 'Earthshine' released in 2007. Ten chiseled, high-tech tracks with compact kicks, deep basslines, floating and hypnotic atmospheres, lighthearted melodies, and a definite sense of groove! Magnus Birgersson offers his own definition of dance floor music, with a fine more...

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Monday Mix 30: Doc Riz – Adverse Effects

By Drift Dodgers at April 30, 2012 | 11:06 am | 0 Comment

Doc Riz returns with another fun and diverse ride through electronica. Smooth, sexy, and full of creative mashups and west coast bangers, this mixtape shows his skill and range as a DJ, giving us a great soundtrack for the beginning of the festie season. Punctuated with Nintendo sounds and vocal samples from soul to hip hop to tribal, it travels between gangster more...

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Lucidity Festival Kicks Off The 2012 West Coast Season

By Drift Dodgers at April 25, 2012 | 12:03 pm | 10 Comments

Lucidity Festival in Santa Barbara kicked off the West Coast festival season with an incredible gathering of people, art and energy. Though it boasted some of the best acts in the scene, including Birds of Paradise, Russ Liquid, Govinda, Phutureprimitive, Heyoka and Random Rab, the community of attendees stood out as the main highlight amid all the great more...

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LIB Mixtape Contest & Lucent Temple of Consciousness Lineup

By Drift Dodgers at April 15, 2012 | 3:21 pm | 0 Comment

The Do LaB recently announced the line-up for the Temple of Consciousness and the guidelines for this year’s mixtape contest. We wanted to make sure you got the details as we’re really excited about both of these traditions. This year’s Temple of Consciousness will feature over 300 different experiences in yoga, workshops, speakers and exotic world music. The more...

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Monday Mix 26: griff Live at Rainbow Serpent 2012

By Drift Dodgers at April 2, 2012 | 10:11 am | 0 Comment

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Griff Burnell, known as griff, has a great ear and brings us a smooth, sexy downtempo mix from this year's Rainbow Serpent Festival in Melbourne, Australia. It's a luscious set, full of guitars, orchestral strings and piano, combined with ambient atmospheres and electronic grooves. Two solid hours of chill-out beats from the best EDM more...

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ReturnTrip Mix Downloads

By Drift Dodgers at March 24, 2012 | 10:07 am | 0 Comment

Born in Japan and living in Vancouver, BC, prolific DJ and producer ReturnTrip has developed a deep, refined style of electronica that incorporates dubstep, IDM and drum & bass beats with melodic instrument samples and moody atmospheres. Dark, patient and at times cinematic, his mixes are great background beats and soundtracks for life. Made of small clips and more...

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Monday Mix 24: Mouldy Soul ft. Eurythmy & Swingesthesia on GLITCH.FM

By Drift Dodgers at March 19, 2012 | 9:43 am | 0 Comment

This is an instant classic. It should be released as a compilation album and people that don't like electronic music should be forced to listen to it until they do. Its a two hour live mix from Mouldy Soul featuring a jazz guitarist, some hot promos from Bran Richards and Dephicit, never before heard material from Mr Swingesthesia and a chilled, glitchy guest mix from more...

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Epic Lightning In A Bottle Lineup Announced!

By Drift Dodgers at March 14, 2012 | 2:58 pm | 0 Comment

The music lineup for the 7th annual Lightning in a Bottle International Music and Arts Festival produced by The Do LaB has been announced, featuring headliners and electronic music superstars Bassnectar and The Glitch Mob. The lineup features a number of returning friends of the festival, including Tipper, Apparat, Bluetech and Lucent Dossier Experience along with more...

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Imagika Om – Basura Sagrada Downtemple Set

By Drift Dodgers at March 13, 2012 | 9:19 am | 0 Comment

"Imagika started her relationship with music as a dance performer and performance ritual artist, and quickly added remixing and producing music for her dance performances and productions to her repertoire...Her performance background is reflected in her musical style, and is heard in her ability to create soundscapes for performances. She is a multi-dimensional digital more...

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Artist Spotlight: Mr. Bill

By Drift Dodgers at March 11, 2012 | 3:57 pm | 1 Comments

"This project is based around evocation, I like to write music that excites the ear and the brain. This requires me to explore all sorts of strange production methods and musical theories to keep exciting my senses." - Bill Day Mr. Bill is a complex musical mind emerging from Sydney, Australia. His sound is hard and dark, many-layered and melodic. He experiments more...

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Evolutionista Mixtapes

By Drift Dodgers at March 8, 2012 | 9:25 am | 3 Comments

Evolutionista is the design and music moniker of independent Oakland artist Griffin Crafts. How a DJ like this can be so anonymous with all these clowns running around hot on tour is beyond me. I'd rather listen to him spin than to some career remixer any day. The mixes below contain some of the best music I've posted, and he has 225 followers on his Soundcloud. Let's more...

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Turntable.fm Contests – DJ Battle & Free Trip to SXSW!

By Drift Dodgers at March 6, 2012 | 10:01 am | 0 Comment

Turntable.fm blasted into the music scene just after last year's SXSW conference -- since they missed the party in 2011, the human-powered social music service is making up for it in a big way by adding two great contests leading up to the event: Through Wednesday March 7, users have a chance to win an all expense paid trip to SXSW and VIP passes to the 3/15 event more...

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Monday Mix 23: Desert Dwellers Live at Still Vibrations 2012

By Drift Dodgers at March 5, 2012 | 9:42 am | 0 Comment

Take a trip to distant lands with this solid representation of Desert Dwellers' evolving sound. Probably my favorite Desert Dwellers mix released yet, Amani's set from Still Vibrations IV in Edmonton, Canada. With almost two hours of downtempo, dubstep and deep, entertaining beats, the set contains material from their newest release, as well as brand new tracks I more...

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Govinda – Alchemy Amalgamation Mix

By Drift Dodgers at February 28, 2012 | 8:51 am | 1 Comments

Shane Madden, known as Govinda, really impressed us when he brought his music to the Northeast in December, and I've been rocking this mix ever since. He's an immensely talented producer, DJ, and performer, playing virtuoso violin in his live sets. "Classically trained" doesn't begin to describe it! A unique blend of tribal elements with driving dance beats from hip-hop more...

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When Lucent Found Herakut

By Drift Dodgers at February 22, 2012 | 8:50 am | 0 Comment

The Lucent Dossier Experience delivered a pair of incredible shows at The Palace Theater in Los Angeles last weekend. The mad cabaret was packed with inspiring dance, aerial and fire performances, and rousing live music. The spectacle was a blend of many different artistic mediums and aesthetics, from Lucent's signature brand of Haute Couture and deranged circus style, more...

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LIS Ticket Giveaway: Lucent Dossier Experience Friday, Feb 17 in LA!

By Drift Dodgers at February 16, 2012 | 5:11 pm | 0 Comment

The Do Lab presents a unique spectacle this weekend: “WHEN LUCENT FOUND HERAKUT” is an edgy meld of Cirque Du Soleil-style performances by the spunky avant-garde circus, The Lucent Dossier Experience, against a live backdrop of the famed internationally-acclaimed Berlin street art duo Herakut. There also will be an after-party in the theater with special more...

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Lightning In A Bottle Tix On Sale Today!

By Drift Dodgers at January 16, 2012 | 7:58 pm | 0 Comment

Lightning In A Bottle has established itself as the can't-miss underground music festival of the summer, and tickets have become an issue. The First Tier and Car Camping sold out within hours this morning, and the whole event will sell out soon, so we urge you to grab your tickets now. Revisit last year's LIB and remember or discover what makes it so special with our more...

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