This Dust - Burning Man 2024

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This set is made up of my own unreleased music, and I think of it as an album. In 2019, I released another album/set. https://soundcloud.com/robot-heart/jason-douglas-robot-heart-burning-man-2019. People have shared that it has been the soundtrack for deaths, births, first steps, ceremonies, and the beginning moments of every morning. This Dust is the follow-up, and I hope it lives as full of a life as the first one. As with many sophomore attempts, it was hard to push it out into the world. It was written as a love letter to the burn during the insular months of the pandemic. I was with my closest friends and family, traveling to a new town on the East Coast each month while writing this. I wrote until I tapped the well dry, something I didn’t know was possible. It turns out that making electronic music when there is nobody to play it for will eventually lead to writer’s block. If you’re reading this, I discovered that your energy is more in my music than I realized. An “audience” doesn’t exist in electronic music in the traditional sense. Both the musician and the crowd are on equal footing. There is no social contract that you must listen politely to my set and clap. You dance if it’s good. You listen if it’s good, and you are under no obligations if it’s not. We both need to show up, or the thing doesn’t happen. It’s co-creation, and I learned that without the co-creators, my creativity has a limit. It was a titanic effort to finish this, and an even harder one for me to release it. It was filled with obstacles and doubt. It contains my heartbreak, grief, sadness, and a hope for when I would see my way to the other side of that. The ethereal, melodic, and at times, cinematic themes I’ve played with here and in my 2019 set feel explored. Something new is coming through that I have been experimenting with. I don’t have it yet, but I’m finding its edges. For now, I’m glad to have this out. Thank you for your support along the way and for being my co-creator. Tracklist: Mixed together using my other baby https://density.one/ Beck - Turn Away (Jason Douglas Edit) Jason Douglas - Stradivarius (Dedicated to Geo) Jason Douglas - This Dust Jason Douglas - Brain Damage feat. Carsten Gerlitz & The Happy Disharmonists Jason Douglas - ID Jason Douglas - The Answer Jason Douglas - Dissociation Jason Douglas - 2020 Reset Jason Douglas - Wakl Jason Douglas - Act 3 Underworld - Born Slippy (Jason Douglas Edit) Production Credit: https://www.instagram.com/nenahalenainsta/ Photo: https://www.instagram.com/gru.dii/ Sculpture: https://www.instagram.com/alexandermilov