Good Morning Mix: RÜFÜS DU SOL affectively tackle playa tech in 2019 Burning Man set [Stream]
The sandy surrealism of RÜFÜS DU SOL‘s Burning Man set spans 90 minutes of surefire transfixion. The live endeavor, like the dust of the playa, has settled, landing in its full-length form on SoundCloud.
Originally delivered atop the Robot Heart bus in Black Rock Desert, the set is a tactile jaunt; staccato percussion rhythmically labors at the opening. It’s a structural anticipation of what is yet to come in the textured set. The beats agilely pound, synths ebb. The arches, staggered throughout, are tantalizingly slow in their development, attention demanding. Listeners would be remiss to direct it elsewhere.
Appropriately catalogued as “playa tech,” the electronic outfit’s Burning Man stint is an affective detion from their typical live format. A particularly arresting highlight colors the 51-minute mark, where RÜFÜS DU SOL work in an alternative version of SOLACE inclusion, “All I’ve Got.”
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