Thank you, Justin, for bringing vinyl to The Bus on playa. A first we won’t forget.
“Monday morning after the Temple Burn, just before the sunrise.. I walked up to the bus with my record bag as Aline Brooklyn and David Triana were wrapping up their opening set for the night. I was excited to play during the last party of the week, followed by the historic mayhem of the Wolf & Lamb crew. Somehow it felt fitting for different worlds to meet this way around the turntables in our closing party of the 2025 Burn.
The suspension hissed as we let all the air out and the bus settled onto the axles. An attempt to stabilize the twenty two new subwoofers we’d been designing for the past three years, now installed, doing their best to create one of the more challenging situations for turntable isolation ever.
The team helped to slide the table into place we’d prepared and I grabbed the first record and put it on the platter, floating precariously on three layers of isolation tables and air pillows… threatening to jump the groove at any moment. I was grateful to find the flow quickly and felt so held and safe in this special container created by our crew that morning.
Slowly they invited curious dancers to join us on the top deck.. 1 more… 5 more.. 10 more.. until it felt alive in the booth again, but with the collective presence and dedication to the music quite palpable.
The rest was a beautiful blur and an hour and forty five minutes later, I came up for air as my last track played. Table removed, Gadi began his set on the CDJs and it was almost as if it hadn’t even happened.
If you were there, then you know. If not, I hope you enjoy this recording of the first, and hopefully not the last, vinyl set ever played on the Robot Heart Bus.
For all of you who contributed your energy and love to making this possible, my deepest gratitude. Thank you for your support!”
- Justin
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