Yes, the various veins of today's exploding transformational festival scene all flow from the oceanic presence of Burning Man.
While refining the concept, Krasno and Grant worked with LA-based DJs like Jesse Blake and Taz Rashid and transformational festival scene staple DJ Drez to devise a way to score the yoga classes in a manner that matched musical BPMs to breath rates.
Sure there were plenty of the well-off and well-toned hedonists that one typically associates with the transformational festival scene, with a respectable smattering of career hippies and free-spirited families mixed in.
Also on the podcast is Robot Heart conspirator Jason Swamy, who came to tell Rave Curious about his history with Burning Man and how his new event, Further Future, is seeking to surpass the "woo-woo" of the transformational festival scene and enact real change.
Further Future in Las Vegas is a new kind of gathering that offers a music and art based event with a twist on the transformational music festival scene.
The left-leaning, transformational community that populates this scene is often opposed to simplifying identities down to a single label, but it's hard to express the bricolage, intersecting, multifarious characters they project without at least leaning on labels a little.
At many of the scene's so-called "transformational" festivals, people wear bindis on their foreheads and stop off at yoga sessions before downing research chemicals and hitting the dancefloor.
Burning Man has given birth to an entire spectrum of dusty transformational festivals on the West Coast a scene defined by its DIY aesthetic, heady house and techno, and zealous embrace of for want of a better expression—"hippie shit".
Totally transformational.
