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168 - Mikey Lion & Malena Grosz on Festival Time, Life-Changing Trips, and Community in COVID
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If you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please rate and review Future Fossils on Apple Podcasts! Patrons gain access to a secret feed of biweekly episodes, unreleased music, our monthly book club, and many other wondrous things. And join us in the Discord!
This week I talk with Mikey Lion, music producer and co-founder of Desert Hearts, and Malena Grosz, creator of The Party Pro Toolkit and director of Stargate Reunion, about the pandemicâs distortions of time and community, flow states and festival time, gatherings in the No New Normal, running a festival and record label at the same time, comparing the potentials of festivals and urban nightlife, the impact of stage design and architecture on how community events shape individual experience, the tension between intimacy and scale, my hatred of silent disco and multiple simultaneous competing sound systems, DMT and other life-changing experiences, the good parts of tribalism, psychedelic integration.
We start talking about the initiatic inspirations for both of them as festival producersâŚand then things get weird. And beautiful and raw and real and intimate â surprisingly, intensely so. Mikey talks about a very bad trip and we help him integrate it.
We aim to close with two questions: What would you tell people in the future if they had forgotten how to party? And what, if theyâre better at partying than we are, would you want to ask them?
But then we get to talking about the future of festival economicsâŚ
Mikey Lion: Spotify | SoundCloud | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Desert Hearts: Spotify | SoundCloud | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Malena Grosz: Party Pro Toolkit | Future Fossils 96 | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook
From the press release for Mikeyâs new LP, For The Love:
âBefore nurturing his brand and record label into the behemoth that it is today, a young Mikey Lion had been living with his parents and questioning the direction to take his life. Mesmeric album closer âTalking To The Treesâ with its lush synth layers and gossamer vocals, sketches out how his path was revealed to him. During a fateful psychedelic trip, he was guided to spread love and community under the banner of House, Techno, and Love that fans know today. Desert Hearts was officially launched in 2012, and the rest is history."
Support this show financially:
⢠Shop my Bookshop.org reading lists and I get a cut of all the sales from local booksellers
⢠Venmo: @futurefossils
⢠Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield
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People & Topics in this episode:
Malena Grosz, Peter Dodds, George Carlin, Burning Man, Coachella, UtopiaFest, Firefly Gathering, Stuart Davis, Aliens and Artists, Topher Sipes, Trinumeral Festival, The War of Art
Related episodes:
David Bronner, Shane Mauss, The Teafaerie, Lydia Violet, Tricia Eastman, Rak Razam and Niles Heckman, Dennis McKenna, Jessica Nielson and Link Swanson
Program Info:
Episode edited by my amazing wife, Nicole Taylor. (Itâs even more amazing that she did this when you listen to me divulge our relationship on the showâŚ)
Theme music by Future Fossils co-host Evan âSkytreeâ Snyder.
I transcribe this show with help from Podscribe.ai â which I highly recommend to other podcasters. If youâd like to help me edit transcripts for my upcoming Future Fossils book project, please let me know! Iâm @michaelgarfield on Twitter & Instagram.
Affiliate Stuff:
If youâre looking for new ways to help regulate stress, get better sleep, recover from exercise, and/or stay alert and focused without stimulants, let me recommend the Apollo Neuro wearable. I have one and appreciate it so much I decided to join their affiliate program. The science is solid.
And for my fellow guitarists in the audience, let me recommend you get yourself a Jamstik Studio, the coolest MIDI guitar Iâve ever played. I just grabbed one this year and LOVE it.
When youâre ready to switch it up, here are my music and listening recommendations on Spotify. Get bonus content on Patreon
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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Manage episode 294641963 series 2407639
If you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please rate and review Future Fossils on Apple Podcasts! Patrons gain access to a secret feed of biweekly episodes, unreleased music, our monthly book club, and many other wondrous things. And join us in the Discord!
This week I talk with Mikey Lion, music producer and co-founder of Desert Hearts, and Malena Grosz, creator of The Party Pro Toolkit and director of Stargate Reunion, about the pandemicâs distortions of time and community, flow states and festival time, gatherings in the No New Normal, running a festival and record label at the same time, comparing the potentials of festivals and urban nightlife, the impact of stage design and architecture on how community events shape individual experience, the tension between intimacy and scale, my hatred of silent disco and multiple simultaneous competing sound systems, DMT and other life-changing experiences, the good parts of tribalism, psychedelic integration.
We start talking about the initiatic inspirations for both of them as festival producersâŚand then things get weird. And beautiful and raw and real and intimate â surprisingly, intensely so. Mikey talks about a very bad trip and we help him integrate it.
We aim to close with two questions: What would you tell people in the future if they had forgotten how to party? And what, if theyâre better at partying than we are, would you want to ask them?
But then we get to talking about the future of festival economicsâŚ
Mikey Lion: Spotify | SoundCloud | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Desert Hearts: Spotify | SoundCloud | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Malena Grosz: Party Pro Toolkit | Future Fossils 96 | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook
From the press release for Mikeyâs new LP, For The Love:
âBefore nurturing his brand and record label into the behemoth that it is today, a young Mikey Lion had been living with his parents and questioning the direction to take his life. Mesmeric album closer âTalking To The Treesâ with its lush synth layers and gossamer vocals, sketches out how his path was revealed to him. During a fateful psychedelic trip, he was guided to spread love and community under the banner of House, Techno, and Love that fans know today. Desert Hearts was officially launched in 2012, and the rest is history."
Support this show financially:
⢠Shop my Bookshop.org reading lists and I get a cut of all the sales from local booksellers
⢠Venmo: @futurefossils
⢠Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield
⢠BTC: 1At2LQbkQmgDugkchkP6QkDJCvJ5rv3Jm
⢠ETH: 0xfD2BC66586FA4FBA189992E9B0037CD5cb9673EF
⢠NFTs: Rarible | Foundation
People & Topics in this episode:
Malena Grosz, Peter Dodds, George Carlin, Burning Man, Coachella, UtopiaFest, Firefly Gathering, Stuart Davis, Aliens and Artists, Topher Sipes, Trinumeral Festival, The War of Art
Related episodes:
David Bronner, Shane Mauss, The Teafaerie, Lydia Violet, Tricia Eastman, Rak Razam and Niles Heckman, Dennis McKenna, Jessica Nielson and Link Swanson
Program Info:
Episode edited by my amazing wife, Nicole Taylor. (Itâs even more amazing that she did this when you listen to me divulge our relationship on the showâŚ)
Theme music by Future Fossils co-host Evan âSkytreeâ Snyder.
I transcribe this show with help from Podscribe.ai â which I highly recommend to other podcasters. If youâd like to help me edit transcripts for my upcoming Future Fossils book project, please let me know! Iâm @michaelgarfield on Twitter & Instagram.
Affiliate Stuff:
If youâre looking for new ways to help regulate stress, get better sleep, recover from exercise, and/or stay alert and focused without stimulants, let me recommend the Apollo Neuro wearable. I have one and appreciate it so much I decided to join their affiliate program. The science is solid.
And for my fellow guitarists in the audience, let me recommend you get yourself a Jamstik Studio, the coolest MIDI guitar Iâve ever played. I just grabbed one this year and LOVE it.
When youâre ready to switch it up, here are my music and listening recommendations on Spotify. Get bonus content on Patreon
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe
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