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USA / Canada (tour diary)

February, Thursday 12th:

…wow, snow outside!! 5 in the morning and the day starts like that not really fancy now leaving the house…
rent a car and drove to the airport in frankfurt. checked in and had some kinda breakfast macdonalds scrumbled eggs stuff…baaaaaaaah!!
anyway…as usual flight was late and i was really concerned about the connection flight in amsterdam but arrived in holland in time.
had to run from terminal D to E and caught the plane in the last second.
11 hours of screaming kids, no entertainment system and awful meals during this KLM flight but finally arrived in los angeles. i do not have to mention how TIRED i was after this trip.
my friend Z picked me up and brought me to the city center of hollywood where my hotel was. i was able to sleep 3 hours b4 Z gave me a buzz for a thursday night show. i was pretty much right next to where the all the hollywood awards are being celebrated. they actually started building the whole scene for the upcoming global oscar whatever awards and the club was just a stonethrow away down the hollywood blvd.
outside a massive line was waiting to come in and inside – it was HELL. what a big mass of people and this became a WOHOOOOOO night!
after the set they closed down the show and after some foto-shootings an a tv-interview with the promoter mark we headed off for some sleeeeeeeeep…

Friday 13th:

after a shower i hooked up with Z for some breakfast – and as susual we saw celebs in that little cafe. i just love LA, it’s sooooo coool.
airport and off to san francisco.
honestly u always hear me complaining about airlines – apart from etihad and emirates – but NOT this time!!!
VIRGIN AMEICA had this brand new A320 which was completely piano-white inside with black leather and the ceiling was covered in blue light!! oh yeah….but that’s not all: it was the first flight EVER 4 me with WI-FI internet. ridiculous!!! i loved it and spent the whole flight chatting with the world. THUMBS UP virgin america!!!!!!!!

landed in SF and the promoter chris was waiting outside picking me up. hotel, little nap, club…
MAAAAAN, what a city!! this is hippy-rainbow-town and so far my personal number 1 in the states (I don’t think any other city can beat this!!!).
really worth seeing this cute little town with it’s bridges, cable cars and old little buildings. the people there are awesome and the crowd in the club was just MASSIVE!! aged between 30 and 40 this was one of the musically best educated crowds i ever played for and it fucking rocked!!!
after some breakfast in the gay-district and seeing heaps of extraordinary dressed peopz i had to leave early for my flight to portland.

Saturday 14th, HAPPY VALENTINE

yeppaaaaa, back in portland again played here a couple of months ago and it was just DOPE!
jeff was waiting for a ride to the city. they booked an aweseome hotel called “the nines” but unfortunately the hotel messed up the reservation and scheduled a completely wrong date. but this location was soooo great we just stayed there and had diner…well…they placed us at a valentines tabel with candles and brought us champagne. we had to tell them we were NOT having a date there….hahaha…
we laft and found another hotel…dropped baggage and went off to the party. wolfgang gardner was playing there too b4 me and the night became a damn good party. i was supposed to play at 2:30…so i wanted to check my gear. since i play LIVE i have heaps of stuff with me and after opening my bags i realized i lost my soundcard…aaaaaaaaargh…but the promoters brought me a new one and the party was safe

Sunday 15th:

off to vancouver tomorrow so gonna spend the day relaxing in my rooooooooom

Wednesday 18th:

was mainly sleeping during the last days. seems the week b4 was pretty exhausting.
i stay in lazy rich’s house in the center of vancouver. just infected him with the idea to buy new monitor speakers so we went to a store and bought a pair of ADAM P22a (gooooooood descision!!!!) and i additionally got a new soundcard at last

life could be so easy running a publication company….but there are always artists that make trouble….
u remember the big beatport chart success from december last year (i don’t wanna say any names)?? I did a rmx for a uk artist who bagged me weeks and weeks to do a rmx for him. so i did it and released it.
now that he saw how less he earned with his original song that stupid idea came up in his brain and he now wants to force me BY LAW paying him (and this i the most ridiculous calculation i’ve ever seen):

50% of all income + 50% of all the remixers income + 15% uk tax

hahaha, that is approx 90% of the WHOLE money that has been made with the WHOLE release. and what do the other rmxers say?? apparently this guy thinks noone deserves anything apart from him….
and how stupid is he saying things like “i run a 300.000€ company and i have the resources to bring u down”.
actually it’s pretty funny – he got a contract with me saying he got payed for his track 50% of the net income. that’s it…really annoying such unprofessional wankers….
i keep u posted on this

have to do heaps of mastering today – thanks to lazy rich’s new monitor speakers it shouldn’t be that hard…

Thursday 19th:

my canadian manager rob picked us (lazy and me) up and drove us a to a ski-resort called whistler some 1-2 hours up north of vancouver. actually it looked like a little village and i wasn’t sure if this could be a cool place to have a party.
but the club was MASIVE! yet packed when we arrived the dj-booth was made of plexi-glass and during my set people tried climbing into it. what a greaaaaat party there at tommy africa’s nightclub. even a girl came up lifting her shirt for showing her titties…hehehe…and the eastern german snowboard team was there in their ridiculous 80′s styled adidas fake clothes….

Friday 20th:

left after some breakfast back to vancouver. the mountains and the view and simply everything there was breath-taking. couldn’t get my digicam out of my hands during the whole ride back. once in town rob and me checked in at the opus hotel. never seen a hotel where the whole parking lot was full of ferraris, porsches, maseratis, bugatis, whatever…kewl place
the party was dope; lazy rich opened the night with stunning electro sounds – mainly his own productions – and it became a biiiig event!!!

Saturday 21st:

after waking up we had breakfast in a spot called THE ELBOW ROOM. whenever u are in vancouver u deffo should visit this place, u will love it!!
1,5 hrs ferry ride to vancouver island where we went to the nightclub in courteney. as usual: the courteney audience ROCKED the hell out of this location!! one of my fav party places in BC!! thank u guys for all the love and overwhelming party

Sunday 22nd:

exhausting weekends like this take no end a couple of hours of sleep later we headed off to the comox airport for catching flights to calgary where i supposed to play a sunday show. arriving at the airport the checkin-desk lady told us we missed the flights. nooooooooo, the plane was still there, stairways on and doors open. but she was sooooo unfriendly she wouldn’t let us in. rob started arguing with her and she even wanted to cancel ALL our flights suddenly. what a b….unfriendly person!!!
the nice lady from another airline heard us and wanted to help. we couldn’t fly directly so we had to buy 2 tix to vancouver to catch connex flights to calgary there. well…normally we’d arrive just the same time the connection flight departs but thanks to central mountain air they started our charter flight 10min ahead of time. we received business-class seats in the front row and once we arrived we jumped out of the plane and ran to through the whole terminal. well….when 1 thing goes wrong it ALL goes wrong: due to “missing” our flights in comox we were on standby. 2 seats left, 14 standby passengers ahead on the list. SHIT. so we ended up paying further 450bugs for the last 2 tickets. but finally we made it in time to calgary. being picked up by the driver he drove us directly to the venue where an impatient crowd was waiting (meanwhile it was monday morning 1am). seems the whole canadian westcoast crowd is sick – they made it the best sunday show u could imagine!!!!!!! thanxx to all for coming and waiting

Monday 23rd:

once more we had a massive hotel but as usual got up way too late to get some breakfast. so we called the promoters to pick us up. they brought us to a yummies breakfast place and after returning to where the car was parked this huuuuuuuge empty space was smiling at us…..fuck….where’s the car??? it was TOWED!! it took 2 hours to get our stuff off the car and we just catched the plane back to vancouver island in time (the gate was already calling us)….we received businessclass sats in the first row. not too bad during the flight a lady had to wait next to rob’s seat (thank god i had a window place) cause the flight attendants were setting up the drink/food wagon. the lady apparently wanted to go to the toilet and as she had to wait next to rob’s seat she farted….not a usual fart…this was the WORST fart ever in history of this universe. and with every breath it became worse. what did this lady eat before?? oh my god, u have no idea. even the flight attendants now started searching for their own deosprays and perfumes for spraying it in the cabin….but it didn’t help….
just in case the lady who farted reads this: NEVER EVER DO THIS AGAIN PLEASE!! AN AIRPLANE IS COMPLETELY LOCKED AND THE AIR DOESN’T CIRCULATE INSIDE!!!!!!!! AND THE FLIGHT DURATION WAS MORE THAN 1 HOUR!!!!!!!!

Tuesday-Thursday:

……relaaaaaaaaaaaxing. had to work a little bit but spent most of the time doing NOTHING and SLEEPING…and had a poker tournament…i became second…rob wo the whole pot

Friday 27th:

As the schedule said i had a show in victoria on saturday we just booked flight/return from/to victoria and drove the 3hrs down south to that beautiful old city. had some sightseeing and a short lunch with one of the promoters from victoria in a chinese noodle place. rob attended and the flight to edmonton was very quick… coming out of the airport the first deep breath instantly froze my nose…damn… MINUS 20 degrees…hilarious…and it was late evening. how cold could it get at night??????????
the club LEVEL2 freaked completely out…yehaaaaaaa….and they had a touchscreen video mixing console…kewl gear

Saturday 28th:

…the chinese food was a bad idea. kept me awake the whole night burning holes in my stomach
got up at 1pm and tried having a walk through the city for finding a brekfast spot. well we TRIED but it was sooooooooooo cold. we ended up getting a cab back to the airport without any food.

arriving in victoria we drove to the hotel that was planned to be reserved for us. but seemed like the promoters were sooooo stoked to organize the party they 4got to check the hotel availability. so we had to switch to another place to stay and we were able to get the last available room in a nice place a few blocks away from the club at least.
diner with the promoters…and off to the club for setting up the live-gear. it was actually 1 hour b4 official club opening and approx 100 peops were waiting outside yet. actually this was the first night ever for me that was completely sold out weeks before the date.
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, this party went off the scale…wohooooooooooooooo…NUTS!!!!!!!!! how sick was this night????? the energy in this location was beyond imagination and my shirt, jeans….just everything was comletely WET…..insane!!!!!!

currently sitting on the ferry back to vancouver whilst writing this blog. thanxx to all my friends and specially adil and his wife for letting my stay in their house during the last week (didn’t wanna go to a hotel). spent the whole last week with their 2 little kids and they were very sad when i had to go. after hours of hugging and hilarious WII gaming rob brought me to the ferry.
of course – thanxx to my buddy rob too wouldn’t have had any fun without him during this exhausting 2 week canada tour. he organized everything very well and always took care of me!!!!! huuuuuuuuuuuugs!

gonna leave canada towards austin texas tomorrow morning. flight time is approx 12 hours. 2 stops and at least 6 hours of waiting time at airports ahead…..

Friday 6th of March:

…that was a long exhausting flight…fair enough…it got 30 degrees in austin texas and the city skyline is beautiful. finally i found some summer here in the states during this tour after the NEGATIVE 29 in edmonton canada…brrrrrrrrrrrr… the promoter attends a audio engineering class in austin. so he brought me there for giving a lesson and the students asked me alot of questions. really fun teaching interested people some of the stuff i learned during the years…
the show was coooool, big event hall, lasers…good soundsystem. it rocked!!! even people from mexico were there taking an 8 hour trip to be part of this event. thanxxxx guys
right b4 the party on my way to grab some coffe from a famous fastfood chain a BIRD shat on my head…hahaha…yaya…stop laughing!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday 7th:

…as usual with a massive lack of sleep i tortured myself to the airport. we all know about the prejeduce of “women” and “driving cars”….i try not to say anything….but never FLY with a “girl” in the cockpit!!!! the first female captain ever on one of my flights and it was HORRIBLE!!!! it felt like she was a student driver and thas was her first flight in a real plane…

San Francisco….6 hours later my personal driver with limousine was waiting with a sign with my name on it at the airport. he brought me to the hotel where i dropped my stuff off and headed to the club which had also a restaurant – diner. WOOOOOOOW, what a location!! the club was called TEMPLE and the whole interior was spiced with huge old buddha statues and heaps of kewl ancient malaysian relicts including 3 big floors and a snow white interior with white leather and a biiiig soundsystem. WOW!!!!
the party was unreal and once more SF proved to be my fav city and one of the HOTSPOTS of electronic music in the USA. beeing here the second time within 1 month without seing the famous BRIDGE nor the ALCATRAZ prison just makes me wanna come back asap again

….again no sleep…9 in the morning…driver waiting outside…at least he brought me some coffee and breakfast for the ride back to the airport.
facing a 2 hours trip to los angeles followed by a meeting with lazy rich and 6 hours waiting time for my connection back to germany which includes another 15 hours flight time. i’m veeery tired….and i’ll probably sleep the whole time in the plane….

THE (almost) DAILY BLOG // 03.2k9

…just a short one…there ain’t much to tell ya after coming home from touring 2 weeks ago. i spent most of the time locked inside my studio working down a masive MASTERING LIST for getting all new releases ready for the next weeks out on my labels.

apart from that i had bad licensing issues with a german beer-brand that used the INTRO theme for their commercials on TV. so they thought they got the ultimate rights of the original recording and forced me to take INTRO off beatport.
well…to cut a long story short: my lawyers kicked their asses and I am now entitled to damages….fuck ya…assholes!!!! When i had to take it off the shop INTRO was number 1 on beatport….so it’s actually not only a loss of money but mainly REPUTATION!!! it sucks…..

received tons of bookings from abroad but reject most of it. i’m really tired and wanna stay in europe for at least 5 months. next mexico/usa/canada tour starts in august. need to recover till then…

this month we bought a new server and do now provide a newsletter system. if ur fancy receiving all the latest about releases on my labels as well as our sub-labels feel free to subscribe urself (u have to accept the security certificate as we are working with high security encoding to avoid phishing and the abuse of ur data).

working now on new remixes such as: “PRO7 – sister”, a track called “infatuation” for 24records and a PHAT goodie i’m not gonna tell u now surprise surprise surprise…u will love it

next blog in april….

…wow, january was DOPE!! sorry…couldn’t write earlier – soooo much work!! heaps of releases, mastering, signed new artists, editing and all my own rmxs…and work ain’t getting less!!! I have to leave in 9 days again for a USA/CANADA tour and there’s sooo much more to do till then…don’t wanna bother you with details.

actually I just wanted to say THANK U ALL out there who play, love and enjoy my music. you guys made it possible that my name is on the nominee list of the BEATPORT MUSIC AWARDS 2009!!!
Pretty sure deadmau5 is gonna make it – as usual – but just beeing nominated as one of the world’s top10 electrohouse producers honours me tremendously!!! THANK U SOOOO MUCH!!

as i expect mentioned upcoming tour is gonna be great again i’ll post a new tour diary starting once i arrived in the states. so speak sooooooon….

…received a couple of kewl bookings during the last 2 days in mexico, london, manchester (uk), swindon (uk), south africa and austin tx (usa). the summer’s gonna be HOT 
Additionally I want to welcome 2 new labels that found their way to my distribution department and will be handled by plasmapool from now on: brazilian based SAVAGE MEDIA as well as lazy rich’s very own brand new imprint BIG FISH RECORDINGS! I’m pleased working with u guys!!

mastered and prepared for digital release:
- 5 tracks of JEFF DANIELS & OLLIE PLÈ_shady (plasma.digital)
- 3 tracks of COUNT SINCA_paradise on a mirror (suiciderobot)
- 2 tracks of THE BEATPUSHERZ_last/disco (plasma.digital)
- 2 tracks of BRYAN SHOWER_xpression (plasma.digital)
prepared for vinyl release:
- TAGTRAEUMER²_repetition is change (suiciderobot)

last but not least: HE IS BACK!!! being disappeared for more than 1 year now second half of my project THE SOULBROTHERS and good friend AAREN SAN returned. we found him on a little island in india – naked, licking frogs and hugging palmtrees. his very first EP after his “identification process trip” is gonna come in 2 weeks
have a nice weekend!!!

2009 (did u read my last blog??) what a start
finally i got my luggage back on monday – at least one good thing for this new year…but my brandnew bags looked like shit (and 1 of the small bag wheels is missing – reeeelaaaaax miles, it’s just a wheel!!!!!!)…
still jetlagged – but i had to start working anyway during the last 3 days:

mastered and prepared for digital release:
- 6 tracks of MILES DYSON_ minimal my ass – the remixes (plasmapool)
- 3 tracks of DARYL D_woodman (plasma.digital)
- 3 tracks of POL_violet (houserecordings)
- 3 tracks of JON E INDUSTRY_the grind ep (plasma.digital)
- 3 tracks of BENJAMIN VIAL_the bass and the monkey (plasma.digital)
prepared for vinyl release:
- BENJAMIN VIAL_train ep (plasma.digital)
signed new artists:
- STEVE GERARD
signed new tracks:
- SEDUCTION(S)_anger (incl. sharooz rmx)
- 3 tracks from FIL ALEXANDER (noize)
started working on new tracks:
- POL_violet – miles dyson rmx

gonna leave europe 11th of february for touring the usa and canada. so heaps of things to do till then

…right, I had to give this a name. this was one of the worst tours ever!!! bad organisation, bad things happened, no drivers, no hotels…just read it

Tuesday, 23rd of december:
…after arriving in frankfurt after my australian tour i spent only a few hours sleeping in my hotel. had to wake up at 3 in the morning to check-in in time for catching my 5:30am flight to sao paulo.
11hours and 30minutes later i landed in brazil. no driver, tried calling him, no chance getting hold of him, so called my agency, noone replied, called my brazilian friends…..finally THEY started organizing this issue. after 2 hours waiting the driver arrived. supposed to be much traffic so he brought me all the way to the central bank quarter in the city.

Wednesday, 24th, CHRISTMAAAAAAS
woke up, had a walk through the city for getting some food, came back, driver was waiting who directly brought me to the domestic terminal. took a plane to belo horizonte (almost amazonas area).no driver there. ok, calling people again, getting mad…driver arrived, slightly late. anyway, he’s one of the organizers and he always picks me up when i spin in belo horizonte. ricardo doesn’t speak any word in english, but we usually do understand each other
hotel, club…
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, what a massive party in the LABEL CLUB. the location was PACKED, people were screaming and we had the best christmas ever!! (gonna post videos soon) belo hotizonte is one of the best party cities in brazil!!!

btw…just realized i didn’t receive any christmas present. so feel free sending some goodies over

Thursday, 25th:
…not much sleep, ride back to the airport (btw…belo horizonte got the only open-air airport i’ve ever seen), plane to rio de janeiro. 2 hours flight, driver was waiting, hotel at the copacabana…

Friday, 26th:
COPACABANA + IPANEMAAAAAA beaches got another massive sunburn!!!

Saturday, 27th:
the day the problems started!!
well, the day begun relaxed – sun, yummie food… i had to play in MACAÉ some 2-3 hours away from rio de janeiro. so my agent wanted to pick me up…i was waiting more than 2 hours until he arrived. ok, no prob…i’m patient…b4 he arrived my agency told me we’ll be coming back DIRECTLY after the gig, so i didn’t take ANY additional clothes with me. inside the car on the way my agent told me we gonna stay in macaé for the night. ok, no problem, so i’ll be stinky after the club and had to wear the same clothes one more day – not to mention deodorant, toothbrush aso. relax miles, RELAAAX!!!! arrived in the club – damn this location was sooooo packed u couldn’t move. played my live set (awesome party!!!), had fun and wanted to go to the hotel at 5 in the morning.
arrived there – no room booked. humm, was tired and not really fancy starting any dispute with the receptionist that early in the morning so called my agent who was playing himself after my set in this club. it took almost 1 hour to fix this prob and i was REAAALLYYYY tired now. was able to sleep 3 hours before we had to head off to rio again…

Sunday, 28th:
a shower and some more sleep…rrrrrrrrring….???…am i dreaming?? a call from the reception desk…
me: “yeah??”
hotel: “mr.dyson?? when do u intend leaving the room? it’s already 2o’clock!”
me: “hummmm, actually i thought i’m gonna stay here till nye!?”
hotel: “nopoe, the room isn’t booked any longer….”
okeydokey…i’m tired and slightly pissed off now…calling my agency asking what was going on. they told me they’ll take care of this prob. so i could stay there…reeeelaaaaaaaaaxxxx miles!!!!!

Monday, 29th:
no issues today? that was all?? noooooooooooooo, the calm day before the storm!!!

Tuesday, 30th:
another rrrrrrring….reception desk?? nope, my agent, telling me the room ain’t booked any longer coz of NYE (too expensive?? copacabana? maybeeeeee…but actually not MY problem). so what to do now?? was he joking?? nope, he told me i could stay in his flat as he was about to leave to visit his family for a few dayz. well…ok, let’s try it.
he picked me up – 3 hours later than announced (thank uuuuuu) and brought me to his flat next to the botanical gardens of rio de janeiro, dropped me off and left instantly. wohooo…just realized he didn’t have ANY drinks, nor TOILET PAPER and wanted me to stay there for 2 days. not to mention he got a cat and her preferred place was…yep…MY BED. so heaps of cat-hair, cat-smell and all that stuff. grrrrrrrrrrrrr….it was late yet…tried calling hotels…booked out…all of them (i hate NYE…now). so had to sleep there and was really really angry…guys…NO TOILET PAPER. what a desperate situation

Tuesday, 30th:
couldn’t sleep…all nite long. so got up very early waking up my brazilian friends by telephone terror. felipe and gustavo from felguk (plasmapool artists) offered me to live in their flat as I wasn’t able to get ANY room within 30km. so they picked me up and brought me to their house (at last – a beautiful flat, drinks and TOILET PAPER!!!).
so we spent the rest of the day at Leblon and Ipanema…and we were spinning together at NAMASTE club in rio de janeiro the same night. was a damn great event!! great audience and we had soooooo much fun…
since it was like 40 degrees outside and they had only 1 AC in their rooms felipe and gustavo had to leave their own flat now to sleep in their parent’s house. was very awkward for me!!!

actually we intended to leave the club and drive directly to BUZIOS (another 3hours away from rio) for the big NYE party – we also had to play together there) after the NAMASTE club party but we couldn’t get hold of ANY of our agents to confirm out hotel there.

Wednesday, 31st:
we got up very early again…our driver was waiting outside yet and we left towards BUZIOS now. the traffic was horrible coz everyone who ever got a car was on the roads (heaps of accidents). we were still trying to ring someone from the agency as we still had no hotel info. damn shit…tired tired tired…and nye ahead. the ride took 7 hours and we finally arrived at the party.

u really want to change clothes and relax after 7 hours inside a car – specially after spending 7 hours on BRAZILIAN roads!!!
the promoter promised us to organize a room for getting a rest and stuff, so he brought us to the toilet area pointing to one of the plastic portable lavatories telling us we could change clothes there. i was about to kill someone!!!!!!!!
the ORIGINAL toilets of this place (the promoter rent a restaurant at the beachside) were locked. so we BROKE the door. hummm, at least kinda room…opened the toilet lid and saw this HUGE brown “sausage”. relax miles reeelaaaaaaax, just flush it away!!!

wtf!!! toilet blocked? the brown water was rising…close to overflow…i need to kill someone…the worst disgusting place was the only chance to change stinky clothes and still no hotel and noone from the agency answered the phone!!!
wasn’t pretty fancy having fun after all this…but had to play there anyway. felguk and tim healy (coburn) did a great job but couldn’t get in a good mood after all this. after the live sets we tried calling the driver to pick us up…guess what…he didn’t answer the phone. we were waiting further 2 hours, VERY PISSED OF until we could get hold of him. it was raining at night – who cares – it was 40 degrees, but the whole place turned into a big swamp. so u can imagine how i looked like after this…

Thursday, 1st of january 2009:
HAPPY NEW YEAR (more or less – well not for me). still fucking angry!!!! returned to rio. got some 2 hours of sleep. driver – airport – plane to salvador (universo paralello, the world’s greatest party was waiting!!!!!).
in salvador a bus was waiting for a 5 hours ride to a coconut farm somewhere in nowhere (don’t ask for the roads, it was like a theme-park ride). the hotel was a so called POUSADA and i had to sleep with 10 other people in 1 room and noone had respect for anything. they just started talking loud inside the room whilst sleeping or even started playing guitar in the middle of the night…not to mention a few of those creatures were walking NAKED through this room!!!

what the fuck is going on?? i quit half of my australian tour as my brazilian agency promised me the best christmas/nye i ever had and it was getting worse and worse!!!

ok, let’s take a shower: hummmm, kinda “bamboo” shower…with brown water. even the pousada owners told us better NOT to drink this water. ok….relaaaaaaax miles, REEEEELAAAAAAXXXXXX!!!!
at least the pousada was directly at the beach and the universo-festival 1km away…a beautiful walk in the sand at 43degrees.
again, felguk, tim healy and me fucking rocked this place. before and after us it was like dead…only MINIMAL music, people spent their time at the beach just noticing the music as background noise. but once we started thousands came (just check the video i’ll be posting sooon) and though it was incredible hot the place EXPLODED!!!!
when felguk played the organizer of the floor came over and wanted us to stop playing instantly. i guess he was pissed off coz we really really made it a HAPPENING. so our agents were fighting with this ass…ehm, GUY. what a stupid idea stopping such an event for listening to MINIMAL again…

after 3 nights of horror, loud people, bad food (felguk needed medicine because of food intoxication) and sunburns i decided to leave this nightmare!! thanks to my agency i had no proper room (u should have seen the brown dirty oily pool water!!!) and all good places were rent yet.
yeah….not that easy to leave from there…5hours away from any civilisation…though i was artist my name wasn’t on the BUS-LIST and i was bagging one of my agents to get me on there. he promised – PROMISED – to do it. arriving at the bus station – guess what – no name on the list. i had to pay 250bugs and wait 5 hours to catch a bus.

3 days with almost NO sleep, fucking angry because of the incapability of my agency to care about any issues i finally was on the way back to civilisation. meanwhile i was traveling with the guys from FLUTUANCE (also plasmapool artists) and we booked a little pousada there in salvador. yeah…sounds good so far…but: the temperature was like on the surface of the sun and my room – though it had an AC wasn’t pretty chilly.
why? AC damaged…no other rooms free. so the AC FAN was the only working part and it was blowing HOT air inside my room. i was about to die!!!! reeeeelaaaaaaaaaaaax miles!!!!!!

okeydokey…my flight left at 5 in the morning so SLEEP wasn’t an issue anyway…cab..airport. arriving back in rio…yep…no hotel booked! calling flutuance asking if THEY could call my agency. otherwise i would have killed them on the phone. took a while…hotel.

Tuesday, 7th:
was sleeping like 24hours. was burnt out after this trip.
i had this feeling that my flights back to sao paulo weren’t booked, so PUNISHED my agents with phonecalls, though they didn’t answer – and i was right!! 12 hours b4 my flight the finally booked the flights and sent me the info. back to sao paulo i arrived at the central domestic airport inside the city. driver was waiting for bringing me to the international airport 17km outside the city.

checking in…security check…gate…and right into the plane. 3,5hours later (waiting) the captain told us the machine was damaged and we all had to leave the aircraft again. waiting further 2 hours at the gate but they couldn’t repair the machine.airfrance booked us a hotel. back to the airport the very next day, same problem…so 1 more night there. i supposed to play in los angeles on saturday, but had to cancel the gig. wasn’t possible to get a direct flight from brazil to los angeles.  daaaaamn shit!!!!!! i was sooo looking forward to this party :..(

we started with a new plane they had to fly in first and after 14 hours i finally arrived in paris france (including the WORST turbulances ever – believe me – i do fly alot – but this was horrible – a sudden fall of at least 200meters out of nowhere!!!!!!). had to hurry to catch my connection flight to frankfurt and 2 hours later – home sweet home. all i gotta do now is picking up my luggage from the baggage carousel and get the keys for my hired car…ehm…luggage…hello…where are uuuuu?? one after another picked up his bags and left…so finally it was only me and the carousel left there. no bags, no luggage…reeeelaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax miles!!!!!!! ok, they lost my luggage – AGAIN!!!!!!

I’m back home now at last and thankfull i don’t have to travel for at least 3 weeks!!