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Australia (tour diary) by Miles Dyson

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

…i really tried recording some video stuff, but since the last 2 clubs were sooo dark the pictures and movies were not that brilliant. so i keep writing this blog instead of bothering u with video statements ;)

Tuesday 2nd of dec:
…my flight to abu dhabi departed at 10 pm. took a train to frankfurt international facing a 9 hrs flight time. was actually really looking forwad to the abu dhabi duty free malls since i was that impressed by dubai shopping facilities. but was very disappointed. the airport was bautiful – no doubt – but the shopping was weak. so was waiting 3 hours in this massively crowded place for my connection flight to sydney australia.
the flight took 14 hours and 30 minutes. did i ever mention i hate flying such a long time??? grrrrrrrr…

Thursday, 4th:
sydney was cloudy, took a cab to the city center where my hotel was located. though my agency reserved a room for 2 days but the hotel guys told me my room wasn’t ready and i had to wait 5 hours which i spent in the royal botanical gardens close to the famous sydney opera house. it’s such a beautiful place!! due to the cloudy situation i didn’t use any sun protection – BIG MISTAKE. after 1hr i was completely sunburned. SHIIIIIIIIIT

Friday, 5th:
slept, got up veeeeeery early just to go back to the airport for catching another 3 hours flight to christchurch, new zealand. this island is breath taking. really looked like lord of the rings scenes!!!!
the party was dope and crowd rocked!! actually signed a new artists there: phil aleaxnder. he’s doing some great stuff in his studio and he’s fitting perfect for my NOIZE label. so more to come soon from him on plasmapool…

Saturday, 6th
couldn’t really sleep – jetlag really fucked me up and my sunburn wasn’t pretty helpful falling asleep. so i started sms-terror to wake all my new friends up there. phil was the first to reply and we had a damn good breakfast together. unfortunately i had to leave early at noon…
arriving in auckland after 1 hour flight time 2 guys were picking me up. they looked VERY tired. so seemed they had a good night before ;) they brought me to my hotel and my (2) room(s) were located directly above the club. so could hear all the soundcheck. after having diner we went to the club and it became a fucking great night!!!! this club really rocked! …and even there i signed a new artists: james mccombe. his sounds are a mixture of felguk and wolfgang gartner – so perfect for plasmapool ;)
slept only 3 hours b4 i had to leave again. was a bit sad not to be able to see more of this awesome country. the promoters told me they got beaches with BLACK sand – which supposed to be MAGNETIC. wow….have to come back!!!!!!!!!! mainly because “swimming with wales and dolphins” tours…

Sunday, 7th:
3 hours back to sydney, taxi, same hotel as b4, sleeeeeeeeeeep at last…

Monday, 8th:
got up at 3 in the morning, my flight was scheduled for 6:10am. i left in time facing a 5hours flight to the wescoast. in perth my agents were awaiting me and the first thing was having breakfast at a beautiful cafe at cottlesloe beach.

….mainly spent the next few days with installing programs and setting up the agency studio for starting on some work i had to do. one of the city shops for electronic equipment asked me to give some lessons in PRODUCTION and MASTERING (well payed). actually a good idea – sth i maybe focus in 2010 more dedicated to online available courses, but for now I had no time for preparation.

Thursday, 11th:
wohoooooo, woke up with a MASSIVE headache. well, spent a few hours daily at the beach. i promise – i worked hard everyday (on my beachvolleyball skills :) . few of the agencie’s peopz picked me up early but i had to obtain some painkillers first. we took a ferry to rodnest island. what a beautiful place. awesome beaches (where i actually shot the profile pic), diving, nature, a pink lake and last but not least: QUOKKAS. tiny kangaroos that only live on this island. they weren’t shy so i could hug them :)

Friday, 12th:
why do i have to fly that early all the time. do the airlines just hate me?? or is it fate???
anyway…4 hours flight to adelaide. the whole nightscene in adelaide is controlled and managed by one big company booking all artists, doing all promotion aso. actually a damn good idea…so one of the promoters picked me up…hotel.
party was WOHOOOOOOO, heaps of people, heaps of fun, heaps of good vibes – not to mention the club itself with those coloured 70s disco lights installed in the dancefloor floor…greaaaaat location!!

Saturday, 13th:
…early flight – AS USUSAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 hours sleep  :..(
arrived in sydney, alex, the promoter of the MOULIN ROUGE club picked me up and brought me straight to an open air party in the middle of the city on top of a building where young “aussie” electro-pop bands played some really kewl music.
right after the party there we went off to the club. i love the moulin rouge at kings cross and it was packed. u should deffo check this location out once u’re visiting sydney!! massive parties going on there – so was the night!!

Sunday, 14th:
guess the flight time :..(  5 hours back to the westcoast.
the airline wasn’t able closing the luggage door of the plane, so we were 2 hours late. arriving in perth they couldn’t OPEN it anymore…faith really hates me sometimes. further 2 hours delay. meanwhile it was really hot outside 40 degrees. yehaaaaaaaaaa…. after getting our luggage we started off from the airport and our car broke down. so we had to wait till someone picked us up. BBQ for finishing this week…

Monday-Wednesday:
BEACH BEACH BEACH (after such weekends with no sleep i just need it sometimes). but only for a few hours per day. was mastering some 7 tracks, remixed a song and gave 2 days of mastering lessons during my time in oz + heaps of telephone interviews + radio shows aso. so wasn’t THAT lazy ;)

Thursday, 18th:
this was the day i was looking forward to the whole week: PAINTBALL in the OUTBACK. what a fun and i proved i was real GERMAN warlord. Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….

Friday, 19th:
ok, i admit: THIS is the day i was looking forward to all the time. the 5th anniversary of my agency. the waiting line for getting into the club was 2(!!!!!) hours. but for those who came to celebrate this night it was worth it. FOAMO was playing there too and dropped a damn good fidget set. the night was BURRRNING!!!!! congrats for the last 5 years, “Destination?”!
All the opponents from the paintball 1 day ago where there showing me their wounds. i suppose they don’t like me anymore now :(

Saturday, 20th:
…as usual…3 hours of sleep. plane left at 11am towards eastcoast. 5 hours to sydney, 2 hours waiting at the airport, 1 hour to brisbane. brisbane got this massive clubbing area called “the valley”. there are some 50 nightclubs and bars in an a territory of about 1 squarekilometer. GPO club – slightly too commrcial for my taste, but the night was great anyway!!

Sunday, 21st:
last day in paradise. again – asutralia proved to be my number 1 favourite country on this planet. i just love it all; peopz, nature, landscapes, the relaxed lifestyle, beaches…hopefully be back soooooooooooooooooon!!!

1hour back to sydney, 5 hours waiting there, 14 hours flight to abu dhabi, 8 hours waiting in the terminal there and further 6,5 hours bak to frankfurt. taxi, hotel = 33 hours of traveling time.

actually not much time in germany. my flight to brazil departs at 5 in the morning. so only got a few hours of sleep….

THURSDAY 27.11.2k8…

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

…2 weeks since my last blog ;) heaps of news, new releases, new projects, f…ing good chart positions all over and a damn big load of new gigs….but first of all: I FINALLY FINISHED THE LAZY RICH RMX!!! This one was on my HD for half a year now. So- out next week (lazy rich – don’t think about me).
My imprint “plasma.digital” celebrates the 30th (!!) release these days after 9 months in the market – a new RECORD!!! And another 10 releases will be out in the next 6-8 weeks…

To keep it short: my flight to NEW ZEALAND departs wednesday next week. So i’m gonna start with the video-diary then  ;)

speak soon
Miles

THURSDAY 13.11.2k8…

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

…it’s thursday again – 7 very busy days behind!! and even MORE ahead :(
I have to admit i’m still working on the KID DUB “perverted ways” rmx. really wanna make this one a good rmx…so priority 1 for me!!
Toby (el senóre distribution manager of plasmapool – he forced me to mention him here :) was uploading all the new stuff during the last days for today’s release marathon. So, brand new in all major stores across the globe:

- CALVERTRON “smash it rmxs” (dstn009 / d)
- JOHNNY K “insane” (twelve010 / d) awesome rmxs from ampere and superstrobe!!!
- MILES DYSON “anthem rmxs pt.2″ (plasmaus005 /d + v) finally the last rmx series of my anthem track. chris crowther, lee dearn and filthy rich did some great work on this…
- SUPREME SLUTS “crush” (plasmahr019 / d) make sure u don’t miss  the STIVO RMX. my fav on this rmx-ep.
- …+ alot more…check the stores ;)

As mentioned before – alot of work ahead…so next week’s to-do’s (mastering, cutting, editing, grafix, uploading, meta sheet madness, aso):

- RYAN DUPREE “u and me”
- SPKR NINJAZ “elephant”
- BART LECTRO “ep 1″
- BENJAMIN VIAL “train ep”
- MARK MAITLAND AND ETHERSON “equinox”
- BEATPUSHERZ “muzik / last disco”
- GBX “maximoluscos”
- BRYAN SHOWER “expression”
- CHRIS JAMES & PEDRO SANCHEZ “vote for me”
- TAGTRÄUMER² “repetition is change” (video on youtube”
- LAZY RICH “don’t think about me”
- POL “violet”
- DIGI JAK “diddy”
- LE JAD “disco megablaster”
- LUVSTUFF “freak of the week”

2 weeks left before i head off to my australia/new zealand tour. actually thinking about a video diary here on myspace showing u all the fat venues, landscapes, people and stuff. good idea???

THURSDAY 06.11.2k8…

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

…that were some loooong days and nights since monday. following a list with this weeks releases out today available in all stores across the globe (d=digital / v=vinyl):

- SHAROOZ “get off” (plasma012 / d + v) with mixes by sharooz, lazy rich, costello, superstrobe, aquilaganja and miles dyson :)
- COSTELLO “discovenger” (noize001 / d) with a stunning “the phat riderz” rmx
- DILEMN “pitiless” (noize002 / d) ooooh yeah, check it out…with additional costello and lazy rich makeover
- CALVERTRON “crasher – remixes” (dstn010 / d) after the massive impact of the original we deliver the rmx pack today including lazy rich, defunkt! and nortie rmxs…
- DISCOSUCKS “another jack track” (plasma.digi028 / d) 9 months ago i created this label and we are currently facing number 28!! the success keeps going with this quality 4 tracker!!!
- STERN “hot and burning ep” (bmd002 /d)
- ANDI VAX “drug race ep” (rerec031 /d)

…u can find’em on BEATPORT, TRACKITDOWN, DJDOWNLOAD, JUNODOWNLOAD, BEATSDIGITAL and heaps of other stores. VINYL can be pre-ordered at WEB-RECORDS.COM ;)

to-do’s for the rest of the week:
- mastering the new destination? release
- mastering BOMBERMEN “alcatrax”
- JOHNNY K “insane” preparing digital release for next week”
- MILES DYSON “anthem rmxs pt.2″ the same as above…
- SUPREME SLUTS “crush” the same
- finishing finally my KID DUB feat MISS DEXTRESS “perverted ways” rmx
- finishing my LAZY RICH “don’t think about me” rmx too (awesome vocals!!!)
- last but not least countersinging contracts for new plasmapool artists such as SPKR-NINJAS, AQUILAGANJA and lots of others….WELCOME TO PLASMAPOOL btw ;)

MONDAY 03.11.2k8…

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

a new month – the same madness!!
pretty hard times: currently 7-10 releases PER WEEK make my days veeeeery long + facing all the touring during the next weeks/months i gotta hurry up to prepare all the releases to be ready b4 my abscense…

- SHAROOZ__get off is done now completely. just need to collect missing rmx master files (senór costello and senór aquilaganja: PLEASE SEND EM AT LAAAAST!!!! ;) release date THURSDAY 6th globally
- opened a new label on saturday: NOIZE which exclusively releases the genre ELECTRONICA with 2 releases this week from DIL3MN and COSTELLO and thursday 13th from BLENDE/DEATH KIT.
- so….need to finsih mentioned 2 releases today
- the last missing acoustic elements i ordered last week arrived today. hell lotta work to adjust them for improving sound in my mastering room – but worth it ;)
this is gonna ba a long day again!!