AROUND THE WORLD
A-Trak's global missives and hotel reviews.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XVI: WMC in Miami
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Sorry for the late report folks! I usually do these blogs on Mondays but this week has been nuts. The madness really hit overdrive when I went to Miami for Winter Music Conference last week. I was just coming off of two press days in LA where my personal highlight was the combination of driving in the city of cars for the first time, twittering about how bad I drive especially in a rental Jeep, and getting @replies warning me that I’d get a ticket for texting and driving! As you’ll recall, WMC marked the final stretch of my Infinity +1 tour, having been on the road for 2 weeks.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XV: Texas to California
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Week 2 of the Infinity +1 tour! After the overall awesomeness of the New York show on the first weekend, I knew it would be smooth sailing for a while. I guess New York has this sort of make-or-break-ness to it. So picking up where we last left off, I took the train to Boston for a show on St Patrick’s day, last Tuesday. It’s pretty rare that you get to take trains in North America compared to Europe, and it’s such an easier way to travel when the distance isn’t too bad. At Penn Station I was already seeing a bunch of dudes dressed in green, ready to double-fist some brewskis. The potential for obnoxiousness was pretty high, I’d say it was level orange. Arriving in Boston, I went to sound check with Mano and Hollywood Holt who were also performing that night and we realized that the club looked like a big boudoir. Jiggy clubs: another setting where bitchassness is very likely. The more velvet you see, the more likely you are to run into dumbbells. We went to eat a big lobster dinner and came back for the show. I guess it’s a good thing that I hadn’t played Boston in years because in the end I think that brought out my real audience and we beat out the evil forces of jiggy clubs and wasted jocks and had a really fun time! Everything else was a false alarm.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XIV: The Return
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Hello Fader friends! I took a couple of weeks off from my Around The World column because, well, I wasn’t going around the world that much. I was mostly recording, first finishing up my Infinity +1 and Fabriclive mix CDs that are both dropping in 2 weeks, and then starting cooking up some new material for the year. I did travel a little bit. I went to visit my family in Canada.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XIII
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Part XIII: Festival First Night, Conquering Fears, Shark Week, Tracy Morgan, Australia
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XII
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Part XII: Ed Banger, Australia, Murs, Catchdubs Storytelling, Santogold, Missing Luggage
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XI
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Part XI: D-Nice, Hors D’oeuvres, Freeway, Fool’s Gold Holiday Party
Around the World with A-Trak, Part X
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Part X: FADER 10th Anniversary, Funkmaster Flex’s assistant, Cipha Sounds, Winnepeg, Vampire Weekend, The Hump, Twitter
Around the World with A-Trak, Part IX
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Part IX: V-necks, Canada, Obscure Disorder, Chromeo, American Thanksgiving
Around the World with A-Trak, Part VIII
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Part VII: paintball, Daft Punk, Nike Air Max, Slick Rick, Kanye West, Catchdubs
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posted on Nov 24, 2008 in AROUND THE WORLD tags Around the World with A-Trak, Daft Punk, Diplo, electronic/dance, Fools Gold, hip hop, Kanye West, Mad Decent
Around the World with A-Trak, Part VII
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Part VII: mtvU Woodies, Chromeo, more Kavinsky, Erol Alkan, BBC’s Essential Mix, Fake Blood
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posted on Nov 17, 2008 in AROUND THE WORLD tags Around the World with A-Trak, electronic/dance, hip hop
