Around the World with A-Trak, Part XXII: Primavera Sound
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After two weeks of madness in Asia I few to Barcelona to perform at Primavera Sound, one of my favorite festivals in Europe. This isn’t one of these mudfests where people camp out and play hacky sack to the tune of nu-rock. The programming is very tasteful, comparable to Coachella, and the site is by the water on firm ground.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XXI: A Taste of Asia Tour – Week 2
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Halfway into my Taste Of Asia tour I flew to Bangkok. This was my first trip to Thailand and I wish I could have stayed longer than one day. I arrived at my hotel and found a washer and dryer in my room. Heaven! I got a couple loads going and worked on some beats as my socks got cleaner and cleaner. Then I went to explore the city a bit.
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posted on Jun 15, 2009 in AROUND THE WORLD tags A Taste of Asia Tour Week 2, Around the World with A-Trak
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XX: A Taste Of Asia Tour – Week 1
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This humongous cross-continent tour was a great success as much on a professional, gig level as on a personal fulfillment level. I’m going to break it up by week for the blog because I have lots and lots of stories. Let’s sit around the campfire, so to speak.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XIX: The Detonate Festival
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Back on the road for another odyssey, this time for the entire month of May, literally from the 1st to the 31st. I was home for a few days last week, just enough time to touch base with reality and throw out the rotten clementines in my fridge. For some reason when it’s wintertime and I buy one of those wooden cases of clementines I get really psyched for a few days and then I forget about them. Then I might open the fruit drawer a month later and they still look the same so I keep them. Next thing you know I leave on tour, come back and it’s only when there’s a thriving ecosystem growing on them that I remember to toss them out. Can you blame me? Anyway, I promise I kept myself occupied with more than citrus fruit. I never socialize much when I’m in my hometown. I did, however, peep Catchdini DJing at Izza Kizza’s mixtape release party. I also finished a collaborative EP which you may or may not have heard of, dropping this summer. More on that soon. And I tied up a few loose ends for the last couple of songs that we’ve been recording for the much anticipated Kid Sister album. With that, I packed my Tumi and crossed the Atlantic.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XVIII: Europe to California to New York
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As I sit back and nurse the knockout that all these criss-crossing flights served me, I’m starting to remember what took place in the two weeks since I last wrote. I was halfway into my European tour, leaving Paris. I headed back to London, only to go to Brighton for a gig at Digital. Everyone in London was psyching me up about that club, its sound system and the fact that it’s right on the beach. “The beach, Jerry!” I think there’s a back door that opens to a pier. Might be a bit dangerous for the late night stumblers. Also, London DJs have this way of doing gigs in neighboring cities and driving back the same night after the gig, rather than getting a hotel. I shared a ride with Riva Starr. On the way down he played me his new klezmer-techno album. If you saw this YouTube on my blog a few weeks ago you’ll conclude that this is an interesting new trend. On the way back I just tried to sleep, but there’s no way around the fact that I got in dangerously late.
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XVII: The “Planet Earth” Tour
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I’m writing this blog in a cab in London. These rides tend to be long so I’m putting down the Twitterberry for a bit and dusting off the ol’ typewriter. I’m touring Europe for the majority of the month and the days are just flying by. The first show of the tour was last Friday at the famed Fabric nightclub in London for the launch of my new Fabriclive CD. I stopped by their offices in the daytime—barely recognized it with the sun out—and they gave me a box of my CDs… yes! But then they sent me off to do a couple hours of press… no!
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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Join The FADER’s newest weekly columnist, A-Trak, who will be sharing with us the life and times of a superstar DJ and globetrotting gentleman. His column is called Around the World until he tells us otherwise.
Part XIII: Festival First Night, Conquering Fears, Shark Week, Tracy Morgan, Australia
