Introducing the Meute Techno Marching Band
The Meute techno marching band hails from Hamburg, Germany. Meute is an eleven piece, full-ensemble, brass band with lively percussion. Their intriguing difference is a unique take on electronica and dance music classics, performed by a full marching band! Founded in 2016, they’ve since been a hit throughout Europe, in an all-acoustic rendition of what typically takes DJ gear and vast electronics to generate. We recently watched...
Final Echoes at the Elbphilharmonie
In a flurry of final notes and applause around the walls of Hamburg’s magnificent Elbphilharmonie, the much-anticipated David August concert came to a close. This marked the last hurrah of my book, Plan Sea, started around a year ago, concluding with the lessons learned from remote working on the road. Life is so much more than work, and must be balanced as such, as we work to live, and live to work, but neither should be more...
LUXOR Music, New Collaboration of Antigone and Shlømo
Luxor Music – Collaboration of Antigone and Shlomo LUXOR is a musical collaboration of renowned French techno producers Antigone and Shlømo. They recently appeared at the Up To Date Festival 2018 in Bialystok, Poland – the first ever show. We are thrilled to have interviewed the duo ahead of their WORLD PREMIER of LUXOR live performance at Up To Date. The boys share some thoughts on friends, family, inspiring older people...
The Ultimate Digital Nomad Desk Tech Kit
As a perennial traveller, without access to a lovely ergonomically-friendly desk setup wherever you are in the world, life can be tough. Searing backache from a day working from your laptop in bed. Too many power cords not enough plugs/adapters. Suddenly finding yourself having to do work from your phone when your laptop screen cracks and you can’t figure out where the hell to repair it. 3 years on the road has taught me that to be...
Breakfast in Riga, Sunset Berlin
Last weekend was spent in Palanga, Lithuania The Baltic trip is complete, in a big, rushed finale to a mission that started around six weeks ago. Despite some initial fears and anxieties, not the least of which was virtually no budget for any of this, everything was OK in the end, as it almost always is. In fact, it was another one of those magical adventures, void of expectations, a general idea of a route, and then steadfastly...
From Vilnius to Palanga
A week into my first visit, Lithuania is rapidly rising up my list of impressive countries. People are friendly, society is laid back and respectful, there is an abundance of green nature and rustic old buildings, and a peaceful sense of contentedness. The first four nights I spent in the capital, Vilnius. I stayed at one of the best hostels I’ve been to in the world, Downtown Forest Hostel and Camping. Angels in Uzupis I met...