#tripreport

[anitosoul]

tripreport.046_dubechoes

This was the month of dub and soundsystems. This entire episode was heavily inspired by Edward George, and specifically his radio show The Strangeness of Dub. I was fascinated by George’s explorations of dub not only historically, but also socially and spiritually. I had never thought about dub as a queer genre, but there is an inherent strangeness in the genre, one which was developed on the B-side. Dub’s existence as a variant, with all its versions, instrumentals, and experimentations in sound, could even be considered a glitch. That is, dub exists only in relation to the “normal” version of the track, that is, until it eventually went on to influence the entirety of electronic music, specifically through remixes, bass, and exploration of effects such as reverb and delay.

Tying it further to the current moment and what’s been on my mind lately, I began thinking of dub and Jamaican music in general as a framework for a collectivist music future. I was very interested in the utility of the music as a gathering opportunity, where music was made for the physical soundsystems that would serve as the centerpiece for community events. The idea of originality was different too—copyright laws were not a factor in the creation of Jamaican music, and artists would often iterate and create versions of an established, popular riddim. To consider originality in this way was refreshing and honest; the notion of copying, bootlegging, sampling, etc. is a big part of my own practice, and I’m generally much more suspicious of people who treat music as some sort of competition, as something to be protected or gatekept. I find beauty in the listener taking an existing work and “customizing” it for their own experience. That, to me, is art succeeding.

This fascination in Jamaican soundsystem culture also ignited even more interest in building up my record collection, so I spent a lot of my time this month digging for 45”s from 1970s-1980s Jamaica. The first half of this mix is a selection of some of the records I’ve collected interspersed with other reggae/dub tracks that I enjoyed but don’t own. The back half is other music I’ve been listening to in typical tripreport fashion, but all tracks that I feel to have a through line connection with dub, whether that be sonically, conceptually, or spiritually. It’s pretty much all contemporary music from the 90s onwards, spanning hip-hop, R&B, house, afrobeats, bass, dubstep, grime, trap, techno, jungle, ghettotech, footwork, and dnb. 

It being Black History Month, I was lucky enough to hear some great music live in-person as well, including a deep dive from Edward George at NYU on the connection between Billy Strayhorn, and the interlinked histories of jazz, dub, and subsequently all modern electronic music. That put me on a big jazz kick too, listening to a lot of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. As part of Dweller, I attended the dub and jungle nights and got to see performances from Liv.e, Embaci, Edward George, Tim Reaper, and Kush Jones. That night resulted in several of the tracks that I’ve included in this episode. Outside of that, I also got to see Sully and Anz at Nowadays Nonstop and also got back in my indie bag and last minute saw Mitski at the Beacon Theatre on the UWS. 

Overall, it was fun that this episode was more of a deep dive in a specific genre in addition to what the tripreport format has tended to become since I’ve started DJing. Tying it to my personal life, I think that dub has really helped me slow down. If I had a New Years Resolution, it would be to take life slower in 2024. It’s difficult for me to take time to myself, or at least time to relax. Since getting back into dub, getting sick, and consequently getting back into smoking weed, I feel like I had a hard reset and some kind of return to form. For pretty much all of this year up until right now, I’ve been staying sober, running a ton, trying to be “normal” to cope with the grief. To be honest, though, that month was one of the trippiest months of my life. I feel a lot more grounded since taking a week off running and socializing and since starting to smoke weed again. It helped too that I was working from home for most of this month. It feels counterintuitive, but I’m going to trust my body. 

The day before I released this episode, we had the best weather of the year. I went for an incredibly long walk and listened to music and got an ice cream cone. It was really nice to have a glimpse of the spring. It quickly went back to being terrible and stormed/was cloudy all the rest of the week, but we finally got to Daylight Savings Time ending as I write this and it already feels like a shift that the sun is still out when I get off work. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m trying to trust the natural rhythm of life and go with the flow. The strangeness of dub.

tracklist

Intro: Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra - The Golden Pearl

A-Side

The Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub (version 1) (1981)

Courtney Melody - Ninja Mi Ninja (Version) (1988)

C Patterson - Labour Ward (1981)

Joe Gibbs - Bionic Mix (~1979)

Jah Shaka - Verse 1 (1982)

The Aggrovators - Dunza Dub (1977)

Shabba Ranks - Respect (1993)

Augustus Pablo - Only Jah Jah Dub (1988)

The Skatalites - Roots Dub (1976)

Lloyd Brevett & the Skatalites - Rock Bottom (1978)

Scientist - Taxi to Baltimore Dub (1981)

The Wailing Souls - Kingdom Rise & Kingdom Fall (12” mix) [1980]

Bob Marley - The Heathen (1977)

Lee Scratch Perry - Bird In Hand (1978)

Johnny Lover - Ital Locks (1975)

Jah Stittch - Good For Us All (1976)

Jackie Mittoo - Oboe (1980)

Carlton & the Shoes - Let Me Love You (~1980) 

Prince Mohamid - Bubbling Love (1977)

Barrington Levy - Black Heart Man (Version) [1983]

Intermission: Splash - Babylon (DJ SS Remix), Lee Perry & Mad Professor - Super Ape Inna Jungle

B-Side

SZA - Saturn (Instrumental)

SZA - Saturn

GZA - Gold (Instrumental)

GZA - Gold (Feat. Method Man)

Jlin - Eye Am

A.R. Kane - Baby Milk Snatcher (12" Version)

1600j - Bank Account [RockyyThugn] (Ft Boofpaxmooky)

Little Simz - SOS

Babyfather - Fonda

Kerri Chandler - The Steel Drum Song

Identified Patient - Visualize It

The System - Vampirella

Dean Blunt - PRAYER 2015

Ahadadream - Spaceship

Skepta - Same Old Story

Digital Mystikz - Misty Winter

DJ Blackpower - Haha-haHAAA!

A$AP Rocky - D.M.B.

IZCO - RITE NOW

Kelela - Raven (TYGAPAW Remix feat. Rochelle Jordan)

Playboi Carti ft Travis Scott - BACKR00MS

Seekersinternational - SaturdayNiteDrive

The Ganja Kru - Mash Up Da Place (Origin Unknown Remix)

DJ Taktix - The Way (VIP Mix)

Atrice - Pipe Dreams

Dastardly Kids - Bu$$ The Bank (Ka!ros Flip)

DJ RASHAD - Kush Ain't Loud

Sully - Vérité

Outro: Duke Ellington - Solitude, Billy Strayhorn - Day Dream

#mix #tripreport #trip report #dj mix #8ball #radio #reflects #thoughts #reggae #dub #SoundCloud

[milindmk]

#Bangalore to mumbai #landing to mumbai #tripreport #trip report #air travel #travel #travelling #mumbai #Bangalore #bengaluru #Youtube

[italiangiftsforyou]

Through the STUNNING Brenner Pass, from Austria to Italy / BB EuroCity First Class Review

#expressvpn #tripreport

[bethkpk]

Existential Crisis

I reached out to Vivec during the week as I thought this painting would fit as a thumbnail for one of his youtube videos. I'm so chuffed, he ended up loving it and also gave me a shoutout in his video!  Thanks so much! Hope to do more thumbails for him in the near future 😊 check out his videos! 😀

It was my first time painting something like this which (hopefully) invokes a sense of unimaginable scale. I've been watching a lot of videos about our universe recently, some crazy things are out there 👀

#digitalart #universe #spaceart #astronomy #spaceasethetic #trip #tripreport #outerspaceart #blackholes

[flipchild]

need 2 find a new psych but in meantime I've been provided with 10mg Lexapro nightly, whose purpose is to lessen remission symptoms from years-long daily dosing of 100 and, more recently, 200mg Zoloft nightly. #tripReport ‼️

#any anecdote would be inchresting

[4x4community]

Video _ tripreport Magical Kgalagadi NP February 2023

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[lizseyi]

The Warm Reviews Continue To Flood In ForManthan’s “Authentic” And “Stellar” Indian Culinary Experience - Manthan Mayfair

Here at Manthan, we certainly like to talk up all the things that make our stylish Maddox Street eatery so special. However, we also know that it’s probably not only us you would like to hear from before making the decision to dine with us.

That’s why it may interest you to read two recent reviews of the experience provided by our high-end Indian restaurant. It is fair to say the critics were enamoured of our commitment to, and execution of, gastronomic innovation across a wide range of quintessentially Indian, street-food-style dishes.

So, what did some of the most discerning of London’s professional diners have to say? Let’s take a look.

Home-style Indian food that “doesn’t disappoint”

In its recent rundown of the UK capital’s most romantic restaurants, the premium British food magazine Olive chose to feature Manthan on the strength of our “quality Indian street food in a romantic setting”.

The magazine stated that “with a pedigree like chef RohitGhai’s” – referring to our Michelin-starred chef – “expectations of the food at his new Mayfair restaurant are high – and it doesn’t disappoint.”

Olive was complimentary of the “romantic” vibe of our establishment, describing the dining room as “long and wood-panelled, adorned with beautiful paintings of exotic flowers. Even at lunchtime it feels romantic, and the sharing dishes reflect that vibe.”

Working through both ourGalikakhana (street food) and Rassedar (curries) sections, the magazine had plenty of praise for dishes ranging from our “plump and tender” ghati masala prawns and jackfruit tacos that it described as “a revelation”, to – on the dessert menu – “the Classic Trip of sweet laddoo, sticky gulabjamun and creamy srikhand.”

In its recent rundown of the UK capital’s most romantic restaurants, the premium British food magazine Olive chose to feature Manthan on the strength of our “quality Indian street food in a romantic setting”.

The magazine stated that “with a pedigree like chef RohitGhai’s” – referring to our Michelin-starred chef – “expectations of the food at his new Mayfair restaurant are high – and it doesn’t disappoint.”

Olive was complimentary of the “romantic” vibe of our establishment, describing the dining room as “long and wood-panelled, adorned with beautiful paintings of exotic flowers. Even at lunchtime it feels romantic, and the sharing dishes reflect that vibe.”

Working through both ourGalikakhana (street food) and Rassedar (curries) sections, the magazine had plenty of praise for dishes ranging from our “plump and tender” ghati masala prawns and jackfruit tacos that it described as “a revelation”, to – on the dessert menu – “the Classic Trip of sweet laddoo, sticky gulabjamun and creamy srikhand.”

“I rated Manthan very highly”

Looking over to the TripReporter website, writer Andy Mossackwas similarly forthcoming in his approval of the Manthan dining experience.

Describing our venue itself as a “narrow but deep townhouse swathed in gold and dark wood with plenty of soft banquette seating and wall art”, Mossack characterised the ghati masala prawns as “a very tasty starter”, and the ram laddoo as “very impressive”.

The cafrealmachhi, meanwhile, was hailed as “an absolute banger of a dish” with its sea bass accompanied by Goan spices and a burnt tomato. As for the artichoke with white turmeric and a strawberry jus, Mossack saluted it as “another stellar display”. The sauce of fenugreek, tomato, and Kashmiri chilli in which the chicken tikka masala was bathed was also described as “very moreish”.

The TripReporter writer concluded: “I rated Manthan very highly for not only Ghai’s authentic culinary wizardry but also for showing how you can eat very well in Mayfair without slapping on a stellar price point.”

Now, it’s your turn to experience Manthan

Have the excited and enthused words of the professionals got you curious about how we would rate among your own favourite places to eat in Mayfair, or even in London as a whole?

If so, you would be very welcome to make a reservation with us for a time that suits you and your visiting party, so that you can immerse yourself in the Manthan magic resulting from the hard work, skills, and imaginations of Rohit and his business partner AbhishakeSangwan. We would be delighted to see you!

#places to eat in Mayfair

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澳洲留学生本科无法毕业该怎么去解决学历问题？

澳洲留学容易毕业吗？澳洲留学要求多吗？挂科了重修过的几率大吗？被开除被停学了还有可能留在原校吗？每个去往澳洲的学生心中都会有很多这样的问句，无论是找学长学姐，还是看各种攻略，都没有自己亲身感受到位。

在澳洲上大学，平时的表现也占据了一部分的分数，不仅学校对于学生的出勤很是在乎，考试的种类也多种多样，像是什么essay,assignment,group project, lab exercise, project, quiz, online quiz, practical field tripreport, presentation……什么形式的都有，每一次的评测都会影响到最终的分数。

学生一旦遭遇了问题之后，收到学校的邮件，很多学生都会草木皆兵，不敢轻举妄动。本来来到澳洲留学的学生，刚开始带着很强的憧憬前往，但是只要一遇到挂科、出勤率低被学校警告，就会变得胆小如鼠、谨小慎微。

但是即使是这样小心翼翼，也有大部分学生会二次挂科，二度遭遇学术不诚信，这样造成的结果就是学校处分更加严重，甚至也有被停学被开除的学生，这些遇到了的话，该怎么办呢？

吃瓜留学列出三点重要的方向抉择：

一、澳洲留学生遇到问题可申诉。学校如果给学生停学、开除的处分的话，学生签证是会被取消，这时候不能够留在澳洲，目前可要求的就是能够留在原学校。

二、本科被开除被停学，可以选择在现在的情况下，直接申请硕士。这是能够拿到学历的最快办法，因为硕士学制较短，澳洲一年半到两年，英国则更短，只要一年左右即可顺利毕业，这时候拿到硕士的degree不成问题。

拿到硕士的degree之后即可进行学历认证，这给本科已然不能够继续就读的学生一个很好的选择，因为本科要是想转学重读，也需要好几年，也不能够保证能毕业，这是比较好的一种办法。

三、本科未毕业直接回国。每年经历留学失败的人群其实不是少数，他们大多没拿到最后的文凭就先回了国，但是这样没有文凭，不管是就业还是落户都会遇到些许的麻烦，所以可以申请一份带学位的留信，这样都是可行的。

吃瓜留学，留学疑难问题解决，欢迎投稿关注。

[loser-62]

DXM 500mg trip report

Weight: 100lbs

Dose: 500mg DXM polistirex

May 14, 2020

9:00pm

This is when I drank the syrup. I measured out 500mg of the dxm (it was from a bottle of Delsym) and drank it straight.

9:30pm

I began feeling a little dizzy, but was still definitely sober. I decided to take a shower and wait for the come-up.

9:55pm

I was just waiting calmly at my desk for the effects to take place. Things around me started to feel blurry and slightly “not real,” like the only thing I had left was my mind. It wasn’t a very intense feeling though and I was still thinking very clearly and logically. Also my stomach began to hurt when I walked around. It was definitely more comfortable to just sit and chill out.

11:00pm

At this point things had started to kick in. I felt very light, and whenever I walked  it felt like I had just walked off a treadmill. I felt very reserved and quiet, and would just sit in my kitchen and think to myself about my life and everything. Music felt very profound, and thoughts began swirling around in my head.

12:01am

I was definitely tripping. At this point all I wrote in my journal was “I couldn’t feel real if I tried.”

12:43am

A vibrating aura surrounded my body and made me feel extremely euphoric and disconnected from myself. Apart from that the high itself felt sort of like a mix of weed and alcohol, and my stomach still ached.

2:00am

At this point I smoked some weed. This is when everything changed. At around 2 in the morning I decided to go to my room and lie down, and whilst I was walking up the stairs I realized that nothing surrounding me was real. I felt like a lego person walking around in a lego house, or a doll in a doll house. Everything looked and felt so fabricated, and it was then that I came to the conclusion that this world was made to trick us and that we are living in the matrix. This revelation left me feeling slightly unnerved. Once I got to my room I layed down in my bed and started spiraling deep into thought. At this point the music I was listening to didn't sound as euphoric, but was still amazing to listen to and intertwined nicely with what was going on in my brain.

I looked at a small speaker next to my bed and realized that everything is a factal. I stared into it and saw the infinite dimensions that composed it, and it was actually very intense because as I was staring at it it felt as if my mind was being dragged inside of it and forced to pass through a tunnel if its multiple dimensions. Then, I took to contemplating. I remember asking myself "We think this is consciousness?" because I suddenly became aware of how unknowing we are of the universe that surrounds us, and began thinking and seeing beings and concepts much bigger and much smaller than I could otherwise ever concieve.

Now, this is the part that has stuck with me the most. I realized that we, as people, are not our thoughts, but our actions. Our thoughts are not real. As someone who has spent most of my life dissociating and trying to remove myself from this world in avoidance of the truth, when I truly understood this concept it kind of fucked me up. All the time I spent daydreaming and thinking of what to do was time wasted, was time where I truly did not exist because I was not acting. We are our actions. We cannot simply live in our heads forever because that is a life wasted, we are what we put out into this world, whatever this world truly ends up being.

Of course, like with every trip, I understood that everything is connected and saw particles interacting with eachother, and realized we are all the same, but this is nothing new. I also came to realize that this reality is not real, that nothing matters, life is thought, and some other things but eventually once I had gone through my revelations I was left with a slight but constant feeling of paranoia. Maybe it was the weed, maybe it was the dxm or the understanding that we are being controlled and simulated, I am not sure, but the feeling was there. I also had some pretty bad pain in my kidney and liver areas, and it was extremely bothersome and paranoia inducing. I eventually fell asleep, and the next day I woke up earlier than usual, feeling refreshed (I will always be grateful for the dxm afterglow), but my body ached and I was very dehydrated. My back and right side hurt for the next few days, but now they basically feel normal again.

Honestly, I feel like this trip report is quite underwhelming, but I just can't put into words the amount of things I realized, saw, and felt during this experince. I was definitely bordering the 3rd/4th plateau and was in a state of dissociative sedation. This is kind of just a rough outline of what happened.

#dxm #trip report #tripping #drugs #dextromethorphan #delsym #tripreport #dissociatives #matrix #i feel so stupid #stupid

[mironart]

‘2C-SE’

'(with 50 mg) My tongue feels as if I had eaten hot food. Overall I got up to a plus 1, and found the effects to be completely benign. I wandered about within the Graves exhibit at the Oakland Museum but there seemed to be only minor enhancement of the visual input. 

(with 70 mg) The water solution of this material has an unspeakable smell. But there is no lasting taste, thank heaven. This is up to a 1.5 + and probably half again would be an effective dose. The first awareness was at 45 minutes, and the plateau lasted from 1.5 hours to about the fourth hour. I was at certain baseline at 8 hours. With an entirely new hetero atom in the molecule (the selenium), and with clear indications that large dosages would be needed (100 milligrams. or more), some discretion was felt desirable.' 

Trip report by Alexander Shulgin

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[anitosoul]

tripreport.045_griefutures

February 5, 2024

My lola (grandma) died on January 1st, 2024. On New Years Eve, I was already having a strange time, and a text from my mom that said that my lola went to the hospital sent me spiraling. The next day, I felt like something was off, and after pretty much lounging in bed all day, my mom called me and told me that she passed away around 5pm New York time. 

Since then, I’ve been processing a deeply complicated grief layered with family trauma and confusing emotions, grief for what could have been, grief for what should have been, grief for what wasn’t, grief for other peoples’ grief, grief for unjust systems, grief for the world. Grief for reality. This has been one of the longest months of my life.

What were the five stages of grief again? Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I’ve felt all of these to varying degrees over the past month (and I’m writing this a month late, so for the past two months). Denial definitely hit first. I had a DJ gig lined up for that Friday at Red Pavilion which was poised to be one of the bigger crowds I’ve played to, and I threw myself into the preparation for that. It was to be a Lunar New Year celebration signifying the end of the Year of the Rabbit and ringing in the Year of the Dragon. I wanted so desperately to celebrate that potential prosperity, I was so excited about the event, pushing away the thoughts of my lola. How she probably didn’t even know I was a DJ, how she never seemed to care about me at all, how she never even seemed to love me, and now she truly never would. The maximalist, brutal Asian club sounds masked my pain. I even watched Millennium Mambo for inspiration, but the film’s undertones of malaise amidst a youthful party existence mirrored the feelings in my own life. 

I tried other ways of hiding, maintaining a sense of normalcy. I finally started trying to actively date again, which wasn’t very fruitful, probably something to do with the circumstances of me using it as a way to forget about my Lola’s death. I got my hair cut after nearly 2 years, harkening back to a pre-pandemic version of myself. Anything to feel normal. Anything to feel like this wasn’t my new reality, one where my lola and thousands of Palestinians were dead. I went to work, I went to shows, I went to the club, I went to birthday parties, I went to friends’ apartments, I DJ’d, I worked on my own music. Anything to feel normal. I started exercising again, I signed up for a half marathon. I was basically sober all month. Anything to feel normal.

Nothing felt normal.

The solace I found was in the future. It was in afrofuturism. I watched the Last Angel of History and it rewired my brain. I read The Parable of the Sower and it rewired my heart. I watched Robocop, I watched Ghost in the Shell. I listened to Carl Craig, Model 500, Drexciya, K-HAND, Jeff Mills, the Belleville Three, Urban Tribe, Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sanders, Moodymann, Lee Perry, Goldie, LTJ Bukem, A Guy Called Gerald. Synchronously, Kevin Saunderson was playing Nowadays Nonstop the morning after I watched The Last Angel of History, and the Sun Ra Arkestra was playing at TV Eye later that month. Their expressions of the future were real, they were raw. They weren’t trying to be normal. In fact, they were showing just how alien all of this existence is. I read the works of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Mark Fisher’s K-punk, Sadie Plant, Kodwo Eshun, Edward George. I was deeply inspired by the idea of the Data Thief, traveling through time to find the original black secret technology. I read about the alternate universe of the Drexciyans, a world untouched by colonialism, by capitalism, by religion, by whiteness. I read about the dystopian world promised in the Parables, in Earthseed. The realest it could get. 

All that you touch You change.

All that you Change Changes you.

The only lasting truth is Change.

God is Change.

This message carried me throughout my grief. Octavia was telling it like it is. Lauren Olamina was telling it like it is. They were fully aware of the harsh realities of this world and they knew where things were headed. Their bravery, their persistence, despite the horrors, inspired me. Their acceptance—that deep, radical, empathetic acceptance—comforted me so deeply. All of it poured back in to my creative output near the end of the month, where I dumped all of those five stages of grief into one 30-minute moment. I was destroying myself working on my live set, BATAS NG GUBAT (LAW OF THE JUNGLE), an expression of revolution and resistance through sound that started before my Lola’s death and ended after my Lola’s death. It encompassed my Lola’s death. She was born in 1947. She lived through the First Quarter Storm, the EDSA Revolution, the Nakba. I don’t know where she stood in regards to any of it and I don’t think I ever will. I channeled my anger into the project—why did she care more about her religion than she cared about me? Why did she marry a man who abused my mom, and then marry a white man who abused her until nearly the end of her days? Why did she transfer so much trauma to my mom, who then transferred it to me and my sister?

After performing the project, I felt a sense of catharsis. Through the preparation for the project, through all the research and theory and watching documentaries and learning, so much learning, I was somewhere in between bargaining and acceptance. In a way, I had been romanticizing my ancestors. They were a vague concept, a God to me. Now, my lola was one of them, one of the few who I actually knew on this earth. Wherever she is now, I hope that she can see now why I am the way I am, and I hope that she can accept me. After all I’ve immersed myself in through this process, I’ve been working through relinquishing the blame I’ve put on her. I see her now as someone who was trying their best given the circumstances, someone who was suffering under these brutal systems like all of us are. And I forgive her for that.

The tail end of my Lola’s life was spent traveling, staying with my mom after we basically extracted her from her abusive relationship, and eventually going back to the Philippines where she got to spend time with my extended family before she passed away. My mom said that in one of the last conversations she had with my lola, she said she wasn’t ready to come back to the US. I don’t think she ever would have been. I think she realized, like I’ve seen happen to my dad and my other lola, that the West wasn’t made for us. She was home. And I’m so deeply grateful that she had that agency at the end of her life, the privilege to choose to die in her homeland. Despite the pain, I love her, and I wish her love. I hope she’s feeling it looking down on me now.

Tracklist

Intro: The Sun Ra Arkestra - Seductive Fantasy

A-Side

DJ Stingray - Lead from the Shadows

Tzusing - Balkanize

Anti Shift - Intertwine

Art of Noise - Dreaming (Colour Green)

Luzon - The Baguio Track (The Full Igorot Vocal Mix)

YASSCORP - If You Ever Cared

Boa - Duvet (ScummV - Virtual Self Edit) [LLFA Tech Overlay]

Object Blue, TSVI - Turing Machine

DJ Love & DJ Ron - Atchup Atchup

Kenta204 - Blessed by an Angel

Actress & London Contemporary Orchestra - LAGEOS

Carl Craig - Red Lights

Moodymann - Desire

Skee Mask - Panorama

The Other People Place - Moonlight Rendezvous

Model 500 - Starlight (Moritz Mix)

Cindy Lee - What’s Tonight to Eternity

Grouper - Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleeping

Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Kokoro

Metá Metá - Obatalá

Intermission: Drexciya - Under Sea Disturbances

B-Side

Kenji Kawai - M02 Ghosthack

Non-Confined Space - A Pure Person

Baraka - I’ll Be There

Maara - Just Give Me Time

Artificial Red - The Oasis (ft. Voodoo)

Lee Gamble - Ghost

Splash - Babylon

Drexciya - Aqua Jujidsu

Mr. Fingers - Spy (Kode9 Remix)

Lola Lilac - Star Anise

Lynx and Omen - There’s Something (Omen Mix)

2 On a Tip - Rare Groove Jungle

Doctor Jay & DJ Rush Puppy - Respect

Anito Soul - MAKIBAKA

Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - 1-2-1

Dianna Lopez - yoho rodeo

Outro: Oh, Yoko - Seashore (Sprinkles’ Ambient Ballroom)

#mix #tripreport #dj mix #8ball #radio #reflects #thoughts #SoundCloud

[underthesea1995-blog]

Story time .

In my ever so eventual teenage years , I’ve had more fun & crazy experiences than I can honestly count . But I’ll start by saying I was a wild child . Now that I’m older I’m not very proud of all my experiences but most of them are funny enough to come to mind from time to time . This one came up the other day .

It was early in the year , exact date unknown because I partied constantly which you will soon come to know in these stories , and me [17 at the time ] and my girlfriend at the time we’re in a rather large dose of dxm [ cough syrup basically for those of you that don’t know] . The story starts off with me and her showing up to my brother from another mothers house . I can’t tell you where we were coming from because honestly I can’t remember. But there we were , a large group of us hanging out on the porch smoking and talking about our adventures to my friends . A friend/ fuck buddy & his friends from outside of our group shows up randomly and asks “ hey boo thang do y’all want to go shrooming with us ?” Of course the answer was yes . We were starting to come down from our previous trip and we’re now looking for our next adventure .

Now this is where it gets wacky ( to me Atleast ) . See , I don’t come from wealth or any type of money frankly . I’d never been in a house that had more than 3 bedrooms . Or a house that didn’t have after party residue , dirty dishes & half smoked cigarettes everywhere . So anything “ McMansion” type was something of a fairy tale for me . What happens next I’ve always just described as something you only hear of in the movies .

My girlfriend and I gather our belongings and jump in the truck to go on what I assumed would be a normal shrooming trip. No. My friend in the group we’ll call B . He had two other guys with him that I had never met guy #1 & #2 ( no clue what their names were ) . We drive about 30 min and pull up to these Hughes gates with a security person controlling them .

Guy #2 leans over B and gives him his name and the security person lets us through . A short ride through a neighborhood with houses bigger than I’ve ever seen we pull into the drive way of a GORGEOUS 6+ bedroom mansion of a house. We didn’t go in though ,B told me there was a cow field a short walk up the road , so that’s where we headed .

We grazed and picked mushrooms from over an hour . Eating the larger of the caps we came upon as we looked . We all split up to cover more ground and once me and my girl had gathered a decent amount we went to go find everyone else . At this point the mushrooms we had already eaten start to hit on top of the faint traces of the dxm. We all link back up and start the walk back to guy #2 house .

The walk back took SO much longer than before . I start getting touchy and flirty with B like normal . My girlfriend tho 🤦🏼‍♀️the Mushies hit her hard . She’s shorter than me , maybe 5”4 on a good day. She starts beebopping in and out of the trees along the road , skipping and jumping talking about “ I’m a forest elf bitches catch me if you can” & I lost it. The giggles had set in and it seemed like they were never going to end .

We get back to guys house and go out back . There I was informed he had a salt water pool & hot tub ( more fancy stuff I had never even heard of ) . We all decide to strip down and jump in the pool & hot tub. Giggling and laughing having the time of our lives .

Next thing I know there’s this older man I’d never met before yelling at us . Telling us to be quiet . The older man then looks at guy #2 and says “ you didn’t even tell us you were coming to visit from college ?!”

So now I’m understanding that this isn’t guy #2 house . It’s his PARENTS . And they didn’t even know we were there ! My mom would have beat me black and blue but that’s another story .

His dad goes back inside and we settle down and come back to reality for a moment . Then it dawns on me that a house this nice must have a killer bathroom . Me and my girlfriend had a thing about hooking up in showers and I was dying to see the shower in this house . So we all sneak inside . Giggling , stumbling & trying our best to not wake his dad back up .

Somehow we all end up in the bathroom . My girlfriend had the hots for guy #1 and they start making out . Me and B obviously start making out . So that leaves friend #2 all alone . we all end up naked in the shower , me and b , her and #1 . Now I’m not saying #2 didn’t TRY to join but he quickly got the point that he wasn’t invited. One thing leads to another the shower is on ( 2 shower heads on opposing walls and a removable one ) and I’m at this point hooking up with b , eyes closed fully enjoying myself completely forgetting my surroundings , as is my girl and #1. So I feel my hair getting wet , then not , then my back and I notice the water is moving somehow . So I open my eyes to see guy #2 spraying everyone with the removable shower head . When I asked him what he was doing he says “ well I couldn’t join so I figured I’d stand here and watch and keep everyone warm” .

When I tell you we all lost it 😂 we LOST it . The bathroom became a room of just pure laughter and giggles , any sense of sexy ness or romance completely gone . Then the bathroom door busts open and we’re all snapped back to reality . His dad starts yelling telling us to leave and this and that . So I tried to grab my stuff but everything was spread across the back yard and down stairs so I ended up leaving in a bathing suit top and one of their nice bathroom towels as bottoms .

We get dropped back off to my brothers house & now have explain why we need to borrow his ball shorts and t shirts .

Still one of my favorite memories. Who ever would have thought it would have ended up in a fancy ass neighborhood, butt naked in a shower with 2 dudes I’ve never met with one spraying me kindly with hot water 😂

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Trip report Almaty (Kazakhstan) - Ürümqi (China ) by train (Silk Road part 6 NL to China by train).

Trip report #6 Almaty / Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan - Ürümqi in China

Silk-Road video 6 of 9

Trip report #6

Welcome to another trip report. Video 6 out of 9 on my way to and in China along the Silk-Road.

In this video I'll be travelling with a Chinese soft sleeper train, train number K9796, from Kazakhstan Almaty (Alma-Ata) to Ürümqi in China.

I will launch a website with more information soon www.trainviking.com

ALL MY TRIP REPORTS ON CHINESE TRAINS:

Almaty (Kazakhstan) - Ürumqi: https://youtu.be/1gz8W5K9_6A

Ürümqi - Lanzhou: https://youtu.be/24GW0C2elOo

Lanzhou - Beijing: https://youtu.be/f7KzuAzRcyQ

Beijing - Great wall: https://youtu.be/M0usWofjmRA

Beijing - Shanghai: https://youtu.be/ZSjsxef21_Q

Shanghai Maglev: https://youtu.be/O9CR1qSxyEs

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A Perfect Day at LEGOLAND Florida with Kids

LEGOLAND® Florida trip report: making the most out of your time at the park.

Disclosure: we were hosted by LEGOLAND® Florida.

I spent a day at LEGOLAND® Florida with 3 of my kids ages (10, 7 and 6) during a recent Disney free trip to the Orlando area. We have traveled to Orlando and all of the Disney parks over fifteen times, as my parents live in the area. This trip was all about enjoying resort amenities and thus I was looking for something new to do with the kids. If your kids are Lego and/or Star Wars fans, you will have a blast. Managing expectations is very important when visiting this park. They are not Disney, nor do they attempt to be. This is actually what our family loved most about our trip to LEGOLAND® Florida . We've been to Disney World and Disney Land and have done that more times than we can count. We didn’t want to experience a copy of Disney, but with Lego instead of Disney characters.

We’re huge Lego fans and were looking to experience LEGOLAND® Florida. Having said that: do your research and plan accordingly, in order to make the most out of your time at this park. Spend time looking at the family guide and determining height requirements for each ride. This will save you from dealing with meltdowns at the park.

Location:

LEGOLAND® Florida is NOT located in Orlando. It’s actually just 45 minutes from the Orlando theme parks or downtown Tampa.

Address: One LEGOLAND Way Winter Haven, FL 33884 

Trip Report:

We left our hotel in Orlando early on a Monday in February and arrived before opening time. Tip: Get there early and secure a close parking spot. If you have someone with mobility needs, pay for preferred covered parking. It will be worth it. Study the map online prior to your visit. I found the paper map to be a bit difficult to follow while in the hot Florida sun, so I was glad that we had spent time online looking at the layout of the park and planning our day.

 Our kids loved the Ninjago ride (much better technology, graphics and execution than the Toy Story at Disney and with no wait time), my 10-year-old loved The Dragon and the lack of wait times at any of the rides. I loved the return on investment and the ability to see and ride everything in one day, stroller parking that is not a nightmare and the MINILAND, USA rocked. The food was actually affordable compared to Disney and they have coffee available throughout the park. They get that parents are their target audience and the park catered to families. We stopped by the LEGOLAND® Florida Hotel just to check it out for a future visit. It looks like a great place for families with young children and any Lego enthusiast. It’s perfectly themed with Legos everywhere and a nice change from the other Orlando amusement parks.

 LEGOLAND® Florida is comprised of 150 – acres offering a variety of themed lands that will be familiar to Lego fans. The park is geared toward children ages 2 – 12, but I can see my Lego loving teenager being impressed by the offerings. As kids who spend hours of their days building with bricks, they were extremely impressed with the time and energy that it would take to put together the creations throughout the park. Our kids absolutely loved their time at LEGOLAND® Florida . They are already asking for us to return and stay at the hotel, but to bring their dad and older sister next time. They are also eagerly anticipating the opening of LEGOLAND New York, which will be opening near us in the 2020. Is LEGOLAND® Florida a worthwhile endeavor while visiting the Orlando area? You must know your kid’s interest prior to making that call. For our bricks loving family, Legoland was a perfect way to spend a sunny Orlando day.

Feedback: our favorite LEGOLAND® Florida Park areas.

Miniland USA

-          This themed area is comprised of miniature versions of destinations that our family has actually traveled to (ex. Daytona International Speedway, Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York City and Washington, DC) and I was very impressed. Our kids are also huge Star Wars fans and thus, we visited this “land” twice during our recent one-day trip.

Ninjago Land

-          My two oldest kids are 2nd degree black belts, I’m a first degree black and the younger two are diligently working toward their black belts. We love all things Asian culture and martial arts and thus, Ninjago Land was our favorite. The Lego Ninjago ride is a 4D ride with a similar concept at Disney’s Toy Story, but with much better execution. We loved it.

The Dragon

-          LEGOLAND® Florida is not known as a thrill ride destination, yet my 10-year-old was ecstatic to be able to ride a roller-coaster with virtually no line, nor a need for fast passes. Riders must be 40 inches tall to ride and some kids must ride with an adult.

MInifigure Trading

-  Guests can purchase or bring LEGO® Minifigures to trade with LEGOLAND® employees throughout the park. Most employees wear at least one Minifigure on their brick badge (name tag) and are happy to trade.

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Pro tips:

-          As aforementioned, I highly recommend that you arrive early. Not only will you score better parking, enjoy the opening of the park ceremony and make the most out of your day, but you’ll get through most of the park before the Florida sun wears you out.

-          Check park hours prior to your visit, as they vary based on the time of year. Also, the water park was not open when we visited in February. So, if that is important to you, make sure to check their operating schedule prior to buying tickets.

-          Check Groupon for discount offers.

-          If you’re a homeschooler, check out their website for information on homeschool rates and dates.  Click here for more details regarding securing homeschool rates prior to your visit. Homeschool  rates are not given at the gate.

-          Spend time online researching the park, reviewing the map and planning your day. I also recommend exploring the park counter clockwise starting at the carousel. Shhh, don’t tell other people this secret. Most folks will explore a park clockwise and thus by going in the opposite direction, we found that most rides had no lines.

-          LEGOLAND® Florida offers affordable food options, but I paked a backpack with snacks and put filtered refillable water bottles in the stroller (make sure to use filtered water bottles, because Florida water tastes awful). Eating on the go allowed us to maximize our time at the park and enjoy all of the rides in one day.

Lodging:

-          Just like Disney and Universal, LEGOLAND® Florida offers the option of staying onsite or nearby. We stayed at an offsite Orlando Resort for this trip, but am already planning a return trip to stay onsite. Lodging options include: The Legoland Resort which is located adjacent to the park and Legoland Beach Retreat which is a few blocks away and can be seen from the main road. In addition to restaurants, pools and perfectly themed Lego rooms, guests also get early access to the park. Be on the lookout for the LEGOLAND® PIRATE ISLAND HOTEL which is scheduled to open in the Spring of 2020.

Military Rates:  U.S. Service Members receive FREE admission to LEGOLAND® Florida Resort & Water Park, no restrictions or blackout dates. This offer is not available online. To redeem this offer, please bring a valid military ID to any LEGOLAND Florida Resort ticket window.

Check out my VLOG from our adventures at LEGOLAND® Florida for more pictures of our day. 

Author: Ruth Mendes of Have Kiddos will Travel

About Ruth: I’m a wife and mami of 4 active and globe-trotting kiddos. I’ve always loved a good adventure and truly believe that it’s possible to travel with kids. Join me, as I share our adventures and inspire you to get out of the house with your kiddos. Whether you’re planning a family vacation, a road trip or a trip of a lifetime to an exotic destination, I’ll share insights, trip reports and information that will inspire you. Check back often to stay up to date on things to do with kids at your next travel destination.

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