The tour was good, I screwed up Moscow by not getting the Visa in time and getting conflicting info on what I needed to send. So sorry about that, working on a a metal song for those guys as an apology.

All shows were pretty awesome, not so many people at 2-3 out of the 7, but even 2 of those were still a lot of fun and well worth it.  One of the shows was a disaster where a bunch of the acts cancelled, the promoter was nowhere to be found when I left (and hasn't contacted me since),  I didn't get paid anywhere near what I was supposed to, etc.  But the rest of the shows on the tour more than made up for that.

I definitely noticed that the type of music at most of the shows I played at has gotten slicker, better produced, catchier, simpler,  etc. in the few years since I've toured last. That kind of made my tracks sound more like dancefloor-clearing noise in comparison. Being in Boston (where there's almost no regular parties w/ this sort of music) and not touring regularly, I'm completely removed from any sort of interactive crowd feedback that people get when they are making music in areas with lots of parties.  I'm still writing stuff for what sounds good in my apartment, blasting it to myself on my shitty stereo speakers.  I'd like to think there's some sort of noble purity to that, but really it's detrimental because it means certain areas of the music get focused on heavily while other parts get totally neglected.  Also it makes playing out live a crapshoot, since when I finally do it,  I can tell certain stuff would go over way better even if I had done things just slightly differently.   But it's also kind of unfortunate to me that some of the stuff I hear played out is totally bog-standard and is obviously a result of that crowd feedback loop, to the point where it's almost like the jump-up equivellent of breakcore.  There's nothing wrong with making what people want to hear, but (to get all old farty) I can remember when this music was an alternative to slick overproduced "dancefloor-ubeor-alles" stuff, with some people trying out different crazy shit... it's relative success has meant that it's become totally sanitized, standardized, and contained in the same way as any other well-established dance music subgenre. 

Anyway, sorry for that self-important rant.  Thanks & respect/hello to the following for their help / hospitality/ hanging out:

MMC Crew(Aron, Fred, guy who showed us the good indian place, dude
that looked like Dave Public), Jason & Jen, Sam Kanji +gf, Fred's gf, Juan
Carlo, James Bangface + crew, Mark, Simon U,
Thomas Meca, Dan P, Armin, Alex, Demon Cabbage, the girl who took the
train from brighton to bristol to see me play there, Jurgen, Val, Ryan,
Val's brother, the dude who booked me at a giant castle in middle of
nowhere Germany and put me up in a big completely empty hostel (totally
surreal combination!), his girlfriend who made a crazy huge food spread
for the artists, ZombieFleshEater, LXC, Eddd, Basti Fantasti, Tom
& BabyShaker