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26th August 2002, 06:07
last night i went down to mexico for a full moon party on the beach with a good friend of mine and some of his co-workers. driving down there through Tijuana was both frightening and awe inspiring at the same time. the city looks like a post-nuclear war zone and being seperated from it all just through the glass windows of a speeding car, you feel at any moment that your death is just around the corner.
got to the beach, pitched our tents and watched the sunset into the smoggy distance. there was cheap beer and cheaper food abound and the stale stench of dirt weed being smoked. the music was mostly west coast house but later in the evening this guy was laying down some heavy-ass techno/electro jams. so there i was, with a gut full of dos equis, concrete-thick techno just oozing from a speaker tower, that big white moon glistening in the hazy air and a beach full of mexican kids just going ape shit to techno and it hit me that, although we come from such different backgrounds, common ground was met through music. i know it sounds sappy but it really is true.
got to the beach, pitched our tents and watched the sunset into the smoggy distance. there was cheap beer and cheaper food abound and the stale stench of dirt weed being smoked. the music was mostly west coast house but later in the evening this guy was laying down some heavy-ass techno/electro jams. so there i was, with a gut full of dos equis, concrete-thick techno just oozing from a speaker tower, that big white moon glistening in the hazy air and a beach full of mexican kids just going ape shit to techno and it hit me that, although we come from such different backgrounds, common ground was met through music. i know it sounds sappy but it really is true.