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A weekend in Dortmund

Posted by Jul on Tuesday 26 August 2008

The 15th of August being a holiday, we had a long weekend.

It had been more than a year since I told my friend Philipp, aka Teamforest, that I would go visit him in his hometown, Dortmund. We met in June 2007 in Luxemburg at the Cellula Indietronica festival where we were both playing. Since then, we put his record out and all, and even started working on a track together for a project of mine through MSN. But besides that night in Luxembourg, we didn't spend anytime together.

This weekend was a perfect occasion to do that; I'd also been carrying a case of empty bottles of Beck's in my trunk for a year and a half, telling myself I would go to Germany soon and that I could exchange those empty bottles for full ones. I know it sounds strange, but the 50cl glass Beck's bottle symbolizes all the good times I had when I was a student in Münster; I even think that was my best year as a student.

I had a great time there! It's nice to just spend time with people I work with on the label; actually, it gives meaning to the whole thing, and I hadn't done it in a while. All my expectations were fulfilled: we drank lots of beer, took walks in parks, talked about obscure and not-so-obscure records, ate out, and even finished the track we'd started a year ago!