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This past long weekend I played at Globus on Thursday, Pumping Velvet at Dalston Superstore on Saturday and Multisex at Watergate on Sunday. Though I wasn’t really thinking about it in this way beforehand, with the benefit of hindsight I think it shows I’m actually arriving at where I want to be, DJ-wise, in my life: three highly respected venues, three brands of crowd, three wildly different musical propositions, and three times I took on the task and did a good job. Oh and I had a blast along the way.

The first time I ever went to Berlin was in April 2009 and when I got back home I wrote all about it on my old blog. I also recorded a mix with a tracklist themed to my experience — the titles of the tracks referred to things that had happened on our visits to Watergate, CDV, Kantine, Pbar and CDV again, and I included artists I’d heard DJing or whose tracks had been played over the weekend. I still have the mix and tracklist: