medicine hat - pop 50,000 - about a 3 hour drive from here.

i knew i would be playing for hicks, so i brought lots of b-boy breaks, just in case they weren't into techno. the location turned out to be a former strip club. the raised stage and poles were still there in the middle of the room.

not long into my set somebody asked me if i would play something they could break dance too. i was already playing breaks, so i kept doing that. a while later somebody else asked the same thing. repeat. repeat. i was into my funkiest, dare i say, cheeziest stuff, and still, instead of breakdancing, all i saw on the floor was a bunch of pissed off doods staring at me.

finally somebody clued me in that the local break dance scene was used to breaking to hard trance and hard house, and had somehow incorporated glow sticks. they had never heard breakbeat before.