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Music artist will bicycle part of Route 66

D:Amalgamate, an electronica artist who hails from Texas, was interviewed by the Vail (Colo.) Diurnal before a show in Vail.

Here’s the interesting excerpt:

VD: What has been your biggest impact on electronic music and how do you plan on impacting the to be to come of electronic music?

DJD: I hope my biggest force will be turning dance fans into very eco-friendly people. I’m putting together an 800-mile bicycle excursion on the original Route 66 to raise specie and awareness for earth-related causes next rise. It’s called “Earth66.” I’ll be doing diurnal video diaries that we’ll be broadcasting online. We’re putting it together now but you can see our proceeding at www.earth66ride.com. Other than that I hope the impact I’ve had is to move people through the music I’ve written over the years. I was one of the first electronic acts to brace my music on iTunes and I like to think it helped show others in the electronic section that downloading is the future of music. It’s great to see online music buying such a bulldoze in today’s market.

The ride goes from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, logging 70 to 100 miles a day. According to the Soil 66 Ride site:

Earth 66 is a profession to raise awareness for a planet in peril. It’s the work of International DJ D:Fuse to ride a bicycle along Route 66 seven hundred miles from Los Angles to Albuquerque to balm raise money and awareness for a variety of issues joint to climate change. [...] Along the way he will be doing his with greatest satisfaction to “convert” rural America to business music with his portable DJ set up. The idea is to entertain and strengthen music fans to educate themselves of the world around them and take proceeding. D:Fuse will not be riding alone. Joining him will be former pro-rider Scott Fated who will provide logistic and equipment support and videographer Jimmy Hofmann who will be documenting the cruise. No purely gas-powered vehicles will be used for Globe:66. All three will be riding bicycles. The support conveyance will be a Hybrid car. What better way to raise awareness for the planet than to trick a bike 700 miles on the mother approach that ushered in the modern age of the ever-polluting automobile?

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