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...When the sun set on my first night in Goa, it found me at Zeebob's, on Utorda beach, not thinking too hard. Architecturally speaking, Zeebob's barely exists: when the monsoon comes, everything except the concrete kitchen block gets swept away. Yet, when hammered and nailed back into existence, Zeebob's serves magnificent grilled seafood amid a setting of palm trees and twinkling lights just above the tide line. And there are hammocks there for that postprandial collapse...
...true for one class of traveler: backpackers--precisely the group targeted in the Bali attack. Few modern social developments are more significant and less appreciated than the rise of backpacker travel. The tens of thousands of young Australians, Germans, Britons, Americans and others who wander the globe, flitting from Goa to Costa Rica, from Thailand to Tasmania, are building what may be the only example of a truly global community. Nobody has an accurate way of guessing the size of the backpacker market, but the growth of the Lonely Planet brand offers somewhat of a proxy. The first Lonely Planet...
...musician who has capitalized most on the predominantly Caucasian subculture of cool kids tripping out on Thai and Indian beaches would himself be Asian, but that's precisely what has happened. As soon as Tokyo-born Tsuyoshi Suzuki began riding the circuit of travel and partying between Tokyo, Goa and Koh Phangan, he realized he had found an alternative way of living, and, more importantly for hundreds of thousands of clubbers and millions of music fans who would come to know him by his nom de decks DJ Tsuyoshi, a dynamic and new approach to making music. "Hearing these weird...
...brought Shiva to the Tokyo dance floor a decade ago during his DJ residence at Wanna Dance, the notoriously hedonistic after-hours club in Tokyo's Nishi Azabu district. The following year he took his decks and 12-inches to London where other DJs, inspired by their trips to Goa, were creating a faster, harder and more synthetically-advanced style of techno dubbed Goa Trance. Tsuyoshi, with his striking features and Japanese post-punk style and sensibility?bondage pants worn with Hysteric Glamour shirts, vintage Clydes and Yohji Yamamoto stovepipes?was like a replicant, custom- made in Japan to thrive...
...Cocteau Twins-inspired new wave band, spent most of his school days smoking cigarettes with his bosozoku (motorcycle gang) buddies. "But since my grades were good, teachers hated me more," he adds, laughing. His slacker attitude continued into university, where the budding DJ spent his graduation day "dancing in Goa." His absentee rate once prompted a worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between Asian hotspots, touching down in Tokyo to reboot...