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About Me


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.. CDBABY LINK for ENFERNO: M.O.B. --
Taking a cue from the legendary Love Parade in Germany, Donny Benavidez has immersed himself in all aspects of the underground dance music scene. What started out as weekend entertainment has blossomed into something that has taken over every aspect of his life.
As a part of Terminal Entertainment and Covert Operations (Dallas), Trek has helped promote and bring in several top drum and bass acts to Texas like Total Science, DJ Rectangle, Future Prophecies, Hive, Photek, Dara, Reid Speed, Mathematics, Vegas, Artificial Intelligence, Stereo Storm Trooper and Glitch of Apparatus. He has also dug in the trenches, running his own drum and bass weekly in the sleepy college town of Denton, Texas and in Dallas as well.
Donnys current focus is in music production and learning to play live instruments. He is reaching out to a few other genres and trying to bring some drum and bass influence into them. He is also learning the art of live sound through Dallass Valence Group who specializes in the art and design of booming sound systems for night club events.
Trek is currently a resident dj in Dallass longest running weekly, Battletech which represents all styles of drum and bass and hip-hop. He also runs with a gnarly group of guys who call themselves the Dirty Alien Project. DAP consists of a bunch of music heads from Dallas who happen to love drum and bass and come from a hip-hop background. Essentially they spend most of their time making music, chilling out in their spaceships, and delivering uppercuts.
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Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano - Salvador Dali

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/8/2004
Band Website: HTTP://WWW.POORVIDA.COM
Band Members: well im not technically a "band" so i will list a MC's/Lyricists that i have worked with:
Astro - Dallas
Enferno - Dallas
Eno - Dallas
Patrick Milla - Dallas
Lyric C - Dallas
Aaron B - Dallas
Britnie Star - Dallas
MC Navigator - London
The Bizarro Kids - Dallas

Influences: Every Day Life!

Ludwig Beethoven, Toru Takemitsu, Matteo Carcassi, Francisco Tarrega, DJ Shadow, Krush, Sun Ra, RJD2, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Herbie Hancock, Future Prophecies, Dr. Dre, Dan the Automator, Pharcyde, Portishead, Metallica, Nirvana, EL-P, Beastie Boys, Howlin' Wolf, Scientist, Kool Keith, Catch 22, Thelonius Monk, Sublime, Jeru tha Damaja, Notorius B.I.G., Artificial Intelligence, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, WU-TANG CLAN, and all the people that love to hate.
Record Label: Poor Vida Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

like a kid at christmas time

Over the past few years, my life has definately been on the up and up. the late summer/fall of 2008 is about to bring some major changes in my life, for the better of course. In March of 2008 I audi...
Posted by trek on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:25:00 PST

Poor Vida Album Release: MC Astro - "Im Not You" Available Aug 31st

The highly anticipated album is set to hit planet earth August 31st!! Pre-Orders can be made on our website.^^ Check out our new website! ^^.....
Posted by trek on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:18:00 PST

Poor Vida News for March 20th 2008

I just wanted to give everyone a quick rundown on what’s been happening with the Poor Vida Crew.First things first, our website is now up! Poorvida.com come and check out our online shop and ...
Posted by trek on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:04:00 PST

chaotic control. controlling chaos.

i think for most of my life i felt that i was really in control. i think a lot of us feel like we're actually "in control". i'm not trying to be too deep and philosophical with the post, but it was ...
Posted by trek on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:13:00 PST

im hungry - street diplomacy and flamenco

hi again ladies and gents. we're going to start this one with a look 2 sundays ago. i decided that i would go check out a flamenco show in north london since i've never been to one and i've been pla...
Posted by trek on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:23:00 PST

Im hungry - the blog of a starving artist Nov 8th 2006

So i have decided that this time im going to try and be an avid blogger. im dealing with so much right now that i decided i should put it out for everyone to read. with this post im going to do a li...
Posted by trek on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:24:00 PST

ouch!

my fingers on my left hand have been reduced to pure mush as a result of playing guitar for about 4 hours today. i'll be glad when i cant feel it anymore.
Posted by trek on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:36:00 PST

my debut photography post!

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Posted by trek on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:39:00 PST

102.1 fm radio mix dallas + tracklist

damn, it's been quite some time since i posted on this blog... things have been on the up since those last posts... i played the edgeclub show on 10-22-05... link:http://www.dirtyalienproject.com/trek...
Posted by trek on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:53:00 PST

8.3.04

well, it's been awhile. a lot has been going on. musicwise, i havent really been doing too much. i've been practicing piano at least 20 - 30 minutes each day. it's coming along slowly but surely. ...
Posted by trek on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST