After a short rest and many 14-hour photoshop sessions later, I met the gang at the Vancouver airport and we made our way to Toronto. The ten finalists from each heat were flown in to Canada’s biggest city to battle for top spot at the Red Bull 3Style 2009 finals.

After 10 stops in 28 days, over 7,500 people had danced and listened to over 80 DJs do their thing in the hopes of becoming the most versatile DJ in Canada. Months of sweat, blood, and air-miles accumulated to this one night. Here’s the journal of what went down…

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Beautiful French Canada featuring a club with a lighting system from Mars

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Then we headed East where the weather is foggy and the DJs have no pants

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Red Bull 3Style 2009 - a DJ competition that swept across ten Canadian cities with eight competing DJs at each stop. Their aim was to mix at least three different genres into a 15 minute set, and spin they did as the winner of each heat was flown to compete at the finals in Toronto and play alongside the likes of A-Trak, Neil Armstrong, Jokers of the Scene, and Mat the Alien.

At the beginning of 2009, Red Bull approached me and asked if l wanted to document the entire series, coast to coast. Can’t say no to that…

So I packed my camera gear, named a suitcase Home, and embarked on a four-leg trip that started at home in Vancouver and took us to Winnipeg / Edmonton / Calgary - Kitchener / Toronto / Ottawa - Quebec / Halifax / Montreal - then Toronto again for the finals.

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