Matthew Dear Tour/Swahili Mix.

Greetings from Düsseldorf, Germany, mid-tour. Tonight is the third of five shows with Matthew Dear opening for Depeche Mode. The last two were huge, 42,000 and 54,000 people respectively, and tonight should be about the same. The scale and scope of the venues and production is truly amazing, mindboggling.

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Depeche Mode, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Crowd, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Matthew Dear, Espirit Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Matthew Dear, Espirit Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Olympic Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine.

Olympic Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine.

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Also, one of the mixes I’ve been working on with Portland-based psych band Swahili is now posted on their Soundcloud page. I’m pretty happy with the way it came together: