Bio
"Dude, they're not called raves anymore. Just call them parties."
A friend offered me this advice a couple of years ago, driving on a series of decommissioned logging roads in the middle of the night to an outdoor event near the Squamish river. This trip was supposed to be a short-lived weekend resurrection into a lifestyle I'd flirted with absently in university, but nothing more. As with most memorable illicit affairs, I was coaxed into staying a bit longer than I probably should have. I think I also misplaced a pair of pants somewhere on a nearby beach.
I've been fortunate enough to have cut my teeth with Soundproof, a DJ collective known for throwing quality, underground, all-night parties in Vancouver for the past 10 years. I've been a Soundproof DJ for the last three years. It's usually a safe bet I'll be occupying a morning timeslot, well after the harder hitting techno has run its course. If you see some dude with big hair dunking his head into a river, that's probably me, desperately trying to shake the lethargic aftereffects of an early-morning nap before hitting the decks.
Beheshto, another local electronic collective of artists and DJs, have also been gracious enough to welcome me into the fold since I've been living on the West Coast. If Soundproof has traditionally been associated with hard techno, Beheshto is where you go for deep, Eastern sounding progressive house. For someone that loves a wide variety of music, you couldn't have asked for a better group of mentors. Anything skillful I do when I play is a result of what I've learnt from these folks.
Rob Curtis and Wes Straub were kind enough extend the invite to join Area709, a website that I've found myself consistently revisiting over the last couple of years for the music. I hope I prove to be a good fit for the existing roster here, and as per usual, find I have some pretty big shoes to fill.
Raves may have come and gone with the dinosaurs, but there are those of us who still aim to misbehave on occasion by playing really, really loud music until someone tells us to stop. I hope you find some tunes on these pages that remind you of some epic bygone summer days, or ones you know are yet to come...
Cheers,
Evan
Affiliations: Soundproof: http://www.soundproof.ca/ & Beheshto: http://www.beheshto.ca/