DJ Mag Canada 011- November 2013 | Page 76

jonathandavid MARITIMES - LOCAL ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 52 Give us a brief history of yourself within the Canadian electronic Music scene and how you ended up in the maritimes? Well thats a long and crazy story which i will spare you the play by play but lets just say its been quite a journey. Im originally from Toronto but the scene has brought me to many places in Canada over the years. I started DJing in 1997 through out western Canada as well as promoting my own club nights and parties. In those days the real rave scene was alive and well and for anyone involved the doors of opportunity were wide open. As my skills grew forward, so did my need to secure a position in all this for life. Some years later I found myself graduating a program in audio engineering back in Toronto and the rest is history. Since then I’ve begun my career in production and have had multiple performance tours within Europe and North America. I’ve been fortunate to release tracks on Canadian labels Flavorite, Filter and Uncovered records and also a few European labels as well. Within the last year I’ve formed a partnership with Scottish Producer Matt McLarrie and the two of us have been producing tracks together and creating our own vision of tribal infused house music. Cut to the present and I now reside in Halifax Canada, I was fortunate to ?nd the love of my life here and decided to move my studio to the maritimes and really enjoy the in?uence of the ocean and the east life style, a perfect quite place for getting deep into the studio and into the creative process….it’s been a great move for me and for the next phase of my career. What labels are you currently working with and what can we hear from you in the coming month? I currently have a few solo production projects coming out on labels I can’t quite speak of as of yet, but next month I will be releasing “The Carpet Salesman” EP with my partner Matt on Saeed Younan’s label Younan Music out of Washington DC. We also have a release upcoming on Natura Vi