“So listen to this,” I said to Don, my cab driver. “These young guys from San Diego – well, one of them isn’t so young, but he’s young at heart you see – these young guys get it in their heads that if they play house and techno music until 5 in the morning, they’ll somehow have spread the message…
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“House, Techno & Love.” However familiar you are with the first two terms, no doubt you are very much so with the third: It’s this universal theme that is the backbone of California-grown collective Desert Hearts’ growth and evolution over the last three years, and it’s certainly what’s taking them to District 28 in Toronto on Saturday Aug 29th as…
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A beautiful sunny Toronto day. An eclectic lineup of local and international talent. A simple, open atmosphere – colourful streamers and balloons, like a backyard party. Tweens and millenials and middle-aged men in casual cutoffs. It was…’time’ for the second running installment of Time Festival. Let’s explore, in chronological order…Time Festival 2015 @ Fort York If “Sunny day” was a…
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The camo. The skin. The glow sticks. Walking down the desert valley road that is Polson Street towards Sound Academy shortly after 10:30pm, there was no doubt that I was heading into a rave of the drum & bass persuasion. This walk, however, was shrouded in dark meaning: Muzik, the venue where Destiny’s 22nd Anniversary Party was originally billed to be…
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—– EDIT AUG 11: Location has moved from Muzik to Sound Academy, 11 Polson Pier —— If you’ve raved in Toronto in the last 22 years it’s statistically probable that you’ve met Destiny. A pioneer in the rave community, it seems you can’t describe Destiny without using the words “first”, “only”, “memories”, “police”, and “PLUR”. Depending on who you ask, Destiny is…
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I didn’t need Google Maps to pick out Le Belmont’s location in downtown Montreal from three blocks away, for the chittering mess of a crowd strewn outside. Muted low-hertz vibrations breached the club’s brick and glass exterior. Across the street a squad of squeegee punks ignored the honking of a police car and huddled restless around a pile of army…
