Biografie
Dance music of numerous styles has been a lifelong passion for Raw Pulse. Starting from digging for hip hop records as a teenager, to the excitement of learning the history of industrial music, finding a home in the freedom and rebellion of 90s rave culture, hyperreal, 313, pilgrimages to Detroit to witness the birth of techno, countless hours in record shops digging deep into the roots, running club nights in Toronto's underground dance scene, weaving together DJ sets with everything from leftfield disco to hard techno, experiencing the magic of David Mancuso's (RIP) legendary Loft parties in NYC, all of which left a lasting imprint.
After stepping away from the scene to have a family, he returned with a renewed passion to learn the production side of dance music, and the Raw Pulse project was born. The concept is to strip away all of the stories and get at the heart of what it is that brings us together to play music and dance, as we've done since tribal/pagan times. Channel the same energy which fuelled DIY rave culture in the 90s as a rebellion against the major record label controlled music industry, privatization of public space, and the monoculture of clubs at the time. The energy which encouraged so many of us who felt on the outside to find each other, find ourselves, and forge our own path. To find our own rhythm pulsing deep inside, and to encourage others to find theirs.
Canada