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>> DJ Jordan Dare reaches beyond Montreal's small drum & bass scene "We're more into the techier stuff, a little bit darker, not so much terrorcore, though. Just, like, solid darkcore, very percussive, deep." You will be excused if you have no bloody clue as to what this man, DJ and producer, Jordan Dare, is talking about. He himself will admit that "drum & bass just hasn't swallowed Montreal," that "our scene is stunted and no one knows much about this music at all here." So, like other local D&B heads Double "A" & Twist, Dare is looking outside our city for his pot of shiny stuff. He's starting a globally-aimed indie label with DJ Switch, another local, set to launch this February under the name 440 Records.
--Mireille Silcott
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Tech steps
Dare, 23 and from Boston originally, is one of the main heads behind the two-year-old D&B night at the Session; once held at the putrid club Jungle, now at the only-slightly-less-putrid club Purple Haze. "It's packed now, yeah," says Dare, with a coupla year's worth of relief in his voice. "But I have no faith in Montreal. I mean, here we still get that 'I can't dance to it, it's too fast, it's too scary' stuff. So we're not putting together a label to get Montreal on the map, or any of that stuff. We just want people to hear our tunes." The true paucity of decent D&B labels coming off this continent, and the never-ending North American search for decent, homegrown music of this kind set a good stage for Dare's hope. Now if he could simplify his cubbyholing a bit, that might help with the press inches.