Viva la diva Dan by KRISTA DJ Dan is a busy man. This quickly becomes apparent as I listen to him rattle off the 14 cities he's visited recently on the Moonshine Records tour. Then there are the eight or 10 different clubs and parties he's played on his recent trip to Europe: Cream in Ibiza, Cream in Liverpool, The End and Ultimate in London, festivals and so on (he stops to assure me that he's not just name-dropping). He's taking November, December and January off so that he can do some studio work--he's got a record coming out soon on Moonshine called "The Zipper Track," as well as projects due out in the new year, including one Dub Pistols remix on Concrete called "Unique Freak" and a duet with DJ Sneak called "Speakerhoes." Now that we've gotten all the formalities out of the way, we can get down to the dirt. What's behind this guy, whose early claim to fame as a DJ was that he could scratch tricks over 140-bpm breakbeat tunes? His moves were so fresh that we'd all stop trying to do our silly rave dance moves and just stare at his hands. That was three years ago now, but most places that he visits still expect that kind of performance, even though he's moved on. "I'm tired of that. It's not a fucking stage act, I'm not a live band," he says. "When you start taking DJing too seriously and analyzing everything you just throw the whole thing off. You get these people who are really bitter and just sit around analyzing and picking apart the music until they forget it." And you know what else? He's gay. Talk about breaking stereotypes. An extremely popular world-renowned DJ who's gay and doesn't play big piano riffs and/or hard-driving house. I mean, this boy could never play the Black & Blue. If you don't believe me, check him out at Sona this Saturday, October 17. >>> Another of North America's finest will be at Stereo this Friday, October 16. San Francisco's mushroom jazzical Mark Farina returns to bring us to our knees. Info: 284-4475. Also this Friday, Isart presents a show called The Movement, an evening of eclectic soul, funk, jazz, Afro-Latin, rare groove, drum & bass and house, featuring DJs from Montreal (like our very own Scott C), Ottawa (Trevor Walker) and Toronto. Cover is seven bucks, doors open at 10 p.m. >>> Finally, all this week at the Just For Laughs Museum there is an installation called the Sound Lab, in which a myriad of electronic music equipment has been set up for the purposes of jamming. On Friday, October 16, at 9 p.m., Richie Hawtin and friends will be in there twiddling knobs and pushing buttons, all in the name of art. You can also catch it being broadcast live on the net at www.sugarrush.com.