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| Location: | Canada, Ontario, Toronto |
| Description: | Over a decade ago, while much of the Ontario rave scene was getting lost in a snowstorm of crystal meth and a forest of giant pant legs, Marcus Sills knew there was something more to the music. At 15, he was already spinning hip hop, R&B, house, soca and reggae at 25-and-over clubs in Toronto, but soon after hearing breakbeat techno—the early prototype for what would become drum & bass—via DJ Malik X’s show Radio London on local station CKLN, Sills made the move to electronic music.
By ’92, he’d started the legendary Delirium rave productions and in ’95, searching for a name for his production team with Dave Whalen (aka Nemesis), Sills became Marcus Visionary.
“We wanted to be visionaries in our field,” he explains. “It felt right and it stuck. Ten years later and we’re still here.”
Over the years, Sills has heard drum & bass splinter into a multitude of variations and witnessed every high and low of the scene, yet he remains a pillar of the Canadian jungle community, with gigs across the globe, a multitude of releases and not one but two labels to his name (the dancefloor jungle of Lion Dubs and the more vocal-oriented Dance Rock). |
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