PRARIES - LOCAL ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ADAM HANNIBAL / DJ KASM WINNIPEG ,MB
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innipeg has been a ever evolving city and over the years the city has seen its fair share of talent come and go but a few have stuck around to keep things moving forward. Adam Hannibal has been a key individual in the city’s electronic music scene for almost two decades. Adam started DJing in ‘95 and took his first booking for a new years eve event at a local Osborne Village club called Die Machine and quickly established himself as a chill, trip hop and ambient dub DJ. He eventually incorporated drum n bass and would be a fixture at parties thrown by Symptom Tech, Frostbite and other production groups. In 1999, he started a radio show with Rob Coles called Quadrafunk at
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CKUW just prior to the radio station hitting the FM band. Now in its 15th year, Quadrafunk is the longest running DJ mixed show in Winnipeg and has featured a legacy of many great hosts along with the way. Adam was also working with promoting a club show with RCola called Air Massive at the Ramada Hotel. In 2001, he helped co-found Balanced Records, a Winnipeg based electronic music label. Once Adam started traveling to other countries such as France, USA , Germany, Amsterdam, Japan and Denmark absorbing the international culture, the growth of the label started to follow. Balanced hosted prominent showcases abroad as well as Juno events across Canada. All the while, the label maintained a connection to the city’s finest talent signing artists and getting releases out to the world.
ADAM, YOU’RE ONE OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSICS STILL DOING YOUR THING AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC CULTURE OF WINNIPEG , TELL ME WHAT THAT WAS LIKE IN THE MID 90’S AND THE CHANGES YOU HAVE SEEN OVER THE YEARS. Well the scene has come a long way over the past 20 years. It was definitely more marginalized and underground back then. Most of the parties were in warehouses and studio spaces exclusively, very few events took place in clubs until the late 90s. Hand to hand flyers and info lines were the main sources of info to find out where parties were at. We also had a healthy crop of record stores – Wax Museum, Nyce, House of Coldcuts, Lo Fi Grit, Alchemy,