Pre-1997 : An endless search to find the ultimate high energy music that had a hard beat, good samples, and powerful sounds, oldschool rap came close, dance music had the beat, but was too mellow, guitar music didn’t have much beat at all. And then…..
1997 : Only one DJ, DJ Dominik was playing a harder sound that he called Rotterdam. This style was unknown outside of this one DJ. However Dominik was not making new mixtapes fast enough to keep in pace with its demand.
A new DJ decided then to embark apon a quest to find this music, even better stronger and faster than he had heard this one DJ play. He then chanced upon a mixtape from The Speed Freak, in a tiny back room
store in downtown Toronto. This style was called "Speedcore". DJ Plague made the decision that this
was the ultimate in hardcore, and he set a mission to spread it across the world like a plague, so others in the future could experience this ultimate sound much more easily, without the troubles that had faced him.
1998 : DJ Plague teamed up with Lord Tekken to form a DJ group called The Construct, in order to show the public that there was a much broader world of hardcore than just the "Rotterdam" of DJ Dominik.
1999 : To show the Toronto crowd, that there was a better form of music, they held Canada's largest ever Hardcore party in the summer of 1999 called Gatekeeper '99. under the organization name of THR (Toronto Hardcore Resistance). This party was a success, but THR was not to last.
This was also the time when hardcore changed. The mainstream went from being fast and upbeat, to slow and stomping. This ultimately led to the dissolution of The Construct, as Hardcore itself began to split both faster and slower.
2000 : He met the Calgary Speedcore producer Interrupt Vector who was looking for a label to release his tracks, and together they started CSR (Canadian Speedore Resistance). Through Sound Base Music in Germany, produced CSR1. They gained an internet presence at Speedcore.ca, thanks to Interrupt Vector's connection with server manage DJ Skinner, from blackmonolith.org in New York City.
2001/2002 : Through Speedcore.ca CSR then teamed up with Terrorist Kriss from D.I.Y. in Montreal, and played several of his parties at the classic punk venue, Club l'X. These parties between 2001 to 2003 were the largest and greatest Speedcore parties in Canadian history.This new alliance solidified CSR's standing and gave it a base as Canada's most successful Speedcore label of all time. In 2001 DJ Plague travelled to Berlin to see Fuckparade. (a sort of international Speedcore convention). To discover the European Speedcore scene.
2003 : In 2003 He went on his first DJ tour, and played in Bologna at a party by Frazzbass, and in Switzerland at 2 Hard 4 U.
2004 : He went again on a longer tour, teaming up with DJ Tense, and Fiend from USA, they travelled across France, Germany, Holland and Switzerland. DJ Plague went to Holland in the fall of 2004.
2005 to present : Now with the help of Rige Distribution, CSR has continued to skyrocket, and DJ Plague now plays at the world's largest hardcore parties, and continues to push the boundries of how far Speedcore (or Terror as they call it in Holland) can go.Continuing always to stay true to the mission of spreading the plague of Speedcore, better stronger and faster.
