SISK
regina, sk.
dark progressive/deep tech-house
www.symptomtech.ca
www.connectfestival.ca
Craig Sisk has been a key contributing member of the prairie electronic music community starting in 1996 when he started attending events around Winnipeg. In 1997 he began collecting vinyl of various genres and by early 2000 had made a debut at the legendary Winnipeg underground club Wellingtons. Sisk began djing the airwaves first on 101.5 FM as co-host to Dj Squint's Sunday night "Subterania" and later "Symptom Radio". These experiences help him to break into a competitive Winnipeg electronic scene and by 2002 was an established dj at many of the cities top events and club nights.
In 2002 Sisk came together with Nathan Zahn and UFO to throw Symptom Technologies' "Innovator Incognito" which packed Wellington's night club in what was to be one of the last shows ever thrown there. Sisk's promoter work with Symptom spanned 5 years and over 20 shows; highlights include Lost in Bass 1 and 2, Forbidden Planet, Death Becomes Me, The Rings of Saturn and The Underground City Series. Symptom's popularity has always been based on strong musical integrity and not following the trendy/gimmicky styles that have come and gone through-out the years....House and Techno first and foremost.
Sisk has played in most major Canadian cities between Victoria, BC to Thunder Bay, On and even played a warehouse party in the birthplace of House music ... Chicago. He has preformed over 200 events and has been billed alongside Tiga, Marco V, Kevin Saunderson, John Selway, "Evil" Eddie Richards, Matthew Dear, Mazi, Jay Tripwire, D:Fuse, Adam Jay, Mateo Murphy, Peace Division, Hipp-E and Paranoid Jack among many others.
In 2006 Sisk decided it was time for a change and took up the opportunity to work with the Connect Festival when he moved to Regina. Sisk was no stranger to the city as he had been coming out to play regularly since 2002, and quickly established himself in the local scene. In 2007 he joined forces with Mere as a VJ/DJ Combo and threw some intimate shows under "Wing Beat Frequency". Sisk has become a resident DJ at Gabbo's night club and is featured on the second last Friday of each month.
Connect XIV marks Sisk's seventh year in a row performing and will present a vj/dj art performance with Mere. A lushly illustrated story will be mixed live with a Progressive and Tech-house score. This project will display examples of Mere and Sisk's own original visual and audio artistic creations. His chill tent set will feature a trip into the deep end of Tech-house, specially selected over the past year just for Connect.
mixes: available at:
www.rytunes.org/sisk/