Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Jordan / Chris Bell / Limpert . We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Jordan / Chris thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

When it comes to promoting underground electronic events, there is no shortage of risk. In 2002, congress signed The Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002, commonly known as the RAVE Act. It was introduced during the 107th Congress and this legislation amended the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit knowingly leasing, renting, or using any place for the purpose of manufacturing, storing, distributing, or using a controlled substance. While on paper this sounds like a perfectly sane and safe piece of legislation, this language made it so that if there was any suspicion at, all regardless of evidence, the police had the right to forcefully enter and detain attendees. If any money was made for selling admission to the show, it could be construed as drug money and confiscated.
However, the benefits of building a community and bringing unbelievable talent to a higher platform far outweighs the risk. Beyond that, there’s a multitude of things that happen that are beyond your control; In this industry, I suppose you learn to love controlled chaos!

One such occasion happened to us on our biggest show of the year, the “Lingurave”.
The Lingurave is a sex-positive, LGBTQ+ show that we host to promote our artists and DJ’s for more inclusion and representation. We host a fashion show, promote safe sex education, harm reduction education and have workshops dedicated to different forms of FetLife and alternate fitness (Lyra, cage dancing, pole-dancing, etc.)
On the second year, Metallica had come through on the day prior to the show; There was an after party held at the event space. Someone used a projector illegally advertising the party on a highway (which is illegal in Missouri) and the police were called. The owner was told to produce a permit and thought they had it, could not produce it on the spot and therefore had the space shut down.
Imagine waking up on the day of an event, and an hour before you head out to start setting up, you get a call about an incident like this? For a lot of promoters, something like this would be crushing.
Luck was in our favor later on in the day because, there was another venue a block down the street and the team sprang into action promoting the location change.
Somehow we took a venue that was half the size and stuffed it with everything we had planned for the night.
At the end of the day we pulled off a show with obtuse obstacles in the way because when you assemble a great team, nothing is outside of your grasp.

Jordan / Chris, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Dove: I fell in love with trade show operations and logistics, so when Covid left me furloughed from my position of passion, I knew I had to find a way to continue in a similar role to marry the passion I love with the culture I love. Our mission statement and core focus is to bring Peace, Love, Unity, Respect, and Responsibility to everything that we do. While we feel it’s relatively easy to live the “PLUR” lifestyle, we often noticed that second R went neglected at private events. What sets our company apart is the way we make it our Responsibility to ensure each guest has the most amazing time while staying as safe as possible. This means we do our due dilligence to ensure venues we work with are up-to-code, our performers have certificates of insurance, simple things that can often be overlooked without an operations mindset and the desire to fill others’ cups while teaching them to hold themselves and community accountable.

Dan: I got into the industry solely by luck. In high school I was very involved with my drama crew and even though I loved acting, I equally loved building the sets from which I acted upon. Then before I graduated I joined a haunted house company and within my second year I was being hired to perform at trade shows where I learned the skills required to lead my own company with Dove.

The thing I think we, or at least speaking for myself are proud of, is the impact we have on our community.
Before we started throwing shows, a lot of my friends who are artists weren’t getting booked often; much less getting paid. Back before Covid it was a regular occurrence that DJ’s were paid a cool $20 and a pat on the back.
Now, in our community, DJ’s receive a minimum of $100 for an hour of their craft, drinks, food and if they are out of town – supplied with lodging and monetary compensation for their travel.
These things might seem trivial to the regular businessman but in the music industry at the lower level, these are things you constantly have to fight for.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

Our primary objective is to turn our single-night events into full-fledged, weekend long festival productions. We thrive by networking with other pillars of production and want to be able to offer the safest, most creative and spiritually-enriching activities. We cannot wait to offer workshops with accredited instructors and performance professionals to help offer a platform to beginners or people looking for acceptance in their community.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Go out.
Seriously. The only way for creatives to be discovered in this ever expanding ocean of media, is by word of mouth.
Algorithms create a cycle of mediocrity by being taught to cater to a specific sound. For example, in 2017 the company Spotify made the “auto-play” function default to on. When your playlist runs out, Spotify will find songs that sound similar to what you were listening to and put those on your queue.
However, this rewards the common denominator in every song which in turn, makes it so that songs start sounding alike until in the future we run the chance of creating a singularity. We are more or less accidentally homogenizing music as a whole.
The only way to fight that? Listen to music that is different and playing less popular artists.

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Renew Audio
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