Nyan Narine

After 18 years in the business, thousands have been hard hit by the drums and vibe of DJ Nyan Narine. It all began with guest appearances on Toronto’s favourite, pioneering house music radio shows. Nyan then began producing his own deep house & garage show called Inspiration 1992-1995 where he met friends and mentors, Roger Sanchez, Danny Tenaglia, Frankie Knuckles and Little Louie Vega. By 1996, Nyan started working under the banner of his own company, DeepDown Productions. Nyan’s sound began transforming and was increasingly dominated by darker tribal grooves. He maintains his roots as a garage DJ, blending soulful, vocal house in with sexy, big-room bass lines and relentless tribal drums.

Nyan branched out to the scene in London, Ontario as a resident DJ at London’s most successful house night at the Sapphire Lounge and made appearances at John Acquaviva’s club, Lush. After successfully taking on London, Nyan began working the dance floors of Montreal. Highly influenced by a world-standard after-hours scene, Nyan found Montreal crowds to be the most receptive and enthusiastic for his unique sound. Nyan moved to Montreal in 2002, and has since claimed his place in the Montreal club circuit, playing venues such as Tribe Hyperclub, Taro Supperclub, Traffik Nightclub, Parking Nightclub, Stereo Bar, Beach Club, Foundation Afterhours, Gravity Afterhours, Mile End and Illume.

In 2004, Nyan produced original music along with special remixes used by Cirque du Soleil in their production for the 2004 Black & Blue festival in Montreal. His bootleg remix of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, ‘Imagination’ turned 2005 Halloween crowds into a frenzy at Crobar NYC, where it was touted to be “one of the highlight tracks of the night’’ by none other than Roger Sanchez himself. Nyan was soon after featured in the Final Forty Segment of Roger’s globally syndicated radio show, Release Yourself. Along with studio partner Pierre-Andre Meunier, he has released remixes of Tom Novy’s ‘Your Body’, Roger Sanchez’s Turn on the Music & Copyright’s stomper ‘He Is’, which have already electrified Montreal dancefloors and is being supported by Roger & Chus. DeepDown studios have just released the first in a series of original tracks in August 2006. The first release is called “All I Believe In’ and has already started gaining the attention of many International DJs.

He created a new partnership with Stereo Nightclub owner Scott Lancaster as the monthly resident for Scott’s International DJ night known as ‘Dirty Thursdays’. Nyan’s featured parties were known as the ‘DeepDown N Dirty’ Nights! These parties have been among the most successful in the weekly series. Nyan played the official Dirty pre-party for the return of Danny Tenaglia at Stereo. With the success of Dirty, Nyan was invited to play at GodsKitchen Canada’s Sun Dance Festival, the Canadian edition of the Global Gathering series, where he played alongside Danny Tenaglia, Victor Calderone, Steve Lawler, Bad Boy Bill, Mylo, Misstress Barbara and Sandra Collins. 2006 saw Nyan take his outside of Montreal, with performances in Ottawa, Toronto, NYC, San Francisco and Ibiza. 2007 has started off strong with opening sets for Roger Sanchez and Victor Calderone, and an ever-growing following of devoted fans.

Nyan is staying true radio roots broadcasting DJ sets on the Internet radio station www.xanuradio.com in Toronto and on www.house-pacifique.com in Montreal. Nyan has since focused his monthly radio show The DeepDown Sound on House-Pacifique, featuring monthly international guest DJs, and celebrating the best of Montreal’s local DJ talent. Exclusive mixes form Nyan can also be heard on www.lestubbies.com, www.indamix.ca, www.euro-connection.net & his own website www.nyannarine.com.

For Narine, a good night is made when the energy in the room is ripe with emotions. “I am definitely an emotional DJ… my music is even more than a story I am trying to tell, or a journey upon which I’m taking the crowd... it’s a tangible expression of my state of mind... we all truly feel that connection... and this connection is felt deep down inside…”