About Me
Patrick, born in India but transplanted to Canada at the age of four, started DJing and organising events and club nights in 1991 in Toronto, Canada. After a few years of throwing ground-breaking events (the earliest and largest Raves and elentronica events in the country at the time), hosting community radio shows and DJing around the region; Patrick made the move to Montreal in 1994.Upon landing in the city that is often called the Paris on North America, Patrick started to make big things happen. He started a series of inflluential club nights, concerts and events called Harmony, kick-started by a weekly-rave Friday night at Metropolis, at the time, the largest club in the country. He introduced some of the biggest names in the biz to Canada for the first time, inlcuding Deee-Lite, Josh Wink, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina etc. etc.
Over the next five years, Patrick held residencies at all the major clubs in Montreal and flew around the country and select international destinations sharpening his DJ skills. In 1999, Patrick scribbled the name Bombay Records on the back of an envelope and from there set out to build Montreals first truly international House Music Label. Along with business partner DJ Nav, and a host of Montreal Producers (Fred Everything, Miguel Graca etc.), Patrick built Bombay Records into one of the most prolific house labels ever to come out of Canada.
With Patrick as President of the label, between 1999 and 2004, Bombay put out ten albums and thirty singles, launching the careers of many Canadian producers and developing a unique sound and identity for House Music from Montreal. In the process, Patrick also caught the bug for producing music of his own. Starting with Second Shanty Dub a reggae-inspired house track co-produced with Miguel Graca which was released on Bombay in late 2002, Patrick found that all his first productions where released, either on Bombay or on other respected labels see diiscography below!
In early 2005 Patrick found that being identified as the head honcho of a prominent Deep house label was somewhat limiting for an artist whose Djing, song and remix productions tended to have a more hard-edge club-inspired sound; so Patrick sold his shares in Bombay to concentrate on being a Producer-DJ. With upcoming releases with Roy Davis Jr., Fred Everything and Miguel Graca along with a bunch of original songs and remixes already slated for release later in 2005 it appears to be onwards and upwards for this artist.
