Welcome to DJ DARK

I'm an Asian and Urban Fusion music DJ based in Leicester, I am available for all your party requirements - small too big. I provide a professional, honest and friendly DJ service. I specialize for the Asian community playing for Wedding parties, Birthdays, Anniversaries etc

I DJ in the Leicestershire area but my expertise has been called to places such as Coventry, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Cambridge, London, Stoke on Trent and Germany to name a few

I started DJing while studying at University in 1999; I was a regular DJ on the University radio station “LUSH FM”. I aired the first Punjabi and Bhangra shows in the radios history mixing together a fusion of Bhangra, House, Drum and Bass and UK Garage

How Did You Start Out?

I started mixing the good old fashioned way using traditional 12” Vinyl’s and using my Technic SL 1210’s to mix on. I bought records each week from local record shops in Leicester and these were mostly House & Garage and Drum & Bass records. I also made regular trips to Southall in London to buy Bhangra records and then mix these with the English records to create a new live remix sound. I spent weeks perfecting my remixes, creating hour long back to back sets; so I was able to perform the same mixing, ordering, scratching and perfection in front of large crowds

From the live turntable mixing I went to mixing music on my computer and then producing fresh sounding beats and music using production tools like Reason, Fruity Loops and Acid here I found myself overlapping and cutting up vocals to put over the top of my beats

I have continued to play for parties and functions but gone are the turntables and in have come digital mp3 mixing using the latest live mixing software and MP3 controllers. I have been building up my skills and equipment for the past few years and I now feel comfortable to be able to perform week in and week out in front of large and more diverse crowds. In this time I have also learnt how to play the Dhol and I often incorporate this into my live DJ sets

Why Dark?

In the late 90's; a lot of the music I was playing was very fast, heavy, underground, eerie, technical, razor sharp sounds with heavy bass lines; a lot of people phrased these types of records dark or too dark. I was mixing a lot of this music with Punjabi and Bhangra music; I thought that this would be best name that would suit me and my style of mixing hence my name became DJ DARK – for delivering action packed fast base line mixing into Asian music intensifying the music experience

Who Do I Know?

I have DJ'd, supported and toured with major performing acts such as RDB, DJ SANJ, Tarli Digital, Indy Sagu, E=MC (Bobby) (Call It What You Want), Manak-E (Hor Glassy) DJ Harps (VIP Records), DEA Indy (Dhol Enforcement Agency), PAL-D (Diamond in the Rough) Indi Mack (DV Entertainments LTD), Dr Zeus, HS Talwar, Gubi Sandhu (Sah Ruk Da), Achanak (Inc Vijay), Ninder Johal (Nachural Records), Kam Frantic, Suhki Bart (BBC Asian Network), Gabru Punjab De (Bhangra Dancers Birmingham), Master Dholli Rakesh (Leicester), DJ Lee, DJ Dippa (Hardeep), Kam Bhamra (Golden Child), Dalvinder Singh (Nachdeh Punjabi), DJ STV, DJ Lion, DJ Chaos (Aaron), DJ DALLY, Bally V, DJ PSD (Canada), DJ Soul, DJ APS, James Lillystone (Digital Disco's Leicester), James R Pearce, MC G1V, MC Feva (Formation), Nigel (Dub Child) Ford, Arjun Mohindra (Balle Shava Dancers), DJ Desire AKA Tony From Punjab 2000, Nin & Dee from The DNA Road Show, Sat from X-Treme Sounds Leicester

Other

I signed to a major Bhangra recording and production label based in Birmingham in 2003 called Nachural Records. Nachural Records is a British Bhangra record label based in Birmingham, West Midlands owned by Ninder Johal of Achanak. Bands that have released music through Nachural or signed a deal with the company include Sona Family and Tigerstyle

The UK Asian Music Awards, also known as the UK AMA’s is an award show that is held annually in the UK. I went along to the 2005 show which was held on the 3rd of March 2005 at the Hammersmith Palais in London. I went with my friend E=MC (Bobby) where he won the Best MC award for his new album “Call It What You Want”, at this event I met a lot of artists and producers such as Punjabi Hit Squad, Malkit Singh and Miss Scandalous