| He started jockeying
with his inhouse collection of mp3s at a pristine age of 16,
for local parties and gatherings of mates. He churned two
winamp players in his PC mix but had to carry the machine.
Post-schooling, he took up the art of electronic music and
started mixing anything and everything, confined to his genre
of interest.
Having exposed to professional
wares, hard and soft, Nyk has mixed over 200 tracks insofar.
These mixes can be heard in clubs all over America, London,
Australia, Dubai, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong , Europe
and of course, back home in India.
Additionally, his work
of art has also been aired on FM stations across Dubai and
South Africa and some of Nyk’s originals have also been included
in compilation-albums by Clubs all over the place.
What's more, he's a knack of playing any instrument and is
open to all sounds, most of all Desi/Bollywood/Remixes , Progressive
House, Progressive Trance.
Nyk's Remixes
have also been played and apprized by some of the biggest
and most successful of his contemporaries viz - Dj Suketu,
Dj Aqeel, Dj Nasha to name a few.
Nyk has been fortunate
to play with:
- Dj Suketu (fame: 440 Volts,
Bin Tere Sanam, Bed Lounge Mixes, Lamhay, Baras Jaa, Aadat)
- Talvin Singh (The Pioneer
of Asian Underground Music)
- Dj Jayant (fame: OST Let's
Enjoy)
- Dj Huda G (fame: Domo Records
- Israel - Psy Trance)
- Dj Madhav (Named as the
No.5th Asian Underground Producer in the world by 'The Week')
- Pankaj Awasthi (fame –
Nine ( Debut Album ) Singer: Tera Hi Karam : OST Karam;
- Sivamani (A.R.Rehman's
Percussionist) ...to name a prominent few.
In Dj Suketu's own
words to Dj Nyk on his cover of Aashiq Banaaya Aapne:
"I heard
your mix of Aashique Banaya Aapne. It is seriously very good.
Better than the bootleg I made to play at parties. Very good
work. Clean simple but still groovy and dancy. Very clubby.
I Like it. Keep it up."
Areas Of Specialization:
- Remixing / Music Production
- Range of Genres: Bollywood
– Remixes - Pop , Progressive House, Prog. & Psy Trance
, Psy Chill & Lounge, Asian Underground & Mainstream
Music.
BRIEF HISTORY ( 2001
- 2006 ):
Born on June
15th 1985.
Dj Nyk , during his Kinder Garden days , instead of playing
with toys used to keep himself busy toying with his little
synthesizer playing various tunes.
While in school , he got hold of a computer magazine cd with
Soundforge (A Sound editing software) and started experimenting
thereon and ultimately succeded in making mashups on his own
.
Dj Nyk released his first underground remix album – "Turbo
Trackz" in 2001 followed by "Feel
The Beats" Vol. 1 & 2 in 2002 and 2003 respectively,
when he was doing his final schooling at the age of 16 yrs.
After schooling, NYK took professional training in djing and
was introduced to some great production tools like Cubase
and Reason, to name a few.
Later in 2003, he released another remix album "Flavas
2003", it was then when people started noticing
his talent.
"Filth and Funk – Vol .1" released
in 2004 and "Filth and Funk – Vol.2"
in 2005 and since then there has been no looking back.
Remixes from "Filth and Funk – Vol. 2"
won great acclaims worldwide and became massive hits in nightclubs
all over the world.
Thereafter he released 2 singles - Dus Bahane–House
Mix and Salaam Namaste–House Mix,
which strengthened his base in the underground remix industry.
The latest one is "Serial Groover",
released in the first week of January 2006. Its important
to know that this underground release got the appreciation
of India’s top most Dj - Dj Suketu.
Has also bagged the runners up award for "Digital
Music Production" Competetion in 2003
DJ NYK LIVE IN HONG
KONG:
REVIEWS (WWW.HKCLUBBING.COM):
http://www.hkclubbing.com/Event_Reviews/2006_Event_Reviews/DJ_NYK_at_Sugar_Review.html
To have a 20 year old DJ fly in from overseas to entertain
a crowd which is demographically on the senior edge is already
quite a hard stunt to pull. But then to see the same 20 year
old DJ make the crowd lose control in the club, that is phenomenal.
From 1.30 am onwards, DJ NYK, India’s youngest #1 DJ, was
rocking the exclusive Champagne Room at Sugar to celebrate
Year of the Dog on Chinese New Year.
After taking a short tour of Lan Kwai Fong and the adjacent
SOHO area, NYK walked into Sugar to a packed house of anticipation
and a lot of whisky being poured on ice. With support from
the infamous 3 Phat DJs, host and organiser MC-G stepped up
to the stage to welcome to the young superstar to Hong Kong.
He sure made his presence with a dramatic audio intro that
bewildered most of the crowd with excitement, for them to
then hear the faint vocals of "JHALAK"
(from the movie Aksar) humming over deep house grooves through
the massive sound-system.
DJ NYK kept it pumping for hours, and even party-whores like
myself couldn’t last! We hope to welcome back DJ NYK and hopefully
have more DJs like him touch down in HK. Special credit and
thanks goes to the sponsor Sunny Lakhwani, support DJs, promoters
and organisers – the 3 Phat DJs, MC-G and Asian Flava.
PICS:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3UVGWQOD
HKCLUBBING.COM INTERVIEW
WITH DJ NYK:
http://www.hkclubbing.com/Event_Reviews/2006_Event_Reviews/DJ_NYK_at_Sugar_Review.html
FOR MORE LATEST REMIXES
MAIL DJ NYK AT:
DJNYKPRODUCTION@GMAIL.COM
DJNYK_DR@YAHOO.COM
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