User:DjHMD

Since the young age of 4 HMD had shown a keen interest in sound & music. He was first Introduced to the world of music through his father’s old Hindi records & bollywood films & slowly through radio & television he was exposed to the western culture of arts. This clash of Eastern & western culture was therefore embedded in the young HMD mind, and Thus setting the foundation for the music of the future. Just like to any young kid, music & movies were considered mystical thing, and so to "H" recording or creating his own music was un heard of & impossible. The thought never crossed his mind Until one night when his father being a taxi driver found a microphone in his cab and brought it home still only 6 years old HMD and & his 9 Year old brother were ecstatic to see this mic, & began playing with it, their father tired from work decided to watch a movie, while he was inserting the film he noticed that the VCR had a mic input & decided to try and see if his new mic would work with it, after fiddling with it he found that it was capable dubbing sound over video's, the kids of course quickly picked up on the new knowledge and began being kids. lo n behold the door of recording arts had been opened. During the Preceding few years "H" continued showing interest on & off with his new findings, he would sometimes record short stories on cassette tapes using sound FX etc. This continued until the age of 13 when remixing & DJ'ing became a new interest, it was during this time that HMD's life would take a whole new turn. 13 Years old and just entering high school, H showed strong interest in remixing music, so his cousin recommended him to join a local dj/movie company he knew of. There he would learn the In's & Out's of operating dj & live sound equipment, and was exposed to a live audience environment in various venues across Canada dj'ing at dances, receptions, & fundraisers. This was also the company where he was given the name HMD by associates who abbreviated his name Harman Deep which translates from Punjabi into english as "Every Minds Light". He continued with this company through high school until the grade 11 which was a time where decisions were to be made which would shape the forth coming years of his destiny. "H" Decided to quit the job, being it was a party atmosphere and it was conflicting with school life. During this time he still wasn't sure what it was he wanted to do even though music was in the back of his mind. So he went with the flow and let be what was meant to be. During that year he began experimenting with his musical abilities, applying dj skills to instruments and computer programs. The Perfection of his art had been engaged. At first He was more into remixing, in particular remixing East Indian music laced with western beats. He had gotten so into his experiments that suddenly he had a roster of songs, completed. Still he had no intension of doing anything with this music, expect play them for audiences on dance floors, this changed during a pre Indian wedding party of a relative who was involved in the underground music industry, who had established an underground record label by the name of Heavyweight records At this party H and the Heavyweight record heads were talking about their album Penthouse and how they wanted to do future albums. H mentioned that he has many fresh remixes never heard before and that maybe they would be interested in releasing. So H completed the album and titled it "Nasha 2000" and in April of 2000 it was released and suddenly was blown up! right across the globe HMD was internationally recognized over the period of one month, particularly with the hit remix single "jindua" which is still played on dance floors all over the world. He would follow up with 3 other album over the next 4 years. In October 2000 "Totally Tulli" was released then in 2002 "Nasha 2012"and finally in 2004 "Totally tulli 2” The Nasha and Totally tulli series were now completed and H had evolved into not only a dj but a full on producer/Engineer and recording artist. So during the years of 2004,2005 & 2006 H was finding himself as he was still dealing with the death of his father back in 2002and dibbling and dabbling through various music production programs and writing poetry. By the end of 2006 H was now ready for the next step. Most of the artists H was working with had now moved on to their own project or on to something different in their lives, so H had to go back to the drawing board and once again pulled out some old school folk tracks from Gurdas Mann and Surjit Bindrakhia and laced them up with a brand new style of remix and production never heard in the Indian market before. The album is entitled Unity Gain which sheds light on philosophical topics on life and a unity driven view on the political world with H rapping his points and views over brand new Indo Dip/hop style production. He is now working on his first debut upper ground mainstream album which is expected to be released sometime in 2010 which will feature many new local artists as well as some from the mainstream and the past. Stay Tuned! And watch out for more hot shit.