About us
BIO
Impassioned by music, Patrick started his music carrer as a musician and DJ. Under the name DJ Raid he, with Stratège co-founds Affiliate, an association who’s mission was to popularize Montreal French and English hip hop in Quebec. For several years, he worked to further known Montreal artists such as Sans Pression, Bad News Brown, Bless and many more.
In 1995, with Osei “Manchilde” Alleyne and Stephen “Zip-Loks” Hennessey hosted the Ill Groove Garden radio show on Mc Gill’s CKUT 90.3 FM. During his twelve year tenure with his colleagues the three formed the group Butta Babees. The group went on to win the prize for ‘Best Unsigned Artists” at Canadian Music Week, NXNE “Future Shop Future Stars” award which allowed them to obtain a distribution contract with Universal Music Canada and a nomination for the best hip hop video at the 2001 Much Music Video Awards. Their single, “You Don’t Want It” held a top 10 position on FLOW 93.5 FM in Toronto, top 5 on Musique Plus as well as regular rotation on Much Vibe. During this same period, Patrick worked as an audio engineer and studio producer along side of Vane Flow at Bandit studio which is now studio 1 at Montreal Planet Studios.
Since then, Patrick has remained passionate about music. With his experience in the music industry, as well as the business world, he now is responsible for Ultra Nova Club’s management and administration.