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Since childhood Patch has been making music with anything he could get his hands on, early on becoming obsessed with sound, timbre, and resonance.  A self taught recording engineer, he has developed a unique approach to recording and manipulating audio.  By continually exploring additive and subtractive synthesis, Patch is truly creating his own sound.

Patch was a founding member and driving force in the live electronica band Heavyweight Dub Champion which fused deep dub with intelligent hip-hop, crushed dance floors, and left a wake of fanatic fans and perplexed sound engineers.  Every night on two soundboards Patch engineered 56 channels of music through numerous delays, filters, and fxs creating a heavy, high energy, and transcendent live show.  As sonic alchemist and technical innovator he helped define what it meant to perform "Live P.A." by turning the soundboard into an instrument.  H.D.C.+ has headlined and been a featured artist in major festivals, clubs, and underground gatherings throughout the U.S, Europe and Canada.  They have shared billing with Amon Tobin, Tricky, Damien Marley, Steel Pulse, Marilyn Manson, Wu-Tang Clan, Sonic Youth and KRS One, to name a few.  Through live shows and with their two albums Survival Guide and Rise of the Champion Nation Patch and Heavyweight have left a permanent evolutionary mark on dub-electronica and West Coast Bass culture.

In the fall of 2008 Patch left H.D.C.+ and has since been focusing on production work, numerous collaborations, remix projects, and studying infrasonic communication.  His first solo release, 1 degree C, has been downloaded in over 45 countries.  Western Slope, a deep ambient companion album to 1 degree C, will be out this fall, as will an acoustic album entitled Mast.  Patch has contributed to remix albums for Pitch Black, Warp Technique, Dr. Israel and Resident Anti-Hero.  As well he has added some programming to two tracks off Method Of Defiance's Jabulon, an album featuring Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Dr. Israel, and Toshinori Kondo.