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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.

No Country for Young Men. 
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Turn Off , Detune In , Space Out.