Born and bred in Brazil's music and clubbing capital Sao Paulo, DJ Patife (translation: scoundrel) 25, has spent most of his life living and breathing music.

DJ Patife caught the musical bug in the early 1990s. He gained his first professional experiences as a DJ for a Hip-Hop band called 'Fatos Reais' (Real Facts), who had several hits of their own and collaborated with other prominent Hip-Hop artists in the Americas.

In 1995 Patife's career moved up a level as he gained a residency at the Arena Music Hall, a celebrated electronic music club in Sao Paulo.

Around this time Patife was also developing a taste for D&B/Jungle which was a new genre in Sao Paulo at the time - all this in a city where the music of choice was Techno. Patife took advantage of this new residency to push this new type of music, but found it hard to break the scene to the masses.

Alongside his good friends DJ Marky and DJ Koloral, DJ Patife was determined to make D&B/Jungle a success.

In August of 1997, in a calculated move, Patife travelled to London, UK with Marky in the hope of meeting all their D&B/Jungle heroes and starting something.

A chance meeting with the Movement promoters on that trip and a few fantastic nights down at Movement in Bar Rumba led to Patife securing a contract to host his own Movement parties and represent Movement in Brazil.

Patife was then invited back to the UK where he had a successful debut playing alongside some of the top DJs in the Mecca of D&B/Jungle: London. A fitting way to celebrate the efforts of a pioneer who was now actively establishing D&B/Jungle in Brazil.

All Patife's hard work was now paying off and it wasn't long until major players in the scene became interested. This interest led to the release of his first compilation mix album - DJ Patife Presents Sounds of Drum & Bass - this was a huge success selling over 10,000 copies (a massive feat in Brazil). The album, although only ever released in Brazil, made reviews in the European and American press. Patife was now showing the whole world that Brazilian homegrown productions from artists such as XRS (who would later gain a worldwide smash in LK) could give everyone a run for their money. Patife has always pushed his homegrown sounds at every opportunity - this album contained three Brazilian productions.

In Brasil Patife still regularly plays 5000 capacity raves and is responsible for taking his sounds to uncharted territories, such as the Amazonian Rainforest and the Bahian beaches of Salvador on the northeast coast.

Patife's radio career also grew in tandem appearing on some of Brazil's best dance music radio shows - Nova FM, Metro FM and 97 FM. Indeed, Patife still regularly hosts a Sunday night show on Energia 97FM (www.97fm.com.br). He is now used to regularly appearing on TV in Brasil and is even the focus of a documentary to be shown on CNN.

Patife's unique, diverse and probing sound is hugely in demand throughout the whole of Brazil, with larger events including Levi's Live, warming-up the crowd before a Chemical Brothers live show and opening the MTV Brasil Video Music Awards - all this coming under his banner of spreading good vibes everywhere.

It was no coincidence that Patife's international career would also grow, due to the quality of his productions and his sheer hard work.

Since 2000 Patife has been on extensive European and American tours as well as making his prestigious Asian debut at the World Cup 2002 opening party hosted by Nike in Tokyo, Japan. This same year he made his bow at the mighty Homelands Festival in the UK. In 2001 Patife was nominated in the Best International Producer category at the Knowledge Magazine Awards.

April 2001 saw the launch of Patife's production career outside of Brasil and what a debut! The Brasil EP (Trama/V Records) was released. It immediately put Patife on the producer map, with his remix of 'Sambassim' being recognised by Gilles Peterson and Bryan Gee as a groundbreaking D&B/Jungle classic which has paved the way for a more soulful sound currently en vogue.

Since this, Patife has gone on to release another compilation album (Cool Steps) in Brasil only which has already passed 25,000 sales and features tunes from labels as diverse as Compost Records & Good Looking. He has also produced many of his own tunes as well as remixes for the likes of Koop, Cleveland Watkiss, Marisa Monte and even Roberto Carlos (Brazil's answer to Frank Sinatra).

On the 26th August 2003 DJ Patife scooped BEST DANCE MUSIC VIDEO for "SAMBASSIM" - DJ PATIFE REMIX at The 2003 VMB (Video Music
Brasil)…as expected he donned his Movement T-shirt with Pride and bigged up the massives!

Patife is now focused on delivering to his worldwide fans a debut artist album at the end of 2003.

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