email: amir@technofunk.org

www: www.myspace.com/technofunkcollective

Amir Ebrahimnia, co-founder/owner of Replant Records, is a real workaholic, so it is no wonder he has earned himself a reputation in various fields. His professions and projects range from international trading and development to music composition / production, DJing and artist management. Since the early 1980s, Amir has been digging deep into music, working as a DJ, artist, producer and composer who's had great influence on the Toronto club scene. With his projects such as Babylon Martini & Musique Boutique, Technofunk Collective, Delicious Urban Media and Replant Records, Amir Ebrahimnia has managed to create a well-respected platform for innovative ideas and grooves that have inspired dance floors throughout the world.

Along with his career, Amir also began establishing his remarkable DJ career in the early 1980s. He made his first appearance as a DJ at age 15, spinning the wheels at various Mod Events in his hometown Toronto. "I remember hunting down old northern soul records by corresponding via snail mail with other dj pin pals in england & Europe", says Amir. "That was something very unusual at that time. Northern Soul and Rare Groove was so underground in North America that it was practically non existent."

Growing up in the 80's, the step from Northern Soul, Ska, Dub reggae and danceable New Wave to a somewhat funky and jazzy Black Music seemed a "natural development" to Amir. As soon as the first sample tracks like Al Wilson's "Sign of the Snake" hit the local record shops, Amir got them and featured them. Soul and Jazz came back with the New School, and by checking out all original Rare Grooves and funky things that were sampled at the early stage of New School hip hop, Amir was always up-front and became known by almost everyone in Toronto who had a thing going for Nu Jazz, club music, Black Music, Records and not to mention Djing. He was a popular and frequent guest-DJ at Toronto's "Soul Direction" Mod nights, a true Modern and Northern Soul party, where Amir was out to make Rare Groove, Boogie, Soul and Garage more popular in Toronto. During the House wave, he was the driving force behind more soulful and groovy stuff, and instead of inviting just anyone for his regular club nights @ Babylon, Amir decided to invite DJs like Montreal's Patrick Star80, Garry, DJ Lek, Elliot Lazor, TK Sheppard, Mark Scaife, Mitch Whinthrop, Jason Palma, Stephane, Teknostep, Vera, DJ Shine or Marc deBryne instead.

In the process of the development of House, Disco, Downbeat, trip hop, Drum & Bass, Breakbeat and Electro in the 90s, Amir Ebrahimnia launched the club "Babylon martini & musique boutique" with their escapades into Nu Jazz structures and broken beats. As Amir puts it:"I have never been the kind of DJ to play strictly one style. I've always tried to present a wide range of interesting music, making the past to the present and other-way-round! I'm a full spectrum DJ. My favorite DJs are still those who play deep shit, just the best tunes, old and new, entertaining the crowd as well as giving respect to the originators. It's not the mix that counts, it's the mixture!"

Magnetic. Vibrant. Freedom. Creative. Cultural. These words only begin to describe the music and talents of amir. dj/composer/producer, amir has steadily and carefully crafted an original body of work he terms a spiritually tinged blend of house music and multi-dimensional sounds.

Born in Tehran Iran, Amir grew up in Toronto Canada. immersed in the sounds and rhythms of one of the most frenetic and culturally diverse cities on earth and influenced by world beats, early 80's electronica, rock steady, funk, punk, nu jazz and of course house and techno beats.

SIDE PROJECTS

- artist management - music-adviser for film, radio, television and advertisement-agencies - Apparel design and marketing

OTHER PASSIONS

politics, media, science, technology, fine wine