Ramachandra Borcar

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Ramachandra Borcar is a musician/composer/producer/DJ whose work mixes ethnic techno, Science Fiction vibes and a spaghetti western ethos. His music has a retro-70's spy fascination. He has recently turned from DJing to film scoring and composing.

Born in Montreal of an Indian father and a Danish mother, he had a diverse musical career. After studying music composition and electro-acoustic music at McGill University, he went on to create scores for film, television, documentaries, commercials and the theatre.

Under the name Ramasutra (alias DJ Ram, but do not confuse with the Russian DJ Ram), he released his self-produced debut album "The East Infection" in 1999 and the follow up "El Pipo Del Taxi" in 2003. His debut won a Felix Award in 2000 (amongst three nominations including best arranger), two Mimi awards for album of the year and best live show, and a Juno nomination for best alternative album. His second release won a Mimi award for best producer.

Apart from his personal project, Ram has scored several films including "Camping Sauvage" (2004), "Familia" (2005), and the award winning^{[citation needed]} documentary "Regular Or Super" (2004), whose original soundtrack was released on his own label Semprini Records as "Steel and Glass". In 2002 he was awarded a Jutras award for his score to "Soft Shell Man" ("Un crabe dans la tête"). His television work includes the ten part series "Web Dreams", themes for "Tout Le Monde En Parle", "Casting", "Women Warriors" and commercials for Mercedes, Toyota and Cadbury. He also did a soundtrack for the documentary "Bombay Calling".

Ram’s production work includes not only his personal albums and soundtracks but other artists as well. In 2005 he produced debut albums for the Brazilian funk band Gaia, the indo-jazz outfit Catherine Potter’s Duniya Project, Bulgarian gypsy band Kaba Horo and more recently the Montreal tex-mex electro duo Call Me Poupee and Voivod.

He has frequently collaborated with female vocalist Marcia Seebaran, and has opened for Bjork, Asian Dub Foundation.

[edit] Discography

Artist	Title	Year	Label
Ramasutra	The East Infection	1999	TOX
Ramasutra	El Pipo Del Taxi EP	2003	Semprini
Ramachandra Borcar	Camping Sauvage [OST]	2004	CANUSA
Catherine Potter	Duniya Project [PRODUCER]	2005	SHADAJ
Gaïa	Gaïa [PRODUCER]	2005	JAJOU PRODUCTIONS
Lubo Alexandrov	Kaba Horo [PRODCUER]	2005	ENJA
Ramachandra Borcar & The Stacked Deck	Steel And Glass [Regular or Super OST]	2005	Semprini
Call Me Poupee	Western Shanghai [PRODUCER]	2006	Semprini
Ramasutra	La Villa Medusa	[FORTHCOMING]	Semprini