Crimsen seen from behind in the booth at Mystical festival in Toronto, arm up, looking out over the crowd

Melodic house and techno / Toronto to Tulum

Crimsen

This is what I see from the booth at Mystical in Toronto. You get it in black and white. Put my glasses on and go find the party.

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Drag the line

Same nerves, nine years apart

Crimsen at his first gig in 2015, smiling behind a laptop and controller — **2015** My first gig ever

Crimsen in red shades at the decks at Mystical Festival Toronto in 2024, reaching for the camera — **2024** Mystical Festival, Toronto

2015. It looks like I am having the time of my life. In my head I was falling apart. I had never touched CDJs, so I brought my laptop and a Traktor controller, and about 90 percent of the songs I had planned would not load. I built loops out of a house party playlist, breathed slower, told myself you got this. The crowd never knew. That night I knew this was it for the rest of my life.

2024. Mystical Festival back home in Toronto, on a bill with Giuseppe Ottaviani and Spada, and the set went up on YouTube. Same guy, better shades.

Where I come from

India, Qatar, Kuwait, Toronto, Tulum

Born
India
Born in India, raised in Qatar and Kuwait. My nani did a PhD in Hindi literature while raising three kids. That is the kind of stubborn I come from.
15 years
Toronto
Toronto grew me from a shy teenager trying to figure out his place into a man relentlessly chasing his purpose.
Parents
Cherry Beach
My Indian parents saw me DJ live for the first time, at Promise on Cherry Beach. Most parents want an engineer or a doctor. Mine came to the rave.
2022
Purified
Nora En Pure signed I Still Think of You to Purified, and the Mees Salome remix became my first track on BBC Radio 1.
Now
Tulum
I played my last Toronto night at Parlour, then moved south. These days the jungle is home and the sunsets are the studio.

On the shelf

Fresh off the press

All 33 records

Behind Blue EyesCrimsen & Tom Luca
This Feeling / Feb 2026
Closer (Ryan Lucian Remix) [feat. Adam Nazar]Morgin Madison, Crimsen & Ryan Lucian
Enhanced Recordings / Enhanced Music / Oct 2024
OdysseyMorgin Madison
Enhanced Recordings / Enhanced Music / Jul 2024
Lonely WinterCrimsen
Blackboard / Jun 2023
Immersed Elements 05ItsUs & Crimsen
Immersed / Apr 2023
Who KnowsCrimsen
Street Tracks / Jul 2022

2022 Nomade Records43 Degrees Records8bit RecordsBasica RecordingsBlackboardClaps RecordsEnhanced RecordingsGalactic Paradise MusicGood For You RecordsGruuvHMWLImmersedManiana RecordsMoustache LabelNurvous RecordsPBR RecordingsPurified RecordsSmiley FingersStreet TracksThis FeelingZEHN RecordsZerothree Music

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Sets from around the world

Four favourites. The rest live on the sets page.

52:55 / 79K views
Bunker, BarcelonaFeeling Green, up on the old bunkers. A legend of a cab driver drove me up there.
40:22 / 35K views
Sunset mixFeeling Green. The sun goes down, the bpm stays kind.
1:23:59 / 14K views
Mystical Festival, TorontoLive with Giuseppe Ottaviani and Spada on the bill, 31 May 2024.
28:18 / 12K views
Mount Tam, CaliforniaA fog rolled in as the music got darker. Then the sunset came.

People who played it, people who wrote about it

Support

So far that is 33 records on 22 labels, 142K plays on my Shiver remix and 50K of you on Instagram. Thank you.

Nora En Pure behind the decks playing I Still Think of You

Nora En Pure played it.

I Still Think of You with Jordan Arts came out on her label Purified, and here she is dropping the Mees Salome remix. Closer with Morgin Madison and Adam Nazar made it onto A State of Trance 1182. Take It Back got played on KISS FM UK.

Born in India, raised in Qatar and Kuwait, Crimsen now calls Toronto his home.
Music Is 4 Lovers, 2022
He's a producer that knows the studio and knows the dance floor
Data Transmission, 2020
emotive vocals with delicate keys and crisp percussion
EDMTunes, 2022
Definitely an artist to keep an eye on.
Electronic Groove, 2021

Put my shades on

Find me in red

Left lens for listening, right lens for watching. Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Beatport on one side, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Resident Advisor on the other.