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Passions
He's a restaurateur by day, a disc jockey by night.
By Ira Swasti
Photograph by S. Radhakrishna
Being born in the Northeast gave Khanindra Barman that extra gene which made him groove before he could even walk. It’s an inheritance that he never gave up—not even as a Delhi-based software engineer. Here Barman spun rock and retro three nights a week as a DJ at TC—one of the city’s most popular clubs. But spinning tracks or stringing computer codes wasn’t enough. In 2005, Barman got his act together with Pankaj Bhatia, a work buddy, to launch The Vil’age, a north Indian restaurant in Bengaluru. “We dreamt of being entrepreneurs. One day we just quit and began to realise our dreams,” recalls Barman. Six years on, their company, KP Groups, runs three night clubs, two restaurants, three spas and a boutique hotel in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Ask Barman a.k.a. DJ Kay Mikado about the tune that defines him best—music or entrepreneurship—and he’ll tell you that he isn’t himself without either. These days, he spends five hours in his home studio recording new tracks. So far, he’s produced 108 deep house and progressive titles.
His music gods
- Pink Floyd
- Dave Matthews Band
- U2
- Dire Straits
- Radiohead
Most memorable gig
- “My performance at Cloud 9, a club in Shillong, was fantastic. Though it was a small crowd of 300-odd people, there was great energy. They all understood my music.”
Usual haunts
- He gets the crowd grooving to his music four to five times a month at The Beach and Zero G in Bengaluru, One Lounge in Pune and the very-buzzing Blue Frog in Mumbai.
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