Patrik along with early friend Staffan Ehrlin and older brother Niklas spent the first years
of learning sequensing and arranging on Atari computers, samplers, tapedecks,
and cheap synths & effect modules exploring ways of creating everything from EBM
to electronic industrial music and all things dancemusic around the mid 90's.
Production efforts started to turn more towards hard techno and become more consistent
when "Headroom" was formed together with A.FluX and Henrik Larsson in early 1997.
In 1998 their first 12” record was released on the Swedish Stockholm label Loop records.
Since then releases followed on respected techno labels such as Evil Deception, Planet
Rhythm UK, Synewave NY, Cloned, Template, Submissions, Compound and many more.
Aside from Headroom, Patrik began a solo project in 1999, slightly more towards dark
tribal compared to his collaborations. Having worked for German and American labels
he decided to set-up Native Diffusion Records, initially with a friend in Germany.
This focuses mainly on own productions, but also showcased remixes from the likes
of Damon Wild, W.J Henze, Inigo Kennedy, Slobodan, Takaaki Itoh & Hardcell.
As of 2003 and 2004 other talent started to appear on the label as well, respected
producers and newcomers to the techno-scene alike.
2004 also saw Headroom´s debut release on the classic NYC Synewave label getting
licensed to the "Exhibitionist" CD and DVD compilation, compiled and mixed by
world renowned DJ Jeff Mills. As the popularity of Patrik´s style of techno has
increased over the last years, remix offers drop in frequently and one of the recent
jobs was for fellow swede Adam Beyer and his now classic Drumcode imprint, which
shortly thereafter lead to releases of his own on Drumcode, and the sublabel Truesoul.
Skoog has also Dj’d from the beginning of his career and has played praised gigs
in the UK, North- and South America and all across Europe. In early 2005 a new project
was found in "Agaric" where he explores the slower, deeper realm of techno and house.
With productions on his most recent well-received labelproject named "We Are", Patrik
is gaining alot of appreciation from industry peers, and you have seen a big change
in Dj performances as well as trackwork, where he excurts further and further away from
playing the typical hard sound from which he was known, and more often than not he
performs a deeper variety of tracks that hints of a new modern take on his early
influences from the likes of Robert Hood, Wolfgang Voigt or Plastikman. In 2006, the
Native Diffusion label is being put on ice, ending after six years at number 19 in the
series; a four track various artists e.p. entitled "End game", and Patrik starts performing
liveacts all over the world with the Agaric project, premiering at one of the leading festivals
for electronic music in the Nordic countries, Public Service.