 Having previously played percussion in Indus Creed, a leading rock band in India, and bass in the jazz outfit Azure Hades (with which he recorded an album), he moved to London in the 1990s and collaborated, as a bass player, with the London-based Asian acts like Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney and DJ Badmarsh (forming Badmarsh & Shri).Shri toured for 5 years with Sawhney, which led in 1997 to Shri's first solo album, "Drum the Bass", produced by Sawhney and released by London-based label Outcaste Records.Later, Badmarsh & Shri produced two albums for Outcaste Records as a duo, "Dancing Drums" in 1998 and "Signs" in 2001.