DJ Mike E
Drum'n Bass,Jungle,Liquid Funk,Old Skool,Underground,Rave,Dance,Disco,
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Smiling Faces (Touchin Down Productions) Smiling Faces (Touchin Down Productions)
Calibre Mixes 'Smiling Faces' @ 1xtra Live week @ Belfast.....
Smiling Faces Smiling Faces
This is signed to my own imprint drum'n bass label Touchin Down Productions coming very soon..... A sneak preview....
"Never Gonna Change" "Never Gonna Change"
A jump up vocal drum'n bass floor track for DJ's to play out on the drum and bass scene today..with the bass lines & drum breaks crossing nice with the vocals...
Oh What 2 Do Baby! Oh What 2 Do Baby!
Raw bass lines & heavy bizz for this drum'n bass production.Get ready for the rawness...oh yeah! Needs some compressors putting through it & some xtra e.q on some bitz..Let me know ur thoughts
DJ Mike E, 29 years old based in the Essex area close to Romford. I have been into the music scene since listening to old electro tapes and hip hop at school. I got influenced firstly into rave sounds when I heard a Top Buzz tape back in 91, which had these mad jungle 170 b.p.m sample breaks with hard kick techno samples & Mc lyrics on top of them. Have never looked back since these days and from the age of 20 started to buy vinyl of all genre and thus my large collection of records. Started to play out at various illegal parties back in the nineties when then the vibe was awesome, unlike now with all the politics etc. within the free party scene. After a break due to lack of very poor music in the mid nineties, I took up an office job for a while. Then I felt a real vibe about the jungle/drum'n bass production that was been released and once again started to add once more to my record collection. Adding some greats tunes like 'Timeless' Goldie, 'Colours' Adam F stand out for me from this era. I then thought 'shit' I wouldn't mind learning about producing this sort of music. In the year 2000 I attended a part-time course for a diploma in Music Production, which I obtained a well earned merit. Having obtained my G4 Mac and a Yamaha CS1X ,I was locked down in my bedroom studio putting what I had learned at the ACM college down on to the Apple Mac. I quit office work and did not want to go down that road anymore and got a part-time position at Kinetic Records in London. This was good for me to learn about the business in more depth and to obtain some useful contacts to send on finished material for feedback. After a year now and also getting an Akai CD3000XL for my studio, which is the best thing money can buy personally for any studio, just completed about 12 tracks in total. I have sent them to various people like John B, Total Science, Emcee Records and some radio shows within the scene. I am getting mixed reviews good and bad and also have had some of my production played on a radio shows. One radio show of which I was asked to come in to do a interview for was called the Circumference show on www.sbn.co.uk & digital channel 894. I also got employed last year to write for a drum'n bass magazine called Lexicon, which is also available on-line at www.lexiconmag.co.uk . I was a vinyl reviewer for the magazine, along with some artist interviews that I covered from time to time. Last year also did some work for Hospital Records & Urban Takeover, which was good expierence to learn more about the music business side of things. My aims for 2003 are to release some of my production & DJ to spread the sounds of Drum'n Bass World-Wide.Have you performed in front of an audience?DJ - Discography
1998 - Resident - Fortnightly - W.A.C - Boxing Club - Chatham St - Reading
1998 - 1999 - Red Eye Pirate Radio 107.2 (Berkshire)
1999 - Exodus Festival - Luton - Unsound System
1997 - 1999 - Resident - Junction 10 Soundsystem - Free-Parties - London// Wales// Glastonbury//Oxford//Birmingham//Brighton// Bristol
1998 -1999 - Opps Sound System - Boxing Club - Chatham St - Reading // London Free Parties
1999 - July - Ashton Court Festival - Bristol
2000 - Glastonbury Festival - KDU Soundsystem
2001 - May Cannabis Festival - Brockwell Park - London
2001 - Resident 3rd Wednesday of each month - @ Herbal, London, E2
2001 - 15th June - D'Bass - @ Arches , London, E3
2001 - Sept 28th - Hummingbird Expierence - Imperial Gardens
2001 - Unsound New Yeas Eve Party - @ Arches , London E3
2002: Jan - April - Resident - Splurge - Medussa Club - Brixton
2002 - 19th April - D'Bass 15k Unsound System - @ The Arches , London, E3
2002 - Monthly Resident @ Pool Bar - Curtain Rd, London E1
2002 - March - Feb 2003 - Monthly & Guest Shows on Gaia Live Radio (Internet) www.gaialive.co.uk (archive of Lexicon show now up on site)
2002 - 12th Sept - Guest DJ @ Concorde , Brighton
2002 - Siren Soundsystem News Years Eve Party - @ Warehouse - Shoreditch - London
26th April - 2003 - Work Out @ Club Distinction - Ipswich
2003 - May 23rd - Resident - Shift ( my own d'n b nite) @ Rhythm Factory, London , E1
26th July 2003 - Work Out @ Club Distinction - Ipswich
Radio
www.sbn.co.uk (Digital Channel T.V.)
www.gaialive.co.uk
www.pyrotechnicradio.com (Lexicon Live Show 1st Wednesday of each Month)
www.planetdnb.com (15th October 2003) - Guest Showcase
Your musical influences
Hip Hop mainly & early electro tapes, for example'Nitro Deluxe' a classic from the 80's...Motown music as it's got so much soul...Then bit of various stuff like rock,ska,reggae. All this music influences my production sounds of today Drum' n Bass...What equipment do you use?
G4 Mac
Akai CD3000XL Sampler
Yamaha CS1X Synth
Spirit Folio F1 Mixer 14/2
Tannoy Reveals Monitors
Technics 1210's
Cubase // Reason // Absynth + much more software...Anything else?
Shout to all the drum'n bass soldiers out there working hard in the scene..Keep it real & Peace to the World.
**Stop the War....Against the Bush Administration**
ESSEX,
United Kingdom
ID
101900
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Comments (5)
Why can't I find this song and have it play. please send to me
Smiling Faces is quite simply the muts nuts. Production is as good as it gets as far as I am concerned. Musical content and the structure of the track is right up my street nice 1 Mike-E!
As for the days of Top Buzz I remember them too well :-) - rinsin tracks like 'different strokes' - isotonic. Its mad how the scene is still growing and evolving.
Thanks for the tasters, perhaps check my page, if you get a chance
l8er
nice stuff mate, feelin the vibes - and props for gettin a calibre play, big yourself up.
I got quite a few older bits on my page, dont know if you'd be interested in some newer stuff for Touchin Down? Can send a CD if you want.
Nice..
jus' passing thru m8....like your stuff,like me you where into your hip hop/electro (seems like a long time ago now b) LOL...
also noticed you worked @ kinetik records, (they owe me some money
goddamit, but what can you do when they go bust)LOL LOL LOL..
ANYWAYS.. hit me up when u post up any new tracks and i'll gladly take a listen.
peace
DJ SKYE
yes yes, just listened to your "Never Gonna Change" track...feelin that, but whoa just playing "what 2 do baby" blooooodfire!!! That tune is tuff. Good production on both tracks, but that what2dobaby is heavy. Keep up the good work.
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