03.13 (Fri)
Michael David Smith
Profile:
Although loved and respected within a fifty mile radius of the record storage depot he calls a home, Baleariic Mike is one of the world’s unsung DJ heroes. His doggedly independent eclecticism, a restless archaeological thirst for lost treasure, and a keen desire to mine new music that suits his broadminded genre surfing post modern Balearic brief put him up there with a lonely few- those who are not scared to cross reference, off road and experiment with the crucial narrative that is at the core of any musical journey worth paying attention to.
There is an intuitive intelligence in the choosing of the component parts of his set and an empathetic logic to the way he puts things together. It’s these qualities that make his selections significant and ensure that his compilations are something more than the usual showing off the humble spectator has come to expect of the now tired beast that is the DJ compilation.
Mike is the son a humble Grampian haggis farmer who came to Manchester with nothing more than the rights to the family tartan and a few unwelcome Scottish pound notes in his sporran (they are for the record legal tender). His flowing locks at... More Biography
Profile:
Although loved and respected within a fifty mile radius of the record storage depot he calls a home, Baleariic Mike is one of the world’s unsung DJ heroes. His doggedly independent eclecticism, a restless archaeological thirst for lost treasure, and a keen desire to mine new music that suits his broadminded genre surfing post modern Balearic brief put him up there with a lonely few- those who are not scared to cross reference, off road and experiment with the crucial narrative that is at the core of any musical journey worth paying attention to.
There is an intuitive intelligence in the choosing of the component parts of his set and an empathetic logic to the way he puts things together. It’s these qualities that make his selections significant and ensure that his compilations are something more than the usual showing off the humble spectator has come to expect of the now tired beast that is the DJ compilation.
Mike is the son a humble Grampian haggis farmer who came to Manchester with nothing more than the rights to the family tartan and a few unwelcome Scottish pound notes in his sporran (they are for the record legal tender). His flowing locks at... More Biography
