M.I.K.E.
- M.I.K.E.
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- Genres: dance, trance, progressive trance, vocal trance, belgium
About M.I.K.E.
M.I.K.E. is Mike Dierickx (Dirk Dierickx before changing his first name officially), a Belgian producer and DJ from the Antwerp area.
(Another M.I.K.E., known as Mike, is an Indonesian Singer who won the finals of Indonesian Idol. His songs are tagged on this page.)
Although mostly known for his productions under the aliases M.I.K.E., Push and Plastic Boy, Mike has released hundreds of records under more than eighty aliases and collaborations since 1992 in a wide variety of styles ranging from rave, techno, progressive house, trance, electro to even R&B, from accessible commercial anthems to minimalist underground sounds. He also produced tracks for Yves Deruyter, Marco Bailey,Armin Van Buuren, Ian Van Dahl and Diabokua.
At the age of 18, Mike handed his first demo tape to the Antwerp record company USA Import Music and released his first record as Vision Act. In 1996 he signed with Lightning Records (the parent company of Bonzai Records) where he worked with most of its artists and achieved his major commercial breakthrough in 1998 with the trance anthem "Universal Nation" under his Push guise, one of the best selling dance vinyls of all time which even ended up in mainstream singles charts all over the world. This was followed up by two more chart hits, "Strange World" and "The Legacy".
This success resulted in a number of high profile remixes for the likes of Sinéad O'Connor, Moby, Mauro Picotto, Bomfunk MC's, Ofra Haza and Oliver Lieb as well as many live shows and DJ sets all around the world. Mike also produced a soundtrack for a Japanese film and for the movie "Groove" (2000).
In 1999 Mike started his own label Scanner and manages a second label Club Elite, and recently in 2007 Maximized Digital. After the bankruptcy of Lighting Records in early 2003, most of his music is currently being released through the Dutch record company armada music.
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