Mike Dearborn.........

[SGT]

Is fucking amazing!!!!! I just got back from watching him tear the roof off of The Works. Funky and bangin'. Totally worthy!

Christian Smith followed him and was sorry in comparison. The poor bastard.

[KaOz]

mike released one of the best techno lps ever for me
mike dearborn - moments.
fuckin great

[owain_k]

Dearborn.....

Where, when ???

Gimme Gimme....

The dude rocks !

[Andreas]

mike dearborn is da king... he funkyin roxxx

[aleks]

razor sharp and ready for war...killer!

[tsr_tomas]

3:45am !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JE:5]

Birds on E! :D

[mr_chombee]

hell YEAH! birds on e is da shit! whooohaaa. I really danced my legs off whenever I've heard that track. the whole djax-up album was fucking great. is he still doing that majestic thing? didn't heard anything from mike dearborn since a while.

[thetonewrecker]

http://www.technoradio.org/pics/redrumroom/july6/57.jpg

[invisibleplanet]

i know nothing about him

can u give me a biog, and an example of his musik please?

[gunjack]

deviant behaviour was kool.

[Marolo]

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mike_Dearborn
Michael James Dearborn was born October 7th, 1972 in Chicago Illinois, USA. There he lived on the South side in a modest apartment with his parents and his older brother.

Mike first became fascinated with music at the age of 8 years old. He would sit in his bedroom and pretend to have a radio show. Some of his favorite artists and groups were Men at Work, The Fixx, Kurtis Blow and Quiet Riot.

Mike's interest in music took a turn when he began listening to a radio station called WBMX (which is no longer in existence). On that station, he would listen to programs like the Hot Lunch Mixes as well as the Friday and Saturday night mix shows. On these shows, you could here the likes of Farley ‘JackMaster’ Funk, Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley, and Frankie Knuckles. This is when Mike's interest in DJ'ing was sparked.

It was not long after that Mike became interested in producing. He and his brother would experiment with a Roland TR-505 and a Casio sampler. Mike began producing on a more serious note in 1988. In mid 1989, he released his first 12’inch with a schoolmate named George titled “Make the Music” and “Uninhibited Desire” on the legendary Chicago Trax/Housetime label. The exuberance in releasing his first record soon turned into frustration from dealing with a ‘shady’ label.

In January of 1991, Mike teamed up with George again to release a three track EP. This EP was released on Warehouse/Muzique Records. Again the excitement led to disappointment.

Having released two records and seeing no return, Mike stop producing and DJ'ing and concentrated on obtaining a Degree in Communications-Media Studies from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, IL. In March of 1992, while back in Chicago for the weekend, Mike visited a friend to listen to some records. While listening, he came across a record on the DJAX UP BEATS label by Terrace a.k.a. Stefan Robbers of the Acid Junkies. Impressed to find a label that was releasing that style of music, he prepared a demo and sent it to DJAX. Soon after, he received a call from Saskia Slegers a.k.a. Miss DJAX. He signed with DJAX and began a 4-year relationship with the label.

After signing with DJAX, Mike began to DJ throughout Europe. His first DJ gig in Europe was at rave in Paris, France for a crowd of about 7000 people. Other highlights include touring in Australia and Brazil, DJ'ing at Germany's biggest rave MAYDAY 7 and performing live at MAYDAY 8. This was Mike's first live performance in Europe. It was also broadcast live on Viva, Germany's MTV equivalent and voted #8 in the top 10 international live performances of the year by FrontPage magazine, Germany's leading dance magazine at the time.

Other noteworthy DJ gigs include Ministry of Sound in London, The Rex in Paris, Tresor Club in Berlin and MelkWeg in Holland. Mike has also played in other countries such as Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Spain and Portugal. In addition, Mike has played some of North America's best clubs like The Limelight, Sound Factory and Twilo in New York, Shelter and Karma in Chicago and Industry in Toronto as well as many underground parties throughout the world.

Mike was also seen in the critically acclaimed documentary film “Modulations”.

Mike has remixed artists such as Gary Numan, Hardfloor, Joey Beltram, Robert Armani and Steve Stoll. Mike has headlined events worldwide with DJ heavyweights such as Carl Cox, Sven Vath, Daft Punk, Dave Clark and Westbam.

Mike graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Communications-Media Studies degree in December of 1995. He returned to the Chicago area in the summer of 1996. Soon after, he parted ways with DJAX Records and started two labels, Majesty Recordings and Majik Gruuv Records.

While Mike will be spending more time pursuing goals not related to music, he will continue to produce and DJ.

[Marolo]

copy and pasted from http://www.mikedearborn.com
he is angry at me though

[invisibleplanet]

thxal, Marolo!

[Irrungenwirrungen]

Originally posted by Marolo
Mike was also seen in the critically acclaimed documentary film “Modulations”.

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Anyone know anything about this?

[JE:5]

I think there is also a Sugar Experiment Station track on that Modulations film.

Oh yeah, Irrung' It's called Modulations - cinema for the ear (http://www.caipirinha.com/Film/modulations/modcontents.html)

[wheezer]

@modulations
a fun documentary, though I have my doubts that anyone not familiar with electronic music would be much wiser after watching it...

[Irrungenwirrungen]

@JE:5- thanks for the link
I was looking at the music credits section. I take it its not mixed in the order that the musicians' names appear (probably alphabeticel- I didn't check). As I really couldn't envisage anybody mixing a Panacea track into Strings Of Life- be interesting though.

[7875]

i was checking out the pics on the Mike Dearborn site and the one of his birthday cake is so fucking funny.

[goinz]

Yeah Mike Dearborn is very cool but i like only his old DJAX UP stuff. His first Majesty Realeses doesn't appeal me very much. But whats is his newest work?

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

You don't see many Majesty records about. Is it now defunct? One of my faves is DJ Skull "When will we be free?"

[piscaries]

skull is my fav. and pretty i'm sure majesty is still around. mike frequents here in chicago. i saw him about a month ago (he was wearing a majesty shirt then :!) and he's playin again in about 2 weeks at an awesome little bar just a bus ride away from my apartment. he rocks. the same little bar just had hyperactive and frankie vega. i dunno if any else knows frankie but he's a cool guy and plays some slammin techno.

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

I know the name, but I have never seen him play (to my knowledge).
re:Skull
Yeah, Ron maney has produced some of my fave recs. Only at the weekend I was playing one of the tracks from the Hypnotic Tones dbl pack on Hybrid - superb!!

Is there any more Majesty releases on the way?

[goinz]

Chicago Sounds rockz!!!!!

[Sheridan]

his stuff on majesty is real off and on. he had his album 'ready for war' out in 99. and then the label was silent for a long time. but I know he had at least one maybe two eps come out on majesty within the last year. but mike's newer productions have lost me so I really don't pay any attention.
but he is a wicked fucking dj. would love to see him again.

[jukka]

yeah chicago jackin' stuff is great

i love that phuture track rise up from your grave

[goinz]

i agree with you sheridan

[Tomoki]

My favourite from Mike is the remix of Beltram´s "Game Form".

It´s cool how the remix slides into the original.

[thetonewrecker]

Originally posted by Tomoki
My favourite from Mike is the remix of Beltram´s "Game Form".

It´s cool how the remix slides into the original.

Hell yeah! I played right before Mike last July and ended my set with a cut-up of his track. He was grinning like a proud papa and the crowd was going off.

[JE:5]

Not forgetting his fucking excellent remix of "Cars" by Gary Numan!
(although I still think the sample sounds like "Imran Khan"!!)

[Sheridan]

I was thinking the same thing about the cars remix. a great track but the sample is a little hard to understand if you didn't know what track he was remixing.