Miguel Migs is at the forefront of electronic music's soul driven realm.
At the forefront of electronic music´s soul–driven realm, Miguel Migs combine´s the best of both the electronic music world, with live instrumentation to create an organic–soulful sound to his original productions and remixes.
His productions have been found for years slipping their way onto countless compilations and sliding into the record bags of top DJs across the globe. Miguel´s music has also been played on numerous TV Shows such as Six feet under, Sex in the city, and MTV´s Road Rules and Real World to name just a few.
Contrary to many of his club–o–centric DJ/producer peers, Miguel is unabashedly not always concerned with the potential dance floor appeal of his soulful tracks. "It´s music you can enjoy and listen to at home, in the club, or anywhere. Not necessarily just to rock the dance floor." explains the Northern California native, who grew up with a true love of reggae, soul, classic rock, R&B, jazz, punk and hip–hop. His impressive discography includes more than 100 original cuts and remixes on seminal independent labels like Om Records, Naked Music, Astrelwerks, Yoshitoshi, NRK, Black Vinyl, Large, Chez, Salted Music, Transport recordings and many others. All of which have made waves in the underground circuit and hit DJ hype charts of international media. Not to mention his remixes for major label artists such as Macy Gray, Lionel Richie and Britney Spears.
A musician at heart, Miguel´s professional career started at age 18 as songwriter and lead guitarist for Santa Cruz local dub band Zion Sounds, whose Jamaican and African rhythms earned them gigs with globally known reggae outfits Culture and Burning Spear among others. In the mid 1990´s Miguel put his focus and creative energy into experimenting with the production of electronic music. As a producer, Miguel perceives a strong connection between his electronic music productions and live musical background. He writes his own lyrics and plays his own instruments, be it guitar, bass, percussion or keyboard. His new record label launched in Spring 2004, Salted Music, is yet another outlet for him to release music on.
As a DJ, Miguel maintains the same elements to his sets as to his productions. Combining a variety of influences and styles fused together. Funky, Deep, soulful, bumping house music. "I like to mix it up and keep it moving smoothly, taking the dance floor through a very spontaneous mix into the realms of quality, deep house music depending on the mood in the room", says Migs. "But, whether it´s vocal, tracky, dubby, moody, percussive, broken beat or whatever, it just has to be very soulful, and funky!"
Miguel currently can be found regularly traveling the globe as one of the industries top–leading DJ´s, as well as at home in the studio writing and creating music, which is his main love and passion. "It´s all about the balance between the touring and traveling, studio work and everything else in life", says Migs, "music has no limits or boundaries and I get inspired by everything around me! I´m definitely looking forward to putting another live act together as well!?.." ... Nuff said!
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