Iron Mike

Iron Mike is a name known throught the Southern Ontario/Toronto club scene as a DJ, Producer, Radio Personality & Promoter for almost 2 decades. Inspired by hearing DJ’s like Deadly Hedly, Chris Sheppard, Matt C and other's from the Toronto area, Mike got his first turntables at the age of 15, began working at the world famous "Play De Record" store during high school. After playing various house parties, he landed his first club gig at the age of 18 and from then on in, his sound expanded across the city and surrounding area's. Iron Mike has played and continues to rock some of the biggest clubs in Toronto & Southern Ontario including: The Docks, Club 108 / 103, Elusions, Opium, The Rocks, The Joker, Plastique, Level, Suite 106, WetBar, Fluid, Distrik, Inside, Li’ly, Room 471,Revoltion, The Palace, Metropolis, The Lyric, Light Lounge, Century Room, Chaval, Film Lounge, The Comfort Zone & The Guvernment (Gallery/Acid Lounge). He has been fortunate enough to billed alongside international DJ's such as: Dubfire, Loco Dice, Hermanez, Massimo Girardi, Gary Beck, Nicole Moudaber, Victor Calderone, Coyu, Uner, Edu Imbernon, Ovidi Adlert, Kaiserdisco, Tom Novy, Ritchie Santana, Houswerks, Alex Niggemann, Carlos Fauvrelle, Terry Mullan and The House Mogals, along with local Toronto favorites: Carlo Lio, Matteo DiMarr, D-Unity, Daniel Dubb, Flipside, Manzone & Strong, Mark Oliver, The Junkies, Nathan Barato, Ovi M, Addy, Joee Cons, Deko-Ze and Anthony D'Amico. During his career, Iron Mike met and worked closely with one of his musical inspirations, Chris Sheppard. Together they produced, mixed & programmed the highly popular "Club Cutz Radio Show" for over 5 years, which was syndicated in over 6 provinces and was broadcast over 16 stations across Canada. They toured across Canada together, playing raves as the infamous "DogWhistle Sound System" and Iron Mike was also the official tour DJ for the dance group - Love Inc. Along with his radio experience working with Chris Sheppard, Iron Mike has also worked closely on-air with Tony Monaco (Z103.5 FM Toronto) and with Downtown Diego on the CHIN Radio Network (100.7 FM Toronto) Not willing to stop there, Iron Mike also launched a compilation series entitled "HouseMix" back in 2000. The brand was a huge success reaching Gold status in Canada (sales of over 25,000 units) on 2 different occastions with Universal Music. The brand went on to sell well over 200,000. Along with the "HouseMix" series, he released other mix compilations such as Club Anthems, Pure Dance, Club Sessions and even "MuchDance" a compilation for Canada's biggest music station - Much Music. Iron Mike was also the first DJ in Canada to ever mix a CD for the hugely popular UK label, Minstry of Sound, which was produced exclusivly for Canada. Collectively, Iron Mike's involvement in CD compilations has sold in excess of over 1,000,000 copies - Diamond status in Canada! 2011 has brought out the production bug in Iron Mike and in just this year alone his releases with Luis Sastre, Ovi M and long time friend, Nat Civello, have been noticed and signed to labels such as: MAR186, Beat Therapy, DBR Recordings, Roots and Wings, MUM (Manchester Underground Music), London Music, Funktion Black, PBR Recordings, Hi-Life, Balkan Connection:SA & White Minds Records. With no signs of stopping in 2012 and beyond - Iron Mike pushes ahead as a dj/artist and continues to spread the universal message of electronic dance music to all with a weekly live to air broadcast from inside the Comfort Zone, Friday nights 2-6AM(est) on 100.7FM in Toronto and worldwide at www.chinradio.com with co-host Downtown Diego