📍: Los Angeles, California 
🎵: House x Techno

07 JULY 2024 - We have made all our tracks available for FREE download on SoundCloud, feel free to use in your DJ mixes.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Founding member of Scottish dance band 2 Part Meth, enjoying a renaissance with original dance track creations after an extended hiatus.

APOLLO SANTO is an eccentric Hawaiian Kingdom immigrant with a long history in electronic music. 

Spiro was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. He was first introduced to computer music in 1989 during his senior year of high school, and was instantly fascinated. While studying music technology at NYU in 1991, he was a regular at Disco2000, the Wednesday night weekly at the fabled Limelight dance club, and would trek all the way out to Caffeine in Eastern Long Island every Friday, but his first Storm Rave at a Brooklyn warehouse in September of 1991 was the event that changed the course of his life.

In search of a more deeply immersive music education, he spent two years in Boston studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music. While there, he experienced the legendary Ultraworld and Primary raves and after-parties in Providence, Rhode Island. He returned to New York and became one of the early pioneer producers in the East Coast rave, house, techno and breaks scene in the mid 1990's, releasing records on Caffeine, Definitive/Plus8, Grinning, and his own label, I.M.U.R.Me Records.

After forays into progressive rock and jam band music in the early 2000's, he befriended Alex and Alyson Grey and helped build the original Chapel of Sacred Mirrors on 27th Street, upstairs from the club that had been known as Twilo. Soon after he was a founding member of Brooklyn’s legendary “Freek Factory”, and shared stages with the likes of Bassnectar, Random Rab, and The Glitch Mob long before they were selling out coliseums. 

He moved to the Big Island of Hawai'i in 2016, and took a hiatus from music production to pursue his life-long interests in ethnobotany and alchemy. Inspired by friends to resume his musical endeavors, he now indulges local crowds and his online followers with DJ sets, live instrumental performances and recorded mixes of ecclectic, emotive and eminently musical dance beats.

Spiro is currently exploring live performance of ambient electronica, and holding space for entheogen ceremonies with his partner, a professional therapist that is pursuing certification in psychedelic assisted therapy. This endeavor is an outgrowth of their recently formed sacramental plant medicine church, The Order of the New Eleusis. (aka The ONE) Private message for more information.

He is currently working on three full-length records of new original dance music and improvising hours of ambient material to be recorded and released on his new label, Rhodium Recordings through BeatPort, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and BandCamp. His backlog of original music can be found in the links below.

@brandondimichele
Bookings / Remixes: brandondimichele@gmail.com

Lush soundscapes, hypnotic rhythms, deep progressive beats, and melodic melodies in the forms of Progressive House, Melodic House & Techno, or Tech & Deep House. These are the sounds like colors on a canvas that Brandon Di Michele blends to paint an electronic picture of music to enlighten consciousness and move the mind, body, and soul. 

First introduced to Electronic Dance Music in the past legendary DC & Baltimore rave scenes like Buzz & Sonar. Brandon's education in electronic dance music was elite from the very start, every weekend seeing and hearing live the best Electronic Dance Music DJs the world had to offer including attending many milestone international DJ night "firsts" like Tiësto's first ever booking in the USA. 

Since becoming a DJ, Brandon is extremely experienced and has played at events ranging from the largest Anime convention on the East Coast, to after parties, to outdoor rave festivals, to performing 6 hour sets in mega clubs everywhere from Europe to both coasts of the USA. Always having been inspired by Progressive House and Trance legends such as Sasha & Digweed, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, Tony De Vit, Danny Tenaglia, Sander Kleinenberg, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren, and many more. 

As a DJ & Producer, Brandon aims to put his own artistic vision into the Electronic Dance Music medium using all of the experience he has acquired.

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