私はカッコいいです。Thanks for listening!

Born and raised in the Seattle area and always surrounded by different types of music. My personal musical journey took me from 80s synth-pop, to early rap & hip-hop, metal, grunge, punk, and then industrial music, before finding house, techno, and the underground Seattle rave scene in the early 90s. After going to my first rave in 1993, I was absolutely hooked, started collecting vinyl, and bought my first set of Technics SL1200MK2 turntables and DJ mixer in 1995. 

Collecting vinyl and DJing led me to Platinum Records Seattle, an underground vinyl store,  where I worked from 2000 to late 2003, during a massive resurgence of rave culture in Seattle. During that time, I played multiple raves at old venues like NAF, Studio B, Club Insight, Club FX, and clubs/after-hours like Aero Space, Noc Noc, Liquid Lounge, Club Contour, etc. 

At the end of 2003 I starting working for Rane Corporation WA, a pro-audio/ DJ mixer company that was based in Mukilteo area from 1981 until the closing of the factory in 2016. While at Rane from 2003-2016, I worked as a Product Specialist, Technical Support, Product Clinician, Social Media Manager, Artist Relations, Beta Tester, Project Manager, and Product Design, and the designer of the infamous Rane MP2015 and Rane MP2014 rotary DJ mixers. 

Fast forward to today, I am still DJing, still raving, and now throwing underground parties in the Seattle area (ifykyk 😘). I'm a resident DJ for the Diffusion crew, Brit Jean Presents, and Blue Moon. I've been producing music under the name "Double Helix," a musical duo with my good friend Rob Ali, with two releases out (so far) on Deep Contour Music, and Seattle's own Uniting Souls Music!

Dj/BeatMaker/Turntablist/Father/Husband/Discerning Spirit/Truth Speaker

THUNDER

MUSIC PEOPLE HMU ↓
max@maximiliaan.world

Sets I love,
Tracks I like,
From me to you,
and everyone alike.

<3

An avid music lover all my life, I began to start collecting tracks for play and pleasure in about 2006. Influenced by everything from bootyshaking sets to deep dark melodic scratch your brain journeys from SF/OAK and other West Coast DJs and a handful of venues I would go to, I decided it was time to start crafting some of my own sets that make people FEEL.

It's the music’s ability to break down barriers, social and otherwise, that continues to drive me to try new things. Wanting to help do this very thing led me on a search for my own equipment. Scoring a basic mixing setup from a local pawn shop, I've been collecting as much music to play with as I can. It's time for me to contribute to breaking barriers and walls that other DJs had, even unknowingly, helped me to overcome. So let go, enjoy the ride and relax with me :)

Based out of LA and SF Mike Tracer DJ's the world’s underground!

Thanks for checking out my music. The lyrics and vocals are mine, the beats are created by various musicians that are credited in parentheses of each song. I started creating music from poetic and lyrical inspirations and writing that started with reading old journal entries from difficult times in my life. I use a lot of repeating themes and you'll notice this as you listen more.
Some of my poetic lyrical inspirations are from Shakespeare & E.E. Cummings. 
Some classic/old school artists that inspire me are: Elliott Smith, Bright eyes, Brenden Urie from Panic at the Disco, Lane Staley of Alice in Chains, & Counting Crows.
Some newer artists/soundcloud artists inspire me:
 Softheart, guccihighwaters, sewerperson,  velvetears, 4everfalling, yung van,  guardin

all lyrics aside from one song are my original writing.
(photo by William Zdan)

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