A very special mix from one of the best Tech House dis in the Bay, Major Trouble. He's got a lot of unreleased surprises for you on this one so be sure to check it out!

Need a Minute on Insomniac Radio - Major Trouble

Jeff Straw brings a lifetime of passion and experience to combining live saxophone with electronic music. Recent gigs include Pike's Ibiza, Northern Nights/Dirtybird Campout, Breakfast of Champions, Cabo san Lucas, Denver, and his home in the SF Bay Area. With styles ranging from mellow deep house, to his dancefloor-shaking disco and tech house sets, he's an exciting performer to watch. A technically proficient DJ and soulful saxophonist, his performances are one of a kind. Not many people play an instrument while they DJ, let alone have over 3 decades of experience. Developed over the course of thousands of gigs... Jeff Straw's energy and enthusiasm for performing are unmatched.

Starting 2025 off strong, Jeff has already had shows with Poolside, Donald Glaude, Goshfather, Spooki and David Carvalho (WhiteNoize). He returned to headline The Beacon Denver in February and played the main room of 1015 Folsom for a LA Fire benefit concert.

In 2024 he released 5 original tracks,16 bootlegs, and 50 live DJ/Sax mixes. His Ep called Let’s Go on Outsiders Recordings charted #3 on Tech House Releases for Beatport. He’s signed tracks to three labels for late 2024 and early 2025 releases - Outsiders Recordings, Destino Records, and Gold Bloc Records. 

His saxophone feature on DJ Spen’s Quantize Recordings label hit #5 on Traxsource - The tune has him alongside Jaemus, Becka, and Sen-Sei. 

He’s racked up a total of 100K streams  across YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Instagram and 350K minutes watched on YouTube alone. 

Jeff  played over 200 gigs in 2024, notably headlining in Denver at the Beacon, his weekly Sindustry Sundays party in SF, headlining Paradisco Afterhours (Denver), and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in November for a multi-day house music festival. 

He is the saxophonist for Steamy Windows which has festival dates in 2025 including Sunset Campout and Northern Nights Festival.

He is available for club/festival bookings, remixes, and sax features: jeff@jeffstraw.com

Mike Bledsoe aka IAM1 set himself apart as an entrepreneur in the electronic music industry at the early age of 18 by producing raves in Indianapolis in 1996 under the alias of New Realm Productions. In 2003, he showed himself to be a visionary by relocating to Miami, FL to not only produce trance and breakbeat events, but also to create a new artist management company dubbed UpliftAM. With notable clients such as the inventor of Miami Bass, Amos Larkins III, as well as 2LiveCrew, Nucleus, Devine&EmilyPLAY, Eclipse and many others, for several years, UpliftAM was able to uplift the careers of DJs and producers across the United States.

In 2013, Mike moved to Chicago and at first was co-creator of a trifecta group named Skygarden before breaking off to create his own house and breakbeat inspired brand which led him to stay in the home of house music, Housebroken. Since 2014, the Housebroken Events brand has made a visible dent in the scenes of Chicago and the San Francisco Bay area at beaches, bars, clubs and after-hours spaces. Mike Bledsoe has brought the Housebroken name to residencies at EXIT (Chicago), The Foundation Room at the House of Blues (Chicago), The EndUP (San Francisco), Xippo/Revolver, Lokal, Innjoy, Never Have I Ever, Barbarella/700 Larkin (San Francisco), BRIX (Oakland), and he has served as a manager/agent for the late Paul Johnson as well as for Gene Hunt and many other Housebroken affiliates throughout the past decade. 

As a teenager, Mike Bledsoe studied the cello, guitar and percussion instruments, but it wasn't until he was introduced to event production and raves that he gravitated to the turntables and began learning how to skillfully mix music together. Mike created his own rave production company early on, but did not take his own deejaying as seriously as he did uplifting others. He chose to instead observe the professionals he would hire in order to learn to hone his own craft. As a promoter and artist manager in the trance and breakbeat communities, Mike Bledsoe had the opportunity to play records in 12 states before ever moving to Chicago, but once he had found a place in the home of house music, Gene Hunt and Danny Digable convinced the Natural Selection that he should take his skills seriously and become a professional house artist and dj. Since that day, Mike has added appearances in 14 more states, multiple gigs in South Africa and Mexico, a 25 city tour in 2021 and played alongside some of the greatest names in house music history including Paul Johnson, Mark Farina, Doc Martin, Gettoblaster, Wally Callerio, Franky Boissy, Garth, a B2B with Mr. Gene Hunt himself, and even once performed a blindfolded tag team of sensory deprivation with Chicago underground maestro Mathis Mega M Rousseau!

Mike is currently residing in Chicago and working on launching a new non-profit sober events organization named The Daydream Project. He holds a DJ residency with DTLA First Sundays in Los Angeles, is the artist manager of DJ ROSE RED, and has created music with Danny Digable on Fresh & Paid Records (Denver) and Sub
Subwoofer Laboratories (Berlin).

LATEST RELEASE - 7th March 2025
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