Born and raised in Washington, DC., Michael Robertson, Brotha Mike, became fascinated with the effects of signal on audio equipment as early as 8 years old.  His fascination began with watching signal from a high current amplifier, burn, in almost promethean fashion, a woofer from a dismantled speaker. Sounds like a simple concept to an audio engineer, but very intriguing for a child—and so began his fascination with audio, its equipment and how it worked.  He began DJing at a very young age at house parties that friends of his mothers had invited her to—being the DJ as often as the parties would happen.  As early as 6 months into his 10th birthday, Michael began DJing at a small late-night club, under the supervision of his mother, in 1981.
At age 15, while far away from home in Sheffield, Mass, Michael began a path in broadcast radio, at a station called lettered WBSL-FM.  He began programming what was then called the Dinner Jazz (MOR) format, playing artists such as: Wes Montgomery, Eric Dolphy, Art Blakey, Art Pepper and Oscar Peterson, to name a few...  He also managed the station during his junior and senior years and was instrumental in growing the radio station's music collection through his contact with major and independent record labels.  He received accolades for being one of the best managers the station had seen in many years.  As a DJ, he would program a variety of different genres of music to set a specific mood and atmosphere over the airwaves.
During summers away from school he would apprentice under a DJ at WPFW in Washington, D.C.  As well as DJ at the station under the auspices of a DJ that went by the DJ name, “the 'Po Man”, who programmed Blues.
In the early 90’s he began to DJ at WCWS-FM, the College of Wooster’s public radio station.  While there, he became a music director that was charged with listening and categorising obscure college format music which included electronic music that ultimately was place in broadcast rotation.
After moving from Columbus, Ohio to Pittsburgh, Michael had begun DJing at WRCT, the Carnegie Mellon University radio station, he hosted a show called Michael's Eclectic Kitchen for six years. Because of the radio stations mantra of providing music that cannot be heard anywhere else on the FM dial, Michael had developed programming that was obscure encompassing Indie-Rock, Jazz, and House music throughout his program. His show would start with Indie-Rock and obscure music and end with mixing House and Tech music.
While at WRCT, Michael was asked to be the resident DJ at a Club Havana in Pittsburgh. Each week he would play host to a packed house, serving Deep House music all night long.  As a resident, he would play alongside such notables as Norm Talley (Detroit, Beatdown Sounds), Charles Tate of King Kooba (Om Records), Tommie Sunshine, Shawn Rudiman (Technoir Audio), and many others.  Brotha Mike was the resident DJ at Club Havana for eight years, his Thursday Night at Club Havana residency is still the longest running House and Techno club night in Pittsburgh thus far.
In March of 2005, Michael and his residency at Club Havana were a feature story in the local free paper, the Pittsburgh City Paper— and also listed as DJ/artist of the week. During the same year Michael had guest Djed at a club in Miami called the Harrison Lounge during Winter Music Conference. During his tenure in Pittsburgh, Michael has been asked to DJ at many events in almost every club in the City from Metropol to the Matrix, New Amsterdam, Alto (as a resident DJ), Z:Lounge, and many others.
Today, he is the co-creator with DJ Scuzzi, of the hottest Pittsburgh afterhours night called Deeper at 1139 Penn Ave in Pittsburgh, which was later re-branded as Hot Mass. He is also the producer of the radio podcast/broadcast, “The Big Throwdown” under the Solid State Soul Radio imprint.

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