Chicago house music legend Mike Dunn, has been DJing and producing music for over twenty years. Hailing from Englewood, Chicago, Mike started out DJing at the local block parties that took place playing disco, funk, soul and prototype Chicago house tracks.
“I was one of the first cats bringing two reel-to-reels and spinning with them at the parties. I was bringing out two Pioneer 707s, doing the Hummingbird, Jacks, The Courtyard, etc. I’d bring a drum machine, too. I would make tracks right then as the party was going. Way before my guys Daft Punk and all of them were doing live gigs, I was doing that at the basement parties – just bringing drum machines and doing everything live. A lot of my early tracks came from me doing them at the party when the party was going on. I’d save it in memory and bring it home and polish it up. But I listen to it now and it’s like, damn… didn’t use enough cleaner!”
Word soon spread about his talents and Mike was booked for various clubs in and around Chicago, DJ’ing with house music innovators such as Ron Hardy, Larry Heard and good friend Armando Gallop. It wasn’t long before Mike got the production bug, resulting in his first release in 1987, “Dance You Mutha” on Westbrook Records, he also started to produce and engineer for other Chicago artists, such as Armando, Fast Eddie and K-Alexi Shelby.
More house and techno productions followed in the late 80s with Mike’s distinctive vocal delivery and trademark hip-house, acid, production style, to create tracks such as ‘Let It Be House’, ‘Magic Feet’ and “Face the Nation”, some times under the name Mike Dunn but also under aliases such as MD Connection, MDIII and QX-1.
He continued to produce and release throughout the 1990s, with releases on labels such as Nervous, Nitestuff and Tribal America, whilst also working with other producers and vocalists such as Syleena Johnson, Byron Stingley, Mina Jackson, Kool Rock Steady and Kym English to name a few.
More recently tracks like Phreaky MF’ on French label Robsoul and ‘God Made Me Phunky’, re-released on Defected records, have raised his profile and delivered his music to new audiences. Whilst new interest in Mike’s original old school jamz have taken him to work with the new generation of house and techno producers and labels, demonstrated on tracks such as ‘It’s the Music’ produced by Murphy Jaxx and more recently ‘Touch the Sky’ produced by Alden Tyrell and released on Clone’s Jack for Daze imprint.
After a long absence from DJing in Europe, Mike returned last year, playing at clubs such as Panorama Bar, Fabric, Concrete and Sub Club, and festivals such as Glastonbury, Electric Forrest and numerous others across Europe and US, demonstrating why the Chicago OG is still very much in demand.
2017 see’s Mike Dunn celebrating 30 years of Acid & Chicago house since his debut release back in 87’ with ‘Dance You Mutha’. To celebrate Mike’s releasing a single and album on moreaboutmusic and a full ’30 Years of house’ tour. 2017 will also see the launch of his own label Blackball Muzik…
The Phreaky MF is back…

Management: mark@moreaboutmusic.com

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Places and Spaces I've had the pleasure (or sometimes not!) of DJing at over the years :
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2012 Bar (Brick Lane),
333 (Old St),
Aaja (Deptford),
Abbaye (Farringdon),
Anda Da Bridge (Shoreditch),
The Anthologist (City)
The Balham Arms (Balham),
Banana Store (London Bridge),
Bar Equal (Honor Oak),
Bar Latino (Croydon),
Bar Story (Peckham Rye),
B.B.E. Store, (London Fields)
Billy & The Chicks (Soho),
Black Sheep Bar (Camberwell),
Black Sheep Bar (Croydon),
Black Sheep Bar (Crystal Palace),
Blag Club (Notting Hill),
Boho (East Dulwich),
The Bomb (Nottingham),
Cafe 1001 (Brick Lane),
Camden Rd Bar, (Camden),
Century Club (Soho),
Charlotte (Camden),
The Clarence (Balham),
Club Life (Vauxhall),
Concorde 2 (Brighton),
The Cool Rooms (Croydon),
Corsica Studios (Elephant & Castle),
The Crypt (Camberwell),
Cynthia's (London Bridge),
The Dogstar (Brixton),
Dust (Farringdon),
Ealing Town Hall (Ealing),
Elephant Bar (Croydon),
El Khaima Shisha Lounge (E1),
Fire (Vauxhall),
Fluid (Farringdon),
The Fly (New Oxford St),
The Frog (Clapham),
Funky Munky (Camberwell),
Glasshouse (Blackfriars),
The Gowlett (Peckham), 
Grand Union (Brixton), 
Grand Union (Camden), 
Grand Union (Farringdon),
Grand Union (Islington), 
Grand Union (Kennington), 
Grand Union (Paddington),
Grand Union (Ravenscourt Park)
Grand Union (Wandsworth),
The Hawksmoor (Spitalfields),
Herbal (Shoreditch),
Hidden (Vauxhall),
Hive Bar (Brixton),
Hobgoblin (Brixton),
The Honor Oak, (Forest Hill),
The Horatia (Holloway Rd),
Horse & Groom (Shoreditch),
Ibar (Bournemouth),
IGF Bar (Bromley),
Jamm (Brixton),
Ladybird Bar (Islington),
Light Bar (St. Martins Lane),
Lightbox London (Vauxhall),
Liquorish (Dulwich),
Loop (Croydon),
The Lost Angel (Battersea),
Lost Society (Clapham),
The Luxe (Spitalfields),
Market House (Brixton),
Metal Works (Islington),
Mish Mash (Clapham),
New X Inn (New Cross),
The Normanby (Putney),
Off The Cuff (Herne Hill),
Petersham Nurseries (Covent Garden),
Piccadilly Institute (Piccadilly),
Plan B (Brixton),
Plan B Basement,
PoNaNa's (Croydon),
Propaganda (Wardour St),
Proud Gallery (Camden),
Proud 2 (the o2, Greenwich)
Queen of Hoxton (Shoreditch),
Railway Telegraph (Forest hill),
The Redstar (Camberwell),
The Regent (Balham),
Rhythm Factory (Aldgate),
Roadtrip (Old Street),
The Rosendale (West Dulwich),
RubyLo (Waterloo),
Skaterham (Caterham),
The Social (Little Portland St),
Soul Cellar (Southampton),
Star of Bethnal Green,
Sun & Doves (Camberwell),
Tart Bar (Farringdon),
The Telegraph (Brixton),
Tree House (Croydon),
The Vortex Jazz Club (Hackney),
Wessex House (Clapham Junction),
White Horse (Brixton),
White Horse (Hoxton)
The Windmill (Clapham Common)
The Workshop (Hoxton)
Zigfrid (Hoxton Square)
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A “D.J.”… is deeper than cocked headphones and head nods. Deeper than the Vinyl, CD’s, MP3’s and the visual splendor of Serato turntable images rotating in synchronization on the laptop screen. He/She has a passion so deep it’s difficult thinking about anything else. Music is heard on a higher plane than the average listener and can intoxicate as much as 100 proof liquor. Breaks are the moment of truth and the screams of party goers can be orgasmic. “That’s my song… Go DJ”!!!!!!! 

A “D.J.” is a technician. A manipulator of sound and emotion using blends, slams and scratches to smoothly transition from one song to the next making melodies that arouse the senses. DJ Remixes make even the best song BETTER! Perfect timing and song selection are but a few of the weapons in the DJ arsenal.  Reading the room and connecting to the listeners can enable the selector to chose the song that can change the mood of a thousand people at once.

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