12/07/2022
Please meet our Driver, Michael van D**e!
In 1990 Michael van D**e was one of the first artists to emerge from the early Berlin Techno scene. In 1992 Mike mixed Techno beats with emotive sounds and together with Cosmic Baby coined the term ‘Trance’ with the compilation Tranceformed From Beyond, the first of its kind. In 1993 together with Marcos Lopez he wrote the Marmion classic Schöneberg. Throughout the 90s and 00s Mike has been working with artists as diverse as DJ Hell, Claude Young, Takkyu Ishino, Thomas Schuhmacher, DJ Rok, Toby Izui, Tanith, Namito, Rob Acid, Tom Wax, Martin Eyerer, and remixed Moby, Denki Groove, GTO, Frankie Bones, Humate and Emmanuel Top.
Michael has been touring worldwide and developed an especially strong bond with his fans in Japan, where he released on big and small labels like Sony Music or Frogman Records.
In the 10s, Mike revisited his first love Funk with his projects Mikefunk and The Chaenge (together with Wareika singer Florian Schirmacher) as well as his Label nuFunkFiles and his radio show Motherfunk on BLN.fm. Mike van D**e is now merging all his musical strengths into a sound of House, which includes his love for Boogie beats and basslines as well as his old school expertise and his trademark sounds from a musical career of over two decades.
Microglobe is now Mike’s online home for all the different shades of his musical style. There's the radio podcast show music 4 the Microglobe and his new label Microglobe Productions.
He works these side hustles remotely from his home in Ipswich Queensland, while doing bus driver duties for the Ipswich Party Bus 3 days a week. Mike van D**e was dubbed Multi-Mike in the early 90s by Germany’s leading Techno mag Frontpage. Which is now truer than ever.
His wish for the future is to enjoy early retirement so he can ride the Party Bus instead of driving it!
