Misjah Added by Goedie, 18 January 2003
Misjah's childhood dream was to make music and play for an audience. At the early age of only 13 Misjah bought his first piece of equipment, a DR225, with the earnings he made from odd end jobs. Today the DR225 is considered very antique but with it Misjah was able to build a strong foundation on how to program drum rhythms. He grew up listening to the productions of Africa Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Kraftwerk, Herbie Hancock, etc.
Misjah did everything he could to further establish his dream. He sold his most prized possession, his scooter, which he recieved for his 16th Birthday, for two turntables! He continued to save money from more Holiday work, and then finally he was able to buy a sampler, a keyboard and a sequencer. With these tools he was ready to release his first record under the name "Dyewitness".
After a few releases, Midtown (the company which released his first record) asked Misjah to start his own label for them; X-Trax was born on December 1994. He started producing tracks with the help of some friends: DJ Tim, Jeroen (Groovehead) and Piet (Jean-Pierre). Classics from this label include: Trippin' Out, Access, The Club, Special Acid Edition, Watch them dogs, and Funky drive.
Due to the increasing success of X-Trax he was sought after by such artists as Josh Wink, Jam and Spoon, Reflect, Format One, Finitribe, Denki Groove, etc to produce remixes for them.
Misjah has also produced under various artist/project names in different styles of dance music. After several releases on X-Trax he started the sub-label of X-Trax. On this label he released more minimalist and experimental tracks.
As a DJ he has his own minimal, hard, funky and pumping style. He uses his records as tools (other than just simply playing them), in order to create a different sound which is why he always spins on 3 turntables. He's played worldwide in countries like: Germany, Holland, Malta, Spain, France, Macedonia, Belgium, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Scotland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Chile, Luxembourg, Tsjechie, Slovakia, Denmark, the U.K., Canada, Australia, Russia, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia, Japan, and the U.S.A.Misjah has also performed live at such popular events such as Holland's biggest outdoor dance-event: Dancevalley.
Performances
Groovefactory techno, 19 November 2004
Hedon, Zwolle
DJExpo 2004, 13 November 2004
Auditorium van de TU/e Eindhoven, Eindhoven
Reactor, 14 May 2004
Warehouse 294, Rotterdam
Frequence, 15 August 2003
E3-strand, Eersel