Yea i kno wat y ou mean..but its also with wat tour your lined with..like armada...
Not all his sets contain rareities...but about 90% of do sometimes,
...well...something like that..
still like his selections overrrrr ....___.....

ummm, i dont know if you are talking his productions or his live sets. ive seen him live very recently, and obviously ive heard his productions. his live sets are no better than your other trance DJ, he spins wut you would expect of him, hard bangin trance, a good time. his productions are not, imo, original or unique. but i do have to say he is still around and popular for a reason, and that reason being is that he is good. many of the typical sounding trance producers have fallen off, dumonde and people like that. but mike has stuck around through it all, he's gotta be doing something right. so all in all, not original but still good.

M.I.K.E.'s productions represented a great era for trance music, his ability to uplift and inspire music lovers placed him at the forefront of the dance movement. His tracks- with so much energy, were instant hits for us indulge in. Lately, as a whole, the evolution of trance has met a bumpy road. Perhaps it's the commercialization of the music, maybe producers are adapting to the demand but whatever the case may be- it is people like M.I.K.E. that need to be, once again, at the cutting edge of the sounds to come. Albeit, these hard working DJ/Producers need to be an inspiration to the coming creators whom will take their place. Let's hope that the forces that disolved the NYC underground dance movement do not affect the worldwide production of the music we love.

I don't know any artists that have a sound like his, but he's never variated much so his sound is getting pretty boring these days. Unique, but not particularly original.

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Originally posted by Sand Leaper He used to be quite original. His stuff on Scanner, USA Records and his more obscure releases all sounded quite different from anything else his colleagues came up with. Sadly, the success of his uplifting trance releases seem to have taken away his will to make more of this, even though he has released a new Calling The Freak record.

Agreed! He used to be quite innovative but thoose days are over if you ask me.

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Just compare his new stuff now to what he was throwing out just 2 years ago like exposure - magic impuls or plastic boy - silverbath and you'll see how fast he's gone from good to ewww

he used to, then he lost it and I'm not quite sure when that was, I'll guess late 2002. His productions are the same shit, diff pile these days, he is making so much money from the evil regime, he does'nt care anyway

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Originally posted by Laushinameee im sorry but those playlists above indicate otherwise, are you saying they arent mike? it looks pretty weak trance to me... kuffdam&plant, armin, pery oneal, ferry corsten

That set was in ASOT, which means it was under Armin's record company and as I said before: in my opinion Armin has influenced M.I.K.E. in a BAD way because Armin's style has become preddicted and maybe even mainstream.

In my opinion, the best trance was in the 90's. 2000 was the year that changed Trance itelf

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He's the first i know that has his own unique 'dark/cyber/electronic' sound. To me, that's one very special thing about him.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I don't know any artists that have a sound like his,

i saw mike live awhile ago(a week or so ago), and i must confess that i was a bit disspointed. Since i remember him as unique producer, and he played that "harder" sound than most uplifting guys, i even remembered he played techtrance awhile back. Nah.. nothing special nowdays

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I'm surprised at the amount of prog and prog trance in his sets. Based on his production style I would have figured he would play uplifting, epic trance.

I enjoy his production, but I don't find it particularly unique. He also has a signature sound that is good, but more variety would be nice.

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