Moving and shaking dance floors up and down the eastern coast of the United States, veteran DJ Mike Hoska has a relentless passion for pushing boundaries. Starting at the age of nine, his love for electronic music was born when he witnessed the historic event of Herbie Hancock and DXT's live performance of "Rockit" on television.

In the summer of 2002, Mike met Todd Hanna and Phil Jacob of DJ duo Groovefire at the Mambo/Rhino bar in Newport RI, and was asked to join the group. Throwing weekly parties throughout New England, and touring sporadically in Central America and Canada, became a lifestyle for the next few years while Mike built up a proper studio, which allowed him to produce 3 tracks under the trio's name. These releases are currently signed to Sander Kleinenberg's Little Mountain Recordings of Holland, Release Grooves of Toronto, and Unsound Logic in NYC. They've been charted by the biggest names in the industry and are currently on heavy rotation in the playlists of Sander Kleinenberg, Plump DJ's, Chris Fortier and Lee Burridge, to name just a few.

Aside from working and collaborating on nights with other DJ's and entertainment agencies, Groovefire has seen a lot of action at the Miami Winter Music Conference, playing alongside such DJ's as Steve Porter, D:Fuse, Charles Feelgood, Nigel Richards and Dirty Vegas, and performing as "resident DJ's" for 3 years running at the posh South Beach nightclub Tantra. They have also lit up at least 5 other venues per conference. Most recently, the Groovefire track “Earthquake”, originally released as a single with a Dan Sanders remix on the Little Mountain label , has been included on an internationally distributed compilation by DJ’s Lee Burridge and Sander Kleinenberg.

Throughout this time, Hoska has maintained a base in Providence where he often graces local venues with his skills, turning the heads of provincials and jaded Ivy-Leaguers alike. He is also a demo DJ for Numark Industries, for whom he travels around the country displaying his virtuosic abilities while showing off their cutting-edge equipment. Somewhere amidst all this activity he has found time to join forces with <tfo>, for whom he functions as live mixmaster, scratcher, and all-around alchemist.
Possibly even more impressive than his abilities in a live setting are Hoska's gifts in the studio. With over 25 productions to his credit, there is no slowing down. He continues to melt musical styles and arrangements, cutting and scratching flawlessly like a jazz improviser to create wild new hybrids of music in a digital and analog environment.

This is the stream-of-consciousness that we think best describes Mike Hoska’s new release: Electro - Acid - Breaks-fused dancefloor stormers, that draw heavy influences from pioneers such as Hardfloor and Kraftwerk. Perfect peak hour gems for breaks and electro-house sets. Vintage synth lines and squelching 303's build up a wall of sound riding the groove, and explode, leaving dancefloors shattered!

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