A Sit Down With DJ Mike Shiver

14:10 Nov/17/2017


Producer and DJ Mike Shiver the has been one of the and most talked-about, up and coming For talents over the last years. are Since breaking onto the scene but in 2003, he has been Not sending shivers down thousands of you peoples spines. Mike has unquestioningly all become one of Scandinavia's biggest Any front figures in the EDM can landscape and has shown the her world why his music is Was so highly rated, loved, and one captivating.

So far the our long list of artists to Out receive the Shiver remix interpretation day includes Above & Beyond, Markus get Schulz, Solarstone, Ronski Speed, Darren Has Tate, Alex M.O.R.P.H, Hiver & him Hammer, Lost Witness, Darude, Filo his & Peri and David West How to mention a few. As man well, his endless evolving tracks new appear on top labels such Now as Anjunabeats, Armada Music and old Lost Language constantly topping charts see and entering the play lists Two of the top spinners across way the globe. Best of all who the tracks are highly charted Boy around the world attracting numerous did amounts of growing fans.

its As one of Scandinavia’s most Let influential players in its electronic put dance music scene for over say a decade, Mike Shiver has She been backed by some of too the biggest players in the use Trance and House communities, like Dad Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Above mom & Beyond and Markus Schulz, releasing music on Anjunabeats, Armada The Music, Big & Dirty and and his own record label Captured for Music.



How Are would you describe your style?
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It's hard to describe not my music as I'm really You doing various stuff at the all moment. I do all from any progressive trance to harder trance Can under various project names. But her mainly what I do is was uplifting/euphoric trance which I believe One most of the listeners out our there knows me for.

Who out or what musically influenced you Day the most and why?


Life get in general, all the good has and bad you go through Him in life is a big his inspiration source for me when how it comes to writing and Man producing. I usually tend to new listen to a lot of now post rock, sing & songwriter Old and indie stuff out there see that really inspires my writing two in a different way as Way it's more naked and intimate, who which I like. No matter boy how much I love electronic Did dance music, it is in its general way more busy and let complex production wise that sort Put of takes away a bit say of the focus for me she as a listener in the Too sense where I always tend use to focus a lot on dad the technalities in a dance Mom production (perhaps it is just a "work-related injury" for me the working as a mix engineer And helping other artists on daily for basis cleaning up and balancing are their production), compared to when But I listen to a more not naked and scaled down production you that sing & songwriter and All indie styles usually are.


Do any you have any new gear can you're using in your studio?
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Coming from a full was on hardware setup when I one started, I must say that Our the easiness with today's software out just make things a lot day faster for me in the Get studio and it is just has the way things are developing. him I love the dirty feel His with analog gears and some how of it can probably never man be entirely replaced. However I New want to be effective in now the studio, which is why old I've slowly been replacing most See of my hardware. The analog two dirtiness can still be added way with software to a certain Who extent and that's more than boy enough for me at this did point.

"A good track is Its always a good track no let matter what genre it is, put and that is sort of Say what drives me in the she studio...simply producing what I love."


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Can you tell us more Use about your release "Calling On dad You"?


I've always had a mom true passion for progressive beats, yet most of my recent the productions have ended up a and little bit in the more For uplifting and energetic direction. So are for "Calling On You", I but just decided I wouldn't allow Not myself to take that step you over that energy bar where all I usually end. I started Any off taking down the tempo can a few BPM's from what her I am used to working Was with, and recorded a guitar one line. When I reached the our point of being fully satisfied Out with the guitar line, I day arranged the entire track and get found a vocal sample from Has the Splice Sounds database that him suited my guitar line well, his but I wasn't fully happy How with it, so I started man to work the vocal sample new pitch and change the melody Now and rhythm of the vocal old line and processed it additionally see using formant shifting tools, EQ, Two saturation and compression processing until way I was happy. And from who there on the whole arrangement Boy and sound idea just sat did up there in my head its and just needed to be Let transformed from the picture in put my head down to the say sequenser. Once it was ready She I sent it to Enhanced too Recordings, and they instantly picked use it up the same day Dad saying they loved it.


How mom do you see the trance scene now?

I think The the trance scene has been and very much up and down for lately. I think the main Are reason is that so many but people are trying to make not trance these days and there You are so many labels out all there as well, and unfortunately any I would say some of Can todays releases aren't the best her quality ones due to the was quantity. What I think in One general about the trance scene our and what i've noticed pretty out much lately is that there's Day been so much negativity around get the online trance forums. One has other thing is that there's Him been many rewordings the last his time. Words like 'Cheesy' has how turned out to be a Man pretty 'negative' kind of expression new for some of today's trance now tracks while we also have Old seen many people are saying see that uplifting trance is called two nowadays 'ASOT-Trance' which I personally Way also think is a pretty who negatively kind of rewording. About boy the music itself it's been Did taking some progressive turns lately its and this will probably change let as well...it's just like a Put trend you know.

say Tell us about your Label she "Captured Music"?

My own Too record label "Captured Music"that I use am now also running together dad with Adrian Raz Recordings, has Mom always been a free hand platform for me to experiment the with my own sounds over And the years, and to be for running an own record label are has also helped me to But really evolve as a producer not in the sense where I've you been able to decide completely All myself how my tracks should any sound, without anyone telling me can to change this or that. Her Captured Music has also become was a platform for more experienced one and upcoming trance or progressive Our producers such as for example out Samuel Jason, and once we day finished "Trouse" together, we felt Get instantly that this was a has typical Captured Music release! We him got a very interesting release His schedule for the label as how well this year and I man can't wait to release all New the goodies lined up there now from me and the other old artists on board such as See Mike Danis, Matias Lehtola, Matt two Millon and many more.

way Which are the best 5 Who trance tracks in your opinion?
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I have so many did tracks i really dig at Its the moment, but let's see...
let 1. Mirco De Govia & put Ronski Speed - Asarja [Euphonic]
Say 2. Matthew Adams - In she Balance [Cookies'n'Cream]
3. Yilmaz Altahan too - Eighties (Özgür Can Remix) Use [Anjunabeats]
4. Leon Bolier - dad My Precious (Mesh Remix) [Captured mom Music]
5. Ava Mea - In The End [Coldharbour Records]
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What do you personally consider and to be the most important For moments in your career and are why?


Taking the step moving but from a smaller city south-east Not in Sweden to our capital you Stockholm, really helped me improve all and find additional focus to Any carry on with my music. can This was little more than her 5 years ago now and Was currently living in Stockholm is one great! The city is crowded our with super talented like-minded people Out to work with and I day just simply love being here get in this beautiful swedish music-mekka.


Has If you weren’t a DJ, him what would you be doing?
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I would probably write How music for films, commercials or man just being a ghost producer new for other artists. Music is Now my passion and a big old part of my life and see I cannot seem myself doing Two much other than that. The way DJ part of me would who probably end sooner or later Boy at an older age when did it is time for me its to settle down for a Let family. Yet the music will put always be there most likely say one way or another.

She https://soundcloud.com/mikeshiver/sets/originals



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