A relatively unknown DJ from Long Island is finding that social networking tools have better uses than he'd imagined. Having always believed in the premise that the internet was the great equalizer when it came to advertising, Mic Rage has been steadily building his name and following with a variety of internet promotional vehicles. His results are quantifiable mostly in small, but consistently upward, popularity monitors.
Using sites like Facebook, MySpace, Tribe and Twitter as well as various newsgroups and forums. Mic has enlisted the help of the general online dance music audience to support him as an underdog. Frustrated that a few of the mailing lists to which he belonged to began to feel his frequent posts were spam-like, Mic turned to using a much wider selection of media to get votes in mix contests and popularity ranking sites such as The DJ List (www.thedjlist.com)
Mic might be considered a renaissance man in some circles. He seems to have a degree of success in almost everything he touches. As a younger man he had moderate success regionally with a series of punk & rock alternative styled bands as well as the management of other bands. He has had moderate success as a promoter and event planner. When he chose to 'settle down' and get married, he transitioned his skills as a graphic & layout artist
into a career as a private media consultant, offering 'concept through completion' advertising services to his clients.
Still, his love of Electronic Dance Music and the itch to perform could not be put on the shelf indefinitely. He began to purchase equipment and study techniques while composing and producing a unique form of trance music. He produced and began to shop 'Groove Quota' in search of a record deal. Numerous opportunities to showcase his evolving style, along with parties and an occasional wedding gig put the record label search to the back burner.
After his first trip to Nevada's Burning Man festival in 2004, Mic later joined Kostume Kult, a Burning Man camp closely tied to New York City's participatory culture movement and became the organizations musical co-director with Tim Fielding, a legendary house music DJ from London. Mic also created the concept for the camp's theme in 2006, supplied the sound system and performed at a number of other stages during the festival.
Back in New York, Mic began to perform regularly at various events, night clubs & parties in the New York, Delaware and Philadelphia areas. With all this upward movement, recognition outside of the national Burning man culture still seemed to lag.
That was until last year, as Mic began to investigate and use any valid form of social networking, he soon landed a regular internet radio broadcast on MFTU, Cyber-FM.com and began to see his numbers rise in the popularity polls. While, it's still too early to tell just how far these tools will take Mic in his quest for recognition, the evidence shows that social networking is important to an up and coming DJs success.
You can listen to Mic's mixes and vote for him monthly at:
http://thedjlist.com/
Some of his original compositions can be found at:
http://www.myspace.com/
Mic's radio show is Thursday Nights 10pm EST at :
http://listen.cyber-
