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Last Updated: 12/16/2009

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City: Berlin
Country: DE
Signup Date: 10/5/2006

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Saturday, November 21, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
BIO

Michelle Owen has been a DJ since 1998, playing all over the world like Love Parade 2008 (Dortmund), Ministry Of Sound (London), Manumission (Ibiza), Electrosplash (Valencia), Field Day Festival (Sydney) and Good Vibrations (Sydney). Half Italian and originally from Sydney Australia, she moved overseas in 2007 to pursue her career in music which led her to live in Ibiza (2007) and now based in Berlin. Her time in Berlin has been productive.  Working for Beatport.com, collaborating on productions with James Flavour from Dirt Crew, making loops on crashroots.com - a music blog created by Samim and Miguel Toro, recording voice overs for soundcloud.com and regular dj at Berlins newest club, Dice.

For the last 10 years Michelle has been involved in the music industry to some extent. Working for FUGA, Beatport.com (Berlin), Buzzin Fly Records (London), Phonica Records (London), SONYBMG Australia, Eyelash Records (her own label 2002-2005), worked in records stores 'Central Station' and 'Savage', hosted on radio shows, 'Rhythm FM' and 'FBI' (Sydney).

Michelle started early, at the age 15 she was hanging out at recording studios like 'Damien Gerard Sound Studios' and Charring Cross as assistant sound engineer. This lead her to work with some great Australian bands like, 'The Church' but all the passion started when she bought her first electric guitar. After high school she was introduced to house music after hearing Danny Tenaglia play one of his famous all night sets on New Years Eve. This changed alot and a new challenge presented itself...how to mix music?

After working three jobs, she bought some 2nd hand turntables and started to practice! Three years later Michelle was playing in Sydneys best clubs and held residencies at YU (Sydney), Sounds On Sunday (Sydney), Home (Sydney), Tank (Sydney), Chinese Laundry (Sydney) and was invited to play at Australian festivals Field Day Festival (Sydney) and Good Vibrations (Sydney).

In 2005 she traveled overseas for the first time to the island of Ibiza, curious to see what she had heard so much about. This trip introduced her to a whole new sound, hearing amazing sets from Loco Dice, Tania Volcano, Steve Bug, in the seting of Circo Loco.
She also traveled to Valencia to play at the Electrospalsh Festval just on the shores of Benicassim. Here she played along side Booka Shade, Mandy, DJ T, Phonique and more.

This trip pretty much sold her on the notion to move overseas as soon as she possibly could and in 2007 she made the move to Ibiza for the summer playing for Manumission in the Coco Loco room and working for Ibiza Rocks.

After Ibiza she moved to London briefly  to work with Benn Watt at Buzzin Fly Records but got a job working with Beatport.com, so moved to Berlin and this is where she currently resides.

In 2008, Michelle was invited to play at 'Love Parade' in Dortmund, Germany on the Pulse Radio float alongside, Time Green, Ewan Pearson, Murat and Yousef. Over 1 Million people attended this event.

In 2009, Michelle became resident for Berlin's newest club, Dice and has hosted many gigs there inviting producers such as Pezzner, Chris Duckenfield, Morgan Geist and Huake Freer to play with her. Also she was invited ot play at 'Jackson' at Crackers one of Berlins best kept secrets!

Releases coming soon on Dirt Crew Recordings, Lost My Dog and Dogmaik Records.


Gigs/Venues

Dice Club 2009 (Berlin)
Crackers (Berlin)
Love Parade 2008 (Dortmund)
Tape (Berlin)
San Juan Beach Festival 2008 (Barcelona)
Picknick (Berlin)
Ministry Of Sound (London)
Manumission (Ibiza)
Electrosplash (Valencia)
STA (Rome)
Retox (London)
We Love Sounds Festival (Sydney)
Sounds On Sunday (Sydney)
Home (Sydney)
Tank (Sydney)
Field Day Festival (Sydney)
Good Vibrations (Sydney)
Chinese Laundry (Sydney)
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 
What is crashroots?
crashroots is a community for collaborative music production and distribution. They create open source music (OSM) and encourage sharing ideas at a early stage. Contribute a song, sample or mashup to one of their ongoing collaborations. Visit the blog for daily news curated by the crashroots community and browse the ever growing list of releases. Keep your eyes open for exclusive content from thier label partners and check out crashroots artists live on stage.

www.crashroots.com


Wednesday, August 05, 2009 


For all bookings please contact: spanishdreams@gmail.com
Monday, June 08, 2009 

Current mood:  creative
Monday, May 11, 2009 

Current mood:  dorky
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 




Now kids your mother used to fix your lunch
And you'd come to school and all you'd get is reading and writing and arithmetic
But the world has progressed now
Now the only way is you gotta have a beat!

Now children let brother Jordan tell ya,
how to be real with everyone you meet,
Just get in the groove that boogie woogie move,
cause today you gotta have a Beat

People today is full of rhythm it's in their head or even in their feet,
You better wake up and get rhythm,
You gotta have the Beat.

The world is full of competition,
And you gotta be strong to compete,
If you don't know what it's about,
You'll soon find out that you really got to have a beat.

The truest thing that's ever been said is that history always repeats,
Cause there was a time when Jazz was in line,
Cause today you gotta have the Beat.

When Columbus discovered America,
He was in line for the Kings Crown and suite,
But now he will be just another sailor,
Cause today you gotta have the Beat.

All revealed one world the same,
For his daring and brilliant feet,
There's no more need for those kinds of deeds,
Cause today you gotta have the Beat.

Romeo won the heart of Juliet with music that was soft and sweet,
But that couldn't happen today Juliet,
Cause today you gotta have the Beat.

All of ya could be successful,
If you get together and walk on the right street,
The only receipts for success are progress,
Cause today you gotta have the beat.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul and in his day he was really all neat,
But things have changed and he'd look very strange,
Casue today you gott have the beat.

You could finish Howard, Yale,
And your education still wouldn't be complete,
Cause unless you got that swing,
You got to have that Beat.

Chopin write some beautiful music and for years played it's really a treat,
It's still ok but a bit passé,
Casue today you gotta have the beat.

Now kids that's your history lesson for the day
So now lets go on out and play!
Friday, October 03, 2008 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Music
The new music platform SOUNDCLOUD What is it? Take the video tour to see for yourself.

http://www.soundcloud.com/tour


Hear my music here - http://www.soundcloud.com/michelle-owen
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 

This summer  Deepchild was over in Europe playing a stack of festivals and club shows to pre-promote the release of his amazing album "Departures" (now available on Beatport)
Here is one of many videos that he recorded and put together himself...very talented man indeed.
It was an honour to play at Tape with Deepchild and I hope there are many more chances to come...long live Jagermeiester shots!



Go to
inthemix.com.au for more European Tour Videos.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 

roll the dice

if you're going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don't even start.

if you're going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you'll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you're going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.

you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.

Bukowski

Friday, August 15, 2008 

Category: Music