(Image by Lawrence Sumulong: http://lawrencesumulong.com/)
Working as a contemporary electronic producer there are a number of restrictions that are implicitly placed upon you. The pressure to make the next banger or to provide a coherent successor to your last output can force people to look at the music in quite a clinical way. Formulas are worked out and the next batch of tunes are made in that way. However, without doubt it is the people that do their own thing regardless, the people for whom making music is a compulsion, a race against time to get the sounds out of their head, that make the impact that lasts beyond the next big dub. Fancy Mike is a member of the latter group, a self-confessed obsessive who painstakingly extracts the music from his head. Over two mini-albums for the King Deluxe record label - 'Madison Square Gardner' and 'Sigma Chi Primavera' - he has seemingly only touched the surface of his capabilities and his ambitions.
