Charlotte’s Best Club Dj 2009

Mike Soden - 7047778000             djsoden@djsoden.com

 

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It’s not a new concept in music; it is a soulful fusion in turntablism binding house and hip hop. It’s a “journey into sound” complete with scratching, strange samplings and seventies nostalgia with hip hop backbones. And it has a name. It’s name is DJ Soden.  Sometimes fronted by a regional wordsmith or versus a similar minded DJ, DJ Soden is well versed in composition and delivery. The first five minutes of this man’s set, it becomes quite apparent that every inch of crate digging was not a waste of energy (studying bass lines, drenching vocal hooks, measuring body & soul).  Sharing stages with legends ( Lil Wayne , Run DMC, Korn , Edwin Mc Cain , Snoop Dogg , Ice Cube , Josh Wink , Sugar Hill Gang , Rob Base , Lil Jon , Juvenile & many more gives him quite a vast performance repertoire. After getting his first big “start” with dearly departed, Ed Lebrun in 1995 he became a resident at "Babylon's First Friday". After shortly after gaining a NC buzz, he joined up with Faust & Shortee (Spacekadets Collective) in 1996, did regional Lollapalooza appearances and Mardi Gras (1997), played all over the Southeast and has tagged with the likes of Hipp-E, Brownie and Donald Glaude (with whom he did numerous mixtapes).  DJ Soden has also yielded releases on Citrus Records/Electric Mayhem 97(alongside Roby Dail and Roach) and Beats vol.1 for Higher Clouds (’98). He also appears in the DVD video called Riffage Movie Madness with his track “Chillin tip time”, which was distributed in SPINS magazine (October 2001). He has Djed for a heavy metal band (Gruv Union in 2002)and received best Dj in a band at battle of the bands 2003 . In 2005 Soden started working for Scratch Academy Djing and teaching kids how to dj . 2007 won the charlotte burger king mixoff , 2008 won cans of charlotte battle of the Dj , In December of 2009 received Best Club Dj Award from www.charlottemusicawards.org , Also in December 2009 won club halo’s mixmaster Dj battle . DJ Soden is in a perpetual state of capturing his musical rapport and sites his influences as Bob James, the Ohio Players, Johnny Guitar Watson, James Brown, Afrika Bambaatta, Kraftwerk, Bob Marley, the Meters, the JB’s & many more. DJ Soden is influenced most by DJs Terry Mullan, Q-Bert, DJ Dan, Derrick Carter, Rectangle, Hipp-E, Magic Mike and First Klass (to name a few). Hours spent in the studio per day (with both hip hop and house) and interest in scores, leave DJ Soden with little or no place to go but UP!   http://www.charlottemusicawards.orgshapeimage_2_link_0

Club Halo’s Mix Off Winner 2009

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