Introducing DJ Mike D aka Mike Adachi! Award-winning Producer/Remixer, DJ, and Broadcast Engineer for ESPN Cleveland! He has done official remixes for Drake, The Weeknd, Arianna Grande and is one of the few remixers that Taylor Swift allows to remix her songs! We discuss his beginnings on Oahu at age 17 where he used DJing to literally save his life as he was homeless when he first started out. Mike tells us why he quit being a Strip Club DJ after just a few shifts, how 90's hip-hop Like Dr. Dre and Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony) kicked off his passion for music, his disdain for The Beatles & "Gypsy Woman" by Crystal Waters, how he approaches his remixes, and how he started producing before ever DJing. Mike gives props to Max Martin as the biggest producer in the history of Pop Music. And he reveals the story of how Nick Jonas performed Mike's remix version of Nick's hit song "Chains" on the iHeart Radio Concert and the Kid's Choice Awards! And WHO is Mike's DREAM artist to work with??? We wrap things up with 10 questions as made famous by James Lipton on Inside The Actors Studio, with one major twist!
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Introducing DJ Mike D aka Mike Adachi! Award-winning Producer/Remixer, DJ, and Broadcast Engineer for ESPN Cleveland! He has done official remixes for Drake, The Weeknd, Arianna Grande and is one of the few remixers that Taylor Swift allows to remix her songs! We discuss his beginnings on Oahu at age 17 where he used DJing to literally save his life as he was homeless when he first started out. Mike tells us why he quit being a Strip Club DJ after just a few shifts, how 90's hip-hop Like Dr. Dre and Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony) kicked off his passion for music, his disdain for The Beatles & "Gypsy Woman" by Crystal Waters, how he approaches his remixes, and how he started producing before ever DJing. Mike gives props to Max Martin as the biggest producer in the history of Pop Music. And he reveals the story of how Nick Jonas performed Mike's remix version of Nick's hit song "Chains" on the iHeart Radio Concert and the Kid's Choice Awards! And WHO is Mike's DREAM artist to work with??? We wrap things up with 10 questions as made famous by James Lipton on Inside The Actors Studio, with one major twist!

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