The Preacher

Born in 1980 in Manzanares (Ciudad Real, Spain). He graduated in Industrial Engineering by University of Castilla - La Mancha (Spain), graduated in Electrical Engineering by University of Leónand Master in Health and Safety by Francisco de Vitoria University of Madrid. His first contact with electronic music dates back to the early 90's, with the most commercial of the moment. It was really the end of this decade, when through some fellow university known underground electronic sounds, especially techno music. At the end of 2003 made a DJ's course organized by the Local Council of Youth of his hometown, Manzanares in the Youth House Township. In this course he learn all the basics in the work of a DJ, technical and musical level. Motivated by the realization of the course is purchased his first turntables and started to enter the world of "dj-mixing". In the summer of 2004 created with a group of friends the collective-association "Electronic Sound", with which organizes local activities: courses DJ's, parties Techno without alcohol as well as the radio show of the same name, "Electronic Sound Radio" on the local radio station "Onda Mancha Manzanares" and could be heard on-line on the network, on the municipal website. Mike GZ has represented the collective-association "Electronic Sound" in various competitions of DJ's, made at both national and provincial levels, also participating in national and international competitions level. In the mix, Mike GZ opts for the harder sound of techno. As a producer uses the pseudonym "The Preacher", taking several years experience with hardware and diverse electronic music software, to get your own sound, From May 2010, he is part of Deep & Beat Collective that aims to make numerous musical projects within the scene electronic music in Castilla - La Mancha and beyond its borders. From the turning point that led to Mike GZ to be part of this collective of artists, like Ángel Ruizar also devotes artistic a plot to sounds less "hard" such as Minimal Tech, Tech House, Electro and Techno also of current sounds, including different forms of more classical Techno, giving free rein to his artistic concerns within the broad spectrum of the electronic universe. In June 2012 he published his first release as a Techno producer: Ohm's Law EP, edited and released by Italian label Superdrive Records After publishing three references on the Italian label (Superdrive Records) between 2012 and 2013, as well as collaborating with some remixes for Madrid artist Structural Form in 2014, for labels like Dark Garden Recordings (Spain), K-84 Records (Chile) and Armed Records (Argentina), he created in June of that same year 2014 his own label, The Preacher Records. From 2013 he is also claimed for radio and podcasts at national and international level. In the summer of 2015 began to publish works for Hardtools Records (Spain) and Black Stars Corporation (Spain), A second EP in November the same year on Hardtools Records, ending the year with a new collaboration with Dark Garden Recordings label.