Darren Tate vs Mike Koglin

Grammy nominated producer, remixer and DJ MIKE KOGLIN started working in the Music Industry after Audio Engineering College in Frankfurt/Germany. In 1990 he relocated to London where he was inspired by the early UK dance music scene and it wasn't long before he started to work with dance legends such as Boy George and Jeremy Heady. But it was in 1998, bitten by the trance bug that was flooding into the UK that Mike truly found his forte, moving away from the house sound into the powerful, driven world of trance. This soon yielded production gems such as "The Silence" and "On My Way" on Multiply which both hit the UK top 20 charts in 1998 and 1999, and with the success of Mikes unique sound remix offers soon began to come in. With over 50 remixes in the last 5 years, Mike has remixed not only dance classics such as Lustful "Overtime"; Dreamcatcher ''I Don't Wanna Loose My Way'' and Brainchild "Symmetry C", but also such big tunes as ''Fine Day'' (Kirsty Hawkshaw from Opus 3) or Dido's "All You Want "

In 2003 Mike launched his label Noys Music which he formed as an outlet for quality tracks on the more uplifting, harder side of trance. This formula earned Noys massive support from the biggest DJ's such as Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Johan Gielen, Lange, Nick Sentience, Phil Reynolds, Tom Harding, Trevor Reilly, Les Hemstock, PvD, Colin Tevendale, Andy Durrant, Graham Gold, The Thrillseekers and many more.

Apart from releasing tracks under his own name Mike has worked under many different guises such as 'State One' on Incentive, as 'Blue Horizon' on EMI or as 'Kota' with Darren Tate. This year Mike is continuing his series of collaborations with some of the biggest names in dance including Matt Darey, JFK, Above & Beyond and Simon Patterson.

Having had so many years of success producing music for the dancefloor Mike turned his attention onto the decks in 2002, and this is presently reaping its rewards - internationally having played at huge events in Japan, across Europe and around the UK. Mike, an immensely talented producer and a wizard on the decks should show himself to be one of the DJ's to watch out for this year.

[See also: Kota] [Links: www.mikekoglin.com]