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Your A-List: Best Club DJ
Singer-songwriters and rockers may rule the local music scene in Austin, but over the past 10+ years, the DJ scene has been growing. DJ Mike Swing is one of the pioneers of the scene in Austin and is the winner of this week’s poll.
Mike Swing has been keeping clubs bouncing for years in Austin at clubs such as Six Lounge and Qua. As a youngster, he first fell in love with the vinyl sounds of his father’s collection before seeing a picture of Techniques turntables in an issue of Vibe magazine in 1995. It was then he decided he wanted to be the one making the vinyl sing in his own style. Swing eventually moved on to his own radio program, Urban Concepts, on KVRX in Austin, where he exploded onto the Ausitn hip-hop scene.
A 2008 interview with Austinihiphopscene.com reported that Swing’s show “was the first Hip Hop radio program at The University of Texas at Austin to play modern R&B and to obtain the number one spot for a college/community radio program in the Austin, Texas market according to the Arbitron rating system.”
After successfully working in promotions and supplying local DJs with his record pool, Moodswing Urban Entertainment Group, a venture that continues today, Swing decided to get behind the wheels in the clubs, and has supplied to music for frenzied nights of dancing at pretty much every club in Austin that has mattered in the past five years.
You can catch the avowed Michael Jackson fan at Cuba Libre Thursday evening and Six Lounge Saturday night.
Complete results
- DJ Mike Swing, 65 percent
- DJ Chicken George, 5 percent
- DJ Mel, 4 percent
- DJ Manny, 4 percent
- DJ Kurupt, 3 percent
- Toddy B, 3 percent
- Car Stero (Wars), 2 percent
- DJ Dallas, 2 percent
- Seth Cooper, 2 percent
- Rapid Ric, 2 percent
- Soul Happening DJs, 1 percent
- DJ Johnny Bravvo, 1 percent
- Boba Fett, 1 percent
- Prince Klassen, < 1 percent
- Syko, < 1 percent
- DJ Hella Yella, < 1 percent
- Stay Gold, < 1 percent
- Big Face, < 1 percent
- DJ Orion, < 1 percent
- DJ Komson, < 1 percent
- Starsign, < 1 percent
- DJ Chicken Kiev, < 1 percent
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