Mika Olson

Mika grew up in a profoundly musical household, hisparents being professional musicians who put him intoclassical piano and jazz guitar lessons from the moment hehad enough motor control in his hands to hold a guitar pick.T he first record he bought was a now-out-of-print EP ofParliament Funkadelic covering Kraftwerk’s “Calculator”.Mika’s musical style reflects his eclectic influences fromhigh-modernist integral surrealism to jazz-funk fusion toArmenian epic poetry to 80s hair metal all distilled down topure, crystalline house.In 2008 he went 'minimal' after seeing the haircut maestroRichie Hawtin blow Leicester's Love Parade away by playingthe same record for 4 hours using a total of 3 laptops (allMacBooks Pros of them).Now that mnml isn't cool anymore he's decided to go back tohis house roots. His current sets promise to take you on ajourney from