Michal Poliak BIOGRAPHY

Michal Poliak is one of the most expressive person in the Czech Republic dance scene. He is respected not only as a DJ, but mainly as a very promising and talented producer, who met with a good response not only at home ground, but also abroad.

Let´s have a look at period when Michal, BB Mike at that time, start with DJing

Beginning of his career and  first gig are connected with his activity in Canada in 2001, where he played as a DJ at some local illegal party within the first month of his stay there. Michal started to present himself abroad first and gain many fans there, unlike many starting DJs for which playing abroad has been just an unattainable aim.
In some local vinyl shop Michal acquainted himself with a person who significantly influenced the progress of following events. DJ Preach, who is respected DJ at world dance scene nowadays, became Michal´s „teacher“ and learned him mix techniques in free time.
Michal devoted himself to active playing after his return to the Czech republic. His first gig took place in club Fabric in Ostrava. He won recognition as a promoter as well. He organized very successful club nights „Amnesia“ and „Insomnia“ in club Laguna, which is closed nowadays, in his hometown Breclav.
Many promoters of the best clubs here and Slovakia noticed Michal´s talent. Hence he performed in clubs such as Paradogs, Fabric, Bobycentrum, Barumba and many more.
In 2003 Michal became resident of one of the biggest indoor actions here-Citadela. His name very soon started to appear in line ups of other big parties such as Antistatic, Ibiza, Observer, Stereodome…
He and his Canadian colleague Preach took part in great tour around Balcan states – they performed in Bulgaria, Kosovo and Croatia. They went back to Canada in autumn, and presented themselves at the mega halloween party „Gloom“ , which took place at some castle in mountains in Quebeck.

Following year was very successful for Michal. He became resident of another club nights – „O´Seex“ club in Brno and „Bluck“ club in Breclav. He also peformed at many actions abroad – Austria, Slovenia and Croatia.
Michal was inclined Canada, that´s why he came back there in Autumn again. He playd in „Cube“ club in Quebeck and spent some time with DJ Preach, who explained him the basis of music production.
Two years later, Michal started to regularly performed at big parties here such as  „Imperium,“ and summer festival „Hradhouse.“ His typical funky sound brought himself to people´s attention more and more, that´s why his performance was accepted with a great public acceptance. People knew taht Michal could create the right show and entertain them.
He put himself to production very intensively – there were produced his first tracks, which appeared at compilation for Citadela – Citadela Vibe III. Michal was inspired by Bryan Cox´s, Brazil artist Wehbba´s, Mojad´s, Peppelino´s and Len Faki´s work. He was very particular about colourful composition of the sound, melodious and energetic rhythms.