DJ/Producer Mike Rizzo infuses the best parts of his historic run-of-house club mixes with these Progressive/House influences from world-renown DJs such as Sasha & Sander Kleinenberg.
Mike has been DJing for over 20 years at venues including NYC’s Roxy, Webster Hall, Cheetah & Tunnel, as well as traveling to clubs in South Beach, Boston, Salt Lake City, Arizona, and internationally to perform. An Asia tour in June of 2004 included dates playing at the JJ Disco in Beijing China and Club Lola/Centro in Singapore. That fall Mike spun alongside Ibiza’s #1 DJs Erick Morillo & Josh Wink at Club Pacha in Ibiza, Spain.
In addition to spinning worldwide, during his career Rizzo has fulfilled the role of producer/remixer, writing, producing, and remixing artists including Tamia (Stranger In My House), a track that went to be WKTU’s #1 song of 2001. That same year Rizzo won Best Remixer and Best Remix of the Year for SIN magazine. Can’t Go On (Mike Rizzo presents Allie) was a smash hit across the board in 2004, finishing #10 on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart and breaking into the Billboard Radio Play chart as well that year. Jennifer Green’s How Can I Be Falling, co-written & produced by Mike Rizzo, hit #1 on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart as well. Rizzo has had over 30 Billboard #1 remixes, including Womanizer (Britney Spears), Play Your Part (Deborah Cox), Serve the Ego (Jewel), One With You (Sun), Try It On My Own (Whitney Houston), Surrender (Laura Pausini), Slow (Kylie Minogue), I Never Knew (Gloria Gaynor), Getaway (Becky Baeling), Right Now (Akon), & Bossy (Lindsey Lohan).
Mike Rizzo has remixed compilation CDs for major dance labels including Ultra Record’s June 2004 release, Trance Nationa America Three mixed by Rizzo and DJ Drew, which hit the Top 20 Electronica chart in Billboard magazine. That same year Rizzo’s Webster Hall Dance Volume 6 broke into the Top 20 on Billboard CD sales. In 2005, Rizzo’s compilation Thrive sold over 50,000 units and broke into the Billboard Magazine Top 5 Electronica sales chart.
January 2010 will be off to an exciting start as Miek begins his (In the Flesh Tour) With Pop Star Utada starting in Hawaii and ending in NYC…
Mike continues to spread his sounds through local and nationally broadcast mix shows, including a weekly mix show on Hollywood Hamilton’s Remix top 30, Music Choice TV (Dance/Electro/Mixtape), and daily on terrestrial stations WBZC (88.9 FM) in Pemberton, NJ, Radio Danz, I Dance FM Radio, NRR Radio and on AOL Radio, where Rizzo’s broadcasts continually rank in the Top 5 each week (as reported by AOL Music).
