Name: Mike Relm
Genre: Electronic
Day: Saturday

Wikipedia sez: “Mike Relm is a Chinese American DJ, turntablist, and VJ from San Francisco, California. He has performed with notable hip-hop artists Money Mark, The Gift of Gab, and D-Sharp. In 1999, he won the International Turntablist Federation’s USA competition. More recently he toured as part of Mike Patton’s Peeping Tom project. As a solo artist, Relm is known for live performances which feature a series of audio mashups paired with video images, manipulated in real-time with a turntable-like device (e.g. Pioneer DVJ1000).”

I don’t really know what to write about Mike Relm given he is better if you see him in action. Relm is a split DJ/VJ, combining all types of music (think Cut Chemist/Shadow - Product Placement) along with video, so you get yourself video samples from movies, cartoons, television shows and even some home movies of the musician in action. From what I’ve heard so far his stuff is really scratch heavy (I don’t mind that, but prefer to the songs more then hearing scratching) and I imagine his set at Coachella will focus on the video side. The downside to that is that I imagine you will need to be standing near the front to see everything going on, which only the hardcord will do.

Likelyhood of Seeing at Coachella: Eh I’m not crazy about it, but I may check it out.

Read on to view Mike Relm live videos…

Mike Relm - Live In Vancouver

Mike Relm - Live at the Independent (San Francisco, California)