Mike Jedlicka

Mike grew up in a NW suburb of Chicago and left for college at the University of Iowa in 1999. He experimented in DJing & throwing parties with a local group called Rotation (Michelle Higley and Kent Williams among others), with a weekly gig at a local bar on the side. Mike & Geoff Richards met through their similarities in vinyl and fine beer. While Geoff was creating the record label Dick and Jane Records in 2001, Mike roped in his musically talented friend Nik Francis and all involved got the label on it’s feet. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

Mike grew up in a NW suburb of Chicago and left for college at the University of Iowa in 1999. He experimented in DJing & throwing parties with a local group called Rotation (Michelle Higley and Kent Williams among others), with a weekly gig at a local bar on the side. Mike & Geoff Richards met through their similarities in vinyl and fine beer. While Geoff was creating the record label Dick and Jane Records in 2001, Mike roped in his musically talented friend Nik Francis and all involved got the label on it’s feet. Three semesters of electronic music production were taken under Professor Lawrence Fritts in the University of Iowa's Electronic Music Studios. Mike moved to Tallahassee, FL for graduate school in speech-language pathology (2003) where he was introduced to a wealth of instruments including the didgeridoo, shakuhachi, tabla drums, & sitar. He joined an improvisational band and finished his first solo EP, A Movie Without Pictures. The first track from this album, Hipity Hop, was used in an episode of MTV's Made. This was about the time Dick and Jane Records was sent a cease and desist letter from a certain group of lawyers, stopping the label in its tracks. But Optic Echo was soon spawned, and Mike took the head role. Mike graduating in 2005 and moved to Portland, OR where he began a weekly radio show on the Portland Radio Authority (see the podcast page for Optic Echo Presents episodes) and took over as Programming Director/Operations Manager in 2009. Mike’s recent discography includes: Leaving Baja in 2007, Invisible Friend w/ label mate Electric Blanket in 2008, Wilkins Mop w/ Nathan Smith in 2009, and the tabor / nw passage split 12" w/ cloudburst in 2010. New projects are in the works including a concept album with label mate cloudburst ... Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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