Mike Di Scala is a British musician from Liverpool. He is most famous for being the singer and producer in Ultrabeat but he is a well known DJ and producer on his own or with other studio partners.

Early Career (2001-02)

Di Scala's early career was as a disc jockey in Liverpool's nightclubs and as a studio engineer for other producers. His first productions were mainly "scouse house" and in 2001 he started his own record label, BCD Records, with his studio partners Lee Butler and Les Calvert. Butler, Calvert and Di Scala produced and released many "scouse house" records and bootlegs on this label using many different aliases such as Rezonance Q, One Long Sausage, Sumo and Uproar. BCD Records continued to release 12" records until 2006.

Rise in fame (2002-04)

In 2002, Mike started getting his productions signed and remix work for big dance record labels (as Rezonance Q and BCD Project). He also started producing with Chris Henry and Ian Redman as Ultrabeat. In 2003 his first commercial single, "Someday", was released as Rezonance Q and this charted in the top thirty of the UK Singles Chart. Due to the success of the single this lead to the record label releasing his Ultrabeat record "Pretty Green Eyes", which became a smash hit at #2 in the charts. Following this, Ultrabeat released other successful singles "Feelin' Fine" and "Better Than Life".

Other genres (2003 onwards)

Since 2001, Mike had mainly produced commercial dance music and "scouse house", both solo and with different studio parteners. From 2003 onwards he began producing and releasing records of many other different genres of dance music also, and working with other producers.

Mike continued producing "scouse house" and commercial dance as Rezonance Q, BCD Project and Ultrabeat et cetera, but began producing more funky house and electro styles of dance with Dave Whelan, using aliases such as Adhesive, The Chosen Few and Whelan & Di Scala. Mike has also launched a successful career as a hardcore DJ and producer using the alias of Re-Con. As Re-Con, Di Scala has worked with some of the other big names is hardcore and dance music, such as Darren Styles, Hixxy, Mark Breeze, Alex K and Squad-E.

Career as a DJ

Mike usually DJ's around the North West of England with Dave Whelan and the two have had a residency at the Society nightclub in Liverpool since 2003. Mike sometimes DJ's in Ibiza and at various HTID events across Britain and Spain as Re-Con. Also, Di Scala used to present a night time radio show on Radio City 96.7 on Fridays and Saturdays.

Career as a singer

Mike Di Scala is usually the vocalist for his own Ultrabeat and Re-Con tracks but has also sang for other artists such as Hypasonic and WAVE. Mike will perform sometimes Live PAs of his songs when DJ'ing or when he is touring with Ultrabeat.

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