story:

Miki, born on 20 October 1162 a.C, began playing records in 1978 at a club near home in Ferrara and won a contest for resident DJ at the Pink Panther Top Disco Studio, where he started his professional DJing initially on Sunday afternoons with Afro, Electronic, Disco and Funky, and then evenings with New Wave, Dark and British Dance music. His passion for the radio grew through his local radio stations (Radio Ferrara Centrale and Extasy FM Station) and he teamed up with his friend Andrea Melly as leaders of the group Photogram, with whom he performed live and produced his first two albums, Europe United and Beathouse.
His evergrowing experience brought him, along with the advent of house music, to ride the exploding club scene first at Bahia's Club and then at Club 64 on Elba Island. At the end of 1990 he held the residency of the 12-hour sessions at Club Imperiale in Tirrenia and the hype for this phenomenal DJ was strong, both for the novelty of after-hours and for the rave music that rapidly starts gathering large crowds.
Looking for suitable partners to share the ride, he found two that are on his same wavelength: Francesco Farfa and Roby J. At about the same time they invited him to a party in Paris held by L'Express magazine's music journalist, Luc Bertagnol. In a short space of time Miki, Francesco and Roby were sharing nights at legendary Ibiza clubs like Salinas, Space and Pacha, in Paris and in Italy at Imperiale with Mario Più, at Tartana, Tenax and many other venues.
Miki became resident DJ at the after-hour session at Duplé, a club in the North of Tuscany, with his friend Alessandro Tognetti and Roby J. In 1992, Antonio Velazquez invited Miki to spin on the turntables at Insomnia and in September he got residency of their Divine Stage with Francesco Farfa.
At the start of 1994, Miki left Insomnia at the peak of his success and started playing in a small club in Marinella di Sarzana which immediately became a "cult" club of the scene and where Miki met Alex Neri, resident DJ and son of the owner. During the same period, DJ-ing also took Miki to other foreign venues in Switzerland with Dario Mancini (Djaimin) and in France.
In September 1994, along with Stefano Bratti and vocalist Roberto Francesconi, Miki took up residency at the reknown club Jaiss, which he helped launch, and Fridays at Torquemada in Florence with Ricky Leroy, organized by Alessandro Bis and Max Innocenti.
With Raulo Giovannoni he kicked off The West, the legendary rave party that confirmed his musical career as DJ.
In 1995 he played in Japan and Indochina and his sound, labelled as Progressive, is at the time considered a movement associated to him, whereas Miki considered Progressive music to stem more from an interpretation of music during DJ sets rather than a musical genre in itself. Gabon called him to play and join the scene at Exogroove, one of the notorious events of the time.
1997 sees him on the turntables at the launch of Taotec and after a few months with Simone, the organizer from 585, they managed to bring Francesco Farfa back on the decks with Miki. Between 1995 and 1999 he was regular guest DJ at Amnesia in Ibiza and played at raves in France, Switzerland, Germany and the UK.
In 1999 he set up Sun Generation Records, a label that releases music on vinyl and groups together a pool of DJs, musicians and artists from different countries. After years of productions for other labels like Joe T Vannelli's DBX with many successful records and Interactive Test by Francesco Falsini in Florence, Miki started dishing out vynil productions of Techno, Trance, Experimental and Electronica in synergy with jazz and house musicians met during his time in Satellite, on the top floor of Jaiss, where he rediscovered Underground DJ-sets. He took Satellite to other locations, with Daniele Papini and then with Croatian Dj Alen Sforzina, who joins Sun Generation as sound engineer and producer.
Those years were entirely dedicated to the Underground scene with rare appearances at important clubs like D!Club in Switzerland during the time of Tony D'a (Attitude Nocturne) with Lucian n Luciano and at Goa in Rome, and in the US and France where together with friend and DJ Jean Charles Sonic he reproduced Satellite in Paris at the OPA in Rue de Bastille and in Veneto with his friend DJ Torres. In 2005 Stefano Noto asked him as regular guest at club Frau Marleen in Torre del Lago, and Miki rediscoverd the taste for club nights and club music, working with Gianni "The Saint", Metempsicosi at Re:flex, QClub in Genoa, Kursaal in Lignano, Daniele PN, Max Innocenti, Miki Talarico, PlayStar, Pierluigi Bizzari amongst many others. He was also guest appearnace at other important events throughout Italy, continuing to regale the crowds with great sets and vibes, sharing his contagious passion for clubbing and his unique style, his DJing in constant evolution.
In 2009 the record label Audio Esperanto released Miki the Dolphin Allow My Future, a cult track for many and on the same year with the new Sun Generation Digital the record Miki the Dolphin Sigillum, created with the collaboration of Sonartek, and Djs like Richie Hawtin and Magda and other records on labels like Evolution Rec and Takos. In 2007 Miki started his own events with friend Manuel Fabbri, "Party In Chianti", parties where many different Djs from Italy and abroad are invited to share their passion for music, creating a periodical Tuscan event that still takes place in different magical venues on the Tuscan hills.

We have had to omit many things and apologize for not being able to mention all the people events and clubs that have been part of the life and career of this amazing DJ.

Samantha Sides
clr redaction





MIKI the Dolphin

Miki is one of the main gurus of the Italian electronic music scene. His most appreciated skills are experimentation and avant-gardism embodied in a charismatic, magnetic personality.

A natural talent for mixing different sounds allowed Miki to be the ice-breaker of the Italian electronic revolution, which as born in Tuscany in the early 90s and then spread across the world. He was the first resident DJ of the after-hours (midnight – midday) held at the Club Imperiale and resident DJ at many of the cult clubs of the Italian Electronic-Techno scene: Duplé, Insomnia, Jaiss (both in the main room and in the upper floor privè Satellite).

Co-founder of the after-hour “The West”, Miki played as guest DJ in almost every corner of the globe: from Ibiza to Tokyo, from the US to Indochina, from Switzerland to the UK, from Paris (where he has a devoted fan base) to Eastern European countries.

Today, Miki is guest DJ in several Italian and international clubs and works as a producer for the label he founded in 1999: the Sun Generation Records - pool of talented Italian and international DJs.

Miki composed music for other labels such as Takos Records, Evolution recordings - for which he composed the techno-minimal hit “Sigillum” - and Audio Esperanto, for which he composed “Allow my future”, which is quickly becoming a cult-track in the DJ-system.

Miki’s also know as “the Dolphin”, a nickname of obscure origins of which he never wanted to fully reveal the meaning.

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ONLY SOME VENUES ...

Mozinor Raves (Paris)
Dancefloor Syndroma Rave (Swiss)
Leysin Dance Sensation Festival (Leysin-CH)
Terras (Bali)
Maniac Love (Tokyo - Japan)
Heaven (London)
Magic Mushroom\Clueless System (Cambridge)
New York Club (Neuchatel - CH)
Mad (Losanna - CH)
Labirinth (Zurich)
Warehouse (Bern - CH)
Amnesia (Ibiza)
Locomotive (Paris)
Sphinks (CH)
Love Parade (Berlin)
Cool Fm (Instambul)
Assemblee (Paris),
Satellite c/o O.P.A (Paris)
Horizon (Atlantic City - USA)
Villa Club (Croatia)
Aquarius (Croatia)
Evolution (Philadelphia - USA)
D!club (CH)
Buddhaful House (Seattle - Usa)
Colosseum (Opatia - Croatia)
Djerba Park Explore (tunisie)

RESIDENT:
80 - 85 Pink Panther \ Top Disco Studio (Ferrara-today called Pelle D'Oca)
85 - 87 La Mela (Ferrara)
87 - 89 OK Village (Portomaggiore-Fe)
88 - 92 Bahia\Club 64 (Isle D'Elba)
90 - 92 Imperiale (Tirrenia - PI )
91 Duple' after hour (Aulla - MS )!
92 -93 Insomnia (Ponsacco - PI )
93-94 Paradise (Marinella di Sarzana - SP))
94 - 96 Jaiss (Sovigliana V. - FI )
96 - 97 Imperiale\ Neo' (Tirrenia - PI )
97 - 98 Taotec ( Figline V. - FI )
98 - 99 Satellite c/o Jaiss (Sovigliana - FI )
00 - 03 Satellite one night Kaleido (tuscany)
from 2003 MIKI is DJING FREELANCE

ITALY ONLY SOME VENUES

(Tri-Veneto)
Matilda
Area City
Kursaal
041
Aida
Movida
Musico'
Tio
La Scala
Masko
(Emilia Romagna)
Ku club
Gatto e la Volpe
Sing Sing\Sinatra
Birdland
Ok Village\Exodus
Barracuda
Sporting Club
Rotonda
Ecu
Cellophane
Golf club
Gotha
Matis
Vertigo
Echoes
Pacha
Cocorico'
Picchio Rosso
Small
Prince

(TOSCANA)
Frau Marleen
Re:Flex
Jaiss
FEM
Party in Chianti
Sonar
Prima Donna
Tartana
Club 64
Deco'
Faruk\Fever
Canniccia
Cicala/Vogue
Agora'
Paradise
Taverna Jori
Four Roses
Phoenix
Teatro Dei 3 Soldi
Meccano
Central Park\La Capitale
Andromeda
Maramao\The Cave
Casa Cantoniera
Blue Kaos
River Piper
Deco'\Ophir
Sunset
Morumbi
Normans
Le Mirage
Barcaccina
Area
Galle'\Casina Rossa
Blue Kaos
Taverna Jori
Tenax
Happyland
Manila
Pianeta
Notte Tempo
Area 51
Yab
Full Up

(Liguria)
Capannina
Piscina dei Castelli
Covo di Nord Est
Palace
Shade
La Terrazza
Sporting
'(Umbria)
Red Zone - Quazar- Moma
Goa,Piper.06,Cyborg,Suburbia,Gasoline ( Lazio)
(Lombardia-Piemonte)
Ultimo Impero,Palace,Nepentha,Cage
Illiria ,Matrix,Bibendum,
Exogroove
(Sardegna)
Kilton and others

italian events:
The West - Exogroove - Sinchopate - Satellitestate
Palazzo dello Sport Roma\Pistoia\Torino