For Michael Fortune, music is the dominant influence on his life. Perhaps it began with his first concert, seeing Earth, Wind, & Fire at age five. Maybe it was starting to DJ and produce events in 2008. Even though Northern California has remained home, his dedication has given him the opportunity to play gigs in countries like Mexico, Argentina, and the Turks & Caicos islands and locally across events like Burning Man, Outside Lands, Noise Pop Festival, and Super Hero Street Festival. Michael has also played across SF in places like The Independent, Monarch, Public Works, The New Parish, Rickshaw Stop, Audio, The Academy of Sciences, and even Bill Graham! Michael's eclectic sets bring together elements of funk, disco, soul, house, indie, krautrock, italo, techno, trip-hop, afrobeat, and latin music bound together by an underlying groove. He has shared the bill with forward thinking artists like Kevin Saunderson, Animal Collective, Thugfucker, Miami Horror, PillowTalk, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, The Juan Maclean, Toro y Moi, Marquess Wyatt, Washed Out, Duke Dumont, Diplo, Matrixxman, Slow Magic, Osunlade, and the Dirtybird Records crew to name a few. What hasn’t changed is his passion for music that brings people together regardless of genre. Today, Michael handles bookings for the Make It Funky collective and also spends time at BFF.fm, a community radio station based out of the Mission District as Promotions Director and the host of a weekly show.