Looking for the perfect beat, this how you can define Mike Stellar's mission. Without confining to any particular style you can hear on his sets an explosive mix of dub, jazz, afrobeat, drum'n'bass, dubstep, soul, funk, deep house and Detroit techno. What unites all this is Groove. Since 1996 he's been one the driving forces on the quality music scene in Portugal. First as a promoter, and later caught in the addiction of vinyl. Since then he was of the groundbreaking promoter & dj in Portugal, first with some legendary drum&bass parties in Lisbon and then moving to the jazznotjazz scene since 1999, introducing to Portugal people like Jazzanova, Gilles Peterson, Rainer Truby, Nicola Conte, The Amalgamation of Soundz, King Britt, Koop, Kyoto Jazz Massive, and many, many others. He spreads his music all over Portugal in clubs, bars, parties, festivals. Basically where he is invited to play. Currently he's a resident at Musicbox, the leading underground cub in Lisbon. His first moves outside of Portugal started is 2001, with a visit to Club Meierei in Vienna. Since then he has visted countries like Spain, England, France, Hungary, USA and others. Played with: Quantic, Jazzanova, Peter Kruder, Richard Dorfmeister, Bonobo, Gilles Peterson, The Amalgamation of Soundz, Daz I Kue, Rainer Truby, Nicola Conte, Badmarsh, Madrid de Los Austrias, Koop, Two Banks of Four, Adrian Sherwood, Lee Perry, Black Uhuru,and many others... He' was a Mr X and executive producer for Red Bull Music Academy in Portugal between 2004 and 2009. In 2007 and 2008 he's been project manager and booker for the Red Bull Blue Elements Tour. He's now collaborating with Madrid's based label Lovemonk.