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Composing Across Cultures with Mikey J

Composing Across Cultures with Mikey J

Update: 2025-01-15
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#82: My guest today is Mikey J, a composer, producer, and dancer based in the United Kingdom. He has worked on a huge variety of projects from Danny Boyle’s Free Your Mind Matrix Adaptation, scoring and music directing the 2024 revival of Romeo & Juliet starring Tom Holland, founding the award winning dance company Boy Blue, and is even a member of the Order of the British Empire for his work in hip-hop and dance music.


 


In this episode, we talk Mikey’s musical upbringing as a child of African immigrants in the United Kingdom, how he started as a mixing engineer and producer working for the tiny sum of five pounds an hour for his work, his recent work on the movie Kneecap which celebrates Irish hiphop and cultural preservation, and so much more.


 


Find Mikey here:


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeyjdotnet/?hl=en


SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/michael-mikey-j-asante


IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4647621/


 


 


And if you're interested in making music and sound for games, I have a newsletter and free courses that will get you started, and help you find paying work in games. Just go to http://www.bit.ly/soundbizpod

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Composing Across Cultures with Mikey J

Composing Across Cultures with Mikey J

Akash Thakkar

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