SUBSTUFF Biography

Substuff - Biography

Substuff -Mike Turned -Professional Zero - Mike Turned began his passion for the techno sounds when he was also a teen, in 1993 he discovers the pioneer clubs in Madrid and became an adict. The first contact with the production was in 1995, with a PC program called “Fast Tracker” ( It rules in a 486! ), his friend Andrés Criado and him were fascinated. It was a MS-DOS sequencer, and the default sounds were so bad, but them learnt to compose.- In 1997 nobody believes in the musical posibilities of the computers, except Mike Turned. He bought his first PC to make music in this year. The earliest virtual sinthesizers and sequencers were there, and he investigate it. Andrés had knowledgements of rithm composition and they worked together in they first minimal-techno tracks.- In 1998, dj Von ( resident in Voltereta, a legend club on the Madrid´s scene ) called them to play their tracks in a party. They looked for a name, Substuff - live-act was born.
SUBSTUFF-LIVE ACT!
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- 1998 - Substuff was founded by Mike Turned and Andrés Criado (www.gauss-control.org)

-"Techno Party vol I" Oratorio. Alcorcón. With djs Von (Voltereta) and Vasco Ispirian.
- Tasmania Club. Madrid. With dj Dany HR.
- Chill Out Club. Madrid. With djs Álvaro Cabana&Juan Luis de Diego.

-1999 – at the early moments, they were in many of the underground parties in Madrid...

- Chill Out Club II. Madrid. With djs Cabana y Special K aka Kiko Barba.
- Siroco. madrid. With djs Pelacha (www.pelacha.com) (Interstate), Paul Smith; I Born,Live: Line Out.
- Elektra 01. Alcorcón. With djs Von, Clasik, etc...,live: Xplicit Rthms (Satisfaxion)
- Elektra 02. Alcorcón. With djs Von, dj F (Brainwaves).
- "Sublime". Madrid. With djs HD Substance, Pelacha, Carlos G.
- Pin Down 01 (Davai). Madrid. With djs Pelacha, Carlos G, Pete M, Kizer.
- Elektra 03. Alcorcón. With djs Von, ZLO, Dany HR.
- Drumloop. With djs Zhyfra and Molto Caldata.

On 2000 they were needing a mixer to make a better live-act, and Carlos G. was the man: an experienced disc-jockey of the madrid´s scene, he was a pioneer of the electronic music on the lastest ´80s. The Substuff´s session of this year was so great, and they were selected to play at Sónar, in Barcelona. Substuff was one of the greatest discovering in the festival for much people, and the Future Music magazine called them “revelation group of the year”. Mike Turned begans his career as “contents manager” in www.tonytechno.com .

- December,31 1999-2000 Pin Down 02. Madrid. With djs Pelacha, Carlos G, Pete M, Kizer, Pakito, I Born.
- 2nd Aniversary Substuff at Elektra 04. Alcorcón. With dj Molto Caldata & residents.
- Sónar 2000 Village escenary,in CCCB. Barcelona. With El Disop, dj Troll, Turner (Ladomat)...
-"espacio 024" (sonic research) Arena. Madrid. With djs Oliver Ho, Marco Lenzi, Pelacha.- Substuff session on Radio 3, in the mitical Zona 3, of Sonia Briz- Specka . Madrid. With dj Rosi.
-"After FIB (International Festival of Benicássim)". Sal&sal . Benicássim. With djs Underblau and Yago.
- Van-Vas (Villalba) With dj Iñaki and Álvaro Martín (Phrenetic).
- Metro (Bigastro,Murcia) With dj David Bordalás.
- "Techno House Festival".Leganés (la Cubierta). With dj Pepo y dj Pelacha. ( Over 8.500 people )
- Coppelia 101/One .Madrid. With dj Txetxu and dj Pelacha.

- 2001 – Carlos G left the group...

-El Faro .Venturada (Mad.). With dj Pelacha, Ernie and dj Obelix.
-Electronic Music Convention on Switzerland. With Southsoniks, Pascal F.E.O.S, The Advent... in BERN
-Parkinkg Sound (Mad.). With dj Fátima Hajji, Virtual Drums and Future Breaks.
-D´noise club (Mad.). With dj Lön and dj Pilas.
-Reaction 01 (Mad.). Mike Turned presents his first release on vinyl: Miguel Guirado / Substuff “Precission E.P.” With THEA-live ( electronic animals ), Joel Pöns, HCB, and Ernie.
-3rd Aniversary Hardtaste rave ( Mad.). With dj Super, dj Karma, J.S.Lop, Sono...
-Locomotion (Toledo). With dj Groove Maker
-Hardtaste rave nochevieja(Mad.). With dj Sinuhé, Beltrán ( Nostromo ), Jimmy Jazz...
- Substuff session on Radio 3, Zona 3, Sonia Briz.

- 2002-Andrés Criado left the techno and began his career as Gauss Control ( www.tech-house.org ). Alberto Polo ( a friend of Mike Turned ) came into SubstuffSomething was changing in this last years, Substuff was a techno-house group and it becamed on a hardtechno live-act, Andrés Criado was quiet hungry with this and left the group. Mike Turned left www.tonytechno.com, when he got into the web had 200 visitors by day, in 2002 they were over 2000!. He gets into www.technofutura.com, but only for three months...

-Hit ( Mad .) With dj Makoki and dj Ernie
- ritmo y compás (Mad.)-Flow club
-3rd Aniversary colectivo Hybernia ( Almería )-Valentino Kanzyani, Steve Rachmand, Ñito.
-Aniversary Metro Dance club ( Alicante).- Christian Smith, Steve Rachmand, David Bordalás, José Rives...
-R02 ( Mad.) – Bernardo (Strong Records), Junior ( Industrial Copera ),Time-live ( Cocoon)...and over 31 artists in the rave-festival. Over 5000 persons!
Substuff session in “Terapia Techno”, at Dance FM-98.1 FM-Hardtaste ( Ciudad Real)
- Muerto ( SCSI ), Wavesound ( Recycled ), Sono...
-R2 ( Ponferrada )- Toni Llamas ( Xplosive DJs) , Killer Mixer, THEA (live), Ufo.
-La Estrella ( León )-Dj Gus.
-Aniversario Cloned ( Burgos )- Gennaro Le Fosse, Fat Freddy,Nelson.
-Surface ( Pinto )- Pelacha, Nuke, Sergey, Javier de la Calle.
-Zoreks ( Lleida )- With Terimjul´s.
-Dark Night ( Móstoles )- Raymond and José Vélez. Colectivo Newcomer.
-Orbital ( Camarena, Toledo )- Groove Maker y Makoki.
-Naru ( Mad.)- Keyto, Moya (live), Plagiarism is art (live).

- 2003- Mike Turned lefts Madrid and went to a town far from Madrid to live, his bored, in the last three years most of the music of Substuff is from him, it´s so difficult to be a group if you are alone in the composition...

-Spunny Bar @ Piu ( Sabadell, Barcelona )- With dj David Bordalás and Iñaki ( Piu )
-Naru ( Mad. )- dj UFO ( Minimal-Zoreks ), Nelson Navarro ( Cloned ), Keyto ,Ernie.
-R03 ( Mad )- Keyto, Exium (live) , LÖN, Bernardo (Strong Records), Oscar Kroma...
-Aniversary of Orbital Club ( Toledo ) Oliver Ho
-two Substuff ´s sessions at MQM Dance (Madrid)-96.7 FM.- FOC festival ( Castellón ), with Luke Slater, Der Dritte Raum...

- He began his alone proyect under Mike Turned name or Professional Zero. As Professional Zero www.ckwlive.net (Belgium) selected him as “featured” artist, and release one of his famous live act sessions “Live at Benecid”, the same session was released in www.offtechno.com

2004- He found with dj Edu the HAM collective, they made a white label (ham recordings) and a lot of parties together...the famously “Live at Benecid” ( a little town in Sierra Nevada, in the mountains )

-"Hardtechno a muerte 01" with dj Ñito and EDU (Hÿbernia).
- Fluid club (Murcia), with resident djs
-Live at BENECID (HAM02), 24-12-2003 with dj Mácula
-Live at BENECID (HAM03), with dj Lón ,USA, and EDU
-La Energía (Granada), with Agustín Z and more djs.
-HAM 04 rave, with EDU, Antuan and Nito
-HAM 05 afterhours (Alm), Edu, Antuan.

2005- Mike Turned returns to Madrid to finish his studies for lawyer, and came back as SUBSTUFF again. First, he appears with Diferencias EP as Mike Turned / label: offaudio netlabel. Later, he made a few full-power live acts, and now he has released his last session “LNER 2909” in Zerinnerung label (germany), with over 800 downloads in four weeks!

-Open Air Festival (Burgos), with Dessben (offaudio), Jaito-live act, Fatfredy, Fleky...
-PPS (Burgos), with Fleky, Jaito, Jairo...
-He was on the radio “Loca Fm”, in the program of dj Nuke, “Cultura techno”
-Substuff session in "Cultura Techno" (Loca FM).
-CODE-FABRIK 015, with dj Obi, Amok,... Main Room: Marco Carola, Umek, Cesar Almena, Nuke // Zona Hard-Tech: Exium (live act), Jesus del Campo, Olivier Giacomotto // Zona Xtreme-Tech (Schranz, Acid & Hardtechno): Dj Amok, OBI, Dj Willy, Substuff - Live act.