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Michael Fate biography
From late-90s trance on B-Twelve Records to cinematic, orchestral soundtracks - more than 25 years of music.
Michael Fate is a self-taught Swiss musician, composer, producer and DJ, born in Neuchâtel in 1979. He started making music at the age of three and wrote his first melodies not long after. As a teenager he spent hours composing in his bedroom, drawn above all to the synthesizers and dance music of the 80s and 90s, but also to softer, lighter tunes.
The 90's
In 1997, at just 17, he released his first EP on B-Twelve Records (B-12), a label run by Royal Inc. Distribution in Switzerland.
That first record carried the track that made his name, « Chicken Acid », later reissued in several countries, alongside « After the Rain » and « Chill Out Man ». Three more tracks followed in 1998: « Vaccum Cleaner » and its remix, plus « Secret Dance ». The same year he remixed « Oceania » for the Italian DJ Gianni Parrini, and his track « The Thinker » turned up on a string of trance compilations. He was also playing out at the time, with live acts and DJ sets in clubs.
For a few years after that, Michael stepped back to focus on other things. He never put music down completely, though, and kept writing the soft, melancholic melodies he loved.
The 2000s
In 2010 he returned with « Revival », a minimal, progressive track. June 2011 brought « Angels Tears », a lovely symphonic piece, and that August came the trance-leaning « Someday ». More releases followed over the next few years, among them « Rebirth », « Sunny Rain », « Ira » and « Addiction » in 2016.
2017 saw « Deep Ocean », a deep, trancy electronic track, and at the end of that year « Fly Away », an orchestral soundtrack scored for piano, children's choir and a wide range of instruments.
In the same vein as « Fly Away », Michael Fate released « Marysia » at the end of 2020, a composition full of emotion, hope and tenderness. It was viewed more than 200,000 times on Facebook within a few months.
These days he keeps writing and producing, splitting his time between melodic electronic music and the cinematic, orchestral pieces that have become his signature. New work is always in progress, so there's more to come.
