"Master Mike was born and raised in San Francisco, where he grew up to the sounds of his uncles' record collections-- shelves and large boxes teeming with platters of '70s stuff, mostly funk. In 1984, at age 14, Mike met hip hop through the art of b-boying and, as he says in an imusic.com article, it captured his heart.

Originally a crew called F-M-2-O, that spent hours practicing turntable techniques, the Invisible Scratch Pickles popped onto the West Coast scene in the late '80s. The Bay Area-based turntablist click made up of Mike, Q-Bert, Shortkut, Apollo, Disk, and now Canadian teen sensation A-Track strays from conventional blends and cuts. They manipulate mixing hardware to create pure, original music.

The ISP were so dominant that they virtually owned global mixing competitions in the mid-90s. Mixmaster Mike set a record with four world titles in three years. In 92, he was NMS World Champion and DMC USA and World Champion (with Q-Bert and Apollo). In '93 and '94 Mike and Q-Bert again claimed DMC world crowns, forcing them to retire from all DMC competitions from '95...

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