Moving and shaking dance floors up and down the eastern coast of the United States, veteran DJ Mike Hoska has a relentless passion for pushing boundaries. Starting at the age of nine, his love for electronic music was born when he witnessed the historic event of Herbie Hancock and DXT's live performance of "Rockit" on television. He was given his first synthesizer as a birthday present and immediately began experimenting with it, becoming somewhat of an experimentalist of audio collage. By age 13, after creating hundreds of pause tapes and learning the riffs and melodies to several songs by Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, Mike received his first set of turntables and mixer. From this beginning, he went on to emulate the Miami bass and freestyle DJ's as well as the scratch DJ's heard in hip-hop. He would record the South Florida radio stations' mix programs that lasted sometimes 6 hours and featured local and national DJ's on 6 turntables, learning the names of artists who would go on to develop quite successful careers.

Practicing scratch patterns and perfecting his mixing abilities paved the way for Mike to develop his own unique style and master his craft. After deejaying several B-boy competitions in the South Florida area, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he would deejay for several local hip-hop groups and win many DJ battles.
Simultaneously rediscovering his love for dance music and electronica, Mike entered the rave scene before he finished high school, bussing himself up and down the east coast secretly to hear and meet the producers and DJ's he admired. Few opportunities arose to play, but when they did, he always impressed. Being the dance DJ for practically every high school in the North Shore area of Massachusetts, he saw an opportunity to expose people to music that they would probably never get to hear otherwise.

In 2001, Mike moved to Providence Rhode Island, where he was immediately welcomed by the local arts and music scene. His friends at the art space AS220 plugged him into all the right venues and introduced him to all the right musicians to satisfy his creative urges. Working with guitarists, drummers, and avant-garde noise artists, he was able to tour quite a bit with his new friends. In the summer of 2002, he met Todd Hanna and Phil Jacob of DJ duo Groovefire at the Mambo/Rhino bar in Newport RI, and was asked to join the group. Throwing weekly parties throughout New England, and touring sporadically in Central America and Canada, became a lifestyle for the next few years while Mike built up a proper studio, which allowed him to produce 3 tracks under the trio's name. These releases are currently signed to Sander Kleinenberg's Little Mountain Recordings of Holland, Release Grooves of Toronto, and Unsound Logic in NYC. They've been charted by the biggest names in the industry and are currently on heavy rotation in the playlists of Sander Kleinenberg, Plump DJ's, Chris Fortier and Lee Burridge, to name just a few.

Aside from working and collaborating on nights with other DJ's and entertainment agencies, Groovefire has seen a lot of action at the Miami Winter Music Conference, playing alongside such DJ's as Steve Porter, D:Fuse, Charles Feelgood, Nigel Richards and Dirty Vegas, and performing as "resident DJ's" for 3 years running at the posh South Beach nightclub Tantra. They have also lit up at least 5 other venues per conference. Most recently, the Groovefire track “Earthquake”, originally released as a single with a Dan Sanders remix on the Little Mountain label , has been included on an internationally distributed compilation by DJ’s Lee Burridge and Sander Kleinenberg.

Throughout this time, Hoska has maintained a base in Providence where he often graces local venues with his skills, turning the heads of provincials and jaded Ivy-Leaguers alike. He is also a demo DJ for Numark Industries, for whom he travels around the country displaying his virtuosic abilities while showing off their cutting-edge equipment. Somewhere amidst all this activity he has found time to join forces with <tfo>, for whom he functions as live mixmaster, scratcher, and all-around alchemist.

Possibly even more impressive than his abilities in a live setting are Hoska's gifts in the studio. With over 25 productions to his credit, there is no slowing down. He continues to melt musical styles and arrangements, cutting and scratching flawlessly like a jazz improviser to create wild new hybrids of music in a digital and analog environment.