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Artist
Blend Mishkin
12+ albums
dancehallAll
about
Having spent most of his professional music career behind a computer screen, a mixing desk or a pair of turntables, the Athens based musician, producer and DJ has been putting in work since the mid-90s in seminal labels such as Nice Up!, True Thoughts, Cookin Records, Good Looking, Pork Recordings, Shadow Records and Instinct Records. Blend Mishkin (aka Giorgos Mantas) began playing the electric bass at 15 and a few years later landed his first record deal with his band Bella Union. In 1995 he set up his first home studio consisting of an Atari computer and a master keyboard from where he recorded his first tracks, later to be released as the Spectro album. His work started to get signed and by 2004 he had produced four albums under the artist name Blend, one of them for Shadow Records (USA) and one for Seirios (GR), the label of the late great Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. In 2006 he co-founds Cast-a-Blast, an artist collective and independent record label, home for artists such as Larry Gus and Sugahspank! as well as his own Palov and Mishkin project, an innovative at the time fusion of Cumbia and electronic rhythms, which landed releases with labels such as Tru Thoughts, Gamm and Resence. In 2011 he shifts his focus to producing reggae and bass music, and by 2020 has released multiple albums and has composed and produced music for internationally renowned artists such as Tippa Irie, Screetchie Dan, Jamalski, Gappy Ranks, Skarra Mucci and Carlton Livingston to n
