This Thursday at 12pm est The Lost Art is excited to be welcoming a brand new show, Turnstyle Sessions with Dj Mike Soden And Friends, to our weekly schedule!

Sharing stages with legends Lil Wayne, Run DMC, Korn, Edwin Mc Cain, Snoop Dogg , Ice Cube , Josh Wink, Sugar Hill Gang , Rob Base, Lil Jon, Juvenile & many more gives Mike Soden quite a vast performance repertoire. After getting his first big “start” with dearly departed, Ed Lebrun, in 1995 he became a resident at “Babylon’s First Friday . Shortly after gaining an NC buzz, he joined up with Faust & Shortee (Spacekadets Collective) in 1996 along with doing regional Lollapalooza appearances and also Mardi Gras in 1997. Dj Soden has played all over the Southeast and has tagged with the likes of Hipp-E, Brownie and Donald Glaude (with whom he did numerous mixtapes).

Dj Soden has also yielded releases on Citrus Records/Electric Mayhem 97 (alongside Roby Dail and Roach) and Beats Vol.1 for Higher Clouds (’98). He also appears in the DVD video called Riffage Movie Madness with his track “Chillin Tip Time”, which was distributed in SPIN magazine (October 2001). He has Djed for a heavy metal band (Gruv Union in 2002) and also received best Dj in a band at battle of the bands.

In 2005 Dj Soden started working for Scratch Academy Djing teaching children how to Dj. In 2007 Dj Soden won the Charlotte Burger King mixoff , in  2008 he won Cans Of Charlotte Battle Of The Dj and in December of 2009 received Best Club Dj Award from The Charlotte Music Awards. 

Dj Sodens special guest this week is old school jungle Dj ODI ! Djing since 1989, ODI has been pleasing crowds over the years with his live performances as well productions. ODI is credited with creating the genre hipstep aka jump up or jump step. DJ ODI has played many shows and festivals throughout his long career and of course being the King Of Jungle in NYC , still plays at the infamous Konkrete Jungle.

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