Mike McGill’s emergence on the music scene marks a reverse entry of sorts. Initially delving into the output of disco-house records from the early ‘00s, he soon traced the lineage back to its source. After a first listen to Cloud One’s Atmosphere Strutt, he felt a yearning to find context for this music. Mike hooked up with Environ Records, the seminal second-generation disco/boogie label based in NY to continue a self-carved path of musical education. In 2007, Mike developed the weekly radio program A Downtown Affair, New York’s only remaining FM broadcast dedicated to unearthing disco and boogie music after the void left by KISS FM; at once both an homage to NY pre-internet radio culture and outlet for a healthy obsession. A Downtown Affair straddles an interesting space; preserving the vibe that once defined a city, while concurrently bringing that music to a younger generation in an altered context. Along with Tackleberry, Mike produced the successful Serious Business night in Brooklyn playing overtly intimate boogie records, and turning people on to the sound of adult contemporary. Mike’s program of music is defined by a playful sensibility, interlacing the veneer of early ‘80s boogie/R&B productions and Zanzibar relics with bona fide D.I.S.C.O. - always honest and sometimes deep, creating the vibe that feel good music should.