Mike Monday

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Hello – I’m Mike Monday.

No, it’s not my real name – the name I was born with doesn’t trip off the tongue so easy. (Unless of course you happen to be fluent in Sanskrit – an ancient version of Bengali. I’m half Indian believe it or not.)

The name I came into this wonderful world with is Michael Avik Mukhopadhyay. But yes, of course – you can call me Mike Monday. 🙂

If you’re into electronic music you might have some of my old tunes knocking around on a cd or vinyl somewhere. If you haven’t got any of them (which is much more likely), after studying music at Oxford University I was an electronic music producer and DJ of some repute from 1994 to 2010.

Now I’ve produced more music than most. In the 17 years I was in the game I had well over 300 tracks commercially released, most of them on vinyl. in many different genres. I was also lucky enough to have performed to tens of thousands of people in over 20 countries.

But when I wrote and played music- my “inspiration” was sporadic and I thought it came along randomly.

But when it did, WOW!

The music just flowed through me. It didn’t seem like work, it was almost completely effortless. Time stood still (I’d even forget to eat and sleep) and what I created was so good compared to my usual stuff that I wasn’t even sure it was me!

(Sometimes I’d even have to check with someone else that I hadn’t accidentally copied something I’d remembered from somewhere else.)

Anyway, you know what it’s like when that happens. You do more in a day than in a month and the music is INCREDIBLE.

So as time went on I got increasingly obsessed with what made the difference between “inspired Mike” and “stuck Mike”. How could the same person who’d knocked out a tune so easily one day be procrastinating, fearful and dithering the next?

Same guy – totally different results.

And I started noticing certain patterns and strategies in my thought, words and actions that seemed to make a difference. But I still couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

Then, about a year ago I discovered a methodology that fitted and expanded upon what I had noticed in myself. There were certain things that I was doing when inspired, loving it and hyper-productive, and not doing when bored, struggling and stuck.

I tried these techniques on myself and it worked like a dream. I then started trying it on others and it did the same.

When I realised this, I knew I had to bring it to other musicians who wanted to get into that flow state on demand. The stuff I’ve learnt has made such a difference in my life that I felt it was my responsibility to help others.

But I wasn’t sure quite how to do it or how it would be received. My natural urge was to stay in my “safe” studio writing my tunes. But when I thought of how powerful these techniques are, I just knew I couldn’t keep it to myself.

So even though it wasn’t an easy decision, my life has taken an unexpected turn. I emigrated to Sydney, Australia from the UK (another unforeseen by-product of my discovery) in 2011 and I’m now coaching musicians to achieve this state of effortless inspiration more readily and easily with some spectacular results.

Now if you’re interested in getting similar results you’re in luck. While I do keep my family fed and watered through my paid programs, I also give back to the universe by creating a load of free shizz.

Best next step for you is to start with this post which solves a problem 99% of the music producers I’ve worked with have had at some point. Including me!

How can I help you?

Claude VonStroke (Dirty Bird, USA)

Mike Monday’s process has helped me enormously. I have two record labels, a heavy touring schedule, a wife and two children, and a music production career all running in tandem. There are times when it seems unmanageable and i get lost in a downward spiral that limits my effectiveness as a leader and my ability to be creative in the studio.

Whenever i have a session with Mike we talk it all out and a sense of calm comes over me. i get back to basics and work out all the things in my head that need to get worked out. His process is both calming and therapeutic.

I would also like to add that the additional fact that Mike is a music producer himself and a veteran DJ lends itself to an extra level of trust. I don’t think i would take advice or listen to someone in the same way who was from outside the music industry. In an nutshell I find Mike Monday’s process to be an extremely valuable way to organize and free my chaotic brain to do what it is supposed to be doing.

Johnson Peterson (Yolanda Be Cool)

“I found the time with Mike to be extremely beneficial. His process opened me up to ideas that, even where obvious, I had overlooked or forgotten and I am looking forward to taking them with me to the studio. It was definitely worth it.”

Janelle Palmer (Tutukaka Coast, New Zealand)

“What your course has done for me has been remarkable and I really feel so grateful to you…

Radical is a good word for it! The most unexpected thing I’ve found about the course is the impact it has had on other areas of my life – I was quite surprised about that…

These are definitely transferable skills we are learning here!”

– Janelle Palmer (Tutukaka Coast, New Zealand)

Brett Adams (Los Angeles, California)

“I already think this is one of the greatest decisions I’ve made, and we haven’t even started the curriculum yet.”

Vernon McCarthy (Wellington, New Zealand)

“I just felt inspired to send you a really quick message to say hello and let you know that I am going great guns at the moment.

Managing to get a average of two hours every day producing. This is a huge turn around for me and am loving it. It hasn’t been easy though but I have kept at it.

And much of it has been due to the help and inspiration from yourself, the group and me now actually putting in the work. The online community is such a good thing. Everytime I have gone to have a look I have found something relevant to my thoughts and that has helped me.”

Joe Roberts (London, UK)

“Mike has helped me to start living the truism that it’s not what you use to make music, it’s your ideas.

Those ideas only mean anything when you start putting them down though and that’s what this course has already helped me to start do regularly.

I’ve made more headway in two weeks than I’d managed in a couple of years on my own starting projects, then giving up and starting something new but never seeing them through till completion.”

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