Name Michael Buchanan | Role Record producer | |
Albums Let It Go, The Gift: Volume Seven Similar People Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Elzhi, Nottz, Oh No Profiles | ||
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Michael "HouseShoes" Buchanan is an American hip hop producer and DJ who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. As Detroit's Hip-Hop Ambassador to the World, Buchanan has been an integral part of the long burgeoning Motown resurgence.
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His production is on I Miss the Hip Hop Shop by Proof and Witness My Growth by Elzhi. His debut album, the House Shoes Collection contained contributions from Phat Kat, Guilty Simpson and King Gordy. He has also worked as a manager for hip-hop record store Fat Beats.
Career
Buchanan, a resident DJ at the hip-hop staple St. Andrews Hall from 1994–2004 has had personal influence over many emcees, producers, and then-future DJs.
As a DJ, Buchanan has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe with artists Guilty Simpson, Illa J, Exile, Aloe Blacc, Percee P, Phat Kat, Slum Village and Elzhi, to name a few, as well as on his own. But he has garnered the respect of acts far outside the scope of Detroit hip-hop. Most recently, Buchanan performed as tour DJ on Mayer Hawthorne & The County's Spring 2010 16-city headlining tour.
His House Shoes Recordings has pressed the Jay Dee Unreleased EP (1996), Phat Kat's Dedication to the Suckers 12" (1999), I Got Next (2CD – 2004), and HouseShoes Loungin' Volume One-Live at The Buddha (2004). The King James Version Vol. 1 (2008), his tribute to the late James "Jay Dee" aka "J Dilla" Yancey has sold well independently and received rave reviews. Two self-produced 10" limited vinyl issues have also been released this year on Do-Over Records and All-City Records, respectively. Buchanan has moved over 25,000 units of these titles.
Discography
Songs
Empire / Get Down
Fired Up
So Different / Moody
Castles / My Brother
Sweet / Quelle
Goodfellas to Bad Boys / Dank
Trouble / Royce
The Makings
Cry Now
Roller Coaster
Let It Go
Sunrise / Love
Nails / Broken
Everything / Without You
Last Breath / Mayer & Shoes
Dirt / Jeedo
Time / Hex
Keep On / Helluva
Crazy / Bahbahbahbah
Empire
Trauma Unit [Fuzz Scoota]
Stroll [Elzhi]
Victory
Slaves [Quelle/Roc Marciano]
Nosebleeds/ MTFO [Danny Brown/ Quelle]
Let It Bang [Moe Dirdee]
Energy
Biggie
Remember When [MarvWon]
Scattered Pictures [Elzhi]
Fired Up!
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