Who is MIDIhead?

Michael (MIDIhead) Babbitt is a Los Angeles-based electronic music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and DJ. He also designs sounds for use in music and media. From the age of 8, he knew what he wanted to do. It was then that he first recognized music’s cognitive and spiritual power, and envisioned a day where he would create it. At the age of 14 he began his musical endeavors as a DJ for a local radio station by day, and as a mobile DJ by night after finding professionals willing to train him on these crafts. By age 18 he was spinning vinyl at a popular local night club in his home town. But spinning other people’s music wasn’t his dream, so he fronted a band that eventually led him to perform for thousands.

Michael was awarded “Best Album of 2001” for his debut solo album “Power Undiminished” at The American Synthpop Awards in Hollywood. It was front man Kurt Harland from the 80’s band Information Society who presented him with the award. After moving to Los Angeles, Michael shifted his role in music production to focus on media. His first track was heard in Fox’s “Dark Angel”, followed by landing a “Matrix Reloaded” movie trailer which opened up the floodgates for other television shows such as “Access Hollywood”, “Dexter”, “CSI” series, “America’s Next Top Model”, and “Prison Break”, among others. His high energy remixes and original music has also been featured in Konami’s popular Dance, Dance, Revolution video game series.

Michael has recorded with artists Shane Gibson (Korn), Peter DiStefano (Porno For Pyros), and done projects with Grammy nominated DJ: Kaskade, as well as Kaskade’s  friends: Late Night Alumni. Responsible for jump-starting the advent of officially-blessed, 3rd-party patch collections for Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Michael has collaborated with popular social media influencer Reverb Machine, dance music remix legend J. Scott G. and  Grammy Award-Winning dance music pioneer BT on patches, and has  produced several libraries for the über-popular software synthesizer distributed exclusively by ILIO. Most recently, MIDIhead has added new, exclusive Omnisphere 3 patches that are only available in the ILIO Patch Sampler, which you can download for free: HERE

Michael’s work has received critical acclaim from industry professionals and hit-making artists, songwriters, and producers. He continues to be an advocating force for good in the music industry.