Michal Smetana aka Slater started his DJ carrier in the late 90's, during the big boom of dance music in Prague. At the beginning of 2001 he decided to establish a new crew with the objective of organizing own electronic music events - this was the beginnings of the Tribal Vision collective.
Tribal Vision has been slowly getting engaged in more and more music-related activities, focusing mainly on a new wave of progressive and minimal sound. In 2004 Slater started to work on the first Czech progressive label and by the end of the year, Tribal Vision Records was born and slowly establishing itself as one of the leading labels on the progressive scene. Up to this day Slater is working as the label's head manager, A&R and representative DJ.
Slater has already compiled more than 15 CDs for various labels, both mixed and unmixed, including famous Tribal Visionīs Lime Light trilogy, Street Art and Trash Art, highly acclaimed Vanguard and Cabaret compilations, Electronic Ladyland double cd on Millenium Records UK, Candy Blues for Portuguese magazine Goagadar etc. As a creative director of the label he is to be found behind the album releases of artists such as Brisker & Magitman, Vibrasphere, Tegma or Fitalic and countless 12"s, digital singles and EPs.
Nowadays DJ Slater is playing a unique fusion of progressive house beats, electro, techno and prog trance music, always including a lot of fresh new stuff from label related artists. He has already performed at plenty of parties and festivals across the globe, held in almost all the European countries from Portugal to Russia as well as oversea locations such as Japan, Canada, Australia, China, Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia or South America. You could already heard his set at huge international festivals such as Fusion (DE), Voov Experience / VuuV (DE), Soulclipse (TR), Antaris Project (DE), Ozora (HU), Akasha (AUS), Antiworld (UK), Spirit Base (AT), Atmosphere (CH) or Fullmoon (DE) as well as prestigious clubs like Ambasada Gavioli (Izola), Paramount and Absolute House (Shanghai), Cube (Tokyo), Republic (Salzburg), Distillery (Leipzig), Roxy (Prague) and many others.
Besides that, Slater is constantly promoting progressive music in the Czech Republic and co-organizing parties, festivals and label nights. Recently he has been working also on his own production with several releases and remixes scheduled for the next months.
Played in countries so far: Japan, Canada, Australia, China, Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, Switzerland, Russian Federation, Portugal, Sweden, France, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Serbia, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland, Spain, Tunisia, Chile, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovakia, Czech Republic...
