Feel The Music by Michael Ortega is a Acid Jazz and Acid House album that features great musical artistry and impeccable production with futuristic sounds. Included with this high standards are vocals by Diva D'Layna Dixon, Eddie Hall, and Santana's lead vocalist Tony Lindsay. These tracks are upbeat and funky as well as interesting to listen to while chilling out or driving. Michael Ortega is not just a great musician, but a renaissance man when it comes to utilizing new technological concepts to enhance and develop the musical genius that resides in his mind. Chef Michael Ortega’s life changed after meeting Roy Ayers during his 1976 tour. After that encounter, Michael began playing the vibes. Not only did Roy mentor Michael, but he assisted him in purchasing his first vibraphone. Michael wanted to play well…and he wanted to be heard! Amplification was the key. Michael was handed his wish with the development of MIDI, and leveraged the era of computer music dominated composition. Since then, Michael has been on the cutting edge of music technology by beta testing for musical hardware and software companies including, Yamaha, Roland, Voyetra, Opcode, Digidesign, Music Quest, Kinda Loud and Universal Audio. In 1978, while he was helping in the design of wave-based synthesizers and interfaces for acoustic instruments with Digital Synthesizer and Gray Labs Research Inc., Michael began writing and producing. After developing a huge library of custom designed sounds, he would use these sounds in the production of songs and jingles. As one of the first to use MIDI and "Virtual Recording," Michael continued to be on the forefront of computer software and hardware technology for music. He would also lend his knowledge to multiple user support groups such as the DAW-Mac, DAW-PC, Motu-Mac, Opcode and the Spectrasonics support group. During the marketing of computer music technology, Michael befriended many legendary jazz musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Grover Washington Jr., Joe Sample, Wayne Shorter, Kenny G., George Duke, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Jimmy and Percy Heath and Tom Schuman. "My intention was to explore electronics and jazz using synthesizers blended with real instruments, such as vibes and sax, to create an interesting composite of funky techno jazz.  Another area I would like to showcase in the future is adding rappers to that mix. I have a couple of tracks ready to go, so I'm interested in collaborating.  I'm also interested in the combination of world and electronic instruments because the blend has such a rich contrast.  You might be hearing something of that nature from me, as well. I enjoy all types of urban music from Hip-hop to Techno to Dub-Step and you certainly can get a sense of those influences in this album." Having produced other artists for decades it was until 2002 that Michael Ortega became a solo artist. With this 4th album Michael Ortega is once again leading the way for us to enter the 21st Century.