DJ Lion is among those people, who always aim at perfection in their music. Its not a surprise for anybody, that no matter on what he works his own production, remixes or DJ sets his sake of music gives him the strenth to perfect himself more and more.
Milich Jivorad was born in 1980. His hometown Pirot is a place, remote from the origins of the clubbing culture in former Yugoslavia.
The very first contact with the music for Milich is still in the childhood, when he started to play the piano.
At the age of 16-yearsold he set up house parties and soon he conquers the hearts of his friends, despite the electronic sound is barely known
in his homeland. His first engagement is like resident at club By Italy in Pirot, where he works till the time he finished highschool.
After he graduated school, Lion moves to Nish, where he continues his study. Investing most of his savings in equipment,
Milich doesnt give up his beloved work as a dj, and soon he wins a residency in the hottest clubs in Nish - SCENA, OPERA,GALLERY, ONE PLACE, IRISH PUB, ECLIPS, SORABI, NIGHT CLUB CHAIR.
The first big break for Lion comes with the work in the most popular clubs in the famous mountain resort Kapaonik - Bistro \\\"FAST FOOD\\\",
\\\"DOLLI BEL and Escape. With his tender age of 21 years Lion is already a DJ star.
His name appears frequently on flayers in Serbia, he mixes in the clubs - BASSMENT, CAVE, BUS, MONDO, ANDERGRAUND (where he is a resident at this moment), SOUND, BIZZARE in Belgrade, meanwhile he works as a DJ
on board ferrys, going downstream of Danube and Sava.
He is invited to mix in Novi Sad, Subotica, Leskovac, Pojarevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Negotin,
Smederevo,Zrenjanin, Krajevo, Kragujevac, Bor, Vranje and Pirot.
During one of his sojourns at the Adriatic Sea coast, Lion meets the best DJ in Montenegro Ljubo Chikich and collaborates with him.
Soon DJ Lion becomes a resident in the biggest summer festival in Montenegro - BOKESKA NOC.
He is introduced to the singer MC NIGGOR ex MONTENIGERS from Montenegro and they both founded their own band.
Lion participates in two of Niggors videos and his popularity grows.
Lion is invited to work at Fashion Week Belgrade 2005, where he makes music for two fashion-shows of Bata Spasoevich and Borjana Ilich.
He has worked with stars like - Timo Maas, Satoshi Tomiie, Gregory, Chab, Marshall Jefferson, J.D. Davis, Jon Silva, Pat Cue, Coco Silco,
Tony Thomas, Paul Jackson, Lottie, Jose De Divina, Haris, Robert G Roy.
Recognition for his exceptional talent are invitations to take part in promotions of JEGGERMEISTER, CAMEL WINTER TOUR 05,
as well as in promotional parties for TUBORG - LOUD and CLEAR in 2005/06. Lion is selected to be the brand DJ in Serbia for the brewery.
Milich is a promotional DJ in Serbia of the biggest music festival in the balkans EXIT FEST in Novi Sad.
After numerous visits to Bulgaria DJ Lion got acquainted with the manager of Relaxaors Booking Jovan Gligorov thanks to him once a month hes behind the tables at the clubs - Chervilo, Life House, Opera, Babbles, INFERNO, PLANET HOLLYWOOD, NL in Sofia.
He has a residency at club Plazma in Plovdiv, and in the summer he works at the hottest party places at the Black Sea coast - MANIA, CACAO BEACH and ELEPHANT in Sunny Beach, ALIBI and EXESS ex SHOCK - Bourgas, club COMICS Varna and MASAI Golden Sands.
In the winter Milich often visits the famous Bulgarian ski resort Bansko as a guest DJ at club AMNESIA.
Thanks to his successful sets at the biggest clubs in Bulgaria, Lion receives an invitation to mix a special compilation
for the Bulgaria telecommunications company GLOBUL, named \\\"B-Connect Beat\\\". He also appears as a brand face in the video \\\"Rhythm 35\\\",
which is promoting the CD compilation.
Meanwhile Lion entered LNP PRODUCTION and the electronic formation FULLBITE SESSION. The organization has released an album for the most
powerful label in Serbia - BK SOUND, and the biggest hit from the CD - \\\"MORNING AFTER\\\" is released as a single for the German label
SWEET-N-LOW for the first compilation CUET 001, introduced at MIAMI WINTER CONFERENCE 2005.
Two videos have been shot to two of the CD tracks, and the German music channel VIVA has broadcast one of them.
Later FULLBITE SESSION established their own label FULLBITE RECORDS, which released its first vinyl \\\"CHERVILO\\\" E.P. in 2005.
A great success for FULLBITE SESSION, in which DJ Lion has a direct participation, is the remix of the song \\\"MR. DJ\\\" of the Bulgarian singer
Svetla Ivanova. In 2005 the video to the remix was broadcasted two times in MTVs World Chart Express and in the show \\\"Klub\\\"
on the German Viva Plus.
In the begining of 2006 Lion, DJ Acim and DJ Pookie established the new electronic organization SELECTED - http://www.selecteddjs.com/,
but this isnt an obstacle for Milich to continue to work on co-productions with his friends from Fullbite Session.
The last project of Milich is DJ Lion E.P., which is the first issue from a special series U.S.B. (Underground Sound of Bulgaria).
It is a 12 done together with MILAN KROTIC (aka MIMI GONZALES, Dr. WATSON) and DUSAN JANJUSEVIC (aka.DULE).
This was released by the Bulgarian-German label Remixator Records USB 001 for SWEET-n-LOW http://www.sweet-n-low.de/; and in the end of March
has been introduced on \\\"MIAMI WINTER CONFERENCE 2006. DJ Lion E.P. contains four tracks, which feature the guest vocals of one of the most popular singers in Serbia MC NIGGOR ex Montenigers.
This E.P. is an _expression of the emotions, which the electronic artist felt during his
performances in the clubs not only in Bulgaria, but also in Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Italy ...
Two of the tracks Life House and Mania named after two of the best Bulgarian clubs, which show the big respect to their incredible
audience. The copyrights over Mania are bought by TUBORG and the song shall be included in the promotional compilation
TUBORG LOUD&CLEAR Vol. 2, mixed by DJ Acim.
The disc shall contain tracks, made by the best DJs and labels from the global progressive scene.
Another song from DJ Lion E.P. was used for a promotion, but this time in the world of fashion. Too many DJs was a theme of the young designer
Bojana Ilic\\\'s show on Fashion Week Belgrade 2006. During the show DJ Lion performed a live act.
Its interesting that except Serbian, Lion has a Bulgarian citizenship too. At this moment he is a successful young DJ,
as well as a student in Sound design in The Academy for music production in Belgrade. His discography contains his mixed discs
\\\"NIGHT BREEZE\\\"- parts I, II, III, IV... \\\"SUMMER MANIA\\\"- parts I, II and III and \\\"LION\\\'S FEELINGS\\\" I and II.
Track \\\"Mania\\\" was released on Tuborg Loud and Clear Vol.2 compilation Dj Lion & Mimi Gonzales are working on remix of John Silva\\\'s Higher
Dj Lion is official dj for TUBORG and EXIT music festival 2006 Dj Lion is selected to be one of resident DJ\\\'s in Bulgaria / Sunny Beach
in Club Mania for summer 2006 His unique style is a mixture of tech, tribal, progressive, electro, funky, deep, jazzy, vocal break beat house
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