Mike Shannon has been played on NTS shows including Trevor Jackson , with Made In Belgrade first played on 10 February 2013.

Michael Shannon is a Seattle based musician/performer active since 1979 who has worked with groups in San Francisco such as Plateau Ensemble, Lethal Gospel, < < < (pronounced 'ku ku ku'), Aquarium Music, Joyo, Kahunas, Earnerve, Blue World, Appliances, Wish Radio, Broken Mask, Trigram and in Seattle with the Animist Orchestra, Aono Jikken Ensemble in addition to producing solo material. He has also composed for and worked as a sound designer for a number of Seattle-based modern dance choreographers. His solo work has been released as a series of cassettes by Joy Street Studios (his own label), and many cassette/CD compilations around the world, he is featured on the CDs, 'Meander' by Blue World, and 'Coincidentiae Mirabiles' with Jeph Jerman, Dave Knott, Susie Kozawa, and Miroslaw Rajkowski, as well as releasing a solo LP 'Laguz' on Anomalous Records and many others. His work involves improvised interactions of East Asian, North African, Middle Eastern, and western instruments, with tape, field recordings and electronics, that result in unique compositions of quiet, stately beauty. X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X::X:X:X Raised in Kitchener Ontario, Shannon began mixing records at the age of fifteen, with extrapolations of acid house and techno, before branching off to other elements of the electronic genre. Shannon founded Pulse Productions.

His debutalbum Memory Tree on Plus 8 records was his international break through