House Shoes (producer)

DJ House Shoes
Birth name	Michael Buchanan
Also known as	HouseShoes Smokey The Cat
Born	Lathrup Village, Michigan, US
Origin	Los Angeles, California, US
Genres	Midwest hip hop underground hip hop
Occupation(s)	Producer DJ
Years active	1994–present
Labels	House Shoes Recordings Tres Records Fat Beats Street Corner Music
Associated acts	Slum Village Phat Kat Fat Killahz Flying Lotus Quelle Chris Chanes
Website	Houseshoes Twitter

Michael Buchanan, better known as House Shoes, is an American Detroit-born hip hop producer and DJ, who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He served as a producer on albums by Phat Kat, Proof, Elzhi, Pumpkinhead, Marv Won, J Dilla, Danny Brown, and Quelle Chris among others. He's a two-time Detroit Music Awards winner for Outstanding Hip-Hop DJ (in 2005 and 2006).

Buchanan grew up in Lathrup Village. He went to Southfield-Lathrup High School and Eastern Michigan University.

He was a resident deejay at the hip hop staple St. Andrews Hall from 1994–2004. He worked at a number of record stores, including Melodies & Memories, Street Corner Music and later also worked as a manager for Fat Beats.

As a DJ, Buchanan has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe with artists Guilty Simpson, Illa J, Exile, Aloe Blacc, Percee P, Phat Kat, Slum Village and Elzhi, to name a few, as well as on his own. But he has garnered the respect of acts far outside the scope of Detroit hip-hop. Most recently, Buchanan performed as tour DJ on Mayer Hawthorne & The County's Spring 2010 16-city headlining tour.

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