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Matt discovered house music in the early 90's after years of experimenting dj'ing various styles. Castle Morton free festival was a turning point, where dj's Digs & Woosh and Simon DK of the infamous DIY sound systems opened Matt's ears to the sounds of deep and electronic house music from such classic labels as Strictly Rhythm, Bottom Line and Nu-Groove. Matt moved to the midlands to study fine art years later, where with a few comrades started the Inside Out Sound system, throwing parties most weekends for many years, as well as several residencies and guest slots in just about every club in the region. In the late 90's Matt moved south to Brighton and became resident at Fluid Groove, one of Brighton's longest running house music club nights, it was here that he had the opportunity to DJ with such legends as Joshua, Charles Webster, DJ Rasoul, DIY, Jef-K and Atjazz to name a few. It was also around this time that he set up Audio Lounge, a small specialist record store as a reaction to the lack of record shops in the area selling house music vinyl. As we moved into the 2000's things changed in Brighton's club scene, clubs became harder to fill and the music just became more bland, at this time Matt sacrificed all he had built to concentrate on deeper, more musical house sounds, in effect going full circle back to the days of listening to classic NY house and the Chicago house sound. This movement also made Matt turn to production, teaming up with Dom Thompson and Jon Gray to become part of BitterSuite, during which dj'ing took a back seat. After a few years of learning the ropes BitterSuite then started collaborating with fellow West Country house heads BRS and The Rurals, and a string of remixes then followed on the Digi-Peng label (as well as one off remixes for Friends & Families and Flat and Round). This production relationship is strong to this day, with many more Rurals/ BRS collaborations to come! In 2006 Matt set up DeepSystems, a 2 weekly radio show on the newly created www.fearofmusicradio.com, with the mission of opening peoples ears to the deeper sides of house music in Brighton and trying to represent the house sound that wasn’t being represented in any of the clubs (still to this day) among a sea of trendy electro house/ funky/ dirty house blah blah club nights. In conjunction to the radio show a string of underground parties followed where Matt hooked up with legends like Boo Williams and DJ Deep, booking out small private venues as opposed to clubs, with superior sound and music quality. To this day Matt is still working hard on music projects and Deepsystems events, still pushing what he feels is the original deep house sound. You can also find Matt propping up the counter at Hedonizm Records where he works, Brighton’s only underground dance music specialist store.