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** Finding a
love for house music at an early age, Matt Masters began a work experience
placement at
Freerange Records
in 2004 and spent his first season in Ibiza as resident DJ for Kinky
Malinki, Pukka Up and SunSea Bar. During the season he
appeared at many venues including Privilege, El Divino and Es
Paradis. Matt was invited to join the Freerange team permanently
that year and the label and its artists have played a fundamental part in his
musical influences and ambitions.
Matt has
played alongside Switch, Hipp-E, , Milton Jackson Jimpster,
Palmskin, Mike Monday, Nacho Marco, Fish Go Deep, Kirk
Degiorgio and Shur-I-Kan at the London Freerange Records label
parties. He has also appeared at the Sonar Music Festival in Barcelona
and the Garden Festival in Croatia. He has also enjoyed a Freerange
Records residency at AKA, London and is currently helping to find a
new home for the monthly Freerange night.
In addition to
his DJ gigs Matt hosts the bi weekly Freerange Records radioshow
with Jimpster and guests so far have included Diesel (X-Press 2),
Roberto Rodriguez, Pezzner, Mike Monday, Fred Everything, Brett Johnson,
Nacho Marco, Solomun, Shur-I-Kan, Simbad, Shimiko, Palmskin Productions, Manuel
Tur, Gorge, Brothers Vibe, Andre Lodemann,
Salvatore Freda,
Tony Lionni
and Milton Jackson with nearly 11,000 downloads per week on the
podcast. This show is syndicated worldwide on various radio stations including
Ibiza Sonica 95.2FM (Ibiza), SS Radio (UK), Club FM (Macedonia), Future Beat
(UK), Proton Radio (USA), Lush Radio (Dubai),
Dinamo FM (Turkey) & Pulse Radio
(Australia).
He also recorded a Freerange Records Mix Compilation back in 2005 with
tracks entirely from the Freerange Records catalogue – all the previous
Podcasts and Mix compilation can be downloaded from the I-Tunes music
store.
March 2007 saw the release of Brett Johnson’s ‘Life in the
Emerald City’ EP which featured Matt’s debut remix – a digital exclusive of
‘WeR1’. Matt’s 2nd remix for Freerange was a
re-work of Jimpster’s ‘A Love Like This’ and received airplay on
Pete Tong’s Essential Selection on Radio 1 when Groove Armada
filled in for Pete. The 3rd for Freerange which is due out soon
is Pezzner’s ‘Other Lover’ so look out for that. In addition to
this Matt has also remixed for Nacho Marco’s ‘Crash Test’ on Pacha
Records, for Timo Garcia’s ‘Hang Loose’ on Berwick Street Records,
for Corregated Tunnel’s ‘2nd Thoughts’ on Urbantorque,
Harold Heath’s ‘Mercury Blues’ on Elevation Records,
Steve Mill’s ’Mind Games’
on Deepology, Greg Mak’s ‘House Of Soul’
on Endemic,
Harnessnoise’s ‘Rusty James’ on Influential House, Onionz’s ‘Space Bass’
on Endemic, Celestial’s ‘Shake Up’ on 2 Pin, Handle With Care’s
‘All Night Long’ on Justified Cause, Claes Rosen’s ‘I Want’ on
Brown Eyed Boyz and Dirty Vegas’s ‘Tonight’ on Mark Knight’s
Toolroom
Records
(see below for
more details).
A collaboration
with Paddy Freeform is due for release through his Universal Vibes
label soon, which will include 2 original tracks as yet untitled. Matt also
works with Mr Cenzo under their MidiDropMusic guise on various
EP’s. The first of which was signed to Guess Records entitled
‘Movement EP’ and kept the number 1 spot on Juno Download for 2 weeks
and the Joints From The Lab EP on Glideslope Records reached
number 2 on the Beatport Deep House Chart. The ‘Freshly Cooked EP’
on Loudeast Records was released in January 2009 with Chubby Dubz
on remix duties. Matt and Cenzo have also worked on remixes for
Adjust Records, 303 Lovers, Plastic City, TriCircle, Dutchie, Glideslope,
Brown Eyed Boyz & one for Jay-J on his Shifted Music Label.
They are
currently having success on their 4th EP with Sebastian Davidson
on 54 Music which is currently in the Traxsource top 20 Deep House
Chart. Forthcoming EP’s include A Better Taste on Sophisticate and
Side Of Right on Acryl.
Matt had recent
success with his solo release, ‘Deep or What’, through Pack Up
And Dance with Milton Jackson & soul Minority on remix duties
which reached number 2 on the Beatport deep house download chart and stayed
there for several weeks. This track was also featured on Mark Knights
Toolroom Knights 2.0 Compilation. In addition to this he also has had a
digital release of the ‘Walk the Walk EP’ which includes
‘Rolling’ and ‘Walk the Walk’ through Urbantorque
Records. This was released in November 07 and getting big support from the
likes of Jimpster, Nacho Marco, James Mowbray, Murray Richardson, Mazi, Alex
Parsons & Steve Mill to name but a few and also scored 4/ 5 in Mixmag
Magazine UK.
Freerange Records Radioshow Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters
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