Denis Matenda was born in Sweden by Croatian parents. Already at school, he started to fiddle around with keyboards and played in a band.
Once finishing his military service, he took a long break from music and went travelling around the world, worked as a diving instructor and opened up a kickboxing club. Later on he decided to pick up music production again and give it a proper go. After borrowing other artists studios for a while, he decided to invest in his own equipment.
His musical background and influences can be described as, a bit of funk, a bit of rock and a huge devotion to early electronic music. The sound of Matenda can easiest be described with some few keywords; progressive, morning, atmosphere, groovy and hypnotic.
He was also responsible for Club Expander and Club Progressive, two monthly trance/progressive clubs in Gothenburg,Sweden, where he also played as a resident DJ.
