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Nickmatic

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About Me

Nicholas Maddix aka Nickmatic has been spinning deep and funky house music since 1998, finally exploding into the Boston scene after co-founding the DeepBoston collective.

Soaking up the talent of the underground house scene in Boston and years of residencies around the Boston area inspired Nickmatic to refine his ability to recognize the most cutting-edge tracks for inclusion in his charts. Now Nickmatic is regularly laying down seamless and building sets of Jackin and Electro house, as well as Deep house, his true love.

Now based in NYC, Nickmatic is bringing his love of house music to clubs in the big city and abroad in Europe and Asia as well as south of the border.

About TaoFunk:

TaoFunk is about spreading the love and creativity of house music. It is my name for the creative output of inspiration, exemplified by the union of the open-spirited philosophy of the Tao with the deeply human experience of truly enjoying funky music.

Click To Listen To Promo Mixes:

Bumpin And Jumpin (Jazzy Funky House)
J Sessions 2005 (Deep and Tech House)
Jackin NYC (Jackin/Funky House)

My Perpetual Personal Ad:

Everyone's parents love me. When not leaping tall buildings or putting the cap back on the toothpaste, I'm busy saving cute baby seals from certain oil-slicked doom. Other profound pastimes in which I passionately partake include the perfunctory practice of alliteration as well as the composition of chamber music in the key of F-flat minor. Every odd Thursday I build a new 6-bedroom duplex for a homeless family and then run over to the community college where I teach Introduction to Knitting, Crocheting, and Security Trading on Foreign Exchanges for ages 5 and up. Often, you'll find me at a busy intersection helping a little old lady to cross the street, or in the lecture halls of the Math Department at MIT trying to relate Pi to Avagadro's number by the golden ratio. I relax by creating working home appliances using my skills in origami. Plus I can usually match my socks without my Mom's help now.

Favorite Quote:

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/20/2006
Band Website: taofunk.com
Band Members: Io Stesso on lead electric flux capacitor and Yo Mismo on backup aboriginal Mongolian donkey flute.
Influences: All the happy music-loving people I have ever met who have shared their vibes with me. Also DJs Jason Maggard, Randy Deshaies, Eric Barros, Scott Richmond, Kenny Summit, Enrique Florendo, Johnny Fiasco, Fred Everything.
Sounds Like: Uhm tiss uhm tiss uhm tiss.

Yes, I have The Knack:

This is how I learned to dance:

And this is how we do it:

Type of Label: None

My Blog

The final Bump Sunday

I just found out Bump Sundays at the Phoenix Landing is closing down. It has been my inspiration as a DJ and I posted a little comment on the Bump myspace page. Check out the closing night on Oct. 28....
Posted by Nickmatic on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:57:00 PST

Le Souk Saturday Residency

Stop by Le Souk any saturday night 11pm - 4:30am if you wanna dance your ass off to the best house music in town. Jason Maggard and I are at the controls downstairs on the main floor bringin it proper...
Posted by Nickmatic on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:50:00 PST

Sullivan Room Birthday Bash

So Saturday was my birthday party at Sullivan Room, one of the US's best underground house clubs. I had the honor of opening the room for Kaskade.What a great vibe in that room, and it was such a plea...
Posted by Nickmatic on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:11:00 PST

NYC is the greenest city in America

Interesting perspective:http://www.walkablestreets.com/manhattan.htm
Posted by Nickmatic on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:46:00 PST

I love web integration

For anyone geeky out there, I just completed a web integration of my company's technology with JibberJobber.com. Works the bomb and is really cool.The parsing technology, called "anagram", has be...
Posted by Nickmatic on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:31:00 PST

Where the !@&%!. have hair dryers been all my life???

Ok I've struggled most of my adult life with trying to style my really thick hair. I love the thick hair, and it has many fans of the fairer gender as well. Rrooowwrr. But whether it comes out looking...
Posted by Nickmatic on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:44:00 PST

The best Dunkin Donuts in the world

I spent most of my life boycotting chains like Dunkin Donuts due to misdirected anti-corporate sentiment that originated in god-knows-what part of my judgmental brain. I still would much rather get a ...
Posted by Nickmatic on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:57:00 PST

The First Record I Ever Bought

I just emailed my buddy Scott Richmond about this.... I randomly came across the first record I ever bought. DJ Osheen on Sneak Tip.http://www.discogs.com/release/178292http://www.satellit erecords.co...
Posted by Nickmatic on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:28:00 PST