Biography
Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter, Producer, Bandleader, Beatprogrammer, Instrumentalist on recordings and Student at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Started Playing guitar at the age of 15 and started his first band 2 years later. In this band he played guitar, sang and wrote lyrics. Around this time he started to take his singing more seriously and bought a Tascam 4-Track recorder wich led to some experience and hours of recordings.
This band broke up and he started the Stonerrock/Grunge trio 'Ape Dirt' with Gijs Bakker and Michiel Moerland in wich he also sings and plays the guitar. With this band he did a lot of gigs and played in venues like the Melkweg, Panama, P60, JC de Valk, and the Kade. Ape Dirt played with acts like Green Lizard, Luie Hond, Van Katoen, Land of Airplanes and LEFT. They recorded there first Studio EP called 'Anger Currency' in the E-Sound Studios in Weesp. Unfortunatly this studio session resulted in a complete drama. Check out there website at www.apedirt.nl or there Myspace at www.myspace.com/apedirt.
Matthias also makes music on himself that you can listen to on his Myspace. He plays (or programmes) all the instruments and vocals bij himself on these recordings. Please listen and feel free to comment or contact. Matthias is Available for commisioned freelance work and non-commisioned projects. You can contact him by email at [email protected]