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Matt-U is Matyas Szalai, one of Budapest’s most prolific and respected drumandbass artists, making waves with his particular deep techy sound ever since his release with production partner Jade on the seminal BSE Recordings, ’Got Lost’, in 2004.
A mixdown purist and extreme neuro-bassline surgeon, Matt has released a host of 12"s on BSE, Moving Shadow, 1210, Citrus, Xtinction Agenda, Timeless and Commercial Suicide among others. His forthcoming records will be out on Gridlok’s Project 51 and Loxy’s Xtinction Agenda, sealing the deal for this tallented, diverse producer. DJ support comes from Loxy and Ink, Keaton, Flight, Goldie, Klute, LTJ Bukem, Gridlok, Ed Rush and Optical.
All that penciled in, Matt proves he has soul after all! Soulproof is a production alias meant to cover the liquid side of things, alongside old-time partner Andor of Mindscape fame.
As a DJ, Matt-U has been actively involved in his local scene for 3 years, with international appearances and headlining acts from the small, intimate venues to the post-rave festival gigs.
(words by TRG)
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Matt-U mix for Bassline Abuse / february 2008
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MATT-U & ICR - ’Totem’ (Xtinction Agenda) - OUT NOW!
LOXY & MATT-U - "Jumanji" on Knowledge Magazine CD
Issue 90 - June 2007
BIO
Jade and Matt-U are Gabor Simon (27) and Matyas Szalai (24) from Budapest, Hungary, definitely the centre of drum and bass in Central Europe.
They got introduced to drum&bass in 2000 after a couple of years producing in different genres separately. The stlyle was a great impression to their production, Matt-U started working on liqud tunes, while Jade was more into the dark, technoid sounds. Jade and Matt-U both used to upload their early tunes to a hungarian production message board, which was also the starting ground of SKC and Chris.SU. Years passed as they got deeper and deeper in the art of electroinic music production, improving their sound design, mixing and arrangement.
A year after they first met in 2004, their first collaboration, ’Got Lost’ was born, and gained huge success by getting singed to Black Sun Empire Recordings. They kept on working together, and created ‘Salem’ and ‘Nightmare’, both tunes came out on the mighty Moving Shadow, while another 12†was released on Ryme Tyme’s Spawn Recordings: ‘Stars’ flipped by ‘Treachery’, followed by ‘Hellhound’ and ‘Silver Wings’ out on his legendary 1210 Recordings.
Matt-U on his own focuses on liquid rollers, ras and dubby Drum&Bass, and he is also a member of another crew, called Soulproof. With releases at Fokuz Recordings, Citrus, Celsius, Commercial Suicide and forthcomings at Renegade, X-tinction agenda, and Timeless.
Jade alone makes harder techy tunes, like ‘Acid Flood’ came out recently on the Endangered Species LP on BSE, and ‘Bitch’ out on Citrus recordings, but he also finds joy in making bootlegs, like the massive anthem ‘Pump Friction’, a rework of the famous theme from the Pulp Fiction movie. Jade does Breakbeat too, exclusively at DJ Quest’s Cyberfunk Records..
DISCOGRAPHY
FORTHCOMINGS
Jade & Matt-U - ’Mob Law’
Jade & Matt-U - ’Dread Moon’
Jade & Matt-U - ’Cracks in the ceiling’ - Project 51
Loxy & Matt-U - ’Dictate’ - Renegade Recordings
Matt-U - ’Intruder’ - Renegade Recordings
Loxy & Matt-U - ’Afterdark’ - Xtinction Agenda
Matt-U & SKC - ’Clemenza’ - Xtinction Agenda
Jade & Rusher - Silent Hell - Close 2 Death
OUT
Loxy & Matt-U - ’Shell Shock’ - Cylon
Matt-U - ’Iron Skies’ - Fokuz Recordings
Matt-U - ’Iron Skies’ Loxy remix - Fokuz Recordings
Matt-U & ICR - ’Totem’ - Xtinction Agenda
Jade & Matt-U - ’Hellhound’ / Silver Wings - 1210
Jade - ’Intergalactic bootleg’ - Jail Bait
SKC & Matt-U - ’Head Over Heels’ - Commercial Suicide
Loxy & Matt-U - ’Baptism’ - Xtinction Agenda
SKC & Matt-U - Strayshot - Timeless
Matt-U & SKC - ’Primevil’ - Timeless
Mindscape, Jade & Hydro - Black Lotus - Citrus
Mindscape & Jade - Insomnia - Citrus
Jade - Unexist - BSE
Matt-U, Mindscape & TRG - ’Ring of Fire’ - Citrus Recordings
Jade & Matt-U - ’Broken Stars’ - Cyberfunk Recordings
Jade - ’Made of Steel’ - Cyberfunk Recordings
Soulproof - ’Whisper In My Ear’ - Fokuz Recordings
Mindscape & Jade - ’Unpleasant Surprise’ - Citrus Recordings
Matt-U - ’Mosaic’ - Celsius Recordings
Jade - ’Acid Flood’ - BSE Recordings
Jade - ’Bitch’ - Citrus
Soulproof & ICR - ’It Could Have Been Me’ - Fokuz Limited
Jade & Matt-U - ’Salem’ / ’Nightmare’ - Moving Shadow
Jade & Matt-U - ’Stars’ / ’Treachery’ - Spawn Recordings
Soulproof - ’Inna Dem Clothes’ - Fokuz Limited
Soulproof - ’On the line EP’- Fokuz Recordings
Jade & Matt-U - ’Got Lost’ - Black Sun Empire Recordings
Matt-U on rolldabeats.com
Jade on rolldabeats.com
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