Walk The Walk / Rolling

Matt Masters, the London-based DJ/Producer taught himself how to mix whilst studying at University for a Science degree in Music in 2001. Realising he had a flair for mixing, he purchased a set of his own decks and began playing monthly at a bar in Camden Town, London. Since then he has gone onto DJ at a large number of venues across the UK and Europe, presented his own radio show on Worldwide FM and has appeared on Ministry of Sound Radio, House FM, Push FM and Unknown FM.

In early 2004 he began a work experience placement at HYPERLINK "http://www.freerangerecords.co.uk" t "_blank" Freerange Records 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, Jimpster, Palmskin, Mike Monday, Kirk Degiorgio and Shur-I-Kan at the London Freerange Records label parties. He has also appeared at the Sonar Music Festival in Barcelona with Milton Jackson, Garcy Noise, Tres Manos & Nacho Marco. He is now looking forward to being a resident at the new Freerange residency at AKA London from September.

In addition to his DJ gigs Matt has been invited to present his own show on Pacha Radio and also co present the new monthly Freerange Records show on Kiss FM Portugal as well as hosting his new monthly Freerange Records Podcast which can be downloaded from I-Tunes.

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 second remix for Freerange will be a re-work of Jimpster’s ‘A Love Like This’ which is due out later this year and already getting airplay on Pete Tong’s Essential Selection on Radio 1 by Groove Armada. Other remix work in the pipeline of Grand Agent’s ‘Doo Yoo’ for Deft Recordings is due out late 2007 and also for Nacho Marco’s ‘Crash’ on Pacha Records also out later on in the year.

A collaboration with Paddy Freeform is due for release through his Universal Vibes label soon, which will include 2 original tracks as yet untitled.

Currently, Matt is looking forward to his first solo release, ‘Deep or What’, through Pack Up And Dance. This will be out late 2007 with Groove Armada’s Andy Cato on the remix. In addition to this physical release he is also looking forward to a digital release of the ‘walk the walk EP’ which will include ‘Rolling’ and ‘walk the walk’ through Urbantorque Records around autumn.

Remixes:
Jimpster – A Love Like This (Matt Masters Remix) Freerange Records Digital Download Exclusive 2007
Nacho Marco – Crash (Matt Masters Remix) Pacha Records 2007
Grand Agent – Doo Yoo (Matt Masters Remix) Deft Recordings 2007
Brett Johnson – WER1 (Matt Masters Remix) Freerange Records Digital Download Exclusive 2007

Releases:
Matt Masters – Deep Or What EP (Original & Andy Cato Remix) Pack Up And Dance 2007
Matt Masters – walk the walk EP Urbantorque 2007
Matt Masters & Paddy Freeform – Tweak EP Universal Vibes