Origin Israel Role Instrumentalist | Name Matt Schwartz Years active 1995–present | |
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Occupation(s) Producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, programmer, sound engineer, mixing engineer, DJ Instruments Bass, guitar, keyboards, computers Associated acts Deepest Blue 4tune500, massive attack, Robbie Williams, Trevor Horn, The Drill, Mica Paris, Elliot minor, JTQ, Wamdue Project, Jonny L Albums Fabula de la Rata y el Rinoceronte, Aeoline Record labels Destined Records, Warner Bros. Records, EMI Records Similar People Sandy Rivera, Sam Obernik, Paul Harris, Joel Edwards, Natalie |
Matt schwartz presents sholan can you feel what i m going through sono s pelican mix
Matt Schwartz (born 26 October 1971) is an Israeli-British multi-instrumentalist record producer a songwriter, an artist, DJ, and a prolific audio engineer based in London. He has contributed to numerous records since 1995 as an engineer, producer, composer, musician and a songwriter, working with all the UK major record labels, he also had several club chart toppers and a few top 10 chart and airplay charts records in the UK, US and Europe as an artist.
Contents
- Matt schwartz presents sholan can you feel what i m going through sono s pelican mix
- Matt schwartz you girl
- Biography and life
- DJ work
- Selected Discography
- Publishing deals
- Location timeline
- References
Matt schwartz you girl
Biography and life
Born in Israel, Schwartz came to London in the early 90s. Schwartz enrolled at Kingston University, and a year later began working at the Hit-House in Hammersmith between 1994–5 with the likes of Farley Jack Master Funk, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Matt Jam and Carl Brown, plus many more while producing records with James F. Reynolds.
Schwartz worked at BeatFarm studios in 1996-8, making hundreds of records with the likes of Massive Attack, Arthur Baker, Sara J, Tall Paul, Wamdue Project, JTQ and a host of others while developing unsigned bands and making his own records.
In 1998 Schwartz decided to concentrate on his own career as an artist as well as a producer. In 2000 he started Destined Records for his own output and Blackgold recordings with Gil Goldberg and Legendary A&R Muff Winwood from Sony, Blackgold had 4 releases amongst them 'Dancing in the dark' by 4tune500 who was an outfit for Matt and Jo Mills which went on to sell 15,000 Vinyls. Destined is highly respected on the underground scene and had a few hits to date including The Drill, DADA and Deepest Blue, his composition of Shooting Star was the theme tune for Sky Sports for 3 years.
As an Electronica producer and artist, Schwartz went on to top dance charts all over the world, his music and songs appearing on numerous TV programs and films (Including blockbusters such as Day of the jackal and The matrix, Sky sports, Fashion TV and most of the UK music TV channels), he cracked the top 10 in several countries and continents selling several million CD singles, Albums, Vinyl, downloads and compilations with a string of international hits under many different names such as M'black, DADA, The Drill, 4tune500 and Deepest Blue all starting their life on his Destined imprint, Matt usually plays all the instruments on his artist records.
In 2009 Schwartz worked with Trevor Horn, Olly Murs Lol Creme (10cc) and Robbie Williams. The following year, Schwartz scored his first No. 1 single in the billboard dance airplay charts with M'black. In 2011, Schwartz topped the Dutch Charts with 'Bang it all' as Dada & Mastiksoul featuring Akon. In 2012, Schwartz was invited to lecture in the WMC in Miami on his experience as a producer and an engineer. Later that year, Schwartz produced and co-wrote Kylie Minogue's "Timebomb". While working under the alias of M'black, in early 2013 he had a number 1 on the US dance charts with the song "Crush".
2014 Schwartz has co-written and co produced Madison Beer's single 'Unbreakable', Producing and co-writing Cheryl Cole's Only Human although Only Human was remixed for radio by Drum and Bass Producer Wilkinson as well as producing and writing for Selah Sue's number 1 Album, Reason, Union J, Ruen Brothers, Holychild, Pitbull & Sophia Del Carmen.
Crossing over from 2014 to 2015 his song Outlines by MIke Mago Ft. Dragonette entered at #8 in the UK singles charts. Matt has been working with alternative band All Tvvins on their debut album, their first single "Thank You" becoming song of the week on XFM radio in March 2015 and has been working with NERVO on their debut Album, Collateral, mixing/co-producing several records including "The Other Boys" Ft. Kylie, Jake Shears and Nile Rodgers and Avicci's "You're gonna love again"
On 23 January 2016 Fear Nothing by Selah Sue which was co-written and produced by Matt won the North Vision song contest in Zurich.
He currently Resides in London and works from his state of the art production facility in the west end.
DJ work
In 2005 Matt took his first step as a DJ performing at the Paris Techno parade to 400,000 people as The Drill.
He has since played many international gigs under his 'The Drill sound system' and 'DADA sound system' and with his Deepest Blue Project.