Matt has been one of the pioneers of today’s dance scene being a major influence on today’s world class DJ’s.
Throughout his 17 year career of producing & writing house, trance,
breaks and progressive and much more he has sold well over 2 million
albums & singles with numerous top 10 & top 20 chart hits.
His Nocturnal radio show is the worlds fastest expanding multi genre
dance radio show now broadcast on 116 FM stations worldwide. In recent
years Matt has been playing his unique “Nocturnal” blend of
many styles including electro, progressive, tech, trance and occasional
house & breaks. Matt’s new project is an album by his
rocktronica band alias `Urban Astronauts` which fuses rock influences
with EDM and will be released in 2008...
Matt Darey started his musical career back in 1992
when he released his own independent record and soon after signed his
first major album deal with Warner Bro’s and Sire Records in
NYC. Matt’s productions have been a major influence on many
of todays top DJ’s like Oakenfold, Tiesto, Armin Van Buren, Paul Van
Dyk, Above & Beyond and many more.
A chameleon of sound, Matt has produced everything from breaks to house
to trance and progressive and was responsible for some of the pinnacle
tracks and top ten chart hits to come from the scene including Li Kwan – Point Zero, Lost Tribe
– Game Master, ATB – Till I Come, Binary Finary -
1998, Grace – Not Over Yet, Matt Darey - Beautiful
and countless others! Constantly touring the globe Matt is respected as
a leading DJ in the scene bringing a truly international &
Multi genre flavor to his sets.
Li
Kwan – Point Zero was one of the
first records to be made of the new Genre that then went on to be known
as Trance. Embraced by leading DJ’s at the time
Pete
Tong who made Matt his essential new tune
twice and Paul
Oakenfold who quoted that Li Kwan was in
his top 5 all time fav tracks. Following on from that Matt got into the
remix game and turned out numerous club hits which are listed in the
discography section. Meanwhile Matt launched his new act Lost Tribe and
created one of the all time club anthems Gamemaster on
the legendary Hooj
Choons label. Matt also went on to launch
artists like Tall Paul
and Agnelli &
Nelson in to the top 20 for the first time
with his massive A-side productions. Since 1998 he sold well over 2 million singles and albums
with the Darey imprint and has been responsible for some of the biggest
remixes and productions. Matt took a vacation from the world of music
for almost 3 years from 2001 to 2004 and then came back to launch his
own label Darey Products. Today he continues to push forward the sounds
of dance music into new areas with his rock influenced productions and
has continued to tour the globe with his own unique blend of music from
many genres. You can listen to all
of Matts productions and his weekly Nocturnal show right here on the
