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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 media
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