Matt Schwartz
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| Matt Schwartz | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Dada, The Drill, M'black |
| Born | October 26, 1971 Haifa, Israel |
| Origin | Israel |
| Genre(s) | House |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Bass, guitar, keyboards, computers |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Label(s) | Destined Records |
| Associated acts | Deepest Blue 4tune500 |
| Website | destined-records.com |
Matt Schwartz is a multi-instrumentalist record producer a songwriter and a prolific audio engineer based in the UK.
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[edit] Biography and life
Israeli born Matti, came to London in the early 90's, armed with his classical training, some studio experience and serious passion for the art, Matti enrolled into Kingston University's Gateway school of music to come a year later straight into the dance scene working at the Hit-House in Hammersmith in 1994/5 with the likes of Farley Jack Master Funk, Dirty Rotten Scoundrals, Matt Jam and Carl Brown plus many more while producing records with James Reynolds.
During his time in the Hit House, Matt met Sara Jay who featured on Massive Attack's Mezzanine, they married in 1998 and divorced in 2001.
Matt honed his skills and moved to the BeatFarm studios in 1996/8, making hundreds of records with the likes of Massive Attack, Mica Paris, Arthur baker, Sara J, Tall Paul, Wamdue Project, JTQ and a host of others while developing unsigned bands and making his own records when he found a spare moment.
In 1998 Matt decided to concentrate on his own career as an artist as well as a producer and bought a little studio. In 2000 he started Destined records for his own output and Blackgold recordings with Gil Goldberg of Back-Yard recordings and Sony Music, 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-Blackgold folded 2 years later after the next releases failed to be successful.
Since then Matt had a string of international hits under many different names such as Dada Ft Sandy Rivera & Trix, The Drill 4tune500 and Deepest Blue. He's married to Anastacia, his long time Brazilian girlfriend and currently Resides in Northwest London.
Matt works from his state of the art production facility in the west end.
[edit] Chart singles
- 2002 Single 'Can you feel(what I'm going through)-Matt Schwartz Pres. Sholan Data records,Club charts #1 UK Charts #42
- 2003 Single 'Deepest Blue'-Deepest Blue Data records,Club charts #1 UK Charts #7
- 2004 Single 'Give it away'-Deepest Blue Data records,Club charts #1 UK Charts #9
- 2004 Album 'Late September' Open records,UK charts #22
- 2005 Single 'The Drill-The Drill Destined Records,Club charts #1 French Charts #31
- 2007 Single 'Lollipop'-Dada Ft. Sandy Rivera and Trix Destined Records/Data Records Club charts #1 UK Charts #18 Spanish charts #8
[edit] Notable work
- 1997 Remix 'King of my castle'- Wamdue project Eruption records UK charts #1
- 1998 Co-write 'Dissolved girl'- Massive attack (featured on The Matrix) Virgin records UK Charts #1 album (Mezzanine)
- 1999 Production, co-writer, Instruments 'A bigger picture'-JTQ Gut Records
- 2000 Artist 'Something about you'-TBC Echo records
- 2001 Production,co-write 'Intuition'-Dj Encore ft. Engelina Universal Scandinavian chart topping act
- 2002 Artist with Jo Mills'Dancing in the dark-4Tune500 Blackgold recordings
- 2003 Artist With Grant Nelson 'Bodyswerve- M-Gee Ft. Mica Paris Swing City Club chart #1
- 2004 Remix 'I Like It {featuring Yvonne John Lewis} Free2Air Recordings UK Charts #10
- 2005 Artist 'One more night'-The Drill Destined records
- 2006 Artist with MJ Cole 'Earthlift'-Matt Schwartz and Matt Cole Destined records
- 2007 Artist 'Do Disco'-Klark Destined records
- 2008 Artist 'Miracle' - Destined records Club chart #1
[edit] Location Time Line
- 1990- 1993- Signal Studios, Israel
- 1993- 1995- Kingston university Gateway school of music, Kingston upon themes, UK
- 1995- 1996- Hit house production house,Hammersmith, UK
- 1996- 1998- Beatfarm studios,Waterloo UK
- 1998- 2001- Personal Studio,Golders Green, UK
- 2001- 2008- Destined Studios, Soho recording Studios, West end, UK.
