Matt Schwartz
| Matt Schwartz | |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | DADA, The Drill, M'black |
| Born |
26 October 1971 Haifa, Israel |
| Origin | Israel |
| Genres | House, electronica, trip hop, pop, rock |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, programmer, sound engineer, mixing engineer, DJ |
| Instruments | Bass, guitar, keyboards, computers |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Destined, Sony, Universal, EMI, BMG rights, Warner Bros., Robbins Ent, Ministry of sound |
| Associated acts | Deepest Blue 4tune500, massive attack, Robbie Williams, Trevor Horn, The Drill, Elliot minor, JTQ, Wamdue Project, Jonny L |
| Website | www |
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.
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.
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