Matt Darey has been one of the pioneers of today’s dance scene and a major influence on today’s world-class DJs.
Throughout his 17-year career of producing and writing house, trance, breaks and progressive tracks and much more he has sold well over two million albums and singles with numerous Top 10 and Top 20 chart hits.
His Nocturnal radio show is the world’s 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 and breaks. Matt’s new project is an album by his “rocktronica” band called Urban Astronauts, which fuses rock influences with EDM and was 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 Brothers and Sire Records in NYC. Matt’s productions have been a major influence on many of today’s top DJs 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 10 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 on the scene bringing a truly international, multi-genre flavor to his sets.
Li Kwan’s Point Zero was one of the first records to be made of the new genre that later came to be known as trance. Embraced by leading DJs at the time, Paul Oakenfold later said it was in his top five all-time fave tracks. Following that, Matt got into the remix game and turned out numerous club hits. Meanwhile Matt launched his new act, Lost Tribe, and created one of the all-time club anthems, Game Master, on the legendary Hooj Choons label. Matt also went on to launch artists like Tall Paul and Agnelli & Nelson in the top 20 for the first time with his massive A-side productions.
Since 1998 he has sold well over two 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 three 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 Matt’s productions and his weekly show on Bigfish radio, broadcast on Magic 89.9FM in Metro Manila and Killerbee stations nationwide.
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