Matt Darey

Matt Darey
Birth name	Matthew Jonathan Darey
Also known as	8-Bit Trip, Bi Boy Action Squad, DJ Bardot, DSP, Li Kwan, Mash Up, MDM, Mudblood, One Little Arab, Paul Austin, Space Baby, Sunburst, Tekara, Xstasia
Born	29 November 1968 (1968-11-29) (age 42) Leicester, England
Genres	Trance music, electronic dance music
Labels	Armada Music
Associated acts	Lost Tribe, Marcella Woods
Website	Official Website

Matthew Jonathan "Matt" Darey (born 29 November 1968, Leicester, England)^[1] has been a trance music producer since 1994. He is also a member of Lost Tribe with Red Jerry. He is perhaps best known for his work in the Euphoria trance series and for 'Gamemaster' (as Lost Tribe) and his remixes of Agnelli & Nelson's "El Niño". In 2005, his first major U.S. albums, an EP, Point Zero (featuring the Li Kwan song of the same name), and a double album, Upfront Trance, were released.^[2] His works have sold a total of over two million copies.^{[citation needed]} His ex-girlfriend, Marcella Woods, is often a guest vocalist on his recordings.

Career

Darey frequently performs his trance sets at UK clubs such as Gatecrasher and Slinky, and over the internet through a monthly show on Digitally Imported's European Trance station. On 13 August 2005, he debuted a new show on Digitally Imported called Nocturnal, which became a weekly show in April 2006.^[3][4] Since Nocturnal became a weekly show, Darey has had guests such as Sasha, Tiësto, Paul Van Dyk, Tiff Lacey, Paul Oakenfold, Nadia Ali, Offdate, Freemasons, D.Ramirez, Freeform Five, Cosmic Gate, Hybrid Soundsystem and Ferry Corsten perform guest mixes during the second hour of the show each week. Now the Nocturnal show is broadcast by 123 FM around the globe. In May 2007, he also started a monthly Podcast called Nocturnal Podcast. In October 2008, a sister show titled Nocturnal Sunshine, which included the latest dance music selected by Darey, can be downloaded for free from Darey's homepage. This show differs from Nocturnal because it features at a faster pace, and is more mainstream compared to the regular show.^{[citation needed]}

The Nocturnal Podcast was nominated for the best podcast at Winter Music Conference in Miami in 2008. Darey was nominated in 2009 for Best Radio Mix Show DJ, at the International Dance Music Awards.

His single "Beautiful Day", featuring Antoine & Marcia Juell, became a club hit in the US, reaching the Top 25 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music Club Play and hitting the Top 20 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart.

Darey owns a record label, Darey Products, featuring releases from himself and upcoming artists.^[5]

Darey wrote and produced the raga house track by Orgasmatron entitled "Rock The Disco", which was released on Universal Records in 1997.

Discography

Albums and EPs

These are the albums that Matt Darey has released under his own name, as opposed to the albums by 'various artists' that he has mixed.

• Voice of an Angel EP (2004, Incentive Records)

1. Voice of an Angel (Michael Woods vs. Matt Darey Remix)
2. Electro Buzz
3. Nocturnal Delight

• Point Zero EP (2005, Water Music Records)

1. Li Kwan – Point Zero (Matt Darey Mix)
2. Liberation 2004 (Darey vs. Woods Mix) (Listed as track 4)
3. Lost Tribe – Possessed (Matt Darey Mix) (Listed as track 5)
4. Lost Tribe – Gamemaster (Michael Woods Mix) (Listed as track 2)
5. Marcella Woods – Beautiful (Original Mix) (Listed as track 3)
6. Nocturnal Delight (Sandler Mix)

This EP also includes videos for "Beautiful" and "U Shine On".

• Decade (2004; also released a 200-copy limited-edition version)

1. Li Kwan – Point Zero (2004 remake)
2. Moody
3. Nocturnal Delight (Sandler Remix)
4. Lost Tribe – Gamemaster (Michael Woods Mix)
5. Electro Buzz
6. Lost Tribe – Possessed (Matt Darey Vocoder Mix)
7. Nocturnal Delight (Matt Darey Mix)
8. Adam White – Ballerina (Duberina Mix)
9. DSP – Intoxicate
10. DSP – From Russia With Love (Solar Stone Mix)
11. Matt Darey & Marcella Woods – Beautiful (Matt Darey Original Mix)
12. Matt Darey & Marcella Woods – Liberation (Ferry Corsten Mix)
13. Matt Darey & Marcella Woods – Voice of an Angel
14. Matt Darey & Marcella Woods – Liberation (2004 Chilled Mix)

• Urban Astronauts – EP1 (31 March 2008; Koch Records) The debut EP from Matt Darey's new rocktronica project Urban Astronauts is to be released featuring 3 singles:

1. This Way
2. No Submission
3. Animal

• Matt Darey pres. Urban Astronauts - See The Sun (Remixes) (9 November 2009; Nocturnal Global) The first release on Matt Darey's new label called Nocturnal Global, which is an extension of his Nocturnal radio show:

1. See The Sun (Aurosonic Remix)
2. See The Sun (Schodt Remix)
3. See The Sun (Moonbeam Remix)

Singles

Note: Most of these are currently out of print.

• Li Kwan – "Point Zero" (1994)
• Space Baby - "Free Your Mind" (1995) #55 UK^[6]
• Lost Tribe – The Distant Voices EP (1997 – Hooj Choons)
• Lost Tribe – "Gamemaster" (1999 – Hooj Choons) #24 UK^[7]
• "Liberation" (1999) #19 UK^[8]
  • This is the first track that Darey released under his own name. This version of "Liberation (Fly Like an Angel)" included two mixes by Ferry Corsten, one by Darey, and the original mix. Darey has since made new mixes of the song almost annually, and he includes the year of the remix in the title.
• M3 - "Bailamos" (1999) #40 UK^[9]
• Melt featuring Little Ms Marcie - "Hard House Music" (2000) #59 UK^[10]
• Sunburst - "Eyeball (Eyeball Paul's Theme)" (2000) #48 UK^[11]
• Matt Darey presents DSP – "From Russia with Love" (2000 – Liquid Asset) #40 UK^[8]
• MDM - "Mash It Up" #66 UK^[12]
• "Liberation (Fly Like An Angel)" (2001)
• "Beautiful" (2002, with Marcella Woods) #10 UK^[8]
• "U Shine On" / "Moody" (2002, with Marcella Woods – Incentive Records) #34 UK^[8]
• Lost Tribe – "Gamemaster" (2003 remake of the 1999 single – Liquid Asset) #61 UK^[7]
• Lost Tribe – "Possessed" (2004 – Darey Products)
• "Electro Buzz" (2003 – Incentive Records)
• "Voice of An Angel" (2003 – Incentive Records)
• "Nocturnal Delight" (2004 – Incentive Records)
• "Liberation 2005" (2005; 2 CDs with 13 remixes of the song – Darey Products)
• Headstrong & Tiff Lacey – "Close Your Eyes" (2005 – Darey Products)
• "Eternity" (2005 – Darey Products)
• "Beautiful Day" (2007, (featuring Antoine and Marcia Juell)
• "Sum of All Fears" (2007, featuring Tiff Lacey – Darey Products
• "Animal" (2008, with Urban Astronauts)

Remixes

Matt Darey is a prolific remixer using a number of aliases. His mixes have featured on many chart releases including, but not limited to:

• Agnelli & Nelson - "El Niño"
• ATB - "9pm (Till I Come)"
• Binary Finary - "1998" / "1999"
• Blockster - "Grooveline"
• Delerium - "Heaven's Earth"
• Gabrielle - "Rise"
• Kim Wilde - "Breaking Away"
• Kim Wilde - "Heaven"
• Kim Wilde - "Shame"
• Johnna - "Do What You Feel"
• Magners - "Shlurgen"
• Moloko - "The Time is Now"
• Planet Perfecto Feat. Grace - "Not Over Yet"
• The Space Brothers - "Legacy"
• Tin Tin Out - "Sometimes"
• Tin Tin Out - "Strings for Yasmin"
• Westbam - "Wizards of the Sonic"

Compilation albums

These are some of the compilation albums that Darey has mixed, aside from the ones that he released under his own name.

• Ibiza Euphoria (1999)
• Pure Euphoria
• The Very Best of Euphoria (2002, mixed by Darey)
• Upfront Trance double album (2005, Water Music Records)
• Ultimate Trance (Mixed by Darey) (2005)
• Nocturnal album (Mixed by Darey) (September 2007)
• Nocturnal 2010 double album (Mixed by Darey) (May 2010)

Video games

• N-Gen Racing Game soundtrack

References

1. ^ Matt Darey at allmusic.com
2. ^ Brown, Marisa. "Biography: Matt Darey". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p329915. Retrieved 30 May 2010. 
3. ^ Digitallyimported.com
4. ^ Di.fm
5. ^ Michael Ta (2005). "Don Jackson - Focused and Headstrong". Resident Advisor. http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?642. Retrieved 2010-07-04. 
6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 517. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 330. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
8. ^ ^{a b c d} Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 140. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
9. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 336. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
10. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 360. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
11. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 540. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
12. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 335. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 

External links

• Official website (also the site for his record label, Darey Products)
• Matt Darey on Myspace
• Matt Darey discography at Discogs
• Nocturnal radio show website

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