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Matt Schwartz 
Background information Also known as Dada, The Drill, M'black Born October 26, 1971
Haifa, IsraelOrigin Israel Genres House, electronica, trip-hop, Pop, Rock Occupations Producer, songwriter, Composer, Arranger, Programmer, Sound Engineer, Mixing Engineer, DJ. Instruments Bass, guitar, keyboards, computers Years active 1995–present Labels Destined Records, Sony Records, Universal Records, EMI, BMG rights, Warner Bros. Records, Robbins Ent, Ministry of sound Associated acts Deepest Blue 4tune500, massive attack, Robbie Williams, Trevor Horn, The Drill, Mica Paris, Elliot minor, JTQ, Wamdue Project Website destined-records.com Matt Schwartz is a multi-instrumentalist record producer a songwriter, an Artist, DJ, and a prolific audio engineer based in the UK. 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.
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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.
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.
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 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 has been highly respected on the underground scene and had a few massive hits to date including The Drill, DADA and Deepest Blue.
As an Electronica producer and Artist, Matt 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 news, 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 Ft Sandy Rivera & Trix - Lollipop, The Drill, 4tune500 and Deepest Blue all starting their life on his Destined imprint, Matt usually plays all the instruments on his artist records.
In 2009 Matt has been working with Trevor Horn, Lol Creme (10cc) and Robbie Williams on new Material.
In 2010 Matt has Scored his first Number 1 single in the billboard dance airplay charts with M'black - Heartbreak
2011 Matt has topped the Dutch Charts with 'Bang it all' as Dada & Mastiksoul Ft. Akon
He currently Resides in London and works from his state of the art production facility in London's west end.
DJ work
In 2005 Matt took his first step as a DJ and decided to perform his first gig at the Paris Techno parade to 400,000 people as The Drill. Matt regularly plays massive international gigs and has also set up The Drill sound systems and DADA sound systems to enable him and a crew of people to spread his work all over the world.
Chart singles
Matt Produced, written, programmed, played all instruments, engineered and mixed his own artist chart singles under these names :
Singles
- 2002 Matt Schwartz Pres. Sholan - "Can You Feel (What I'm Going Through)" Data Records, Club Charts #1, UK Charts #42
- 2003 Deepest Blue - "Deepest Blue" Data Records, Club charts #1, UK Charts #7
- 2004 Deepest Blue - "Give it Away" Data Records, Club Charts #1, UK Charts #9
- 2004 Deepest Blue - "Is It A Sin" Data Records, Club Charts #1, UK Charts #24
- 2004 Deepest Blue - "Shooting Star" Data Records, UK Charts #57
- 2005 'The Drill' – "The Drill" Destined Records, Club Charts #1, French Charts #31
- 2005 'The Drill' – "One More Night" Destined Records, Club Charts #1, French Charts #31
- 2007 Dada feat. Sandy Rivera & Trix - "Lollipop" Destined Records/Data Records, Club Charts #1, UK Charts #18, Spanish charts #8
- 2009 Dada, Obernik & Harris - "Stereo Flo" Destined Records, Russian National Charts #5, France # 9.
- 2010 M'Black - Heartbreak Destined Records/Robbins Ent., #1 Billboard Hot Dance Airplay, #2 Airplay (Internet radio), #9 Radio airplay (Dance)
- 2011 Dada & Mastiksoul Ft. Akon - 'Bang It All' Dutch Charts Number #1, Portugal no #1 (iTunes)
- 2011 Dada & Rui Da Silva ft One - Crazy Love (Destined Records)
Albums
- 2004 Deepest Blue - 'Late September' – Open Records, UK Charts #22
Notable work
- 1997 Remix 'King of my castle' – Wamdue project Eruption records UK charts #1
- 1998 Remix 'South of the border'- (Angels release) Robbie Williams 'EMI'
- 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 Artist, Composer, Producer, writer Deepest Blue 'Shooting Star' Sky Sports news theme
- 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
- 2008 Production, co writer – 'Fall Down' – Nicol Destined Records Feat on ABC's show Army Wives
- 2008 Artist 'Piano Mano' – The Drill Ft. Firetruck and Antarctica – No 2 Buzz Charts, No 5 Cool Cuts No'1 Download charts
- 2008 Artist 'Dancing in the dark 08' - 4tune500 4' buzz no' 1 dj download charts
- 2008 Producer, co-write, Nicol 'how does it feel now'- ABC Drama Army Wives
- 2009 Remixer - Robbie Williams - Bodies
- 2009 Co-Writer Lol Cream & Robbie Williams - A million more years
- 2010 Producer, Co-Writer, Instruments, Mixing - Hyper Crush - 'Flip the Switch' and 'Keep Up' (Mixing, additional instruments co-production)
- 2010 Co-Writer - Olly Murs - A million More years (No 1 Album iTunes, No 2 Album UK national charts)
Publishing deals
- 1998-'00 Warner Chappell Publishing
- 2001 - EMI Publishing
- 2003 - Universal Publishing
- 2004 - Windswept Pacific Publishing
- 2005 - Schwartz music Publishing
- 2009 - Schwartz music/BMG
Location Time Line
- 1981-1984 - Haifa youth philharmonic orchestra
- 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
- 2009 May–June - Sarm Studios
- 2001– present – Destined Studios, Soho recording Studios, West end, UK.
References
- http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2004/february/text/content3.html
- http://www.clubdistrict.com/blog/66
- http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=1033545§ioncode=22
External links
- http://www.destined-records.com
- http://www.myspace.com/destinedrecords
- Matt Schwartz discography at Discogs
- http://www.futuremusic.co.uk/page/futuremusic?entry=future_music_202_out_tomorrow
- http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/TopTen/musicians/musondxS.htm
- http://www.twistedhouse.com/news/view.php?content=262
- First Destination (Exeter Website Design) - Matt's Web Team
- Heartbreak (M'Black song)
- http://www.dancenova.com/news/dada-featuring-sandy-rivera-trix-lollipop/1821.html
- http://www.mooviees.com/1430/soundtrack
- http://www.motorbar.co.uk/cd_deepestblue.htm
- http://www.essexuncovered.com/v2004/
- http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=7029&string=4-4-2
- http://www.robbiewilliams.com/discography/singles/angels (South of the border mix)
- http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=117786194910471
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377701/soundtrack
- Sky Sports News
- http://www.houseplanet.dj/index.php/September-2008/The-Drill-feat.-Firetruck-Antartica-Piano-Mano-Club-Mix-Destined-Records.html
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- British record producers
- British songwriters
- Club DJs
- British dance musicians
- Dance musicians
- British Jews
- People from Haifa
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