Q: How long have you been a DJ?...
Matt: Started mixing records back In 1993 on a set of belt driven soundlab decks and a dodgy little mixer.
Q: What inspired you to become a DJ?...
Matt: It was never something I set out to do, it was a love of music and the lack of it in forms that I enjoyed that first saw me buying vinyl.
Q: What do u think you would b doin now if u wernt a DJ?...
Matt: International arms dealer.
Q: Where did you spin your first gig?...
Matt: New years day 1995 at a 4zzz gig called underworld @ the tube.
Q: Funniest thing you ever saw while DJin?...
Matt: Funniest?...that would involve Charlie and Simion (they know) but if I told you people would go to jail...
Q: Anything ever go unbelievably and completely fucked up beyond all recognition during a set?...
Matt: @ the monastery a few years back someone spilt a full beer into the amp rack, big bang ,smoke, fire and no more sound system, it was a full room going crazy at the time (4am).
Q: Your thoughts on the CD vs Vinyl debate?...
Matt: This debate will always be there, but people lose sight when answering this question in my mind, after all it is the final product (the music) that is important here not the medium through which it is played. As long as the end result (sound and quality of it ) doesnt suffer who cares...but vinyl is the first love for most djs my age.
Q: Best gig ever?...
Matt: Hard to finger out just one, there has been so many great nights and each of them holds a place in my mind for one reason or another, the ones that i will always hold dear are the free parties we use to put on @ fingal beach and mt coguar national park....but recently Babeface in Guangzhou and the Smirnoff experience party with Nick Warren and Paul Van Dyk in Shanghai standout.
Q: Worst gig ever?...
Matt: The previous stated gig at the monastery, I have never left so devastated as I did leaving that night(1hr early).
Q: Worst thing somebody has ever said about your DJin?
Matt: Shut the fuck up bitch u cant sing...
Q: Best thing about being a DJ?
Matt: That was the best night Ive ever had thanks bro.
Q: Why the move to China?
Matt: Time was right for a change, I had become complacent in my position in the local dance music scene.
Q: The differences between the chinese and aussie crowds?...
Matt: ozzy crowds as a whole get in to it much more, you have to remember that most westerners under the age of 25 have grown up with this music, some of the crowds I play to in china are hearing it for the first time in their lives.
Q: Your fave djs and producers?
Matt: Djs - phil k , james zabielia. Producers - infusion , felix da housecat.
Q: Fave piece of Djin equipment?
Matt: Efx-1000 , rane scratch .
Q: If you could use any record/CD as a Frisbee which 1 would it be?
Matt: Im not to discriminate about this , its been done so many times. The trick is the ones not to use.
Q:Fave song?
Matt: All time? Song to the siren - this mortal coil. A truly haunting ballad
Q: Fave food...movie and/or local sports team?....
Matt: food - Japanese. movie - too hard too answer. Local sports - Brisbane lions/broncos (Brisbane boy all the way)..
Q: Quote to live by?
Matt: Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it.
Q. Things you hate?
Matt: Mornings, hot weather, religion.
Q: Things you love?
Matt: Individuality, music, snow.
Q: While people are reading...anything else that needs to be said?
Matt: Live life, play hard, love hard... cause in the end you don't get another chance.
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