Matthew Dear

Staccato percussion and fat ass bass lines!! What's not to love? Most of Matthew's stuff is not what I would say on the deep, thought provoking side of minimal electronic music (unless you're thinking how loud you can possibly play his stuff without causing permanent structural damage). It’s just good fun micro-house and Cologne technopop that will have your grandma on the floor shaking her booty.

EP1, EP2, and his Jabberjaw release on Perlon are absolute must haves, also check out his False alias for more traditional minimal sounds but with his own signature funk. In the end, you can't go wrong with any of his releases.

If you get a chance to see him live... GO!! It's amazing what one guy and a laptop can do, he will bring the house down... guaranteed.

Matthew Dear not only knows what people want to hear on the floor, but also how they want to feel. I can't say that I have heard anything he has released that is not magnificent, be it minimal, glitchy, funky, or just dark and nasty.

The two releses as False on Plus8, warsaw bread and .wav pool are absolutely amazing. utterly gut wrenching basslines and stripped down glitchy riffs... exactly the sort of thing you'd expect Hawtins label to put out at the minute.