Matt Schwartz Explained

Matt Schwartz
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Date:1971 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Haifa, Israel
Years Active:1995–present

Matt Schwartz (born 26 October 1971) is an Israeli-British record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, programmer, sound engineer, mixing engineer and DJ.

Biography

Born in Israel, Schwartz came to London in the early 90s. Schwartz enrolled at Kingston University, and a year later began working at the Hit-House in Hammersmith between 1994 and 1995 with the likes of Farley Jack Master Funk, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Matt Jam and Carl Brown, plus many more while producing records with James F. Reynolds.[1]

Schwartz worked at BeatFarm studios in 1996–8, making hundreds of records with the likes of Massive Attack,[2] Arthur Baker, Sara J, Tall Paul,[3] Wamdue Project,[4] JTQ[5] and a host of others while developing unsigned bands and making his own records.

In 1998 Schwartz decided to concentrate on his own career as an artist as well as a producer. In 2000 he started Destined Records for his own output and Blackgold recordings with Gil Goldberg[6] and Sony S2 president Muff Winwood. 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.[7] Destined is highly respected on the underground scene and had a few hits to date including The Drill, DADA and Deepest Blue, his composition of Shooting Star was the theme tune for Sky Sports for 3 years.[8]

As an Electronica producer and artist, Schwartz 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, 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,[9] DADA,[10] [11] The Drill,[12] [13] 4tune500 and Deepest Blue[14] [15] all starting their life on his Destined imprint, Matt usually plays all the instruments on his artist records.

In 2009, Schwartz worked with Trevor Horn,[16] Olly Murs[17] Lol Creme (10cc) and Robbie Williams.[18] The following year, Schwartz scored his first No. 1 single in the billboard dance airplay charts with M'black. In 2011, Schwartz topped the Dutch Charts with 'Bang it all' as Dada & Mastiksoul featuring Akon.[19] In 2012, Schwartz was invited to lecture in the WMC in Miami on his experience as a producer and an engineer.[20] Later that year, Schwartz produced and co-wrote Kylie Minogue's "Timebomb". While working under the alias of M'black, in early 2013 he had a number 1 on the US dance charts with the song "Crush".[21]

In 2014, Schwartz co-wrote and co-produced Madison Beer's single "Unbreakable". He produced and co-wrote Cheryl Cole's "Only Human",[22] the song was remixed for radio by drum and bass producer Wilkinson as well as producing and writing for Selah Sue's number 1 Album, Reason, Union J, Ruen Brothers, Holychild, Pitbull & Sophia Del Carmen.

Crossing over from 2014 to 2015 his song "Outlines"[23] by Mike Mago Ft. Dragonette entered at #8 in the UK singles charts. Matt has been working with alternative band All Tvvins on their debut album, their first single "Thank You" becoming song of the week on XFM radio in March 2015[24] and has been working with NERVO on their debut Album, Collateral, mixing/co-producing several records including "The Other Boys" Ft. Kylie, Jake Shears and Nile Rodgers and Avicci's "You're gonna love again"[25]

On 23 January 2016, "Fear Nothing" by Selah Sue which was co-written and produced by Matt and won the North Vision song contest in Zurich.

In January 2018, he produced songs on Yungblud's EP, "Yungblud"[26] and Peking Duk's "Wasted" on Sony Music Australia, opening at #5 on Spotify's NMF US.[27]

In January 2019, Yungblud released "Loner" and "11 Minutes" with Halsey and Travis Barker which Matt produced and co-wrote.[28] Yungblud's second EP "The Underrated Youth", produced and co-written by Matt, entered the UK Charts at No 6.[29]

In December 2020 YUNGBLUD's Second Album, Weird! which Matt has co produced and co written[30] has topped the UK charts entering the no 1 position[31] in week 51 of the year.

In 2021 Matt Produced and co-written Patience by KSI featuring YUNGBLUD and Polo G which entered the UK Big Top 40 at number one.[32]

2022 saw the release of YUNGBLUD’s third album which Matt co-wrote and produced several songs [33] on including the singles Tissues [34] and Don’t feel like feeling sad today.[35] The album topped the charts in 6 countries.

He resides in London and works from his production facility in the West End.[36]

DJ work

In 2005 Matt took his first step as a DJ performing at the Paris Techno parade to 400,000 people as The Drill.[37]

He has since played many international gigs under his 'The Drill sound system' and 'DADA sound system' and with his Deepest Blue Project.[38]

Producer work

Number one records

YearArtistTracksAlbumRoleUK Chart PositionClub ChartOther ChartsCertificate
1997Wamdue Project"King of My Castle"RemixerNo. 1No. 1
1998Massive Attack"Dissolved Girl"MezzanineWriterNo. 1 (Album)No. 1Platinum
2000 DJ EncoreAlbumIntuitionWriter, producerNo. 1 Denmark
20014tune500"Dancing in the Dark"Artist/Writer/ProducerNo. 1
2002Matt Schwartz"Can You Feel"Artist/ Writer/ProducerNo. 42No. 1
2002M-Gee"Body Swerve"Artist/Writer/Producer
  1. 1
2003Deepest Blue"Deepest Blue"Late SeptemberArtist/Writer/Producer
  1. 7
  1. 1
2004Deepest Blue"Give It Away"Late SeptemberArtist/Writer/Producer
  1. 8
  1. 1
2005The Drill"The Drill"Artist/Writer/ProducerFrance No. 1
2006DADA"Lollipop"Artist/Writer/Producer
  1. 18
  1. 1
Spain No. 8
2008Deepest Blue"Miracle"Artist/Writer/Producer
  1. 1
2009DADA"Stereo Flo"Artist/Writer/Producer
  1. 1
Russia No. 5
2010M'Black"Heartbreak"Artist/Writer/ProducerBillboard airplay No. 1
2010Olly Murs"A Million More Years"Olly MursWriterNo. 1 (Album)2× Platinum
2011DADA & Mastiksoul ft. Akon"Bang It All"Artist/Writer/ProducerHolland No. 1
2012Kylie Minogue"Timebomb"Writer/Producer
  1. 31
  1. 1
Billboard airplay No. 1
2012Conor Maynard featuring Ne-Yo"Turn Around"ContrastRemix/Production
  1. 8
  1. 1
2014/15Mike Mago & DragonetteOutlinesWriter / Producer
  1. 8
  1. 1 upfront club top 40
  1. 1 UK Indie charts, UK Cool Cuts No. 1 #1 commercial pop top 30 (music week) #4 (midweek charts)
2xPlatinum
2015CherylOnly HumanWriter / Producer
  1. 7 (Album)
  1. 1 MTV (16 feb 2015) #1 Viva TV
Silver
2015 (Album)/2016 (single)Selah SueFear NothingWriter/Producer
  1. 1 Album Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands
Gold (Bel)
2018 Peking DukWastedWriter/Producer
  1. 1 Lithuania iTunes
2019Yungblud with Halsey and Travis Barker11 MinutesWriter/Producer
  1. 1 New music Friday UK&AU Spotify[39]
Platinum Aus/Gold US
2020YUNGBLUDWeird!Writer/Producer
  1. 1 Album
  1. 1 UK Official Album Charts[40]
Silver
2021KSI featuring YUNGBLUD & Polo GPatienceWriter/Producer
  1. 3
  1. 1 UK Big Top 40[41]
2022YUNGBLUD (Album 3)Writer/Producer
  1. 1 [42]
  1. 1 Ireland [43]
  2. 1 Scotland [44]
  3. 1 Australia [45]
  4. 1 Austria [46]
  5. 1 New Zealand [47]

Other singles / album tracks

2013Bo Bruce"Save Me"Before I SleepWriter/Production
  1. 10 (Album)
2013Lawson"Love Locked Out" Chapman SquareWriter/Production
  1. 4 (Album)
2014Madison Beer"Unbreakable" Writer/Production
2014Cheryl Cole"Only Human" Only HumanWriter/Production
  1. 6 (Album)
2014Union J"Song for you and I" You Got It AllWriter/Production
2014Kylie Minogue"Sparks" Writer/Producer
2015Lawson"Mountains" Writer
2015All Tvvins"Darkest Ocean" Writer/Producer
2016Lawson"Money"Writer
2016Joe and Jake"You're Not Alone"Writer/Producer
2016NCT (band)"Without You"Writer/Production
2016M.O"Too Good"Writer/Production[48]
2016All Tvvins"IIVV" (Album)Production/Writer
  1. 2 Album (Ireland)[49]
2017Yungblud"I Love You, Will You Marry Me"Production/Writer[50]
2018BRYN"Pull Up"Production/Writer
2018Yungblud feat. Charlotte Lawrence"Falling Skies" from 13 Reasons Why Season 213 Reasons Why - S2 soundtrackProduction/Writer[51]
2018Bullet for My Valentine"Letting You Go" and "Under Again"GravityWriter[52]
2018Yungblud"Medication", "Machine Gun (F**k The NRA)", "Psychotic Kids", "Anarchist", "I Love You, Will You Marry Me", "Polygraph Eyes", "Kill Somebody" and "21st Century Liability"21st Century LiabilityProducer/writer[53]
2019Yungblud"Braindead!" and "Casual Sabotage"The Underrated Youth EPProducer/writer[54]
2020JC Stewart"I need you to hate me"Producer/Writer[55]
2024Master Peace"Lodge", "Panic101", "Start You Up", "I Might Be Fake", "Sick in The Bathroom", "Heaven", and "Happiness is Love"How To Make A Master PeaceProducer/Writer[56]

Selected discography

Location timeline

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dissolved Girl . 8 April 2021 . MassiveAttack.ie.
  2. Web site: Birdcage Music . Birdcage.
  3. Web site: Matt Schwartz – Mix Engineer . 26 August 1998 . Discogs.
  4. Web site: King of My Castle Info . 26 August 1999 . Discogs.
  5. Web site: JTQ – A bigger Picture . AllMusic.com.
  6. Web site: Working with Gil Goldberg . Duedil.
  7. Web site: 4Tune – 500 Dancing in the Dark . 26 August 2023 . Discogs.
  8. Web site: Theme Tune for Sky Sports . KGB Answers.
  9. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=m'black|chart=all}} Billboard Artist – Mblack ]. Billboard.
  10. Web site: Matt Schwartz – DanceEnergy . 23 March 2009 . DanceEnergy.
  11. Web site: DADA feat Sandy Rivera – Lollipop . BBC.
  12. Web site: Swedish Charts Matt Schwartz . Swedish Charts.
  13. Web site: The Drill – Firetruck . HousePlanet . 15 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100106133250/http://www.houseplanet.dj/index.php/September-2008/The-Drill-feat.-Firetruck-Antartica-Piano-Mano-Club-Mix-Destined-Records.html . 6 January 2010 . dead .
  14. Web site: Deepest Blue – Uaudio . Uaudio.
  15. Web site: Deepest Blue . Berube Communications.
  16. Web site: Trevor Horn Update The Mack . PerfectSongs.
  17. Web site: All Music – Olly Murs . All Music.
  18. Web site: Robbie Williams Discography . RobbieWilliams.com.
  19. Web site: DADA & Mastiksoul featuring Akon . Dutch Charts.
  20. Web site: Winter Music Conference . Winter Music Conference.
  21. Web site: M'black Crush track . FMQB Productions . 13 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120903065955/http://www.fmqbproductions.com/dance/ . 3 September 2012 . dead .
  22. Web site: Cheryl Cole . Pop Justice.
  23. Web site: Outlines track . 16 February 2015 . Discogs.
  24. Web site: Thank you track . XFM.
  25. Web site: You're gonna love again track . 3 July 2012 . Discogs.
  26. Web site: Yungblud EP . indiecentral.
  27. Web site: Wasted Spotify US NMF chart . Spotify.
  28. Web site: ii minutes . 15 February 2019 . NME.
  29. Web site: Top 10 . Official Charts.
  30. Web site: Weird!. Universal music.
  31. Web site: Weird!. Official Charts.
  32. Web site: genius credits . Genius.
  33. News: BBC YUNGBLUD Matty . BBC News . 4 September 2022 .
  34. Web site: credits tissues . kkbox.
  35. Web site: credits . Genius.
  36. Web site: New Recording Studio . Prism Sound.
  37. Web site: The Drill – Techno Paris Parade . 12 September 2005 . Melty.
  38. Web site: The man behind The Drill, Deepest Blue and DADA . Club District.
  39. Web site: 11 minutes . Spotify.
  40. Web site: Weird! no 1 . official Charts.
  41. Web site: number 1 big top 40 . Big Top 40.
  42. Web site: number 1 UK . official charts.
  43. Web site: number 1 UK . Official charts.
  44. Web site: number 1 Scotland. Official charts.
  45. Web site: interpret=Yungblud&titel=Yungblud&cat=a/ number 1 Australia. aria.
  46. Web site: number 1 UK . official charts.
  47. Web site: number 1 UK . N top 40.
  48. Web site: Too Goog – MO . Hamada.
  49. Web site: IIVV – All Tvvins . irma.
  50. Web site: ILYWYMM . 21 October 2017 . Discogs.
  51. Web site: Falling Skies (featuring Charlotte Lawrence) . My Soundf.
  52. Web site: Letting you go . 19 May 2018 . All about music.
  53. Web site: 21st Century Liability . Umusic.
  54. Web site: Underrated youth . 20 October 2019 . celebmix.
  55. Web site: JC Stewart shares his new single "I need you to hate me". Warner Music.
  56. Web site: Master Peace . 2024-03-08 . PMR Records . en-US.
  57. Web site: Nova (8) – All This Love (vinyl) at Discogs . Discogs.com . 2 September 2005 . 29 January 2012.