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Matt Schwartz | |
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| Born | 26 October 1971 Haifa, Israel |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
| Website | destined-records |
Matt Schwartz (born 26 October 1971) is an Israeli-British record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, programmer, sound engineer, mixing engineer and DJ.
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. [9] 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]
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]
| Year | Artist | Tracks | Album | Role | UK Chart Position | Club Chart | Other Charts | Certificate |
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| 1997 | Wamdue Project | "King of My Castle" | Remixer | No. 1 | No. 1 | |||
| 1998 | Massive Attack | "Dissolved Girl" | Mezzanine | Writer | No. 1 (Album) | No. 1 | Platinum | |
| 2000 | DJ Encore | Album | Intuition | Writer, producer | No. 1 Denmark | |||
| 2001 | 4tune500 | "Dancing in the Dark" | Artist/Writer/Producer | No. 1 | ||||
| 2002 | Matt Schwartz | "Can You Feel" | Artist/ Writer/Producer | No. 42 | No. 1 | |||
| 2002 | M-Gee | "Body Swerve" | Artist/Writer/Producer | #1 | ||||
| 2003 | Deepest Blue | "Deepest Blue" | Late September | Artist/Writer/Producer | #7 | #1 | ||
| 2004 | Deepest Blue | "Give It Away" | Late September | Artist/Writer/Producer | #8 | #1 | ||
| 2005 | The Drill | "The Drill" | Artist/Writer/Producer | France No. 1 | ||||
| 2006 | DADA | "Lollipop" | Artist/Writer/Producer | #18 | #1 | Spain No. 8 | ||
| 2008 | Deepest Blue | "Miracle" | Artist/Writer/Producer | #1 | ||||
| 2009 | DADA | "Stereo Flo" | Artist/Writer/Producer | #1 | Russia No. 5 | |||
| 2010 | M'Black | "Heartbreak" | Artist/Writer/Producer | Billboard airplay No. 1 | ||||
| 2010 | Olly Murs | "A Million More Years" | Olly Murs | Writer | No. 1 (Album) | 2× Platinum | ||
| 2011 | DADA & Mastiksoul ft. Akon | "Bang It All" | Artist/Writer/Producer | Holland No. 1 | ||||
| 2012 | Kylie Minogue | "Timebomb" | Writer/Producer | #31 | #1 | Billboard airplay No. 1 | ||
| 2012 | Conor Maynard featuring Ne-Yo | "Turn Around" | Contrast | Remix/Production | #8 | #1 | ||
| 2014/15 | Mike Mago & Dragonette | Outlines | Writer / Producer | #8 | #1 upfront club top 40 | #1 UK Indie charts, UK Cool Cuts No. 1 #1 commercial pop top 30 (music week) #4 (midweek charts) | 2xPlatinum | |
| 2015 | Cheryl | Only Human | Writer / Producer | #7 (Album) | #1 MTV (16 feb 2015) #1 Viva TV | Silver | ||
| 2015 (Album)/2016 (single) | Selah Sue | Fear Nothing | Writer/Producer | #1 Album Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands | Gold (Bel) | |||
| 2018 | Peking Duk | Wasted | Writer/Producer | #1 Lithuania iTunes | ||||
| 2019 | Yungblud with Halsey and Travis Barker | 11 Minutes | Writer/Producer | #1 New music Friday UK&AU Spotify [39] | Platinum Aus/Gold US | |||
| 2020 | YUNGBLUD | Weird! | Writer/Producer | #1 Album | #1 UK Official Album Charts [40] | Silver | ||
| 2021 | KSI featuring YUNGBLUD & Polo G | Patience | Writer/Producer | #3 | #1 UK Big Top 40 [41] | |||
| 2022 | YUNGBLUD | YUNGBLUD (Album 3) | Writer/Producer | #1 [42] |
| 2013 | Bo Bruce | "Save Me" | Before I Sleep | Writer/Production | #10 (Album) |
| 2013 | Lawson | "Love Locked Out" | Chapman Square | Writer/Production | #4 (Album) |
| 2014 | Madison Beer | "Unbreakable" | Writer/Production | ||
| 2014 | Cheryl Cole | "Only Human" | Only Human | Writer/Production | #6 (Album) |
| 2014 | Union J | "Song for you and I" | You Got It All | Writer/Production | |
| 2014 | Kylie Minogue | "Sparks" | Writer/Producer | ||
| 2015 | Lawson | "Mountains" | Writer | ||
| 2015 | All Tvvins | "Darkest Ocean" | Writer/Producer | ||
| 2016 | Lawson | "Money" | Writer | ||
| 2016 | Joe and Jake | "You're Not Alone" | Writer/Producer | ||
| 2016 | NCT (band) | "Without You" | Writer/Production | ||
| 2016 | M.O | "Too Good" | Writer/Production [48] | ||
| 2016 | All Tvvins | "IIVV" (Album) | Production/Writer | #2 Album (Ireland) [49] | |
| 2017 | Yungblud | "I Love You, Will You Marry Me" | Production/Writer [50] | ||
| 2018 | BRYN | "Pull Up" | Production/Writer | ||
| 2018 | Yungblud feat. Charlotte Lawrence | "Falling Skies" from 13 Reasons Why Season 2 | 13 Reasons Why - S2 soundtrack | Production/Writer [51] | |
| 2018 | Bullet for My Valentine | "Letting You Go" and "Under Again" | Gravity | Writer [52] | |
| 2018 | Yungblud | "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 Liability | Producer/writer [53] | |
| 2019 | Yungblud | "Braindead!" and "Casual Sabotage" | The Underrated Youth EP | Producer/writer [54] | |
| 2020 | JC Stewart | "I need you to hate me" | Producer/Writer [55] | ||
| 2024 | Master Peace | "Lodge", "Panic101", "Start You Up", "I Might Be Fake", "Sick in The Bathroom", "Heaven", and "Happiness is Love" | How To Make A Master Peace | Producer/Writer [56] |
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