Hailing from Germany and now residing in Brussels, the producer and DJ likes to dabble in a mix of urban and electronic music styles. Matter Of Tact always keeps things varied and does not pertain to any one genre, in order to create interest and challenge himself in collaborations.
"Each experience with another musician is an opportunity of originality."
Matter Of Tact has gained strong support and regard with his releases including ‘You Don’t’ featuring Husson, ‘Relief’ featuring Sharie and the ‘Apollo EP’. With the release of his fascinating new single ‘Those Days’, he kindly shares his journey with us…
Tell us about yourself and how you got into music.
When I was a child, I had the opportunity to meet an audio engineer during a rock concert. He made me meet the whole crew before the show and explained to me all the hardware he was using. I was so impressed by that, it stuck in my head. Imagine seeing a mixing table as a child… Not much after, I decided it was time to start something. I purchased my first turntables and did a lot of gigs here in Brussels. It’s also around that time I got into music production. Well, my music sucked hard back then, but as time passed by, I gained some skills and managed to make some cool beats. My first productions were kind of Trance tracks. I was much more into electronic dance music, club music, and dubstep. That changed a bit as I started trying to build my own sounds and not compose bangers only.
Can you reveal any information about the EP you’re working on, and when can we expect to hear it?
A bit of a secret ha! More seriously, there are a few tracks coming and you should expect to hear them around October. Those are a bit different from my last releases. I have been working on them for some time now and some of them go back to the roots of my project. In fact sometimes I reopen older projects that I totally forgot about and then magic happens.
Can you tell us a little about the music industry in Brussels?
Yes! People are cool here. I mean Brussels is so small and, as such, you quickly know everyone or someone who knows someone. The only thing that I sometimes miss here is more venues. Outside the festival season, Belgium is known for, you don’t have that many opportunities for live gigs. They exist but not too often.
DJ’ing or producing, describe your musical style.
I think producing, as it gives you so much freedom. My style is various, electronic and sometimes heavy. I try not to focus on specific genres, as I find it much more exciting to just try out things and see where the music is going. I’m also trying to build up a live show in the long term!
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