DJ Matthias - Almost Forever Young (STRUCTURAL33)

ALMOST FOREVER YOUNG

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

“Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all.” 

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Music Gives A Soul The Universe,
Wings to The mind,
Flight to The Imagination,
And life to everything !!!!!

Plato

Back in my younger years ...
If I want to record a song!
I used my old recorder 
next to the radio 
and I kept sitting wait 
until there was a cool song 
and as soon as
I could push record !!!

Retour dans mes jeunes années ...
Si je veux enregistrer une chanson!
Je ai utilisé mon vieux magnétoscope à côté de la radio 
et je continuais assis attendre 
qu'il y ait une chanson cool 
et dès que je pouvais pousser fiche !!!

Zurück in meinen jungen Jahren ...
Wenn ich will, um einen Song aufzunehmen!
Früher habe ich meine alten Recorder neben dem Radio und ich hielt sitzt warten, bis es ein cooler Song, und sobald ich konnte Rekord drücken!!!

***DJ MATTHIAS (BELGIUM) - DeejayMatthiasBelgium***

- Collecting, Playing & Mixing Vinyl Records. 

- Producing, Mastering & Releasing Easy, New & Original Electronic Dance Music. 

01. SHORT HISTORY

Born in 1983 and 'discovered' New Beat at the end of the '8o's. From that moment, I became a young fan of Electronic Music and started listening the local radio stations & recording my favorite songs on tape (TOPRADIO SIS & Dance Radio Plus). Good points at school resulted in my preferred present: a Compact Disc. I collected all Compilations and learned titles from Producers/Artists by heart. It was a period of listening all weekends to the charts. Local artists were pushed and there was a big local radio-community where greetings were given and you could call asking to play your favorite number.

02. DEEJAY

In 1997, I started to collect vinyl records (quite expensive for a student) although my first opportunities to play them was at the local radiostation and at schoolparties where the majority of the crowd experienced his first night 'going out'.
Later on, I continued my musical tour in local pubs, on Wedding & Birthdayparties, business events, some New Years eve parties but also the Belgian clubs, disco's and afterclubs. 
I was sharing the title of 'Forum Administrator' on a Belgian webforum which became a digital market of clubbing people who shared their emotions, experiences, opinions, musical preferences, publicity for parties and digitalised mixtapes (Legendaryclubs.be).
In 2006, I made my Thesis about the history of House Music and the Marketing Strategy of N.E.W.S. (2006).
In 2009 I was involved in a project powered by Studio Brussel (National Radiostation) and sponsored by Red Bull: This Book is Elektronic. A small selection of articles and flyers representing Belgian nightlife during a period of 30 years. This inspiring book also reveal some interviews with legendary Belgian artists.

03. EVENT ORGANISER

Balmoral, The Reunion - a yearly event with the responsibility of coordinating the marketing & the communication with my artists.
Love vs Life - an evenement which took place during Gentse Feesten and with the responsibility of marketing and publicity.

04. COMPONIST - PRODUCER

In 2021 I started composing or producing my own musical productions. The philosophy I have in the studio is based on 2 convictions. First of all, I remarked during last decades that a lot of new releases within electronic music were reworked, remixed or, at least, resampled music of previous music productions. The House scene gives me an image of deprivation between artists. I fully proof with my music there is still a lot of inspiration available and I always maintain 3 values while working in my studio: NEW, ORIGINAL & EASY.
My second conviction is the role of everybody in this artistical process. The artist is doing 'the artist-thing' and the deejays, radios, public places or 'the crowd' is doing 'the publicity-thing'. We should not gossip about the meaning of good or bad taste neither we should pay for it. In reality, it mean that I do everything on my own: Inspiration, creation, production, mastering & distribution of all my projects without investing 1 coin in it (except my Soundcloud-profile).

Feel free to listen & to share and do not forget to dance!

ALMOST FOREVER YOUNG

DJ Matthias (BELGIUM)