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Martin Buttrich is famously as fluent behind a mixing console as in front of a virtual drum kit. That technical prowess, combined with a fascination for music of every shape, has resulted in outstanding releases on influential labels such as Planet E, Four:Twenty, Cocoon, Poker Flat, Nervous and Desolat. He’s also put his sonic thumbprint on many big ticket artists, notably receiving a Grammy nomination for a Tori Amos remix in 2003. Such diverse musical horizons are rare. While other prolific artists may have slowly watered down their music, Buttrich’s star has risen in diametric opposition. His vision has become more and more condensed, more and more crystallised. Flipping and puncturing grooves in a live setting is a snap for him, and he’s entranced audiences at festivals like Time Warp and Creamfields, at temples of boom such as Fabric (London), Womb (Tokyo), Cocoon (Frankfurt), Panorama Bar (Berlin) and Amnesia (Ibiza) and at worldwide Desolat Experience parties with Loco Dice.

Buttrich’s journey into electronic music began in clubs in Berlin and Hannover at the dawn of the ‘90s, when post-Summer of Love-Europe began to swing to its own hypnotic, machine-like groove. At 18 years old he began experimenting with production as X-Rotation (with Daniel Bross), which led to the projects Rhythm Assault, Sounds of Life and Phunk Diggazs (with engineer Andy Bolleshon).

Buttrich began a notorious collaboration with his then co-worker at Peppermint Jam distribution, Timo Maas, in the mid-‘90s (they worked the telephones together). After setting up his first studio in the basement of the Peppermint Park studio building, the partnership led to over 100 co-productions and remixes that included Madonna, Muse, Fatboy Slim. Josh Wink and Green Velvet. Buttrich has produced funk legend Bootsy Collins, while switching the patterns for artists including Tom Jones, Kelis, Moloko, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Yello, War and Roger Sanchez. His Azzido Da Bass “Dooms Night” remix with Timo Maas hit the UK top ten charts.
 
All the while he created an impressive library of beats and collected an arsenal of music production equipment for his studio in Timetools, a studio complex founded in 1997 in Hannover with a group of musicians. Buttrich is happy with the subtle crunch of an SP-12 sampler and the ‘smoky’ vibe of his analog mixing desk – adding a bass guitar or other instrument when necessary. But he’s not above having fun with a laptop either: approaching music programs as if they were video games. He doesn’t rely on any one machine or music composition technique, and his array of outboard gear is mouth-wateringly state of the art.
But he never loses touch with the gritty, human side of music, and the environments that it is played in.

Another key musical partnership, with Loco Dice, begun in 2002, undoubtedly inspired Buttrich to delve deeper into the musical histories that first lured him towards after-dark melodies. In a short space of time they’d built up a deep discography creating an era-defining sound in the process. They spent more than half a year living in New York in 2006/2007, with half of Buttrich’s studio set up in a rickety hideaway in Brooklyn that looked out over Manhattan’s vistas. Between late night production sessions and snowstorms, their Desolat label came to life.

Having his debut solo album Crash Test released on Desolat in early 2010, Martin Buttrich is taking his vision to the road, fusing wild imagination with solid musical architecture, cherry-picked inspiration with true perfection of his musical craft. 

Since then constantly on tour, in 2011 Martin Buttrich still has dropped a remarkable collection of music - productions like “Fire Files” EP on Desolat or remixes for Marco Carola and Lee Curtis amongst others.

Currently based in LA, Martin Buttrich is working on his second artist album and a jazz project called The Stoned Autopilot.

Stay tuned.

First Slovakian DJ to have a worldwide track premiere by Hernan Cattaneo (6th best DJ in the world at one point) in his Resident podcast Episode 158 aired May 17th 2014, also aired on our national radio station Radio_FM in 4 ELEMENTS_FM radio show presented by Michal Breeth as part of Slovakian premiere, Hernan emphasized to Michal that he can't premiere my track before he premieres it on his show, little background moment :D
you can find the premiere of the track in the 4 ELEMENTS_FM show from 16th of May 2014 at around 22nd minute on the link below:

https://www.mixcloud.com/radiofm/4-elements_fm-1652014/


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Music wizard/selector/DJ since 2003, born in 1990 in the heart of Europe
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...Circoloco, Amnesia... thats where i like to be, just right elements, places i feel good, but i love to be on the outside on the fresh air too, i wish sun never comes up but same time i love to welcome it, i wish the cycle never stops. Rave Up!

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Peace - Love - Unity.
Matthew
(here on the profile you gonna find also some tracks production just to show you that i'm not a producer, i can put together something, but i'm a dj, and that's my craft, but for you to have an idea i have put some tracks over too, sometimes i make music for myself, with no intension of the release or whatever, just to play with sounds, i hope you get the idea)
Enjoy my mixes :)

My life as a DJ started when i was 13 years old, back in 2003 before social media and long before it was normal for young kids to do so :D

https://linktr.ee/matthewsandsdj
Thank you Hernan, thank you Michal Breeth, thank you Antena DJ for helping to push my track out to the world, thank you my mum for trusting me! Best times of my life!
https://podcast.hernancattaneo.com/e/resident-episode-158-may-17-2014/

https://www.mixcloud.com/martin-kovacik/

COLOURS 8 track i grew up on(the 70s 8 track+ the old 1st 8 track recording music)that’s all you need when done well(not easy)You see the most clever thing about MUSIC is it’s individuality,it touches each person in their OWN WAY 😁.I LIVE FOR GOOSEBUMPS 😉 old skool HOUSE ACID TECH from in the day to today🤪 + DUB(syndicate)DnB DUB step + 70s/80s greats 🤯...........😁it’s ALL GOOD !!!!,live for music people it never lies to you !!!😁👍.I HOPE !!!! i give you ideas 💡 to explore 😁👍.
Headphones on,eyes closed and see the colours 🎼 has to offer.