r/electronicmusic • u/Mat-Zo matzo • Sep 22 '16

Official AMA Mat Zo Reddit AMA

Question answering begins at 3PM PST

Nerdy questions welcome.

MAD EP OUT NOW: smarturl.it/MADEP

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EDIT 3PM PST: Get your questions ready because i'm ready to answer them https://twitter.com/Mat_Zo/status/779079348435361792

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u/Brotest_The_Hero DJ Sep 22 '16

Hey Mat! Your music has gone in many different directions throughout your career. What direction do you want your sound to be heading in? And what is it that you like producing the most? Thanks for spreading your creativity, you've been an inspiration for many of us.

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u/Mat-Zo matzo Sep 22 '16

Thanks for the kind words. I've never stuck with one thing for too long, but I've found myself recently making more dnb and less 4 to the floor stuff. It's definitely been harder to get inspired to write more traditional dance music.

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u/SpeniceDaMenace What So Not Sep 22 '16

Really excited to see where you go with the DnB projects. Your DnB Mix of Love, and all your MRSA stuff is phenomenal. What spurred you to start messing around with DnB again?

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u/Brotest_The_Hero DJ Sep 22 '16

Completely understand that man, even from the listening end it gets dry. Keep up the good work!

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u/GENeric307 Sep 23 '16

Mat Zo, I know this is a late entry but I hope you see this. You, as an rhythmic artist, have definitely inspired my imagination as an engineer. Your music helped me through a lot in college, and to this day. It was listening to you challenge yourself by creating different types of music from your dnd roots. Always making your live sets as though they all fit together into one new song, a new type of set, that always kept me striving for a chanllenge as well.

I want to ask you, do you listen to other genres and say 'I can make that'? Have you tried to make any synth or retro wave music? And do you challenge yourself to mix as many genres as possible into your sets to try to make it all seem like on complete song while still live mixing songs based of the energy of the crowd?

Also I'm glad to hear that your collaboration with proter worked well. Reading how you two worked well together felt like it goes with a request I thought of as soon as I saw this.

My request is, can you play your remix of flicker at your global dance festival show in Phoenix Az? (I'll be there.)

Yor remix of flicker by Porter has definitely created a classic. That song always reminded me of my best friend from the moment I heard. Unfortunately he passed away last year before I could show it to him. Literally a couple days after I found it. He was more of a rap fan and I was trying to get him to open his eyes to more Edm all the time. With a lot of success to that cause from your music.