Artist Information
Name
Martyn
Place of Residence
United Sates
Affiliations
3024 / Tectonic / Warp / Tempa
Genres
Drum and Bass / Dubstep / Techno
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Martyn has provided body moving funk to the dance floors since the mid nineties. A love for Detroit techno, Chicago house and hiphop fueled his need to be seriously involved in music. When exposed to drum & bass in 1995, Martyn was destined to take things further musically and began to lay the foundations of his career as a DJ, producer and promoter.

In 2005, Martyn’s own productions started surfacing in the drum & bass scene, and in Autumn of 05 the first high profile releases for Martyn made it to the shops on play:music and Marcus Intalex’ Revolve:r imprint. In 2007 Martyn took the world by surprise with“Broken” and “Shadowcasting”, a sizzling dubstep 12” release that came out on Revolve:r. These two tracks were definitely a breakthrough for Martyn into the wider dance music scene, as his music is now being recognized by dj’s in the techno, house and dubstep world. His tracks have been receiving healthy radio- and dj-play by great names such as Gilles Peterson, Mr. Scruff, Ricardo Villalobos, Laurent Garnier, Ame, Mark Pritchard, Skream, Kode9, Flying Lotus, The Bug, Pole, Attias, Luciano, Underground Resistance and Appleblim of Skull Disco. Full of musical ideas, Martyn finished an EP for Revolver, a 12” for Appleblim’s Applepips label, and his remix for Leeds-based Hessle Audio instantly turned Martyn into a highly in-demand remixer. Over the course of 2008, he remixed Black Pocket (aka Steve Spacek), Shut Up and Dance, Flying Lotus (on Warp), Shed (on Ostgut Ton) and remix for Ican (planet E, UR). With every release his fusion of techno, dub and dusty old samples receives more exploration.

Teaming up with old friend Erosie (one of Europe’s most talented and well known street artists), Martyn started his own label 3024 in November of 2007. The label is a playground for all the music (in various styles) Martyn is producing and collaborations with other artists. The first release came out in december 2007 : “Velvet” and “Twenty Four”, and was followed up in June 08 by “Natural Selection” and “Vancouver”. Both these releases received an enormous amount of good press and dj/radio play, and were followed by two impressive remixes (on 3024-003) by Flying Lotus and fellow dutchman 2562. With release no. 004 a solo release by 2562, no. 005 is Martyn’s debut album “Great Lengths” – an exploration of his diversity as a musician, set for release on April 20th 2009. As a DJ, Martyn has played illustrous venues such as Berghain, Robert Johnson, Fabric, Plastic People, Watergate, The End, Cielo, Club Love and festivals like BLOC, Mutek, Iceland Airwaves, Lowlands and Sonar. He is also a regular at Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder events.

Performance Information
Set Type
DJ
Set Time
4:30AM - 6:00AM
Performance Day
Showcase
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