Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist and a bandleader. Dear maintains four aliases (Audion, False, Jabberjaw, and Matthew Dear), each with its own style and distinct visual identity. In the span of a few years, he has established himself as one of America's foremost electronic music producers.
Texas-born Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of Detroit Techno. He met Sam Valenti IV at a party while attending the University of Michigan, after which the two created the record label, Ghostly International, based on a shared love of electronic music.
Dear’s first album Leave Luck to Heaven appeared in 2003 and was praised widely as a seminal fusion of pop and minimal techno. In 2007, he released his full length, Asa Breed which was a considerable departure from his previous album, incorporating the polyrhythms of Afrobeat, the irreverent pop sensibilities of Brian Eno, and the austere beauty of Krautrock.
His most recent excursions have found him at the doorsteps of the minimal-but-funky regime of techno music. Latest album, Black City, was released on August 17, 2010 and is being promoted to conceptualize a futuristic metropolis that never sleeps.
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Source: Ghostly International, Wikipedia
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