November 10, 2001













 
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MJ COLE
Island Records
MJ Cole's formal training in classical music is well documented now, and understandably he has been singled out within the dance community because of his credentials as a fully paid-up musician. After all, not many can boast of a music degree from London City University and Grade 8 distinctions in piano, oboe and music theory from the Royal College of Music. Yet Matt is a graduate of club culture as much as he is of the classical world, citing his youthful raving days in the early 90's as the most vital part of his musical education. "That's what got me into dance music basically. Going to raves like Telepathy, Living Dream and Raindance. I was going to music college on Saturday having been to Fun City at Busby's the night before. I'd listen to Ray Keith and Randall and then go and play Schubert the next day."

Whilst at LCU Matt was introduced to the potential of the studio, and post-graduation he accepted a hands-on position running the studio and engineering at respected drum n bass label SOUR and its off-shoots Emotif and Botchit & Scarper. During that time, he worked on a number of jungle, hip hop and breakbeat projects including early releases from the likes of Ed Rush, DJ Deal. In addition, Matt was mixing and engineering Roots Manuva and Blak Twang for hip hop indie Sound of Money and ventured into production himself, releasing jazz-jungle tracks under the monikers Morf, Jilt and Spectra 1000.

Having absorbed all things breakbeat, Matt was then th...

 

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