TAG: Mathew Jonson

Jun11

Rebel Repair :: Mathew Jonson Interview

With a career the stretches back over a dozen years, it’s hard to believe that Vancouver producer, bandleader and label head Mathew Jonson has only now gotten around to releasing his second solo album, Her Blurry Picture. Maybe that because he’s been kept busy working on collaborations as Cobblestone Jazz, Modern Deep Left Quartet and Midnight Operator. Or perhaps it because Jonson’s extensive singles catalog, including classics for Minus, Perlon and his own Wagon Repair labels, has rendered the album format unnecessary.That is, until recently when Crosstown Rebels requested a follow-up to Jonson’s 2010 solo album debut, Agents of Time. And he obliged them with a collection of tracks that fully explore his ability to craft pristine techno tunes that hold up to repeat plays at home or in the club.

Jonson talked to URB about his methods for creating music. …MORE

Feb19

Gui Boratto – Renaissance: The Mix Collection (Review)

Gui Boratto

Renaissance: The Mix Collection

Released by Renaissance


When one of electronic music’s most respected staples, Renaissance, and Brazilian DJ and producer Gui Boratto teamed up for the first time, the result can surely be compared to a spacey sound journey through an atmospheric rainforest. Boratto gets in the mix with this groovy third release for the Renaissance name, following the likes of M.A.N.D.Y, Dave Seaman and James Zabiella. For the mix, Boratto picked tracks by some of his favorite artists and producers of the moment—Tricky, Josh Wink, Martin Buttrich, Lusine, Christian Smith, Mathew Jonson, and Bomb the Base, to name a few—as well as his own material, including four never heard before productions. While one might get locked in from song two, which is a John Tejada remix of Boratto’s 2009 “Take My Breath Away,” almost every song is a trip of its own, including Tricky’s “Past Mistake” making for a surprisingly eerie, yet beautiful ending.
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