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Martyn - Biography
Martyn (real name Martyn Deykers) 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. As a founding member and resident DJ of the Red Zone collective Martyn brought the city of Eindhoven (Holland) a range of quality drum & bass nights for 11 consecutive years. In the meantime, with the promoter role well established Martyn pursued his career taking dj’ing / producing to a next level.
u8232 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. The consequence of these two releases was that Martyn was tagged as ‘a promising new comer’ at BBC 1xtra’s Best of 2005 Chart. Martyn’s close involvement with Revolve:r/Soul:r crystallized with another 12” and four tracks on Soul:r’s compilation CD Dat:Music released in December 2006.
Martyn’s production stretches much further than the boundaries of drum & bass. 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, Pole, Attias, Luciano, Underground Resistance, Scuba, Slaughter Mob and Appleblim of Skull Disco. Full of musical ideas, Martyn finished an EP for Revolver 12” – “After Seven // JW on a Good Night // Storm Watch”, a 12" for Appleblim's Applepips label, and turned into an in-demand remixer with work for Leeds-based Hessle Audio (the mighty TRG – “broken heart martyns DCM mix”), Black Pocket aka Steve Spacek, Shut Up and Dance, Flying Lotus (on Warp) and a techno 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 with two impressive remixes on 3024-003 by Flying Lotus and fellow dutchman 2562, the imprint is destined for bigger things in 2009!
Website info:
Martyn’s MySpace:
www.myspace.com/martyndnb
3024 website
http://3024world.blogspot.com/
DISCOGRAPHY
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Martyn
REVOLVER007 - "Get Down / Black Lies" 2005
PLAYMUSIK001 - "Nxt 2 U / Deepwood" 2005
BASSBIN023 - "Cloud Convention / Believe It" 2006
OFFSHORE017 - Graphic - "I Am Metal (Martyn's 3024 Robot Mix)" 2006
REVOLVER009 - "I Wonder Why / Share My Wings" 2006
PLAYMUSIK004 - "Virgo / Missing Song" 2006
REVOLVER010 - "Get Down (Nomadico's UR remix) 2007
REVOLVER011 - "Broken / Shadowcasting" 2007
HESSLEAUDIO 004 - TRG "Broken Heart Martyns DCM mix" 2007
3024-001 - "Velvet / Twenty Four" 2007
APPLEPIPS 001 - "Suburbia / All I Have is Memories" 2008
3024-002 - "Natural Selection / Vancouver" 2008
FATCITY028 - Black Pocket aka Steve Spacek - "Ur'e a Sta (martyns mix)" 2008
SUAD63 - Shut up & Dance - "Epileptic (martyns no strobe mix)" 2008
ICAN004 - Ican - "Caminos Del Nino (martyns oscuro mix)" 2008
REVOLVE:R012 - "After 7 (w. Intalex) / JW On a Good Night / Storm Watch" 2008
CRUNCHCD1 - "Baby Baby" (City of Light CD+vinyl) 2008
3024-003 - "Natural Selection (Flying Lotus' Cleanse mix) / Vancouver (2562's Puur Natuur mix)" 2008
Forthcoming:
3024-004 - 2562 - "Embrace / Hijack" (dec 2008)
3024-005 - Martyn LP (2009)
WARP - Flying Lotus "Roberta Flack" (Martyns Heart Beat Mix) (nov 08)
HOTFLUSH - Scuba "The Upside" (Martyns Down Mix) (nov 08)
TECTONICLP - "Yet" (early 2009)
