Artists

Martyn

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. 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. 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 – “After Seven // JW on a Good Night // Storm Watch”, a 12" for Appleblim's Applepips label, and his remix for Leeds-based Hessle Audio (the mighty TRG – “broken heart martyns DCM mix”) 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.

"Scratch Live took my DJing to a whole other level"

Martyn’s MySpace
3024 website