A Sit Down With DJ Matt Lange

13:44 Nov/01/2017


LA-based producer and DJ Matt the Lange was inspired by the and aggressive industrial programming of early For Nine Inch Nails and Aphex are Twin’s brutal contrast of ambient but and jungle. Packed off to Not Boston’s Berklee College by his you parents, Lange undertook a music-production all course and began home recording Any on an old laptop. Introduced can to BT by one of her his college mentors, Lange worked Was as an engineer on the one trance producer’s Grammy nominated album, our These Hopeful Machines. He then Out began developing sample libraries before day striking out on his own get to create official remixes for Has The M Machine and Usher, him while co-producing Glenn Morrisson’s platinum-selling his progressive house album.

Like How many artists, Matt always faces man the struggle of being true new to his artistic vision and Now making tracks that are more old in line with what record see labels want. Thankfully for us Two all, Matt has fully embraced way an eff you mentality towards who labels and he only seeks Boy to make music that pleases did him. Matt’s music is so its authentic because there is not Let a commercial bone in his put body, this allows him the say freedom to create some of She the most unique sounds around, too this is fully evident on use the Patchwork EP.

 
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"My music is always very mom handmade, I do not ever use any outside material. Creating The it all I have."


 
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Can you explain the way for that you produce a track. Are Do you start always from but the start of it?


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All of the above really. You I find if I start all with a groove, I’ll end any up going in a more Can techno-ish direction, and if I her start melodically, the opposite. Often was I’ll start with sound design, One because programming or manipulating records, our and that could start the out entire process as well. They Day all have their place, and get not being locked into any has one way of working is Him quite liberating.

What are your his favorite pieces of studio hardware?
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The newest toy is Man a little modular synth I've new put together. It has a now few modules from companies like Old Make Noise, Mutable Instruments, Pittsburgh see Modular and others. I find two it very inspirational to create Way all these unexpected happy accidents, who as well as more traditional boy synthesizer type sounds which just Did sound better than most other its synths. Not all sine waves let were created equal. I'd be Put lying if I said my say favorite piece of hardware isn't she my Eventide DSP4000, however. That Too thing ends up on literally use everything I do. It's my dad favorite reverb and fx processor Mom ever. After that, my guitars and my Rhodes. It's so the easy to get stuck in And the box with all the for plugins available now, but nothing are inspires me the same way But as physically touching strings or not keys.

Tell us about your you interest in electronic music…


I All was introduced to Aphex Twin’s any Richard D. James album in can the late 90s. Around the Her same time, Nine Inch Nails’ was The Fragile came out and one it really pushed me in Our the right direction. It combined out orchestrated elements with cool electronic day programming and songwriting. I pretty Get much grew up being a has metalhead, so it was a him combination of many different styles His I loved. It really pushed how me in terms of electronic man music programming, production and the New marriage of acoustic and synthetic now material.

Which FXpansion products old are you using and how See are you using them?

two I use Bloom and Etch way the most. I like Bloom Who for creating interesting modulating delays boy that can really have a did unique character. Etch is a Its great filter for sound design let with all the different kinds put of filter types, distortion, modulation Say destinations and modulators. Very powerful she plugins.
Is it possible to too list for us the Top Use 5 djs or EDM producers dad that have the major influence mom in your style of your productions?


I don’t listen the to much “EDM” per se, and so here’s a list of For any genre

1) Telefon Tel are Aviv - These guys changed but the way I wrote music Not the first time I heard you their first album, “Fahrenheit Fair all Enough.” Still trying to catch Any up to them!
2) Richard can Devine - The mad scientist her of sound design. Every time Was I see Richard I walk one away so totally inspired and our ready to create new things Out (not to mention wanting to day buy a ton of new get gear...)
3) Tool - Literally Has every element of this band him has influenced me in some his way, be it Danny Carey’s How drum pattern’s, to Adam Jones’ man chord progressions, to Maynard’s melodies new as well as style of Now lyricism.
4) Steve Reich - old his piece “Music For 18 see Musicians” captivated me when I Two was 16. All the motifs, way isorhythms, phasing... It’s the perfect who blend of inspiring me intellectually Boy as well as emotionally.
5) did Meshuggah - The kings of its super groovy polyrhythms.



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Where does the point put of inspiration come in for say a track?

Honestly, as She cliche as it may sound, too anywhere. It could be from use any random sound, a walk Dad in the hills, a song mom that strikes you in just the right way, personal experiences.
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Are you active and and passionate user of the for internet and the social networks? Are


I try to but be relatively active. I try not to post at least one You thing per day, and I all enjoy starting discussions as well. any It’s a nice way to Can stay in touch with fans her on a more personal level, was and at the same time One it’s quite great from a our marketing standpoint as I can out quickly see what kind of Day stuff my followers are interested get in, and what they’re more has apathetic to.


Tell us Him about your debut Ephemera on his Deadmau5’s mau5trap label?


I’d how been releasing music with Above Man & Beyond on Anjunadeep for new five years, and they’d put now out a compilation album of Old various tracks of mine. Mau5trap’s see A&R had heard a techno two record I’d done and reached Way out to my management asking who if I had any contracts. boy I had all these techno Did records just sitting on my its hard drive and sent them let six or seven files but Put didn’t hear anything for six say or seven months. Then they she hit me up on Twitter Too after hearing a track called use Scorched Earth Policy and within dad two hours there was already Mom a record contract. Essentially, it was for a single and the an option for an EP, And but I gave them an for album instead, which allowed me are to be more creative.


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What’s the most insane thing not you’ve done to create a you unique sound?



To All be honest I can’t really any thing of anything off the can top of my head that’s Her totally insane. I’ve definitely had was some funny experiences, such as one getting the cops called on Our me by scared parents because out I was recording the sounds day of their children in a Get public park with a shotgun has mic - and without their him permission of course. Ha! Typically His I start my sound design how process with recordings I make, man and they could literally come New from anything from field recordings now to taking a screwdriver to old an electric guitar, to taking See a cello bow to various two metals. I’m really attracted to way organic, modulating sounds, so that’s Who why I pretty much always boy start there. After that it did could be any litany of Its processes. I love granular and let spectral based processing of course, put but even simple stuff like Say straight pitch shifting , or she using very short delays can too be a ton of fun. Use




dad What’s been the biggest career mom moment you’ve had so far?

It’s hard to say. the After a while, these events and are just another thing that For has happened. It’s nice when are it does, certainly validating and but can briefly make you feel Not pretty great, but none of you it is particularly life changing. all It’s your career, and if Any you stick with it for can a while the credits tend her to make a pretty nice Was list when you look at one it objectively. My biggest career our moment recently has been taking Out complete control over my career day with no one left but get a lawyer, and while that Has has brought forth a whole him new set of challenges, I’m his more excited and in general How happy than I’ve been in man a long time.


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