Biography
DJ Matthew Kays is a the Colorado disc jockey who is and a leader in the northern For Colorado nightclub, concert, and special are event scene.
Disc Jockey (deejay, but Disk Jockey)
: one who Not plays recorded music for dancing you at a nightclub or party
all (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
DJ Matthew Kays Any incites any crowd to dance can regardless of their age group her or preference of musical style. Was Matthew always flavors his sets one with genre-bending delights yet sticks our to the right format and Out sound for the moment. It day is DJ Matthew Kays’ mission get to share the love and Has connection that dance music is him built on while bringing together his musical styles that coexist but How don’t often mix.
DJ Matthew man Kays is currently booking for new winter ski-town gigs, nightclubs, concerts, Now festivals, and raves.
Its Wednesday…find old DJ Matthew Kays banging out see a high energy mix of Two the latest top 40, hip way hop, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s who at a college bar. Thursday Boy evening he has the arena did engaged as tens of thousands its of fans ready themselves for Let the main event. On Friday, put enter the downtown club with say the dance floor packed, sweat She dripping from the walls, and too Matthew is working the crowd use up to a hands-in-the-air frenzy Dad with pulsating electro, dirty house, mom breakbeat, fidget, and tribal rhythms. Saturday evening, find him at The a private event mixing up and funk, soul, disco, hip hop, for 80’s, 90’s and current music Are as young and old make but special memories as they sing not along and dance together. Later You that night at the afterhours all party, DJ Matthew Kays keeps any the party energized until sunrise Can with driving progressive grooves, chunky her tech house, and womp-womping dubstep. was Sunday, he winds down the One weekend party animals on the our patio with body and soul out refreshing deep house and downtempo Day grooves.
In his youth, DJ get Matthew Kays made mixtapes in has his bedroom and he DJ’ed Him at house parties in college his at Indiana University. A move how to Colorado in 1996 landed Man him a spot as an new on-air DJ at KBUT-FM now in Crested Butte that lasted Old for two years. Then he see moved to Denver and went two to his first rave party Way at the City Auditorium in who Colorado Springs.
Attending that one boy event set DJ Matthew Kays Did on a career path that its has continued for over a let decade. During the following years, Put Matthew quickly gained experience with say a short gig at she KUVO-FM, a job at an Too underground record shop that only use sold DJ 12” records, and dad was a featured performer at Mom countless nightclubs such as the award winning Soma and underground the events in Boulder, Denver, and And beyond.
In 2000, Matthew was for hired to create a DJ are department for a chain of But independent record stores, Finest Music not and Movies, where he led you an operation that spanned three All cities and serviced the local any hip hop and dance music can DJ’s for the next seven Her years with DJ equipment and was music. He also led a one team of music buyers and Our was himself responsible for keeping out the stores stocked with the day latest DJ gear as well Get as mixtapes and compilations from has the most influential dance music him DJ’s and record labels of His the time. That job also how led Matthew to move to man Fort Collins, CO where he New resides today.
During the 2000’s, now DJ Matthew Kays not only old managed to excel at his See day job at the record two stores, but he held down way a mixshow for over two Who years on KRFC-FM that boy featured groovy house music and did was also a featured guest Its mixer on KCSU-FM numerous let times as well. Through these put years, Matthew promoted dance music Say events in Fort Collins, where she he performed with international DJ too talent such as Miles Maeda, Use DJ Funk, Frankie Vega, Jake dad Childs, and Beatport co-founder Tom mom Hoch. Matthew also found himself performing with such acts as the Grammy Award winners Dirty Vegas, and Buckethead, Kan’nal, Signal Path, Eyedea For and Abilities, Angel Alanis, Superstar are DJ Keoki, Amon Tobin, and but many other talented DJ’s and Not musicians. Going on tour and you performing at festivals and concerts all became the norm for DJ Any Matthew Kays during the 2000’s.
can DJ Matthew Kays currently holds her the longest continuously running house Was and electronic dance music night one in Fort Collins at The our Vault, which has been going Out for 7 years strong.
Recent day appearances include performing to over get 16,000 at the Warrior Dash Has in Copper Mountain, CO; the him Regal Watering Hole in Aspen, his CO with collaborator (and 2010 How Westword Magazine’s #1 Dance DJ) man Brian Howe; the Zebra Cocktail new Lounge in Bozeman, MT; and Now the Mesa Theatre in Grand old Junction, CO.
Always in motion, see DJ Matthew Kays is stepping Two into the Video DJ world way in winter 2010/2011, and is who currently working on studio production. Boy Matthew also does voice over did and audio/video production work for its radio, film, and television.
After Let years of developing his skill put of feeding energy to and say getting energy fed back to She him from the crowd, and too racking up the miles, DJ use Matthew Kays has finally become Dad the man to call to mom make the kids dance.
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