Matt Meyers has been an integral part of the UK's music scene for over 14 years now. He has run record labels, Management companies, a Studio Complex, production companies, a string of highly successful Club nights and has still found time under his many various guises to become one of the hottest Producers and Writers in Pop & Dance music and a key A&R guy behind some of the UK’s biggest Dance smashes!!
Matt Meyers (now 34) comes from a town called Oxted in Surrey where he attended St Mary’s School, where like both of his brothers, he was voted into the School Captain Position by his fellow students. Matt was bought up in a world of music and surrounded by some of the Worlds biggest Artists, due to the fact that his father 'David Meyers', was a very successful songwriter and music business entrepreneur during the 70s, 80s. David Meyers (signed as a writer to Peer Music) wrote hits for acts like Cloudagh Rogers, The Foundations and Elaine Page etc, and he also discovered the legendary Billy Ocean, who went on to do some really great things (like babysitting for Matt and his brothers during their childhood hehehe).
Matt has also had a highly successful career as a DJ, and this has seen him play at many of the World's biggest and most respected night club (Ministry Of Sound, Es Paradis etc), and DJ alongside lots of the Worlds most successful DJ/Producers (Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, Judge Jules etc).
During the 90's Matt also promoted and run a string of highly successful club nights in lots of London's premier venues, and became known as one of the leading club promoters in the UK.
Matt spent most of his time during the Nineties, whilst not promoting his club nights, networking with other DJs & Record producers and teaching himself to produce & engineer his own Pop and dance music tracks in his home studio. Matt soon adopted a freelance talent scout position for himself, and would take both his and his fellow producers tracks and pitch them to Major record label A&R guys to try and establish deals.
Matt soon, through the endeavors of his talent scout position, managed to build up a solid network of producers and a mass of record company A&R contacts. In about 1997 Matt soon realized that he wanted to move away from promoting club nights and move directly into the record industry. He took his club brand 'Thunderground' and turned it into a record licensing company that specialized in getting International deals for UK based record producers and record labels. This company did very well and Matt was soon looking for bigger premises to expand things from. In Jan 2000, Matt (and his family) took over ownership of the world famous recording studio complex at London Bridge 'The Vineyard' (previously known globally as 'The Hit Factory' through Stock, Aitken & Waterman’s success), which his family had actually owned as recording studios before renting the building to Pete waterman. Matt's family totally refurbished The Hit Factory into an ultra modern studio complex. There were 5 studios at the Vineyard complex which Matt filled with his main production teams all of who have now enjoyed major success. The Vineyard studio’s soon became one of the most competitive Production companies in the UK, and was specializing in writing & producing for High Profile Pop Acts and mainstream artists, as well as carrying on with its roots of Dance music production. It was through running the Vineyard that Matt made close business contacts with lots of the main Artist management companies about and got drawn into the more mainstream side of the industry.
Through all of Matt’s experience in the music Industry, he has gained a vast and in depth knowledge of how the music industry works. He is well versed in most areas of the industry including contractual law, Licensing, Publishing, Marketing, Promotion, creative & A&R. Over the last 6 years Matt has been managing top writers and producers and has been behind stacks of Hits as both a producer and an A&R guy. In the last four months alone Matt's new company 'Audiofreaks', has signed six of its acts to Major Labels or large independent label including Fierce Angels/AATW, Data/Ministry Of Sound, Boss Records, AATW/Universal, Gusto/Gut Records, Positiva/EMI and Sony/BMG.
Alongside his brother Warren and Kelly Mueller, Matt is known as one of the hottest production teams in the world of dance/pop music called Soulshaker (Gusto/AATW/Universal/SonyBMG), and to date they have enjoyed over 12 No1 dance chart hits and around forty top 40 dance chart entries.
These days Matt & his team concentrate on their production/management company called Audiofreaks, which specializes in writing and producing Pop, MOR and Dance music as well as managing mainstream artists and producers alike. In its first Year (2005) Audio-freaks quickly became one of the most successful Pop and Dance music production companies in the UK, and are now the subject of constant Major Record Label attention. Audiofreaks is home to some of the Worlds hottest producers, writers & artists such as 'Kelly Mueller' of whom Matt personally manages, and adopt a very much family orientated vibe between its creative teams.
Matt Meyers (now 34) comes from a town called Oxted in Surrey where he attended St Mary’s School, where like both of his brothers, he was voted into the School Captain Position by his fellow students. Matt was bought up in a world of music and surrounded by some of the Worlds biggest Artists, due to the fact that his father 'David Meyers', was a very successful songwriter and music business entrepreneur during the 70s, 80s. David Meyers (signed as a writer to Peer Music) wrote hits for acts like Cloudagh Rogers, The Foundations and Elaine Page etc, and he also discovered the legendary Billy Ocean, who went on to do some really great things (like babysitting for Matt and his brothers during their childhood hehehe).
Matt has also had a highly successful career as a DJ, and this has seen him play at many of the World's biggest and most respected night club (Ministry Of Sound, Es Paradis etc), and DJ alongside lots of the Worlds most successful DJ/Producers (Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, Judge Jules etc).
During the 90's Matt also promoted and run a string of highly successful club nights in lots of London's premier venues, and became known as one of the leading club promoters in the UK.
Matt spent most of his time during the Nineties, whilst not promoting his club nights, networking with other DJs & Record producers and teaching himself to produce & engineer his own Pop and dance music tracks in his home studio. Matt soon adopted a freelance talent scout position for himself, and would take both his and his fellow producers tracks and pitch them to Major record label A&R guys to try and establish deals.
Matt soon, through the endeavors of his talent scout position, managed to build up a solid network of producers and a mass of record company A&R contacts. In about 1997 Matt soon realized that he wanted to move away from promoting club nights and move directly into the record industry. He took his club brand 'Thunderground' and turned it into a record licensing company that specialized in getting International deals for UK based record producers and record labels. This company did very well and Matt was soon looking for bigger premises to expand things from. In Jan 2000, Matt (and his family) took over ownership of the world famous recording studio complex at London Bridge 'The Vineyard' (previously known globally as 'The Hit Factory' through Stock, Aitken & Waterman’s success), which his family had actually owned as recording studios before renting the building to Pete waterman. Matt's family totally refurbished The Hit Factory into an ultra modern studio complex. There were 5 studios at the Vineyard complex which Matt filled with his main production teams all of who have now enjoyed major success. The Vineyard studio’s soon became one of the most competitive Production companies in the UK, and was specializing in writing & producing for High Profile Pop Acts and mainstream artists, as well as carrying on with its roots of Dance music production. It was through running the Vineyard that Matt made close business contacts with lots of the main Artist management companies about and got drawn into the more mainstream side of the industry.
Through all of Matt’s experience in the music Industry, he has gained a vast and in depth knowledge of how the music industry works. He is well versed in most areas of the industry including contractual law, Licensing, Publishing, Marketing, Promotion, creative & A&R. Over the last 6 years Matt has been managing top writers and producers and has been behind stacks of Hits as both a producer and an A&R guy. In the last four months alone Matt's new company 'Audiofreaks', has signed six of its acts to Major Labels or large independent label including Fierce Angels/AATW, Data/Ministry Of Sound, Boss Records, AATW/Universal, Gusto/Gut Records, Positiva/EMI and Sony/BMG.
Alongside his brother Warren and Kelly Mueller, Matt is known as one of the hottest production teams in the world of dance/pop music called Soulshaker (Gusto/AATW/Universal/SonyBMG), and to date they have enjoyed over 12 No1 dance chart hits and around forty top 40 dance chart entries.
These days Matt & his team concentrate on their production/management company called Audiofreaks, which specializes in writing and producing Pop, MOR and Dance music as well as managing mainstream artists and producers alike. In its first Year (2005) Audio-freaks quickly became one of the most successful Pop and Dance music production companies in the UK, and are now the subject of constant Major Record Label attention. Audiofreaks is home to some of the Worlds hottest producers, writers & artists such as 'Kelly Mueller' of whom Matt personally manages, and adopt a very much family orientated vibe between its creative teams.
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Matt Meyers Managing Director
