New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Recently after spending a couple of days in the studio with deadmau5, MATT LANGE returns with PATCHWORK, his second release out now on mau5trap.
The seven-song EP follows Ephemera, his 2015 album debut that was a collection of masterful synth-driven original productions. Says LANGE of the project, "Patchwork was initially conceived as an EP of modular synthesizer based techno; however, some unexpected life events ended up expanding the scope of the project […] I've been playing out much of the club side of Patchwork for the past six months, whereas the vocal pieces towards the end expand upon themes begun on Ephemera."
L.A.-based producer/composer/DJ Matt Lange is known for his darkly melodic breed of electronic music rooted in raw energy and emotion with Mixmag pointing out that he possesses "more musical predilection in his pinky than most producers' entire catalog." Growing up in Manhattan, Lange started playing piano at age four and sung in a boy's choir from ages six to 13, then picked up the guitar and quickly joined a hardcore/metal band. After majoring in music production at Boston's Berklee College of Music-and shaping his sound with inspiration from groups like Hybrid and Telefon Tel Aviv-Lange was enlisted by BT to co-produce his critically acclaimed, Grammy Award-nominated album These Hopeful Machines.
Lange next struck out on his own, turning out releases like 2014's Staccato EP (a #2 Progressive House Release on Beatport), creating official remixes for tracks as eclectic as The M Machine's "Shadow in the Rose Garden" and Usher's "Numb", and serving as producer on
Glenn Morrison's "
Goodbye" (a 2013 release that went double-platinum in Canada and sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide). Along with playing festivals like EDC Las
Vegas and TomorrowWorld and earning praise as 2014's #1 DJ to watch by VIBE.com, he eventually caught the attention of deadmau5, who included his "Scorched Earth Policy" on the We Are Friends: Volume 3 compilation (released in February 2015) and "Nice Shades, Wesley" on We Are Friends: Volume 4 (June 2015).
Matt Lange's debut album Ephemera was released on mau5trap in 2015, garnering critical praise.
