Matt Black has been DJing and making music for around 15 years. His original love was hardcore and drum and bass but it was upon hearing a John Digweed mix tape back in 1994 that he realised his calling in life He began by playing in pubs and bars around South London before getting his first club gig in 1995. Since then he has played for a number of London's biggest underground promoters, including Absolution, Feersum, Neighbourhood Dilemma, Sunflowers, Savage and more. Matts recent achievements include winning the IDJ mix of the month competition in January 2003. He has also played at Audio Deluxe in London, Empathy in Bristol and Riff raff in Middlesbrough as well as The Gallery in London where he warmed up for none other than Dave Seaman Matt is also gaining an international reputation, he recently played a 3 date mini tour in Poland and headlined the Afterhours cafeteria in Mexico. As well as working via promoters, Matt has put together his own club nights. These include Pleasure at Plastic People, Scream at Club 9, and Rigid Funk at Belushi's. Matt has also set up many other nights with his own production company, Housefeelings. He has also hosted his own Segment records nights in the capital the last of which was at the Dust bar in Clerkenwell and was rammed from start to finish! Matt has started his own radio show at www.futuregrooves.org broadcasting every third Tuesday of the month called The Segment records show. The shows aim will be to promote artists from Segment records as well as DJs who have supported the label. Matt is not only a DJ, but also produces tracks. His productions have been very successful and have been played on a number of radio stations including Kiss FM, Galaxy FM, Juice FM, Beat 106, XFM and more. His single, Sub Aqua-Listen, was mailed out via Power Promotions and received a very favourable response from some of the UK's top DJs and was massive in Ibiza in the summer of 2003. Sub Aquas latest single "The remixes Ep has found many fans in the industry and has been played by the likes of Hernan Cattaneo, Jonathan Lisle, Marcus James and Luis Paris among others, while his collaboration with Nick Hook Lifecycle was released on Segment records in October last year and his own single Matt Black feat Edel Melancholy rage was released in June last year. Matt's current labour of love is Segment records, the label which he manages. Now ten releases down the line Segment records has established itself as one of the best labels in the scene, releasing quality music both in vinyl and digital formats. Check out the Segment Records website www.segmentrecords.co.uk for all the latest news on Segment releases and artists.