Fireside Chat

Mathew Jonson

Wagon Repair, Berlin

Having stepped out on labels like Itiswhatitis, Perlon and his own Wagon Repair, NZ-born Canadian prodigy Mathew Jonson has stomped loudly yet elegantly through the world of Techno. A piano and percussion maestro from a young age, he combines musicality with proper, hands-on, analog outboard action. Proof to this are especially Jonson's live sets together with his Cobblestone Jazz boys as well as his leftfield Artists and Repertoire decisions for his own Wagon Repair label. Gilles Peterson and Laurent Garnier are just two of those who've said yes to the suitability of Mathew Jonson's mutability, not to mention Mathew's mates Richie and Ricardo. At the Academy in Seattle Mathew explained his studio runnings and live set up, why it's sometimes important to have a television in the studio, and his personal journey to a higher state of consciousness (minus the blue hair sparkles). To all the skint mo fo's, check Mathew's low end theory. He says you don't need expensive monitors to get that mix super phat.