Matthew Styles

Englishman Matthew Styles is a special one. Firmly schooled in the history of dance music as a DJ, his productions usually carry a uniqueness that cannot be located in time and space. Matthew migrated to London around the turn of the millennium in order to further exhibit his already multiple years of turntable training. The move proved to be a pivotal moment in all that was to come. A pair of seemingly casual events - purchasing an Akai MPC and meeting the London Records’ A&R man Damian Lazarus through mutual friend Rob Mello - would in many ways shape much of his proceeding decade. in 2003 he was asked to take up a management role at his new venture, Crosstown Rebels. Matthew’s six-year stint at the helm of the world-renowned