Matt Darey

Darey was born in Leicester, England.{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=2000|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0427-8|page=112/3}} Some of his earliest solo work was under the name Lost Tribe, releasing the EP The Distant Voices in 1997.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/musictechnocultu00lysl/page/380|title=Music and Technoculture|publisher=Wesleyan|year=2003|isbn=978-0-8195-6514-3|editor=Rene T. A. Lysloff|pages=[https://archive.org/details/musictechnocultu00lysl/page/380 380]}} The single "Gamemaster" reached number 24 on the UK Singles Chart in 1999.{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=David|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|publisher=Guinness World Records Limited|year=2006|isbn=1-904994-10-5|edition=19th|location=London|pages=330}}{{Cite book|last=Betts|first=Graham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FAo5AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Matt+Darey%22+%22Lost+Tribe%22|title=Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2006|date=2006|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-720077-1|language=en|quote=MATT DAREY UK dance producer / instrumentalist who has also remixed for the likes of ATB , Moloko and Gabrielle . Darey also recorded as Sunburst and Space Baby , as a member of Lost Tribe , and with Marcella Woods and Michael Woods as ...}}{{Cite web|title=LOST TRIBE {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/33420/lost-tribe/|access-date=2021-09-15|website=www.officialcharts.com|archive-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103174958/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/33420/lost-tribe/|url-status=live}}

In addition to production and remixing work for other artists, Darey began releasing music under his own name in 2004.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p329915|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Matt Darey|last=Brown|first=Marisa|website=Allmusic|access-date=30 May 2010}} In 2005 he debuted a new show on Digitally Imported called Nocturnal, which became a weekly show the following year.{{cite web |url=http://www.digitallyimported.com/calendar/event.php?event=1959 |title=DI Calendar |website=www.digitallyimported.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051102/http://www.digitallyimported.com/calendar/event.php?event=1959 |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.di.fm/calendar/event.php?event=3034|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205043446/http://www.di.fm/calendar/event.php?event=3034|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 February 2007|title=DI Calendar|date=5 February 2007|access-date=3 December 2019}} His 2007 single "Beautiful Day" reached the top 25 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music Club Play and hitting the Top 20 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart in the United States.{{Cite magazine|title=Matt Darey|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/matt-darey|access-date=2021-09-26|magazine=Billboard}} Darey has made several appearances in the annual worldwide top 100 DJs poll, including peaking at #34 in 2008.{{cite web |title=Matt Darey - Top 100 DJs 2013 - DJMag.com |url=https://djmag.com/top100djs/2013/96/Matt-Darey |website=DJ Mag |access-date=24 June 2024 |date=2013 |archive-date=4 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904171540/https://djmag.com/top100djs/2013/96/Matt-Darey |url-status=live }}

Darey owns a record label, Darey Products, featuring releases from himself and upcoming artists.{{cite web|title=Don Jackson – Focused and Headstrong|url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?642|author=Michael Ta|year=2005|publisher=Resident Advisor|access-date=4 July 2010|archive-date=26 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026143537/http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?642|url-status=live}} In 2015 he changed his stage name to Matt Nouveau to signal a change in musical direction.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} As of 2021 Darey hosts a monthly Internet radio show on Digitally Imported's European Trance station.{{Citation|title=Matt Darey - Pure Trance|url=https://www.di.fm/tracks/67653/classictrance|language=en|access-date=2021-09-26|archive-date=26 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926010650/https://www.di.fm/tracks/67653/classictrance|url-status=live}}

• Lost Tribe – The Distant Voices EP (1997 – Hooj Choons)
• Voice of an Angel EP (2004, Incentive Records)
• Point Zero EP (2005, Water Music Records)
• Decade (2004; also released a 200-copy limited-edition version)
• Urban Astronauts – EP1 (31 March 2008; Koch Records) The debut EP from Darey's side project Urban
• Matt Darey pres. Urban Astronauts feat. Kate Louise Smith – See The Sun (Remixes) (9 November 2009; Nocturnal Global)
• Blossom & Decay (3 August 2012)

• Li Kwan – "Point Zero" (1994) No. 51 UK (with "I Need A Man"){{Cite web|url = https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/30999/li-kwan/|title = LI KWAN | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company|website = Official Charts|access-date = 31 December 2021|archive-date = 24 June 2024|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240624182326/https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/30999/li-kwan/|url-status = live}}
• Space Baby – "Free Your Mind" (1995) No. 55 UK{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 517}}

• Lost Tribe – "Gamemaster" (1999 – Hooj Choons) No. 24 UK
• "Liberation" (1999) No. 19 UK{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 140}}

• M3 – "Bailamos" (1999) No. 40 UK{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 336}}

• Melt featuring Little Ms Marcie – "Hard House Music" (2000) No. 59 UK{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 360}}

• Sunburst – "Eyeball (Eyeball Paul's Theme)" (2000) No. 48 UK{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 540}}

• Matt Darey presents DSP – "From Russia with Love" (2000 – Liquid Asset) No. 40 UK
• MDM – "Mash It Up" No. 66 UK{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 335}}

• "Liberation (Fly Like An Angel)" (2001)
• "Beautiful" (2002, with Marcella Woods) No. 10 UK
• "U Shine On" / "Moody" (2002, with Marcella Woods – Incentive Records) No. 34 UK
• Lost Tribe – "Gamemaster" (2003 remake of the 1999 single – Liquid Asset) No. 61 UK{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 330}}

• Lost Tribe – "Possessed" (2004 – Darey Products)
• "Electro Buzz" (2003 – Incentive Records)
• "Voice of An Angel" (2003 – Incentive Records)
• "Nocturnal Delight" (2004 – Incentive Records)
• "Liberation 2005" (2005; 2 CDs with 13 remixes of the song – Darey Products)
• "Eternity" (2005 – Darey Products)
• "Always" (2006, featuring Tiff Lacey – Darey Products)
• "Beautiful Day" (2007, featuring Antoine and Marcia Juell)
• "Sum of All Fears" (2007, featuring Tiff Lacey – Darey Products)
• "Animal" (2008, with Urban Astronauts)
• "Hold Your Breath" featuring Leah – Armada Music (2012)
• "I Will Follow You" with Stan Kolev featuring Aelyn – Armada Music (2012)

• Agnelli & Nelson – "El Niño"
• ATB – "9pm"
• Binary Finary – "1998" / "1999"
• Blockster – "Grooveline"
• Delerium – "Heaven's Earth"
• Gabrielle – "Rise"
• Kim Wilde – "Breaking Away"
• Kim Wilde – "Heaven"
• Kim Wilde – "Shame"
• Headstrong featuring Tiff Lacey – "Close Your Eyes"
• Johnna – "Do What You Feel"
• Magners – "Shlurgen"
• Moloko – "The Time is Now"
• Planet Perfecto Feat. Grace – "Not Over Yet"
• Technique - "Sun is Shining"
• The Space Brothers – "Legacy"
• Tin Tin Out – "Sometimes"
• Tin Tin Out – "Strings for Yasmin"
• Westbam – "Wizards of the Sonic"

• Ibiza Euphoria (1999)
• Pure Euphoria
• The Very Best of Euphoria (2002, mixed by Darey)
• Upfront Trance (2005, Water Music Records)
• Ultimate Trance (Mixed by Darey) (2005)
• Nocturnal album (Mixed by Darey) (September 2007)
• Nocturnal 2010 (Mixed by Darey) (May 2010)

• NGEN Racing (soundtrack)

{{Reflist}}

• {{discogs artist}}
• {{Allmusic}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Darey, Matt}}

Category:1968 births

Category:British club DJs

Category:Musicians from Leicester

Category:Living people

Category:British remixers

Category:English trance musicians

Category:English record producers

Category:English electronic dance music DJs

Category:Incentive Records artists