Words / Dave Rinehart
Published / Tue, 17 Jun 2008

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Interrogating Martyn

Does Martyn play drum n bass? Techno? House? Dubstep? Or all of the above? Dave Rinehart investigates.

Hard one to pigeonhole, Martyn. When the Dutch producer plays at RA’s off-Sonar event in Barcelona this weekend, it'll be alongside techno acts such as Daniel Bell and Conforce. Last month at MUTEK he shared a bill with hip-hopper Flying Lotus and dubstepper Kode9. His last gig at Fabric was opening François K dub-centric Deep Space night.

"I've always collected all different styles of music, and I just love to play different styles of music out as well,” explains Martyn. "I always carry lots of dubstep, lots of house, even some hip-hop, some soundscapes, just anything really.”

That’s not to say that Martyn is one of those dreaded “eclectic” DJs who is all about mashing up the unexpected; it’s just that Martyn happens to make music at the nexus of different genres. For the past year or so, dubstep and techno have been eyeing each other from across the room, and Martyn’s bass-heavy, melancholy-tinged tunes such as 'Broken' and 'Twenty Four' have been among the first to consummate the relationship.

A DJ for a dozen years or more, Martyn’s first love was not dub and dubstep but rather drum n bass—his first records arrived on Marcus Intalex’s label Revolve:r in 2005. Lately he has started his own label, 3024, and released records on Appleblim’s new imprint Apple Pips. Future plans? Well, aside from getting married and moving to America, he’s intent on making a debut album, not to mention DJing every weekend. But since he carts round such a wide range of records to a wide range of gigs, surely he takes requests? "Well,” says Martyn. “My favorite gigs are the ones where they tell me, 'We just want Martyn. We don't care what you play, just do what you want to do."

MARTYN NEWS:

"Hi,

Two more recent remixes i've done are now available on Beatport, namely TRG's Broken Heart remix and Black Pocket (aka Steve Spacek) "Ure a Star" remix on Fat City Records (exclusive!). Click on my beatport player to get to them.

On a vinyl note, the Black Pocket remix should be out soon with a wicked remix by Harmonic 313 on the flip of Guilty Simpson's "For the D". Another remix "Epileptic" for Shut Up and Dance will drop this week, and my 3024-002 "Natural Selection / Vancouver" is out on july 7th! Revolve:r 012 with "After Seven" / "JW on a good night" and "Storm Watch" will be on the shelves end of july...

What will the future bring ??

- Just wrapped up 3024-003 to come out just after the summer. It will contain two wicked remixes by wicked artists!
- A couple more remixes coming, one of them is "Roberta Flack" by Flying Lotus on Warp.
- As I stated in an interview with ResidentAdvisor.net, I've started work on my first album.

comments always welcome!
stay strong all of you..

m"

Martyn- live at Fabric, January 2008 DOWNLOAD

1. omar s - untitled (fxhe)
2. recloose - soul clap 2000 (planet e)
3. tikiman - spend some time (burial mix)
4. ripperton - on falling 92 edit (?)
5. robert owens - bring down the walls (trax)
6. sonja moonear - 99 erikas (karat)
7. westpark unit - blaxrotation suite mix (farside records)
8. the timewriter - never stop (plastic city)
9. roy davis jr - my soul is electric (large)
10. ripperton - tainted words (connaisseur)
11. marc schneider - sniper heat (wasnotwas)
12. theo parrish - cant take it
13. agnes - hi murda (perspectiv)
14. ame - basic track (innervisions)
15. andomat3000 & jan - entr'acte music (cadenza)
16. andy stott - fear of heights (modern love)
17. common factor - get down #3 (playhouse)
18. dj minx - a walk in the park (villalobos and cassy remix) (minus)
19. frivolous - sooo savvy (scape)
20. guillaume & the coutu dumonts - mederico (oslo)
21. jobim's causin - comerte (cargo edition)
22. loco dice - a chico a rhytmico (cadenza)
23. atjazz - for real version mix (innervisions)
24. cobblestone jazz - india in me (wagon repair)
25. dennis ferrer - son of raw loco dice remix (objektivity)
26. junior boys - like a child carl craig mix
27. kenneth graham - love dialed in (visage recordings)
28. john shananigans - charles on the dancefloor (cynosure)
29. ricardo villalobos - figheuer zieheuer pt 2 (playhouse)
30. maurizio - domina edit (m)
31. deadbeat - aby graib reconfiguration (scape)
32. mike shannon - ghost writer blues (cynosure)
33. mark august - old joy (connaisseur)
34. sid le rock - naked dj koze mix (cereal/killer)
35. matthew dear - but for you (ghostly)
36. st. germain - rose rouge rhadoo edit
37. october - homo sapiens (caravan)
38. pole - duesseldorf mike huckabys synth remix (scape)
39. substance & vainqueur - surface (scion versions)
40. beatpharmacy & tikiman - hot spot splash (deep space media)