Recording under no less than three prominent pseudonyms - Audion, False, and Jabberjaw - Matthew Dear is one of today's most versatile electronic musician. His name is closely associated with Ann Arbor's Ghostly International imprint, to which he Dear contributed its - and his - very first release in 1999. For the past few years Dear has reserved his real name for vocal-heavy techno pop, while his equally famous techno production mostly appear under the Audion moniker.
The Album Slowdance
is featured in Update #057:
20 Years Of Planet E, Freude Am Tanzen 5zig, Echocord
Detroit's techno pioneers combined dancefloor appeal, emotionality and sophistication in their music - a fusion of elements that is still shaping some of the finest music out there.
Nowhere does this become more apparent than in the history of Carl Craig's more...
The Album Slowdance
was reviewed:
Ghostly assembles remixes for Matthew Dear's 'Slowdance' (by How To Dress Well, Todd Edwards, and Bear In Heaven) that do a great job in deriving various flavours of drag and electro-pop from the original. As an added bonus you get all versions of 'You Put A Smell On Me' and 'Little People (Black City)'. Essential.
The EP You Put A Smell On Me
is featured in Update #041:
Magda, Martyn, Modeselektor
Compilations have been the big thing this November, and no matter whether your poison's techno, dubstep, juke, or hip-hop, this month had something in store for you: Ostgut Ton's 'Fünf', Modeselektor's 'Modeselektion', Ghettophiles 'Overkill' and Listen Up's more...
The EP You Put A Smell On Me
was reviewed:
Taken from his much praised 'Black City' album earlier this year, Matthew Dear's dysfunctional pop gets two sweet reworks. Wolf + Lamb's shooting star Nicolas Jaar softens the original pinched electro riff with his warm melodic flair and Ed Banger's Breakbot exaggerates the electro-pop schmooze. Hot.

