American musician
Matthew Dear
Get to know the artist
Matthew Dear is an American electronic producer, DJ and singer who also records as Audion, False and Jabberjaw. His music moves between house and techno and vocal-led songs. He co-founded the labels Ghostly International and Spectral Sound. His albums include Leave Luck to Heaven (2003), Asa Breed (2007) and Black City (2010), and he has made mixes for fabric and DJ-Kicks.
- Background
He has remixed The xx, DJ Koze and Hot Chip, and played support on Depeche Mode's European stadium tour.
- Born in
- Kingsville
- Country
- United States
- Active since
- 1999
- First RA show
- 2003 · Hart Plaza, Detroit
- On RA
- 768 shows in 38 countries
- Released on
- fabric Records, Get Physical Music, !K7, Spectral Sound, Telegraph Records, Ghostly International
- RA followers
- 13,163
Hear a full mix
- RA.306 Matthew Dear ↗
Resident Advisor podcast · Apr 2012
In our cities
- 79 shows · last Jul 2026 at Good Room
- 34 shows · last May 2019 at XOYO
- 27 shows · last Jun 2026 at Sonnenraum
- 18 shows · last Oct 2017 at De Brakke Grond
- 5 shows · last Jun 2014 at Home The Venue
- 4 shows · last Jun 2014 at Peninsula, Shed 14
- 2 shows · last May 2017 at VENT
Upcoming across cities
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