Damage Control
Words fail to describe the musical genius that is Mat Zo. At age 23, he has remixed everyone from Above & Beyond to U2 to Kylie Minogue, headlined every major music festival around the globe and carved a niche for himself as a genre-defying producer. I’ve enjoyed his music ever since hearing his early work on Anjunabeats’ annual compilations.
There has been considerable pressure on his debut album, but he has exceeded all expectation. On it, you will find a spectrum of genres: progressive, house, trap, glitch, garage and more. Every track is impeccable. Even the one-minute-long “skits”. It is easily the most memorable debut album I’ve heard since Andrew Bayer’s It’s Artificial.
My favorite tracks at this moment are Caller ID, the Little Damage interlude, and Hurricane.
It is fair to say that Zo’s new album is the damage control to the entire EDM industry … It is a tribute to his personal music heroes, a sound experiment, a doctoral thesis of his musical talents, and lastly, it’s a low key statement that the EDM world forgot how beautiful music can be.
Resound Magazine
Did I mention he’s just 23?