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Not many electronic music producers manage to release award-winning albums, sell shelf-loads of 12”s and perform around the world before they hit the big 3-0. But Brussels-based Rodriguez Jr. (aka Olivier Mateu) has done exactly that. As half of French electro act The Youngsters he’s already packed more into his time in the industry than some do in their whole career.
Over the past nine years he and his partner in crime have released loads of EPs and remixed tracks by dozens of artists. Their two studio albums?released, like their singles, on Laurent Garnier’s F-Communications?won a string of awards and accolades from some of dance music’s biggest names. This success catapulted them onto the international circuit, giving them the platform to take their electrifying live act to some of the biggest clubs and festival in Europe, South America and Asia several times over.
Now holed-up in the Belgian capital, Mateu’s Rodriguez Jr. project is the product of an almost schizophrenic brand of creativity and a thirst for the new and unexpected. Going solo offers something valuable within this business: the freedom to experiment, step off the release-gig-release merry go round, and break ou... More Biography
Over the past nine years he and his partner in crime have released loads of EPs and remixed tracks by dozens of artists. Their two studio albums?released, like their singles, on Laurent Garnier’s F-Communications?won a string of awards and accolades from some of dance music’s biggest names. This success catapulted them onto the international circuit, giving them the platform to take their electrifying live act to some of the biggest clubs and festival in Europe, South America and Asia several times over.
Now holed-up in the Belgian capital, Mateu’s Rodriguez Jr. project is the product of an almost schizophrenic brand of creativity and a thirst for the new and unexpected. Going solo offers something valuable within this business: the freedom to experiment, step off the release-gig-release merry go round, and break ou... More Biography