DjOriented

Before Mathew Jonson became the star of Canada’s techno scene, before his celebrity as a live act, before his Vancouver record label, before his releases on Minus and his Cobblestone Jazz outfit - before all that, there was a geeky kid in Victoria, British Columbia.

He was obsessed with making sounds. He played drums in a marching band at 7, experimented with electronic music at 10, and later rocked school assemblies with Nelly Furtado whom he went to school with. “We would perform Maria Carey covers together and Nelly used to rip that shit up and have 500 people screaming during our school performances,” he says, laughing at the memories. “We also used to produce electronic music together.”

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