Dj Mate

Mate got in contact with music in the year ’87.
Later on that year he met TLP and Grazzhoppa, two people who influenced him a lot.
His first love was hip-hop music, but as the years passed by DJ Mate collected more and more music from different styles. Going from hip-hop, soul, funk, reggae,jungle,soca,dancehall,and back again.
The first DJ steps Mate took were around ’90-’91 when he first came in contact with jungle.
He played as one of Belgium’s 1st jungle DJs at the legendary Democrazy jungle nights in ’95 alongside the No U Turn crew Ed Rush & Nico. Later he played with other UK Jungle DJs like Dylan, Zinc, Trace, Kemistry and Storm,…
DJ Mate left the jungle scene because of other musical influences and got more and more into the Reggae Ragga scene next 2 his brothers TLP’n'Dors. DJ Mate played together with the infamous T’n'D Soundsystem several times. Mashed up the place everywhere.Big up T’n'D.
U will know him from the legendary QPC parties in Catacombes in Roeselare, Boom Boom Room in Antwerp, the wicked parties in Leuven at the Silo and at The Rumba, in Ghent: the underground Chaos Dayz parties, Democrazy 95′-98′, 2000-2004 resident at Afterbounce Decadance, 10 Days Off festival…and on a few other festivals.
Now Dj Mate found a new genre called dubstep he really got the virus, all his time goes to producing and spinning dubstep.
Dj Mate played already alongside Vex’d, Roll Deep, Distance, Quiet Storm, Chef, Target, Mala, Loefah, Pinch, Mary Ann Hobbs,Plastician, Skream, Slt Mob, Rusko, Cluekid and more dubsteppers in the near future.

Dj Mate got a radio show called “After 12″ every friday on Urgent.fm (Ghent area 105.3 Fm).
together with Goony, Black Francis and Fudge.

U can find DJ Mate spinning all around the country. He’s one of Belgiums finest if u want a quality evening. Nowadays DJ Mate gives u a mix of all the newest in Dubstep some grime and garage.