Dave Matthias is a rarity among club DJ's ...

While many strive to rise above the club arena into other parts of the
music industry, he left a highly coveted gig in radio to get closer to the streets. 

After four years as Assistant Production Director at the modern-rock driven KITS-FM/LIVE 105 in San Francisco, he willingly took up residency behind a pair of turntables and never looked back!

"My heart has always been in music, and I crave being as close to it as possible," he says.  "I had gone as far as I could in radio and was not feeling connected enough with music. Spinning records started as a fluke, and I absolutely fell in love with it! It opened so many creative doors in my mind."

When he started dj'ing, Matthias programmed alternative jams that were stylistically similar to LIVE 105's format, slowly edging into house territory.
Weekly slots at The Orb and Heaven in Santa Rosa, California, allowed him to occasionally blend modern-rock oriented music of his past alongside current dance hits by Billie Ray Martin, Swing 52, The Bucketheads, and Jimmy Sommerville.

"Deep House has become my forte over the past couple of years, though I enjoy starting off an evening with a little bit of an 80's edge and progressing further into harder underground sounds as it get later," he says.

Matthias has begun to explore future phases of his career and has a packed agenda that includes production and running a major-label dance department.

"I know I'm ambitious - but if you're going to take aim, you might as well aim high."

- Larry Flick, Billboard Magazine Dance Editor, New York