About Mats

Rock, Funk and Soul influence my music.

It all started 1982 when my brother bought an old electric guitar. I often listened to him playing and that was when I realized I wanted to make music, too. So I got myself an acoustic guitar and practiced like mad. Two years later I switched to electric guitar and shortly after that joined a band in Hamburg.

Over the years I played in several bands. I had a try at different styles like Funk, Jazz and Rock and learned a lot. But I wanted something different: I wanted to compose my own music. I got the necessary equipment, read a lot and learned step by step how to do it. Compared to playing in a band it was hard work: Instead of only playing my own part I suddenly had to put together many different instruments.

In 1999 I uploaded my first song “Sundancer” to besonic.com and shortly after that some of my songs were selected for a besonic promo cd. Since then it’s going pretty well. My songs were even played on the radio.

In 2004 I decided that I wanted to play live again and so I joined the band SELFISH.