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Born in 1980, Matt grew up in the Middle East in Bahrain, before returning to the UK when he was 16<\/p>\n
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He began his DJ career in Nottingham while studying in the city, before making his debut at London’s Fabric in 2004<\/p>\n
‘I can’t imagine things like that happening now. Once I played at Fabric, I started getting booked elsewhere, because it was such a big thing,’ he added.<\/p>\n
Matt went on to work as a producer for labels such as Crosstown Rebels, REKIDS and Phonica before starting his own, Leftroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He released his\u00a0first full-length album, titled Word of Mouth, via\u00a0Leftroom Records in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Matt’s second album, All Shapes and Sizes, was released in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After his death, Classic Music Company added in a tribute on Monday: ‘Classic are devastated to hear of the passing of Matt Tolfrey; DJ, producer, label runner, manager and importantly our friend.<\/p>\n
‘Matt was a longtime supporter and fan of all things Classic during his residency at The Bomb in Nottingham and of course at places like London\u2019s Fabric.<\/p>\n
‘In 2011 when Matt asked to remix some records from the catalogue, we loved them and were more than happy to release them in conjunction with his \u2018Classic Through The Eyes of Matt Tolfrey\u2019 compilation.<\/p>\n
‘We have fond memories of the times he played for us and when we all hung out.<\/p>\n
We are deeply saddened by the news and we send love to all of Matt\u2019s friends and family.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Another friend and fellow DJ Heidi added: ‘I only have hilarious & warm memories of him. My heart goes out to Hayley & his beautiful daughters. This is beyond heartbreaking’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fellow DJ Heidi added: ‘I really can\u2019t believe we\u2019re here again. Saying goodbye to another wonderful person. Matt Tolfrey was someone whom I gravitated towards immediately. His humour was infectious. He was such a fun person to be around & unbelievably kind.<\/p>\n
‘We played together & b2b so many times across this planet. From Peru to Detroit, Barcelona, Miami, London, Amsterdam and the list goes on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘He was a fixture at my Jackathon parties in the early days and also contributed a track \u201cwho\u2019s the freak\u201d made specifically for my 1st big mix release on the label.<\/p>\n
‘He loved taking the p*** out of me on the regular and that became our language. We laughed uncontrollably sometimes.<\/p>\n
‘Matt was also extremely supportive to so many artists over the decades. He never had an ego & I firmly believe that he was in this industry for all the right reasons. His label Leftroom was a staple in all of our record bags in the early-mid nouties.<\/p>\n
‘I only have hilarious & warm memories of him. My heart goes out to Hayley & his beautiful daughters. This is beyond heartbreaking.<\/p>\n
‘Make sure you tell your friends & family how much you love them. Life is precious.’\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ and record producer Matt Tolfrey has died aged 44 – it was announced on on Monday.\u00a0 Close…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[92,77,459,1404,813,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-496824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-instagram","11":"tag-nottingham","12":"tag-tvshowbiz","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115368337722729311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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