Matt Fax

On April 24, 2020, Matt released his second studio album, Progressions.

In 2019, he has been playing at the A State of Trance 900 festival on February 23rd and some shows around the world, including Japan. His single "To the Ground" was rated 9.0 by DJ Mag, and has been included to the rotation playlist on Sirius XM Diplo's Revolution and Radio FG. DJ supports for the track includes Tiesto, Lane 8, Diplo, Gareth Emery and Simon Patterson among others. The track has also been used in various commercial, such as Jaguar or John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts .

2018 saw him remixing high profiles like Armin van Buuren, Andy Moor and tyDi. On April 6, he played at the Ministry of Sound in London for the 10 Years of Enhanced Music. He also launched his Progressive House alias Matters, to focus on trance music under Matt Fax. His first EP Moves has been supported by Above & Beyond, Aly & Fila, Ruben de Ronde and Will Atkinson and accumulated over 300,000 streams on Spotify. The later Roof Park EP, has been noted 8.0 by DJ Mag.

2017 saw Matt releasing less music than the past years. He released the EP Circles/Aura Lusia on February 3 and it been heavily supported by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, and Avicii on his radio show LE7ELS. His following release, "Phantom", been supported by Armin van Buuren in his radio how A State of Trance. During the year, he played alongside Madeon, Aazar and Kristian Nairn at the Bypass club in Geneva.

While a possible come-back was teased with his appearance DJ set at Above & Beyond's afterparty in Paris in January, he released the "Going Down/Hyperspace" EP on Colorize on April 13, 2015. Both tracks been supported by DJs around the world, including Armin van Buuren which played "Going Down" in Mumbai for the A State of Trance Festival warm-up. Throughout the year, he released the singles "Supertaper", "Tumble", "Moonlight", "Alpenglow" and "Aeris" (in collaboration with Jaytech), as well as the Belong/Mirth and CNFS/Stuck EPs, which all been supported on numerous radio shows and podcast from recognized DJ's around the world, as well as being regularly played on radio station such as Sirius XM.

The very next year, Matt kept on releasing a couple of EPs on Colorize, as well as the single "Shift" on August 4, 2014, which remained one of his most sold track for a few years. The track been revisited as a chill-out version in 2015.

On December 29, 2014, a retrospective compilation of Matt's works on Silk Music been released, marking his departure of the label. On a Q&A session on his Facebook page, someone asked if new stuff will be released on Silk Music, where Matt stated he departed from the label and it was not in project for the moment.

— Matt Fax, speaking about his hiatus with EDMprod.com

Early 2013, at the age of 16, he signed with Enhanced Music and released his first EP Late Night/Broadway under the Colorize sub-label, where Matt is still one of the most active artists today. Later in the year, he got asked to remix Jaytech on Anjunabeats, and been invited as a guest mixer on Group Therapy, Above & Beyond's radio show. The trio stated that Matt was "the youngest guestmixer to be invited on the show" and became "a regular fixture on Group Therapy". He also hosted a couple episodes of Anjunabeats Worldwide, the trio's secondary show principally hosted by Anjunabeats artists. The same year, he remixed The Blizzard's classic "Piercing the Fog" on Armada Music as well as Johan Vilborg & Adam Szabo hit "Two to One" on Enhanced Music.

The first release under the Matt Fax alias was on May 9, 2012 on Balkan Connection. Throughout the year, he released most of his music on various small labels, until Jaytech and Above & Beyond among others started playing his music regularly. He signed with Silk Music later the year, where he released a couple of EPs and remixes through the multiples division for two years.

David got introduced to music since his most tender age, mostly to rock music bands like Queen, Scorpions, AC/DC and French artists. His passion for electronic music came later by discovering Tiësto, which gave him the want of being a DJ, and Joachim Garraud, which introduced him to music production. He also been introduced to hardcore music by his brother. He started producing and releasing his first tracks at the age of 13 under the alias David R., and had his first support with Laurent Garnier playing his track "Technocolor" in a couple of his sets back then. He changed his name to Mike Duz a few years later, where he shifted from techno to electro house and progressive house. He had numerous releases on smaller independent record labels until he been able to release a remix for Moguai on deadmau5's label mau5trap on November 7, 2011. He then changed his name to his actual pseudonym, Matt Fax.

His next EP, Careless/Huntdown, was released on May 6 on Colorize, and marks the 4th anniversary of Matt Fax. The EP ranked 7 on the Beatport Top 10 and the track "Careless" has been played more than 500,000 times on Spotify, as well as being massively supported by DJs like Ferry Corsten, Cosmic Gate and Sam Feldt for example. A few weeks after the release, Matt unveiled a bonus track called "Backdraft" and was exclusively distributed on Bandcamp with a pay-what-you-want payment basis.

Having started his career in 2009, Fax encountered early success with support from renowned DJs and artists around the world, such as Depeche Mode, Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond and Gareth Emery. Throughout his career, he been producing numerous tracks and remixes which entered multiple Beatport charts. His music is a blend of progressive house, trance music and techno.

David Ciekanski (born 14 December 1996), better known by his stage name Matt Fax, is a French electronic music DJ and record producer.