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Matthew Dear
Background information
Birth name	Matthew Dear
Also known as	False, Audion, Jabberjaw
Origin	Texas, USA
Genre(s)	Electronic music Microhouse
Occupation(s)	producer
Years active	1999 to Present
Label(s)	Spectral Sound,M_nus,Perlon,Plus 8

Texas-born Matthew Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, then becoming inspired by the sound of Detroit Techno. Dear met Sam Valenti IV at a party while attending the University of Michigan, after which the two created the record label Ghostly International based on a shared love of electronic music. Dear’s first single was 1999’s "Hands Up For Detroit" (co-produced by ghettotech pioneer Disco D, who performed under the name Daisha) – successive singles like "Stealing Moves" were issued on Spectral Sound, Ghostly’s dancefloor-based offshoot.

Dear’s first album Leave Luck to Heaven appeared in 2003 and was praised widely as a seminal fusion of pop and minimal techno. The album’s single "Dog Days" became one of Spectral’s best sellers and a favorite of international DJs like Richie Hawtin^{[citation needed]}. Dear followed the album with Backstroke in 2004 and has also begun working under the harder-edged Audion alias, apart from additional monikers False and Jabberjaw.

Albums:

• 2003 Leave Luck To Heaven (Spectral Sound)
• 2004 Backstroke (Spectral Sound)

EPs

• 2003 EP1 (Spectral Sound)
• 2003 EP2 (Spectral Sound)

Singles

• 2000 Irreparably Dented (Spectral Sound)
• 2001 Stealing Moves (Spectral Sound)
• 2003 Dog Days (Spectral Sound)
• 2004 Anger Management / Future Never Again (Spectral Sound)

• 1999 Hands Up For Detroit (Ghostly International)
• 2003 Idol Tryouts: Ghostly International Vol. 1 (Ghostly International)
• 2003 State of the Union EP (Spectral Sound)
• 2005 Spectral Sound Vol. 1 (Spectral Sound)
• 2006 Idol Troyouts: Ghostly International Vol. 2 (Ghostly International)

• 2004 DJ Minx A Walk In The Park (M_nus)
• 2004 Håkan Lidbo Clockwise Rmxs (Shitkatapult)
• 2004 L'usine Flat Remixes (Ghostly International)
• 2004 Monobox The Remixes (Logistic Records)
• 2004 Osborne Bout Ready to Jak Remixes (Spectral Sound)
• 2004 Someone Else + Miskate Rip It Cookie Muenster EP (Foundsound)
• 2005 Circlesquare / Colder 7 Minutes / Shiny Star (Remixes) (Output)
• 2005 The Postal Service We Will Become Silhouettes (Sub Pop)
• 2006 Hot Chip No Fit State (EMI)

• 2004 Kisses EP (Spectral Sound)
• 2004 The Pong EP (Spectral Sound)
• 2005 Just Fucking (Spectral Sound)
• 2006 Suckfish (Spectral Sound)
• 2006 Fabric 27
• 2006 Just a Man / Just a Woman [with Ellen Allien] (Spectral Sound)
• 2006 Mouth to Mouth (Spectral Sound)