The Audiofreaks family.

Half English and half Finnish, Matt Meyers has spent 30 years in the music business, building companies and finding new ways to work as the industry changes. His work covers artist development, A&R, publishing, promotion, television music direction, studio ownership, brand representation and international licensing.

As a producer and DJ, under several aliases, he has worked on records for artists including Nicole Scherzinger, Chaka Khan, CeCe Peniston, Karen Harding, Herb Alpert, Keri Hilson, Allegra, Lindsay Lohan, Crystal Waters, Robin S, Deborah Cox, Snow, Judge Jules, Paul Harris and Noelia.

The 1990s

The British rave scene took hold, and so did acid house, garage and hardcore on the pirate stations. Matt spent every hour he could in studios learning to produce, in record shops, and behind a pair of Technics 1210s, and learned the contracts side of the business early.

He went on to work as a talent scout for Mega Records in Denmark Street, Soho, in the year it signed Ace of Base’s All That She Wants, and scouted for Warner and Sony Music. Through the decade he ran monthly raves outside London, held a residency at Ministry of Sound on the Frisky nights for Decorum, guested on Judge Jules’ Saturday night Kiss FM show and on Graham Gold’s, and promoted events at many of London’s best-known venues.

2001 to 2010

Matt and his brother Warren took over The Hit Factory recording complex at London Bridge, the studios made famous by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and with Michael Loney, formerly of Virgin Records, redeveloped it into a 6,000 square foot studio and creative complex. Producers including ESP from Murlyn Music, Julian Napolitano, Scott Mac, Andy Manston, Simon Langford and Tony Briscoe moved in.

There he met Dale Askew, who became the brothers’ business partner. Matt and Warren wrote and produced Hypnotic Erotic Games as Soulshaker, No. 1 on the Music Week Upfront Club Chart in 2005, and set up Audiofreaks Music.

2011 to 2020

ITV Studios engaged Matt as music director and music producer for ITV2’s The Big Reunion. His teams recorded and produced Liberty X, Blue, Five, A1, B*Witched, Atomic Kitten, Honeyz, Eternal, 911, Damage and 3T. Audiofreaks worked on ITV2’s award-winning, BAFTA-nominated series The Big Reunion.

With Tony Adams he built Galactic Studios, a multi-studio complex in Kent, where the team signed Scott Stoddart and helped develop him as a producer for K-pop and J-pop. Fila and Russell Athletic engaged him for their brand-to-music strategy, and he set up a label deal with Tommy Boy Records in the US.

He set up publishing partnerships with Nichion Music in Japan and Music Cube in South Korea. With the team he made title music and stings for Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, recorded with Audiofreaks artist Jenna Donnelly, and music for ITV1’s Surprise Surprise, ITV2’s Peter Andre Show, E4’s Road to Ibiza and ITV1’s Meet the Parents. He began long-term management and artist-development work with Allegra, alongside Chris Herbert, and opened Audiofreaks Studios in Kent.

2020 onwards

Audiofreaks Music’s writers and producers have secured releases with K-pop and J-pop acts including ITZY, IVE, NCT DREAM, OH MY GIRL, SixTONES and MISAMO. Deborah Cox’s Let the World Be Ours Tonight, written and produced by Warren with Jenna Doyle and A&R’d by Matt, went to No. 1 on Billboard Dance Club Songs in the US in 2017.

With Gianluca Pizzorno in Los Angeles he set up Tiësto’s remix of Allegra’s Round & Round. Matt and the team were music producers on Netflix’s Dance 100, produced by Studio Lambert, and secured the debut single for the new line-up of Menudo.

Warren Meyers, also known as Soulshaker, has written and produced records for over 20 years, from ballads for boy bands and solo artists through R&B and pop to dance-floor records and the cooler end of house music.

He wrote and produced Deborah Cox’s Let the World Be Ours Tonight, No. 1 on Billboard Dance Club Songs in the US in 2017. Soulshaker received the Best International Dance Producers award at the Malta Music Awards, and in the company’s account a MIRA (Music Industry Recognition Award) for Best Dance Music Producers, and Best Remix of 2012 for its mix of Lindsay Lohan’s Bossy on Universal (US).

His remixes and productions with Audiofreaks and Soulshaker include records for Keri Hilson, Mary J. Blige, Karen Harding, Union J, SUPER JUNIOR, Chaka Khan, Nicole Scherzinger, Deborah Cox, Lindsay Lohan, Judge Jules, Paul Harris, Steve Mac, Herb Alpert, Ultra Naté, Robin S, Martha Wash, Bonnie Anderson, Noelia and CeCe Peniston. He is also the songwriter for the production and DJ act Dasco, signed to Sony’s Relentless.

Warren is a founding member and co-director of the Galactic Media group, formed in 2005, which includes Audiofreaks, Galactic Studios, Vineyard Studios and Galactic Music, with Peermusic, Nichion and ROBA.

Dale Askew has been a core part of Audiofreaks from day one, and his single-minded belief in the company has been a major part of its success. His outlook has had a positive effect on the whole team, and on the artists and producers we work with.

At Audiofreaks Music Dale is a company director, head mixing engineer and A&R director. He is also a producer in his own right, with credits under aliases including Kinetica, Bassmonkeys and Dasco.

Roxanne Woodcock works across the creative and business sides of Audiofreaks. In our studios she has worked alongside the songwriters, producers, DJs and musicians on the roster, and has become a producer in her own right, handling the vocal production on Audiofreaks singles.

On the business side she has worked in each of the companies in the Galactic Media group, learning publishing, promotion, marketing, licensing, legal, artist development and producer management. She has overseen more than fifty international 360-degree single campaigns, and is Audiofreaks’ publishing manager.

Tim Gosden is a producer, songwriter and musician based in Norwich, England, who graduated from Leeds Conservatoire in 2012. He has worked with Tiësto, with releases on Universal and Sony, and has had mainstream radio support.

He has produced and co-written for artists including Mari Bella, 4 Strings, DEMCHUK, ELLA A, Allegra, KAMA, Anne Gudrun, Tristan Henry, Evie Palmer, Judge Jules and Drenchill. His songs have competed in national Eurovision selections in Norway, Belgium and Serbia, and his hooks have been used in advertising, mainstream television and Netflix productions.

Feri Gyemant, also known as AudioTrip, is an electronic music producer, vocal producer and ghost producer, working across pop, commercial and neo-classical music.

He produced Jaki Nelson’s debut single Uh Oh. Wasted, the debut release by his former band XTALK, was featured for over nine weeks on BBC Introducing and played by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1.

As AudioTrip he recorded a guest mix for Judge Jules’ The Global Warm Up, after his single Emotions was played on the show. Under his dance alias ferKKo he has remixed Dasco, Sterling Void and Joe Smooth.

Jenna Donnelly, who also writes as Jenna Doyle, is a songwriter, singer and producer. She trained in piano, cello and voice, and has written and performed songs for major-label artists over the last decade, with releases on Sony, Virgin and Warner.

She worked with Warren Meyers on Deborah Cox’s Let the World Be Ours Tonight, No. 1 on Billboard Dance Club Songs in the US in 2017, and recorded the title music for Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. She writes for upcoming and established pop and dance artists, and writes and performs music for primetime television (ITV, The Voice).

As one half of Donnelly & Maltby she has written for musicals, published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide.

Chris Herbert set up Safe Management in 1992. He was the founding manager of the Spice Girls, formed and managed Five, represented Hear’Say through the television series Popstars, and managed the artists from the BBC’s Fame Academy.

He manages performers, writers and producers, including Ivor Novello and BRIT Award winners. The Music Managers Forum named him Manager of the Year in 2001. With Audiofreaks he co-manages Allegra.

Steve Tannett is the director of music platforms at Marshall Group and heads Marshall Records. He has worked in music since 1977, when he signed a recording deal as a member of the punk band Menace with his future boss, Miles Copeland.

Since then he has worked on artists’ careers as a manager, as a label head at IRS Records and as a music publisher, with associations including R.E.M., The Police, Duran Duran, Black Sabbath, Sting, Jools Holland, Belinda Carlisle and Zucchero. He founded the house label Tribal United Kingdom, which released records by Junior Vasquez and Deep Dish.

I feel like I am home at last. Being part of a family that includes Matt and his incredibly talented team is heaven for me, as I love nothing more than working with gifted, driven people who have integrity and purpose.

Paul Farberman studied at York University and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, was called to the Bar in 1978, and practised entertainment law with a focus on music. His clients included Rush, Saga, Triumph, Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, Jim Carrey and The Second City (SCTV).

He joined CBS Records Canada as vice president of business affairs, then IRS Records in Los Angeles in the same role for Miles Copeland. He went on to Universal Music as vice president of business affairs, and to 20th Century Fox, where he supervised legal and business affairs for the studio’s music departments.

He then spent 17 years at Feeling Productions, Celine Dion’s management company, in the day-to-day management of the company and its business affairs. He now consults for artists in film, music and television, and represents new talent.

Mark Eddinger began as a musician and producer in Las Vegas, performing with Lola Falana and Sadler and Young, recording with Sam Butera and Doc Severinsen, and working at Las Vegas Recording Studio as it became the prototype Live End Dead End (LEDE) studio.

In 1980 he co-founded Worldwide Entertainment, an independent promotion company, and directed regional campaigns for artists including Aretha Franklin, Fleetwood Mac, Toto, Van Halen, David Bowie, Grateful Dead, Journey, AC/DC and Heart. WEA bought the company in 1981 and kept him on as a consultant. He worked for Warner Bros. Records and Columbia Records, and was president of AudioTone Records (1986–1988) and InVision Records (2000).

He has consulted for Sony Music, BMG, Warner Bros. Records, MCA Records, Warner/Chappell Music, ASCAP and the RIAA. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy, a founding member of the Digital Audio Consortium and a member of the Audio Engineering Society, and has taught at Berklee College of Music, the Juilliard School, Brigham Young University, UCLA and NYU.