It’s official: this is going to be the best year ever for Matt Pop fans. Since late summer 2012, Almighty Records and Matt Pop have been working in secret on the ultimate Best Of Matt Pop compilation and it looks like all the hard work has paid off; the release of Almighty Presents: We Love Matt Pop is almost upon us! You will get a double album featuring Matt‘s most popular Almighty mixes, plus many tracks done for other labels. Some of these have never been released on cd before. We have also included a few brand new mixes, available here for the first time, plus at least 2 that have only been YouTube bootlegs – until now! To top it all off, we had to have an ABBA connection in there somewhere, too. No, we didn’t get permission to remix the real thing, but we have made sure that ABBA fans wil NOT be disappointed… Almighty Presents: We Love Matt Pop will be available on cd and as WAV or MP3 download. Tracklisting and release date coming soon!      http://www.almightyrecords.com/

Matt Pop has re-mixed an entire Hazell Dean album last year (“In The Name Of”, due out this spring) but had never actually met the lady herself. Until last night, that is. She was in Holland on a flash visit, performing some of her biggest hits at a massive dance classics party, and just before she was whisked away from her hotel to the venue, Matt and Hazell managed to meet for drinks and a chat. Well – Matt had the drinks and Hazell, ever the professional, stuck to mineral water. Compliments about eachother’s work flew across the table, closely followed by showbiz gossip. Both Matt and Hazell are very proud of the upcoming album and are hoping that fans will come out in droves to support it. Keep checking this page for release updates.

The last of the Hazell Dean tracks (No Frills Love, if you must now) has just left the Matt Pop studio, flying through cyber space to the virtual desk of the record company, where it will join the nine other Matt Pop mixes that together will form Hazell‘s new album In The Name Of.  Plans are to include all the original Dean & Ware mixes as well, making it a no-holds-barred double whammy! Hazell is singing better than ever and has lovingly hand-picked a set of her favourite pop and dance classics. The Matt Pop mixes range from contemporary club, to disco house, to techno funk and with some old-fashioned retro high-energy thrown in for good measure. Album release is set for early spring, with the next single This Is My Life coming out before that.  http://www.hazelldean.net/

So – the holidays are over and for those of you who aren’t sick of hearing it yet: Happy New Year! 2012 has been the busiest, most eventful year in the Matt Pop calendar so far.  Highlights include the succes of Peter Wilson’s Laser Light album and singles, the many mixes for Almighty Records and RuPaul that came out, the opportunity to revive the “lost” Samantha Fox PWL tracks, the Facebook Fan Group growing to 800+ members, and the Matt Pop YouTube channel passing the 2 million views mark. On a personal note: meeting Dj Stonedog, Sammy Paul, Nicki French and Peter Wilson in the flesh for the first time at the Energise Records night in London was amazing, and the fact that a few Matt Pop fans came up to say hi was the cherry on the cake! Then there was the Matt Pop Meet & Greet in Amsterdam, and the Hit Factory Live Christmas Cracker in London – it’s almost too much! Except it isn’t ofcourse, so there will be plenty more Pop coming your way in 2013. Here is a little round-up:

Just released: the Matt Pop mixes of Paralyzed, the explosive track from Blackpool’s finest Rob Eagle. Work on the Matt Pop mixes for Hazell Dean’s upcoming album “In The Name Of” is almost done, and first reactions to the finished songs have been very favourable, so fingers crossed! Then there is Peter Wilson’s next album, with 3 Matt Pop productions already recorded and a few more to come. Other Matt Pop releases that should be coming your way soon include When Boy Meets Boy by Matt Fishel and Unprotectable by David Christopher (it has been a long time coming, but I am assured by the label that it is now really on its way). Finally, for now, there is a very exciting project Matt Pop is working on with Almighty Records. Can’t say much more yet, as I don’t want to jinx it, but if it happens, you won’t have very long to wait. Make sure to check this page regularly for any updates.