Shushstudio

SHUSHSTUDIO is the private boutique recording studio facility of producer/composer Danny de Matos. Specialising in music and voice production and recording for corporate, commercials, independent artists, management and record companies. It is a professional boutique recording, mixing and mastering room that uses the latest and highest quality, cutting-edge equipment including many esoteric valve component front-end tools to warm the sometimes characterless digital domain. The room has been professionally acoustically treated to ensure the truest mixes and has affordable rates including the award-winning experience of the producer in a creative, comfortable and homely environment in Cippenham, Slough near Windsor, UK, 20 mins by car and 15 mins by train from West London.

Danny de Matos is a multi-talented composer/producer/musician of Portuguese descent, previously signed to Arista and Universal worldwide for both recording and publishing respectively. He learned music as a kid, working in record shops at weekends, listening to anything and everything he could get his hands on before joining local bands and then going on to become a professional musician.

During his career, he has written and produced for a wide variety of artists and styles, from U.S. Billboard pop radio hits with Crush feat. Donna Air (Telstar) to joining stadium techno-rockers Republica (BMG) for a 9 month gestation stint. In the past Danny has also been involved on remix duties with, re-mixing Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams’ and Limp Bizkit’s ‘Rollin’.

Danny has provided TV theme music for British ITV's 'Real Lives' documentaries. He composed the music for the Wild Thyme Productions’ ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’ at the International Globe Festival in Neuss, Germany and made his debut in film music in the independent UK punk rock cult classic ‘Metroland’ (starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson). He has also worked on the worldwide smash video games ‘Half Life 2’ and ‘Left 4 Dead’, and done much other high level voiceover recording and production, working with products and companies as diverse as Boeing, Kodak, Apple/Nike iPod.

He still continues to write and produce independent and corporate artists and bands at his own recording facility ‘shushstudio’ at his home nr. Windsor, England, from where he has more recently now also begun to compose TV commercial music for Amber Music US (e.g. Taco Bell It’s all about the Roosevelts, Baby!” Whether retro or cutting edge, laidback or rockin’ the music Danny de Matos creates is always engaging and appealing irrespective of genre and has a strong and distinctive independent style with an emphasis on memorable melody and catchy hooks. Think hits…