The Most Influential DJs of All Time

Matt Consola    -    TheLong Story . . .

Completely devoid of the politics,ego & attitude, which run rampant in the music industry, Matt Consola is asincere and genuine producer/DJ, who consequently has a long and impressivelist of International credentials & accomplishments. America’s hottestclubs and circuit events have depended on Consola as their resident orheadlining DJ. A veteran of over 20+ years, Matt got his start headlining suchnight life institutions as San Francisco’s now infamous Gus Presents: Metropolis, Colossus & the Sundayinstitution Pleasuredome at thelegendary 1015 Folsom, 715 Harrison and Club Townsend. Matt is currently the travelingresident DJ with America’s largest traveling Bear Party called Bearracuda, that as of 2013, is in 32cities in 5 countries and still expanding (wwwbearracudasf.com). In addition,Matt founded the San Francisco based record label Swishcraft Music that hasspawned an International Radio Show on 511 stations on three networks and animprint label launching summer 2013 called BOUNZ!

As a hometown favorite to SanFrancisco, Matt has headlined America’s largest Pride and Street Fairs,performing to crowds of over 200,000, and has headlined San Francisco’sinternationally renowned UP YOUR ALLEY, Folsom Street Fairs, SF Gay Pride, andLazy Bear/Harrison Street events. As an artist in support of his 2011Swishcraft Music singles “Midnight” and ‘Coming Back” with vocalist BrendaReed, Matt & Brenda performed the main stage of the San Francisco 2011Pride Festival and in 2012, Matt headlines again as one of the DJ headliners.In 2009, Consola had the honor of opening for The Pet Shop Boys at the historic Warfield Theater for their soldout Pandemonium World Tour Sept. 22nd & 23rd 2009, which lead to dates atthe infamous House of Blues and others across the country and Canada.

In addition to a very successfuliTunes hosted Podcast called Adapter, which averages 30,000 downloads &streams a week, and a Saturday nite, hour-long radio mix-show called SwishcraftRadio on the Sobel Nation Radio Network, Wild Cat FM and the HotMaleRadioNetworks, Consola launched Swishcraft Music in 2012 dedicated to vocal housetracks rich in vocals and melody, a style near and dear to his heart. Drawingfrom a talented pool of San Francisco & Bay Area producers, many of whichare also fellow members of the SF bear community, Consola has set out to createa unique record label that features local talent, while still utilizing hisInternational friends and collages to give the packages a well rounded feel.Noted Swishcraft Music projects brought together International dance producer Saul Ruiz with Two-Time Grammy AwardWining Singer/Songwriter Matt Alberto cover the Fleetwood Mac classic “Dreams.”The track immediately shot to #1 on the Music One Radio Charts where itremained for 10 weeks before it’s official release on April 9th2012. And in the winter of 2012, the Swishcraft hit “Amazing” by Mars & Vans feat Adam Turner became a worldwideclub and chart sensation when it was licensed not once but twice by Abercrombie& Fitch for the launch of several European flagship stores as well as usedas their Facebook holiday campaign theme song and in their in-store runwayvideo campaigns.