Anouk Matton Explained

Anouk Matton (born 1992), known professionally as Mattn, is a Belgian electronic dance music disc jockey, singer, and record producer. She has regularly featured in the top 100 DJs poll and is known as one of the most prominent women in the EDM music scene.

Career

Mattn was born in 1992 and comes from Antwerp, Belgium. Her music has been styled as "electro-house", and she also combines singing with her DJing. She has played live sets worldwide, including at notable events such as Creamfields and Tomorrowland.

Mattn has produced a number of hit tracks, typically on the Smash the House record label, including "Café Del Mar 2016" with Futuristic Polar Bears that peaked at #22 in the Belgian charts in 2016. In 2019 her release with Timmy Trumpet and Wolfpack, "Carnival", received negative critical reception including it did not feature "a single sign of creative expenditure".^[2] In 2020 Mattn collaborated with D-Wayne to release the track "Morning Mood".^[3]

In 2021 Mattn had a reality tv series, Anouk Matton Privé, on the VTM TV channel. The series attracted negative criticism in the media.^[4] Following a cessation, in 2022 Mattn returned to live touring which included performing a series of shows at the Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel supporting Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike.^[1]

Awards and recognition

In 2019 Mattn won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Belgian Act.^[5] She has been listed five times, from 2018 to 2022, in the DJ Mag Top 100 poll of worldwide disc jockeys as voted by the public. Her highest position, #42, was in 2020.^{[1] [6] [7]} DJ Mag also stated in 2020 that Mattn was a "trailblazer" as one of the few women prominent in the EDM genre.^[8]

Personal life

Mattn married Dimitri Vegas, half of the DJ act Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, in Ibiza in 2017.^{[9] [10]} Mattn had a son in 2021.^[7]

Discography

Mattn singles

Title	Artist	Year	Peak Belgium[11]	Peak France
Café Del Mar 2016		2016	22	87
Let The Song Play	Mattn & Magic Wand feat. Neisha Neshae	2017	37	—

External links

• • • • Anouk Matton at Djanetop

Notes and References

1. Web site: MATTN - Top 100 DJs 2022 - DJMag.com . . 3 July 2024 . 2022 . 21 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240621200807/https://djmag.com/top100djs/2022/78/MATTN . live .
2. Web site: Timmy Trumpet feat. MATTN vs. Wolfpack & X-Tof - Carnival (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Edit) - EDM Reviewer . EDM Reviewer . 21 September 2024 . 26 November 2019 . 21 September 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240921155742/https://edmreviewer.com/2019/11/26/timmy-trumpet-feat-mattn-vs-wolfpack-x-tof-carnival-dimitri-vegas-like-mike-edit/ . live .
3. Web site: Review: Brody Jenner/Chemical Safari and D-wayne soar on ‘Funky Pills’ (Includes first-hand account) . Digital Journal . 21 September 2024 . 23 October 2020 . 21 September 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240921154323/https://www.digitaljournal.com/entertainment/review-brody-jenner-chemical-safari-and-d-wayne-soar-on-funky-pills/article/579977 . live .
4. Web site: Desmytere . Wout . Anouk Matton responds to criticism of her own reality series: “It stings to read such things about yourself” . Gazet van Antwerpen . 21 September 2024 . 30 September 2021 . 2 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211202144201/https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20210930_95349230 . live .
5. Web site: THESE ARE THE BIG WINNERS AT THE 2019 MTV EMA . . 21 September 2024 . 3 November 2019.
6. Web site: Harold . Heath . MATTN - Top 100 DJs 2018 - DJMag.com . . 21 September 2024 . 2018 . 21 September 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240921155749/https://djmag.com/top100djs/2018/72/MATTN . live .
7. Web site: MATTN - Top 100 DJs 2021 - DJMag.com . . 21 September 2024 . 2021 . 29 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129120620/https://djmag.com/top100djs/2021/67/MATTN . live .
8. Web site: MATTN - Top 100 DJs 2020 - DJMag.com . . 21 September 2024 . 2020 . 21 September 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240921155800/https://djmag.com/top100djs/2020/42/MATTN . live .
9. Web site: Provost . Brittany . Dimitri Vegas Has Tied the Knot With MATTN, And Stunning Doesn’t Even Begin To Describe Their Photos . edmtunes.com . 21 September 2024 . 11 September 2017 . 12 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230512180600/https://www.edmtunes.com/2017/09/dimitri-vegas-has-tied-the-knot-stunning-doesnt-even-describe-the-pictures/ . live .
10. Web site: Dimitri Vegas maakt trouwdatum bekend . showbizzsite.de . 21 September 2024 . 12 May 2017 . 1 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180801034400/https://www.showbizzsite.be/nieuws/dimitri-vegas-maakt-trouwdatum-bekend-1581985 . live .
11. Web site: Mattn - ultratop.be . . 21 September 2024 . 21 September 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240921154336/https://www.ultratop.be/nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=MATTN#charts . live .