Mat Zo on Twitter is only a little less entertaining than the random jabs that deadmau5 throws out, but he’s definitely a lot more active. Over the past 24 hours, Mat Zo has gone on a tirade about Top 40 EDM artists, including Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren, and risks essentially alienating his entire fanbase.
If you're one of the few fans I have left who haven't been alienated by my musical adhd, or this twitter account, I admire your tolerance
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 28, 2015
Fans of his, as he mentions, who are familiar with this type of activity from him won’t be surprised by some of these undoubtedly controversial tweets. And man… Mat Zo dropped some bombs.
It really got started about 15 hours ago. There are a lot of tweets so I’ll pick out some of the best ones. Get ready to go for a ride, folks.
and praying in my press shots, praying to nothing but the emptiness of everything I represent
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
Its funny how when men cuss eachother it usually ends in respect or friendship even, when women do it it ends in eternal hatred
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@bixelboys there's another reason I stopped wearing it, i don't agree with the main slogan, life is not free nor will it ever be
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
Its high school all over again and I fucking hate it. It makes me want to go live in the woods in the middle of buttfuck nowhere
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
“@ParkerMaass: Taking bets on how many blogs will be covering @Mat_Zo's Twitter feed tomorrow.”
Surely they stopped giving a fuck by now
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
Sorry Mat, doesn’t seem so.
I shall keep throwing 'shade' on twitter, cus aside from my next album, its the only way I'm getting my fucking message across
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
“@DirectOfficial: I think most of the popular figures in electronic music are still geeks but they pretend not to be.”
Thats still fucked👆
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
If you're a nerd/geek whatever, be proud of it, don't be ashamed. Show the fuckwits how much better you are without even trying
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
I speaking to the electronic music producers of the future, you could be one of them, you might already be one. Don't forget what you are
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
You can gel your hair back, you can get lazer eye surgery, you can wear black sports jackets but you're still a nerd
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
And here we go…
.@tiesto once said to me "those trance guys are a bunch of old losers" maybe cus they stuck with their passion and didn't go chasing pussy
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
More people should know what these frauds are really thinking
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@AndiDurrant yes but theres still a class structure where the top djs are just businessmen who know how to exploit young talent
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@AndiDurrant no way @arminvanbuuren is the worst. Look at the talent on armada he 'supports' and look how they're all stuck
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@AndiDurrant its their only chance at a break cus @arminvanbuuren has commandeered a whole genre to be his own
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
For too long these guys have pretended make their own music succeeded and leave us actual producers to struggle
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@rubenderonde dude music is not just entertainment, it doesn't have to be like that. Do you REALLY want that?
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@onetwittahitta @rubenderonde hes actually a really nice guy, so is @arminvanbuuren but not when it comes to business
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@finge_ser no cus @deadmau5 doesn't actually give a fuck
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@rubenderonde I agree, but the way armada owns artists is just as bad. I know this cus I was one once
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
.@Abdelrahmanabil well @aboveandbeyond let me grow as an artist and gave me feedback every step of the way for my benefit not theirs
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
I don't want to damage these big DJ's careers, i couldn't even if I wanted to, but you should know they rely completely on smaller talent
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@EDMsnob no they don't, because most are ignorant of it, but no one has the balls to say anything
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@EDMsnob thats only because most EDM fans don't read that shit, the people at ultra aren't going cus they read about it on a blog
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@EDMsnob its hard to fight the good fight when not a single major US festival will even piss on me this year, probably cus ive been fighting
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@PDwob @Wolf_Beats yeh @OWSLA are definitely going the same way armada was
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@annayvettemusic cus it would be as genuine as actual yelp if not less lol
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
Electronic music has rotten teeth that need to be pulled
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
I really cant wait to put out my album, which will speak so much louder than my words on fucking social media
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
“@Eriklfuhler: Are you releasing it on a label? If so, whos? Certainly not on Armada's! ;)”
My own since majors stopped fucking with me
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
@Mat_Zo @Krewella @tiesto give us time, the west coast just woke up a couple hours ago 😉
— matt… we are not okay (@themattmeadow) May 29, 2015
I wish I could call out the fuckers ive had second hand experience with too, not just first hand, but that might be misinformed
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
I don't care if I kill my career, I just want to see genuine artists headlining festivals and the fake ones opening for them
— Mat Zo (@Mat_Zo) May 29, 2015
We want to see that too, Mat, trust us.
Mat Zo is clearly an intelligent individual with an outspoken personality, but he has the music to back it up. Whether you knew him from his MRSA days, from when he released “Easy” with Porter Robinson, or his come up with Above & Beyond, Mat Zo still has a lot to say – and hopefully a long career – ahead of him.
Mat Zo is still going on Twitter. We’ll periodically update this post with more tweets as we deem necessary.
