Marking the 400th episode of Above & Beyond’s Trance Around The World show, TATW400 featured a marathon live broadcast on 237 FM radio frequencies across 35 countries, as well as online. With a weekly listenership of 30m, TATWranks among the world’s most popular radio shows.

Above and Beyond descended in Beirut, Lebanon to take over the world with their world famous TATW. Featuring some massive names

Above & Beyond
Gareth Emery
Kyau & Albert
Mat Zo
Jaytech

Being the lovable fuckers that we are, we’re trying our best to bring you every set from this mammoth show!  So we’ll start of proceedings with the one and only Mat-Z0.

London, England based producer and DJ Matan Zohar, or Mat Zo as he is known to his fans, was born into a artistically gifted family.  His mother, an accomplished professional violinist, and his father, a famous oil painter and music lover, immersed Matan into a world of music, from classical and folk, to opera and modern synth music. By age 8, precocious Matan was already so much inspired by music that he taught himself the guitar, and decided to start a band.

After moving from the USA back to London, England, his birthplace, at age 11, Matan soon became a drummer in a jazz band, and bassist in a rock band, but after listening to such dance music artists as Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers, their primal rhythms combined with cutting edge melodies, instrumentation, and progression moved him to a turning point in his career: electronic dance music production and DJing.

He taught himself to produce dance music at 13 years old, and by 16, taught himself to DJ.

By 2006, when he was only 16 years old, Matan had his first signing of a track, but it was after he won the Baroque Remix Competition with Lustral’s “In My Life” that many world-class DJs and producers began to notice this young producer’s great talents.

By mid-2007, Mat Zo had remixed for Andy Moor, Markus Schulz, and he became a DJ household name after Tiesto hired him to remix “Driving To Heaven”, and the remix appeared on Tiesto’s internationally recognized “In Search Of Sunrise 7″ CD compilation.

Mat Zo quickly worked up the ranks to become one of the most sought after progressive dance music producers in history. He has played in such cities as Holland, Germany, Ukraine, Ibiza, India, and various cities in England.

Mat Zo has gained tremendous support by the world’s top DJs, including Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto,  Above and Beyond, Markus Schulz, Ferry Corsten, Andy Moor, and Airwave.  He has numerous releases out on such labels as Intuition, Armada, and Anjunabeats, and continues to produce varied electronic music, ranging from drum and bass, to trance and progressive house.   The future looks very bright for this young producer/dj’s career.  We have only seen the beginning.

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Tracklist

01. Above & Beyond vs. Cirez D feat. Richard Bedford – Thing Called Mokba (Mat Zo Mashup)
02. Eco & Breakfast – Wide Open (Johan Malmgren Remix)
03. Probspot – Stalker (Fine Taste Remix) vs. Sander van Doorn – Reach Out (Mat Zo Mashup)
04. Raven Maize – Fascinated (Remix)
05. Pryda – Aftermath vs. Deep Dish feat. Stevie Nicks – Dreams (Mat Zo Mashup)
06. Mat Zo & Arty – Mozart
07. Wolfgang Gartner – The Way It Was vs. KhoMha – Magnetik (Sunrise Mix) (Mat Zo Mashup)
08. Jerome Isma-ae – ID vs. Swanky Tunes & Hard Rock Sofa – I Wanna Be Your Dog (Mat Zo Mashup)
09. Faithless feat. Cass Fox – Music Matters (Mark Knight Remix) vs. ID (Mat Zo Mashup)
10. Ferry Corsten – Feel It! vs. ID (Mat Zo Mashup)
11. Mat Zo – Bipolar
12. Mumbai Science – Lotus
13. Mat Zo – ID
14. Mat Zo – Superman
15. Ørjan Nilsen – Viking
16. Eric Prydz – 2Night vs. Nari & Milani – Kendo vs. Kyau & Albert – Be There 4 U (Mat Zo Mashup)
17. Arty & Mat Zo – Rebound
18. Third Party – Release vs. Firs State feat. Anita Kesley – Falling (Mat Zo Mashup)
19. Cosmic Gate – Back 2 Earth (Arty Remix) vs. Mat Zo – Rush 2009 (Mat Zo Mashup)