Mat Ward

Mat Ward fuses future bass, drum and bass, punk, and political themes into a distinctive style. His production career began in 2016 when he started creating beats for Provocalz, his preferred rapper. The pair’s debut collaboration, the single “Behind Enemy Lines,” received global radio airplay. Ward’s first solo project arrived in 2017 with the jungle album Slow Car Crash, which explores financial markets. Later that year he followed it with Inside My Device, a chill trap record focused on Apple and recorded entirely on an iPad. On July 31, 2018—the date when Mars came closest to Earth—he issued the lo-fi future bass album Disrupted, centered on Elon Musk. In 2019 he released the chill trap project Five Eyes, which examines surveillance. One month afterward Provocalz put out his hip-hop EP “G.O.D.,” every track produced by Ward. The 2020 album Filter Bubble earned acclaim as a “future DnB” statement on the media. In 2021 Ward delivered Interplanetary Species, an album addressing the goal of making humans multiplanetary. He continued with Why I Protest in 2022, an album constructed from protest chants, followed by Climate Wars in 2023, Take The Rad Pill in 2024, and In Our Blood in 2025. Ward authors a monthly music column that has been shared by Ru Paul, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, and Ministry’s Al Jourgensen. He also penned the book “Around The World In 80 AA’s,” described as an “excellent book” by travelmag.co.uk, and the volume “Real Talk: Aboriginal Rappers Talk About Their Music And Country,” labeled “a must-read” by Britain’s I Am Hip-Hop magazine.