Mati Schwartz

**Mati Schwartz** (Hebrew: מאט שוורץ, born 26 October 1971) is an Israeli-English record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, programmer, sound engineer, mixing engineer and DJ. He is YUNGBLUD's co-producer and co-writer. He is credited as either Matt Schwartz or Mati Schwartz on writing and production.

## Biography

### Early life

He was born in Haifa, Israel and came to London in the early 90's. He enrolled at Kingston University, and a year later began working at the Hit-House in Hammersmith between 1994–1995, while producing records with James F. Reynolds.

## Career

*To see a full scope career of Schwartz, you can visit his Wikipedia page. This section solely lists his Career with YUNGBLUD*

### 2017 - 2018: YUNGBLUD EP

In 2017, YUNGBLUD wasn't yet YUNGBLUD, he was Dominic Harrison—his birth name—and was playing at shows after rejecting an offer to go on The Voice. He met a manager at a show he was playing at, after he was done playing they went for a drink and the manager brought his business partners along; Declan Morrell and Tommas Arnby—YUNGBLUD's current managers. They got him a session with Schwartz but Schwartz criticised him for writing bad songs and refused to carry on with him. After being criticised, Harrison had a turning point, which he labels *"The Month"*, where he wrote songs that he actually cared about and designed a brand for himself—YUNGBLUD (being that he was called "young blood", meaning the youngest member(s) of a group)—this time being real. He brought the songs and brand to Morell, who got him another session with Schwartz, Morell told Schwartz that he would see another side of Harrison, Schwartz agreed and saw the songs and this time accepted him.

Harrison created a stage name: YUNGBLUD, and signed to Locomotion Recordings in 2017, which signed him to Interscope Records and Geffen Records. He and Schwartz produced *"King Charles"* as YUNGBLUD's first single. They also produced *"I Love You, Will You Marry Me"* and *"Tin Pan Boy"* in 2017 and pushed both tracks out as singles. In January 2018, they crafted an extended play with the three singles, and two more tracks they'd produced: *"Polygraph Eyes"* and *"Anarchist"* were on the EP. Schwartz became an integral part of the production and writing on a lot of YUNGBLUD's songs.

### 2018 - 2019: 21st Century Liability

On 4 May 2018, YUNGBLUD released *"21st Century Liability"*, as a single. It was the first single released from the album, which Schwartz co-wrote and co-produced. On 25 March 2018, *"Psychotic Kids"* was released as a single, Schwartz had co-writing credits and the main production credit on the song. *"Medication"* and *"Kill Somebody"* also had his production credits and on 6 July 2018, YUNGBLUD's debut studio album, *21st Century Liability* was released. YUNGBLUD often credits Schwartz as a trustworthy writing partner, friend and producer.

### 2019: the underrated youth

In January 2019, YUNGBLUD released *"Loner"* and *"11 Minutes"* with Halsey and Travis Barker which Schwartz produced and co-wrote. YUNGBLUD's second EP *the underrated youth*, was released 18 October 2019 and was co-produced and co-written by Schwartz. It entered the UK Charts at No 6.

### 2019 - 2020: weird!

On 3 December 2019, Schwartz posted photos of himself and YUNGBLUD on his Instagram, with the caption stating that they were working on the second studio album while in Spain. On 22 April 2020, YUNGBLUD released *"weird!"*, he stated that he wrote it while in Spain, and Schwartz is credited as a co-writer and co-producer on the track. The sophomore album, *weird!*, was released 4 December 2020, Schwartz has productions and writing credits on it. On 11 December, it was confirmed by the UK Official Charts that weird! gave him his first number one album. He celebrated the award with his team.

### 2021 - 2022: *YUNGBLUD*

His third studio album started its production on New Year’s Day in 2021, 28 days after the sophomore album dropped. He shared a video on his Insatgram story of a studio. The next day, 2 January 2021, he shared on social media images and videos of himself in the studio with the location being set as Yorkshire; his hometown in England, United Kingdom. 10 days after he shared photos of himself in the studio he streamed himself on Instagram Live and told his fans that the third album is almost finished. He recently confirmed that the third album is finished and had also began working on his fourth album, which he confirmed was finished in quarantine.

## Credits

* *"Anarchist"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"I Love You, Will You Marry Me"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"Kill Somebody"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"King Charles"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"Machine Gun (F\*\*k the NRA)"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"Medication"* - producer, mixer
* *"Polygraph Eyes"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"Psychotic Kids"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"Tin Pan Boy"* - producer, composer, lyricist, mixer
* *"braindead!"* - producer, composer, lyricist, bassist, guitar, keyboards, programming
* *"hope for the underrated youth"* - composer, lyricist
* *"ice cream man"* - producer, composer, lyricist, keyboards, programming, recording engineer
* *"it's quiet in beverly hills"* - producer, composer, lyricist, bassist, guitar, programming, recording engineer
* *"mars"* - composer, lyricist
* *"the freak show"* - composer, lyricist
* *"weird!"* - producer, composer, lyricist

## References

1. ↑ Locomotion Entertainment — Roster
2. ↑ Official Charts — "Top 100" (31 October 2019)
3. ↑ Matt schwartz on Instagram: "@yungblud Album 2 “The Spain Sessions” 🤘🤘🤘🖤🖤🖤" (3 December 2019)
4. ↑ Insider — "YUNGBLUD on his first real heartbreak, his lifelong fight for 'liberation and love,' and how 'the gatekeepers lost control'" (10 June 2020)
5. ↑ TIDAL — Credits / Weird! / YUNGBLUD - TIDAL (22 April 2020)
6. ↑ Official Charts - "Yungblud debuts at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with Weird!: “Yungblud is not me, it is us, this is our award"" (11 December 2020)
7. ↑ Matt schwartz on Instagram: "YB III 👀" (2 January 2021)
8. ↑ YUNGBLUD updates on Instagram: "highly intrigued right now..." (1 January 2021)
9. ↑ YUNGBLUD on Instagram: "still awake , always awake ... wish i was awake wiv you 🖤💀🖤" (2 January 2021)
10. ↑ NME - "Yungblud has nearly finished another new album in lockdown" *(14 January 2021)*