Matt Oliver

Music PR

United Kingdom

A dab hand at biographies and newsletters, blurbs long and short, liner notes and promotional texts, and putting words to the promotion of singles/EPs, albums/compilations, and upcoming/established artists/DJs/producers/events.
EXTENSIVE experience in print/online reviews covering hip-hop and most forms of dance music.

Features & reviews in print and online for Seven/DMC Update, Hip-Hop Connection, Breakin Point, Rime Magazine (US), Undercover Magazine, One Week to Live, IDJ, Remix (US), FACT, Clash, BigShot (US), Mrblunt.com (US), Worlddj.com, Datatransmission.co.uk, Monolith Cocktail.

Promotional work for BBE, Be Yourself Music, Armada Music, Clarisse Records, Chased Management, Publicity Lab, KD Music, Lewis Recordings, YNR, Fabyl

All enquiries - [email protected] / @brimupnorth

Portfolio

Press releases, bios and promotional texts

B-Boys Breakin in Every Disco
2024
Nick Faber

Release text

Reviews - Rapture & Verse for Monolith Cocktail

Monolith Cocktail Blog
12/17/2025
25 for 25: an alternative hip-hop retrospective

Matt Oliver's Choice Hip-Hop Releases of 2025 Armand Hammer & The Alchemist 'Mercy' (Backwoodz Studioz) Armand Hammer = uncommon carnage and luxuriously slow violence, where "everything justified when you're starving, right?" Challenging Alchemist time signatures give the MPC twisted blood, finding the unfazed ELUCID and billy woods counteracting with formidable, structurally-dismissive street riddles and artisan...

Monolith Cocktail Blog
01/06/2025
24 for 24: an alternative hip-hop retrospective

MATT OLIVER'S CHOICE ALT HIP-HOP ALBUMS FROM 2024 Blockhead - Mortality is Lit! (Future Archive) Doctor Zygote - Beats to Use (B/C) Jon Phonics - Say Less (B/C) Nappa - Midnight Music (First Word) Spectacular Diagnostics - If You Feel Like You Lost a Soul (Blah) 2024 saw a string of contrasting instrumental projects putting...

Monolith Cocktail Blog
01/04/2024
Twenty-three: an alternative hip-hop retrospective

MATT OLIVER'S HIP-HOP REVUE OF 2023: A RUN-THROUGH IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF ALL THE CHOICE RAP ALBUMS FROM LAST YEAR Apollo Brown & Planet Asia'Sardines' (Mello Music Group) You can always vouch for the richness and warmth of an Apollo Brown production across countless albums and collaborations.

Archive reviews & features - Clash magazine

Clash Magazine
No Stooge - Iggy Azalea

Man's not hot at Selfridges... Man's not hot at Selfridges... Kickass in the new Hyperflex+ jeans... Kickass in the new Hyperflex+ jeans... Admin / / / 06 · 09 · 2012 The white-skin with blonde hair has a striking, Eminem shock of the new to it, topped with a trademark ponytail that swings like a mace, recalling Madonna's Blonde Ambition with a smattering of Gaga meets Mira Sorvino.

Clash Magazine
My Precious: The History of The Akai MPC

At the risk of retreading an old argument to which there is rarely a definitive answer, who historically is the most significant trailblazer in hip-hop: Grandmaster Flash? Kool DJ Herc? Grandwizard Theodore? Soulja Boy Tell'Em? How about Roger Linn? Wait, who was that last one again?

Clash Magazine
Spotlight: De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising

Although they're very much an active rap act in the present day, there's no doubting that 's moment came at the first time of asking, when they released a debut album so striking, and so influential since, that everything that's followed has inevitably been measured against it.