NYC / NJ / Hudson Valley
I'm Matthew — a record collector who DJs weddings in New York, New Jersey, and the Hudson Valley. About forty-five a year, from intimate dinner rooms to floors past two hundred.
What it sounds like
First pours, warm records, the room waking up.
Dinner music that keeps the room alive.
Where the floor opens up.
The Hotel Chelsea · New York, NY · Saturday, April 18th, 2026
West Coast invasion in the most quintessential NYC hotel. Behind-the-bar ceremony position, a column in the sightline, Reed's live Blackbird through a DI box, and a singalong crowd that held the floor from Golden to the Friends theme.
Read the field notes →West Coast invasion in the most quintessential NYC hotel. Behind-the-bar ceremony position, a column in the sightline, Reed's live Blackbird through a DI box, and a singalong crowd that held the floor from Golden to the Friends theme.
An open-format funk mix for restaurant gigs, lounges, and rooms where nobody asked for a playlist but everybody notices the music.
A Williamsburg hotel wedding where the venue speakers weren't going to cut it, the couple was extremely chill, dinner was in a candlelit cellar, no mic needed, and the entire room — family included — raged through the full length of All My Friends.
Collector records that still work on people. Not the ones that sound good at home on headphones. The ones that move a room full of strangers who've never heard them before.
How a floor starts trusting itself. It's not about the first big song. It's about the three songs before it that gave people permission to move.
Dance floor, mid-turn
Bossa nova, soul, rare groove, and a few left turns. The kind of cocktail hour set where someone asks "what is this?" three times.
Dinner has to keep the room alive without competing with conversation. Too quiet and the energy dies. Too loud and the room fights you. The set has to breathe on its own.
Cocktail hour sets the room's first temperature. The Meters into Say She She into Idris Muhammad. First hour. First signals. The room is learning what kind of night this is.
A smaller vendor room at Brooklyn Winery. Vintage-leaning selections, live audio, and the kind of groove adjustments that only show up once the room starts talking back.
Brooklyn Winery, Jan 2026
A split-location North Jersey wedding. Park ceremony, a Dennis Edwards dinner pivot that won over the old heads, and the last 45 minutes opened into millennial hip-hop, Gasolina, and a very clean late-night lane.
Fill out what you know — we'll take it from there.