From his misspent youth skateboarding through the small-towns of Northeast England to running a successful independent record label, in-between producing and remixing for a wealth of talent around the world, Martin “Atjazz” Iveson has become synonymous with the highest levels of style, production and innovation in the independent music scene.

Arriving into the Midlands in the early nineties, Martin cut his teeth by landing a day job scoring for computer game studio Core Design Ltd on their worldwide smash-hit ‘Tomb Raider’ series. Alongside this he spent his spare time fervently developing and producing his own personal style of deep and soulful house music. After 13 years with Core, Martin felt he needed a new challenge however and, daringly, left the company to develop his own Mantis Recordings company and collaborate with like-minded artists to produce music that he felt could take him closer to his vision of stylish, intelligent, focussed and inspirational music. Producing under the Atjazz moniker (taken from a Topcat cartoon episode) on his own label amongst others, he began to see success with his early works; ‘Story’, ‘That Something’ and ‘Labfunk”, and his fanbase grew until he became known throughout the underground scene as an original and emotional force to be reckoned with.