Materia aka Jan Warnstam started his music career on an Amiga 500 in 1988. Since then he has produced many styles of electronic music and seen the birth of genres such breakbeat, jungle and drum'n'bass in the early 90s. He started acquiring more dedicated hardware and soon decided to take his music production to a new level, and to a wider audience. In August 2000 he participated in a remix competition on the Swedish Radio P3 show Morgonpasset, followed by sending of demos to P3 Dans and P3 Demo in September under the name of Soil of Sound. In spring 2001 a 15 minute special show dedicated to his previous and present music was featured in P3 show Syntax Error.

In April 2001, Back to Plastic founder Thomas Bergsten approached wanting to start a new drum'n'bass label to release tracks on vinyl. Pressure Cut Recordings was a fact and has so far released one 12 inch vinyl with tracks by Jan under the production alias Hidden Lab. Parallell to this Jan also got a breakbeat remix signed to a compilation album on Invisible Records in Chicago, using the monicker Soil of Sound. This compilation album was released in September 2001. During 2002 Jan was also signed to the Swedish breakbeat label Sound of Habib based in Gothenburg, and the first release on this label consists of two tracks on a compilation album coming autumn 2002.

In 2004, Materia was contacted by London based Basic Recordings and the track Impact was signed to the label. The 12-inch was released in summer 2004 with a Paradox remix on the flipside. To celebrate this a release party was held at HQ in Oxford in May where Materia aka Tectonic played alongside Mattrick, Chemical and Loxy from Metalheadz.

Following this release in 2005 were two digital releases on Canadian online outlet Earwaks (Black Smoke, Superimposed and Mindbomb) and Australian label Kinematic (Collision Domain), and in 2006 a three track EP was released on the German label Tilt Recordings (Waypoint, Leaving and Cordless).

The future looks bright with forthcoming releases in different formats on labels like Secure, Digital Tunes Dubs, Intelligence Audio, Oni, iDJ and Unholy, more international gigs in the pipeline and the weekly radio show running as strong as ever. If you want to book Materia aka Tectonic for a varied set of deep, technical and musical drum'n'bass, electronica or jazz, don't hesitate to get in contact right now. More information on the DJ aspect is available on the DJ Tectonic website linked from the top navigation.