ORIGINS: Matthew Dear

If there s one thing that sets Matthew Dear apart as an electronic artist, it s his gift for singing and songwritingnot the most common skillset for someone who came up in Detroit s techno scene. Starting in the late 90s, Dear made a name for himself with blistering club tracks on Ghostly International (the label he started with Sam Valenti IV), but it was his voice, lyrics and swagger as a frontman that would later make him such a unique icon. The source of this talent goes back even further than Detroit to Dear s childhood home in Kingsville, Texas, where his father, also a professional musician, taught him to sing and play guitar. In this episode of ORIGINS, Dear heads to Kingsville for the first time in over a decade to revisit spots from his childhood and pick some guitar with his dad. I wanna see some places I used to go, he says. What is nostalgia, what is real, what are my memories worth More on Matthew Dear: Credits: Filmed, Directed and Edited by