The magic of forming bands, the recording process, releasing music on records and such had always stirred up JMT’s interest. As a kid his favourite band were The Beatles. But in the early eighties electronic music got his attention. Bands that used synthesizers (OMD, Yazoo, Howard Jones, Vangelis, a Flock of Seagulls, to name a few) were an inspiration to make music himself. The magic eighties were very inspiring with influences such as synth sounds, rap, scratching and most of all: sampling! What the hell was that!?
He started experimenting with an organ, self made drum-kits and cassette recorders.
When a computer arrived at the household the possibilities and inspiration expanded. At this time the first wave of New Beat ran rampant in Belgium… JMT started creating New Beat tunes himself. But being kept small by limited equipment and not knowing where to send demo-tapes to, it lead to nothing.

Some time later he met Pascal Schutters with whom he formed a collaboration, to create music. After putting loads of time, effort and stamina into it they made a successful demo early 1996.

They had their first release on 12″ in May 1996 under the moniker TS Project. Some releases on Jumper Records and a remix of the TS Project-release followed.
Around 2001 the music pursuits made way for web-design and graphic art like drawing, picture- and video editing and such, but making music was not put completely aside; from time to time a new tune sprouted from his devices. After a while working on websites became boring and creating music started to gain interest again. He began using his stage name and uploaded his tunes to Soundcloud.

When he noticed the call to relaunch New Beat he saw the chance to make up the missed opportunity and commenced creating ‘new’ New Beat.

Discography:

TS Project – So Deep, So Precious (1996 – Dance Opera)
TS Mason – Sucka MF (1998 – Jumper Records)
TS Mason – Eject (1999 – Jumper Records)
DJ Peavey Blaster – Don’t Try This @ Home (1999 – Jumper Records)
The Ignorent – Too Much! (2001 – Stomper Records)
Silvertear – So Deep (2001 – Anaconda Records)
Jack Matthew Tyson – Not All Bad Is All Bad (May 2017 – Digital download only)
Jack Matthew Tyson – Voices From The Well (June 2017 – Digital download only)
Jack Matthew Tyson – About Time You Came Back (July 2017 – Digital download only)
Jack Matthew Tyson – The Cow Won’t Milk Itself (November 2017 – Digital download only)