One of the few that truly does it all, MC/DJ/Producer, Uncle Traveling Matt drops his long awaited debut album, Postcards From The Edge. The initial response to the album has been very positive and has started quite a buzz for hip-hop fans in Vancouver, Canada. Uncle Traveling Matt started his career at the young age of seventeen when he appeared on a hip-hop compilation album called, Diversity by Beyond Productions. "I got Hip-Hop 101 when I was a little kid, hanging out with people that knew a hell of a lot more than me and I just soaked it all up like a sponge. I was obviously too young to be around for the South Bronx beginnings but getting to be around for the birth of hip-hop in your own town is a pretty cool experience." Matt hopped from group to group but could never really get inspired by the people he was working with or the way hip-hop was going. "When I was a kid I had a love/hate relationship with hip-hop. When NWA and Geto Boys first came out their beats were so funky and well produced that I didn’t really mind the lyrics and I don’t think those guys were taking themselves as seriously as everyone that was inspired by them. I’d say right after Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle and Dre's Chronic albums hit big something changed and I just hated where the music was going so much that I washed my hands of the whole scene and walked away."

Matt enrolled in university, went to film school, traveled and worked all over the States but hip-hop managed to find a place on the backburner. "I think to truly love something you have to walk away from it. Hip-hop is like any relationship, it has to get really bad before it can get really good. Now that I know what it's like to not have hip-hop in my life, I never want to have that feeling again." When Matt quit the scene he started getting into other types of music to fill the hip-hop void. He started listening to lots of jazz, funk, soul and different types of music from all over the world. "I would ironically buy an album if I recognized a hip-hop sample on it and really got into record collecting and the art of diggin' in the crates. As I started building my record collection, I started finding samples that I wanted to use. The next thing I know, I’m buying old people’s record collections and filling up notebook after notebook with samples."

After a while hip-hop started to change and new groups started to emerge from the rubble. Uncle Traveling Matt took a job at the infamous www.undergroundhiphop.com writing music reviews and started getting back into hip-hop full time. "Working for Underground Hip-Hop really opened my eyes when I first started out there. There were lots of groups coming up and making really good music. People that obviously grew up on the same stuff that I did and we’re doing it for the love of the music, not the money. How can you not be inspired by that?" At the time, Matt was writing a lot of rhymes, practicing scratching every day and had just bought an Akai MPC to start making beats. He got a two bedroom apartment and filled the second room with all of his gear. Everything was pointing him in the direction to start working on an album and for the next three years Uncle Traveling Matt set out on his quest to make the best hip-hop album that he could.

After two and a half years at home and six months at Depthcharge Studios, Postcards From The Edge was finally finished and ready for everyone to hear it. "It's exactly how I envisioned it from day one. I wouldn't change a single thing about it. I'm just glad it's finally done and I want people to have as much fun listening to it as I did making it."