The Matrix

While The Neptunes helped craft some of hip-hop's biggest hits in the early 21st century, The Matrix became one of the most in-demand songwriting/production teams in the pop genre. The threesome came together in 1999, when fledging recording artist Lauren Christy started to question her career goals after being dropped from Mercury Records. Christy's husband, Graham Edwards (a former bassist for Go West and Adam & The Ants), was experiencing similar doubts; he hadn't made much headway with his band, Dollshead, and the addition of a gifted new keyboardist named Scott Spock hadn't helped to spike record sales. Christy, Edwards, and Spock then began pooling their efforts under the guidance of Sandy Roberton -- Dollshead's former manager, as well as a pioneering figure in the management of record producers -- and officially coalesced as a songwriting unit that same summer.



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