DJ RetroActive also known as Matthew Gibbons. Born on August 16, mixing from Queens, New York to a Worldwide Audience. At a young age, he became interested in music by hearing it on the local radio stations in New York. As well as hearing it from the songs his mother would play on Saturday mornings.

In 2009, he discovered a computer program called Virtual DJ. He begin to use this program and learned how to mix music without using a physical mixer. In 2012, he was given a Numark Mixtrack Pro as a gift. Two years later he upgraded from a Numark Mixtrack Pro and started using Serato with a Pioneer DDJ-SX.

From using no physical mixer up until now he has dropped numerous projects. Which have accumulated about 245,000+ downloads (as of March 17, 2022). As well as 4 million views on his RU-vid Channel.