Performance · Production
Nicolay
Utrecht, Netherlands
Nicolay is credited on 99 releases across 51 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1997–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
99
Pressings credited
51
Albums
4
Decades active
42
In collections
Biography
Nicolay (born Matthijs Rook in 1974) is an electronica, R&B and hip-hop record producer from the Netherlands, better known as one half of The Foreign Exchange. Due to his work, Nicolay now resides in the United States. In December 2009, The Foreign Exchange were nominated for a Grammy, for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the track "Daykeeper," from their second album, Leave It All Behind. Nicolay is the fourth Dutch person to be nominated.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
99 releases · 51 albums · active 1997–2025
- Performance · 110
- Production · 83
- Mastering · 4
- Other credits · 3
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Chopp Shopp Studios · The Plantation, Las Vegas, NV · Digital Insight Recording Studios · Flight 6556 Studios, Chicago, IL
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Minstrel Show
2005
The Chittlin Circuit 1.5
2005
May The Lord Watch
2019
Connected
2004
Charity Starts At Home
2011
Leave It All Behind
2008
Sincere
2004
Tales From The Land Of Milk And Honey
2015
Love In Flying Colors
2013
Sunstorm
2011
Authenticity
2010
The Show
2008
Freiheit
2008
Time:Line
2008
Here
2006
Okayplayer - True Notes Vol. 1
2004
Whatever You Say / Light It Up
2002
You've Got My Love
2001
Frequent collaborators
- The Foreign Exchange
- Bastian
- Little Brother (3)
- Various
- Havana (13)
- Science Fiction
- Roosevelt Franklin
- Rapper Big Pooh
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