More Plastic
More Plastic is an electronic music duo from Copenhagen, Denmark. The project is run by brothers Mathias Vasiliadis and Marco Vasiliadis. They work as producers across drum & bass, drumstep and dubstep, and have released music on Monstercat, NoCopyrightSounds (NCS), Riotville and Nerd Nation.
The brothers began producing together under the More Plastic name around 2013. Before that year they released music separately using the aliases Dj Amateus (Mathias) and El Greko (Marco). Their Monstercat debut includes two Pegboard Nerds collaborations, "Manifest" and "Together," which were released on September 14, 2020. They cite their father, a former DJ, as an early musical influence.
As producers, More Plastic position their sound between drumstep’s half-time pulse and dubstep’s low-end design while also working in drum & bass tempos. Their production techniques emphasize tight break edits and syncopated drum programming: swung snares and staccato hi-hat patterns sit over half-time kicks when they lean toward drumstep, and faster, cut-up breakwork appears on their drum & bass-based material. Bass design is central — layered sub frequencies under saturated midrange growls and LFO-modulated wobble elements provide the low-end movement. They use common studio techniques such as sidechain compression between kick and bass, multi-band distortion to carve harmonic content into the mids, and automation on filter cutoff and LFO rate to shape drops and transitions.
More Plastic’s arrangements typically pair concise build sections with immediate, impact-forward drops. Their tracks place emphasis on contrast: clear, reverbed atmospheres or vocal chops in the intro and breakdown, then heavily processed bass layers and aggressive transient shaping when the drums return. On releases that sit closer to Monstercat’s dancefloor-oriented output they employ crisp mixdowns and punchy transient shaping aimed at translation on club systems and streaming platforms alike.
Concrete career highlights include releases across the labels listed above and the two credited collaborations with Pegboard Nerds on Monstercat — "Manifest" and "Together" (both released September 14, 2020). Their label appearances on NCS, Riotville and Nerd Nation place them in the independent electronic circuit alongside other dance-focused producers. The brothers’ prior solo work as Dj Amateus and El Greko predates the More Plastic project and marks the start of their documented output.
Public biographical detail beyond those releases and label credits is limited. What is verifiable: More Plastic are Copenhagen-based producer brothers Mathias and Marco Vasiliadis, active together since around 2013, working in drum & bass, drumstep and dubstep, with releases on Monstercat, NCS, Riotville and Nerd Nation, and Monstercat tracks with Pegboard Nerds titled "Manifest" and "Together" (September 14, 2020); their earliest musical influence is their father, who was a DJ.
