Bio:
With a passion for music and culture, Jason Bentley has diligently served the greater Los Angeles community as a tastemaker radio and club DJ and established an influence worldwide through Music Supervision for film, advertising, and video games.

Jason Bentley's programming on National Public Radio flagship KCRW (Metropolis, Weeknights) and commercial alternative giant KROQ (Afterhours, Saturday nights) has been a bellwether for an evolving club culture for nearly fifteen years. Over the past 13 years, Jason has helped break such artists as Portishead, Massive Attack, Jamiroquai, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Basement Jaxx, and many others. Jason has been recognized by the LA Weekly, and The New Times free weekly as the Best DJ in Los Angeles over a number of consecutive years.

Metropolis and Afterhours have also helped to nurture a thriving music scene in the Los Angeles area, and Jason's weekly club Bossanova (bossanovaclub.com) has showcased a range of emerging talent from Daft Punk to Kruder & Dorfmiester. Jason also consults for the LA Philharmonic on special events at the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall in Downtown LA. These shows have featured Paul Oakenfold, Nitin Sawhney, UNKLE, Sidestepper, The Crystal Method, and many others. He has also Produced events at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skirball Cultural Center, and The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

As a Music Supervisor, Jason has worked on a variety of projects. He coordinated music for all three Matrix films, as well as the Animatrix companion and Matrix video game titles. Jason was nominated for a Grammy for his work on the platinum-selling soundtrack to the first Matrix film, and recently completed work on a new Matrix video game called The Path of Neo. Other films to his credit include City of Industry (1995), The Chronicles of Riddick; Dark Fury (2004), Green Street Hooligans (2004), The Shooting Gallery (2005), and he is currently working on the film DOA for Impact Pictures. In the advertising sector, Jason has directed music for the global ad campaigns and progressive marketing initiatives of Motorola, Jaguar, Reuters, Mitsubishi, and Ford Motor Company, among many others. In the video game field, Jason has worked on Full Spectrum Warrior (2004), Destroy All Humans (2005), and most recently The Path of Neo (2005).

Jason's background in the record business includes founding Quango Music Group for Chris Blackwell's Island Records, and working as an A&R Executive at Madonna's Maverick imprint for four years. Jason currently sits on the Board of Governors of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and was instrumental in the creation of a new category to recognize the "Best Dance/Electronic Album" at the Grammy's each year. Jason is based at Machinehead studios in Venice, California.