Matt Quinn, known by his stage name Optical, is a British musician, producer and DJ. He is co-founder and owner of Virus Recordings, a widely regarded drum and bass record label. He is best known as one half of drum and bass duo Ed Rush and Optical (with his long-time musical partner Ed Rush), whose debut album Wormhole has been described as one of the most significant LPs of the drum and bass genre. He is also the brother of Jamie Quinn also known as Matrix.

Quinn started making music as a teenager, and performing as a DJ on the UK free festival scene with Bedlam, Spiral Tribe and Techno Travellers Soundsystem including the legendary Castlemorton Common Festival. He had his first releases in 1992 using the name Little Matt, released on Fat Chuna Recordings, and also under his short-lived hardcore jungle alias Teknarchi in 1993, and later as a techno producer (under various monikers such as Fly By Wire featured on Carl Cox's F.A.C.T 2 release, and Morpheus). He worked as a sound engineer and producer from 1992 onwards, (including production credits for the 1994 Jungle anthem "Leviticus - Burial" ) for several London music studios including Great Asset Studios (Grey's Inn Rd, Clarkenwell, London), Pirate Club Studios (Roller Express, Lea Valley) [1], Fokus Records Studios (London) and JAL/Stage1 Studios (London). His breakthrough successes as Optical include "To Shape The Future" 12" published 1997 on Metalheadz, "Grey Odyssey" featured on Grooverider's successful mix album "The Prototype Years", also "Moving 808's" and in collaboration with Ed Rush and Fierce on "Cutslo/Alien Girl" both on Prototype Recordings.

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