BIO
After 15 years working as an editor for the french Premiere magazine (including 3 as editor-in-chief) in Paris, Mathieu Carratier made the move to Los Angeles where an old passion for creating music was revived. Director Franck Khalfoun (whose film Maniac had just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival) challenged him to write the score for his next movie, the thriller i-Lived (2015). At the same time, Mathieu was also cowriting and producing songs, attracting the attention of french director Camille Delamarre who selected three of those for the latest installment of the Transporter franchise, The Transporter Refueled (2017). “Can’t Have Me”, sung by R’n’B artist Vali, appeared in the end credits of the film. Between other scoring endeavors (the indie horror film Delirium, the digital series Lifer), Mathieu Carratier also cowrote the song “Roller Coasters” on Fantasia’s 2016 album The Definition of…, that featured Aloe Blacc.​
In 2017, he cowrote and co-produced with Stargate the single “A Million On My Soul”, performed by Alexiane, that appeared in the end credits of the sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Europe’s biggest production of all time, directed by legendary french filmmaker Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Lucy). He then completed work on another score for Urban Nightmares, a digital series that premiered on Blackpills / Vice, produced by acclaimed director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes), and had a song featured on the soundtrack for Amityville: The Awakening, the latest entry in the hit horror franchise, produced by Jason Blum (Get Out, The Purge).
In the summer of 2019, Alexandre Aja used another song Mathieu co-wrote and produced, “I’m Ready”, performed by Madeline, in the soundtrack to his hit thriller Crawl, which was released worldwide by Paramount Pictures to rave reviews.​ Mathieu spent most of the next two years co-writing and producing two full length albums with actor Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) under the name “HIRSCH”: Mnemonic (2019) and Denihilism (2021). At the same time, a remix of “A Million On My Soul”, produced by EDM artist Moses, gave Mathieu his first platinum-certified single in Russia.
​In 2022, he provided the score to Canadian documentary For Love, directed by Matt Smiley and narrated by Shania Twain, before reuniting with director Franck Khalfoun for the thriller Night of the Hunted, once again produced by Alexandre Aja, released on Shudder and AMC+ in October 2023. That same year, he also scored the feature film Walden, starring Emile Hirsch and Shane West. September 2024 will see the release of his latest work for the crime thriller Dead Money, which boasts an impressive ensemble cast that includes Emile Hirsch, David Keith, Rory Culkin and Jackie Earle Haley.