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GTA are an electronic music duo from Miami consisting of house music, electro house, trap and hip hop producers Julio Mejia and Matt Toth. After releasing music with the support of Laidback Luke in 2011, the duo caught the attention of Diplo, who featured them on his 2012 "Express Yourself" EP. GTA has released music on labels such as A-Trak's Fool's Gold, Laidback Luke's MixMash, Steve Angello's SIZE, Diplo's Mad Decent and more. They've toured the globe with Rihanna on her 2013 Diamonds World Tour, with Calvin Harris & Tiësto on their Greater Than World Tour, and have headlined their own Death To Genres Tour and Goons Take America Tours.

Beyond their partnership as GTA, Julio and Matt have each produced music individually. Under solo aliases known as JWLS and Van Toth, respectively, both have released original productions and remixes. Julio's individual work as JWLS, includes remixes for A-Trak, Danny Brown and others. Matt's solo work as Van Toth includes remixes for Gina Turner.

Background
Julio Mejia and Matt Toth were born and raised in the Miami area of South Florida. They met through social networking in 2010, when a mutual friend introduced them on Facebook. Together the duo began their careers DJing local bars, college parties and hookah lounges in South Florida. They began producing electronic music from a converted dorm room on the Kendall campus of Miami Dade College. Deciding on their stage name, Julio and Matt considered Grand Theft Audio and decided on its abbreviation, GTA.

Career
Between late 2011 and early 2012, GTA released numerous remixes and productions on Laidback Luke's MixMash Records. They landed on Diplo's "Express Yourself" EP and released their own debut EP, People Boots, on Chris Lake's Rising Music. In 2013, GTA provided remixes for deadmau5, Kaskade and others, while featuring collaborations such as "Boy Oh Boy" with Diplo and "Hit It" with Henrix and Digital Lab.

GTA has played major music festivals such as Lollapalooza, Ultra Music Festival, Coachella, Made In America, Electric Daisy Carnival, and Tomorrowland. In 2013, the duo toured with Rihanna as an opening act of her Diamonds World Tour, which became the sixth highest grossing worldwide tour of 2013 with a gross of $141.9 million from the shows played from January 1 to December 31, 2013

The duo toured the globe with Tiesto & Calvin Harris on their Greater Than World Tour, which sold out Glasgow's Hydro Arena three minutes after going on sale. GTA's headlining tours have included 2014's Death to Genres Tour with supporting act What So Not, and 2015's Goons Take America Tour with supporting acts K Camp, Rich The Kid and Wax Motif.

In 2015, GTA released "Intoxicated" with Martin Solveig, a remix for Rick Ross and Jay Z's "Movin Bass," and more. "Intoxicated" with Martin Solveig peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart, and also charted in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland and Switzerland.

GTA released three EPs by the name of Death to Genres in 2015. Volume 1 was released in March with featured artists Paul Wall, TJR and more, followed by a remix edition known as Vol. 1.5 in August, and the sequel DTG Vol. 2 in November.

On November 27th, 2015, GTA released Skrillex's remix of their original record "Red Lips." The music video was made in collaboration with Apple Music and was directed by Grant Singer. It took six months to make, according to Skrillex, who told Pitchfork "We treated it like it was just an art piece that we took our time doing, and it really felt right on the treatment."

GTA is currently working on a full length album that's expected to be released in 2016.

Albums
Extended Plays
 * DTG, VOL. 1 (2015)
 * DTG, VOL. 1.5 (2015)
 * DTG, VOL. 2 (2015)

Studio Albums
 * Untitled Debut Album (2016)

Singles
2010
 * Signal Failure (with Padded Cell)

2011
 * U & I
 * Next To Us

2012
 * Move Around (with Diplo & Elephant Man)
 * People Boots
 * Devoid
 * Shake Dem
 * Booty Bounce (feat. DJ Funk)

2013
 * Ai Novinha
 * Alerta
 * Hit It (with Henrix & Digital Lab)
 * Landline (with A-Trak)
 * Landline 2.0 (with A-Trak)
 * Turn It Up (feat. Wolfpack) (with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike)
 * The Crowd
 * Boy Oh Boy (with Diplo)
 * Bola

2014
 * Hard House (with Juyen Sebulba)

2015
 * Intoxicated (with Martin Solveig)
 * Prison Riot (with Flosstradamus & Lil Jon)
 * The Chase (feat. Aruna) (with Laidback Luke)
 * Red Lips (feat. Sam Bruno) (Skrillex Remix)

Remixes
2011
 * CZR, Paul Anthony & ZXX - Understand (GTA Remix)
 * Famous Figures vs Suspect - Got To Dance (GTA Remix)
 * Laidback Luke vs Example - Natural Disaster (GTA Remix)
 * Blink, Gianni Marino & Metsi - Bahasa (GTA Remix)

2012
 * Laidback Luke, Arno Cost & Norman Doray - Trilogy (GTA Remix)
 * Breakdown - F_ckin’ Lose It (GTA Remix)
 * Silver Medallion - Stay Young (GTA Remix)
 * Clockwork - BBBS (GTA Remix)
 * Michael Woods - Last Day On Earth (GTA Remix)

2013
 * Congorock & Stereo Massive (ft. Sean Paul) - Bless Di Nation (GTA Remix)
 * Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner - Channel 42 (GTA Remix)
 * Bajofondo - Pide Piso (GTA Remix)
 * Bloody Beetroots (ft. Tai & Bart B More) - Spank (GTA Remix)
 * Kaskade & Deadmau5 - Move For Me (GTA Remix)
 * JWLS - Bashin’ (GTA 140 Mix)
 * Kylie Minogue - Skirt (GTA Remix)
 * Kaskade - Atmosphere (GTA Remix)
 * Calvin Harris - Thinking About You (feat. Ayah Marar) (GTA Remix)

2015
 * Diplo & Alvaro (ft. Kstylis) - 6th Gear (GTA Remix)
 * Kill The Noise - Saturn (GTA Remix)
 * Rick Ross - Movin’ Bass (feat. Jay Z) (GTA Remix)
 * Crookers - I Just Can’t (feat. Jeremih) (GTA Remix)
 * Galantis - Peanut Butter Jelly (GTA Remix)
 * Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money (GTA Remix)
 * Giraffage - Tell Me (GTA Remix)
 * Craze - Bow Down (feat. Trick Daddy) (GTA Remix)

JWLS
Singles Remixes
 * Let’s Swag (with Gianni Marino) (2012)
 * Bashin’ (2012)
 * Lagrimas (2012)
 * Simo T & Paris FZ - Dancing Alone (JWLS Extra Sauce Remix) (2011)
 * Tommie Sunshine - Tonight’s The Night (JWLS Remix) (2011)
 * Codes - Ready Aim Fire (JWLS Remix) (2011)
 * Buraka Som Sistema - Tira o pe (JWLS Remix) (2012)
 * From the Back (feat. Danny Brown) (JWLS Remix) (2012)
 * Lady Chann - Darkness (JWLS Remix) (2012)
 * 2 Edit - Datsun Tropicalia (JWLS Remix) (2012)
 * Craze - Selekta (JWLS Remix) (2012)
 * A-Trak & DJ Zink - Like The Dancefloor (JWLS Remix) (2012)

Van Toth
Singles Remixes
 * Don’t Stop (2010)
 * Grimecoat! (2010)
 * Banana (2010)
 * Fang Shui (2010)
 * How You Feelin’ (2010)
 * Influences (2010)
 * Dub Kay - Let It Go (Van Toth Epic Remix) (2010)
 * DJ DLG - Visions of Love (Van Toth Remix) (2011)
 * Gina Turner - Giovanna (Van Toth Remix) (2012)