With his new album Scale, restless musical innovator Matthew Herbert has produced his most accessible and mellifluous song collection to date. In just a decade as a recording artist, Herbert has become Britain's most inventive and prolific electronic composer, producing and remixing artists as diverse as Björk, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg. On the surface at least, Scale is Herbert's smoothest and sweetest album so far. The overall tone is bright and opulent, th   [ read more ]

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With his new album Scale, restless musical innovator Matthew Herbert has produced his most accessible and mellifluous song collection to date. In just a decade as a recording artist, Herbert has become Britain's most inventive and prolific electronic composer, producing and remixing artists as diverse as Björk, REM, John Cale, Roisin Murphy, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg. On the surface at least, Scale is Herbert's smoothest and sweetest album so far. The overall tone is bright and opulent, th   [ read more ]

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Since Bodily Functions is the first Herbert production album available in wide release (distributed in America through !K7), it shouldn't be surprising that the soundman/producer extraordinaire hones and refines ideas he'd been working with for several years instead of introducing a new direction. Bodily Functions is very similar to his Around the House LP from 1998 (many of the tracks were first worked on as early as 1996), the unifying theme here being relations between human beings instead   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Featuring partner Dani Siciliano on vocals, this sumptuous Matthew Herbert disco tune comes with a cyborg funk remix by XLR8R's Man of The Year, Jamie Lidell and a crazy cut up version courtesy of future dream team Smith (Errorsmith) & Hack (Soundhack). It doesn't get more essential than this.

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Receive a FREE Moving Like A Train CD single when you purchase this album!In January 1996, Matthew Herbert released three EPs that would stand as a personal manifesto for the future of dance music. Wishmountain's Radio and Doctor Rockit's Ready To Rockit showcased the prolific young Englishman's odd techno and quirky electro sides. But it was Part One, the first in a trilogy of House releases that best pointed to the musical heights Herbert would climb in the coming deca   [ read more ]

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One of the most inventive, prolific and highly acclaimed figures on the electronic music scene, Matthew Herbert releases a new single "Harmonise/The Mover And The Shakers". 'The Movers And The Shakers' could almost serve as a sonic summary of Herbert's career to date in its hyper-infectious fusion of futuristic Jazz, orchestral electronica and deceptively barbed lyrics. Syncopation, sophistication and subversion in one seductively rich package. The original version is graced with slinky vocals by chanteuse    [ read more ]

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With the addition of vocalist Dani Siciliano on several tracks, Around the House is much more suited to straight-ahead dance music than Herbert's previous work. The deep liquid basslines and staccato kitchen-sink percussion (reminiscent of a more skeletal Chic) are working in support of something -- namely, Siciliano's languorous vocals -- and Herbert proves quite adept at backing a singer. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

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Matthew Herbert doesn't come by his swing connections lightly. As a teenager he played keyboards in a 25-piece Glenn Miller tribute band, though it must be granted, that gig was simply one among many during an active early career. (He began making music at the age of four, inspired by his father, a sound engineer for the BBC.) After a decade making records under several monikers, time spent exploring the music of sound in a dance context, Goodbye Swingtime -- his debut at the helm of {$the Ma   [ read more ]

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