There comes a time in seemingly every electronic musicproducers life when the crossover appeal of song-based “pop” comes calling, and all those years behind the turntables and laptop suddenly make stepping up to the mic a reasonable proposition. Some make this transition successfully (Matthew Dear, Jamie Lidell) while others soon retreat back to the safety of samplers and drum machines.
Matthew Herbert is the latest to make the jump on his latest effort, One One. As is everything with Herbert, this highly conceptualized project features 10 songs inspired by different cities. The effort is only 1/3 of the One Trilogy, which also features One Club (made entirely out of field recordings from Frankfurt’s Robert Johnson club, and One Pig, which sonically traces the life of an actual pig that Herbert adopted several years ago. So expect the folksy electronic songcraft of “Dublin” to be buffered by far more experimental fare coming from Herbert’s camp in the coming months.
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