TAG: Matthew Herbert

Feb20

Mutek Unveils First Acts For 2013 :: Matthew Herbert, Jamie Lidell & Robert Hood

Conceptualist sampler Matthew Herbert, Detroit techno legend Robert Hood and IDM soul singer Jamie Lidell have all been announced as headliners for the 2013 Mutek festival, taking place May 29 – June 2 in Montreal.

Herbert alone will be undertaking three different performances, including his controversial One Pig show (all samples recorded from the life of a pig, from birth to slaughter), an equally experimental unnamed project built around a 10-second sample of the war in Libya and a DJ set in his more dance floor-friendly Wishmountain guise. 

Other acts announced today include Cologne techno entrepreneur Michael Mayer (who is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his Kompakt empire), Berlin hit makers Âme and Montreal star Ghislain Poirier wil be presenting his new Boundary project.

Check the full list of initial acts announced after the jump.

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Mar07

PREMIER Renaissance Man :: “Natty Jussi” (Jori Hulkkonen Remix) (MP3)

Swedish tech-house star Jori Hulkkonen has one in the long list of all star remixers assembled to rework Renaissance Man‘s lauded Project LP. Other producers called to action on the full album Remix Project include Matthew Herbert, Joakim, Dexter, WhoMadeWho and Paul Woolford. It all drops on Turbo Recordings March 19th.



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Aug04

Matthew Herbert Remixes Björk (MP3)

UK experimentalist sample boffin Matthew Herbert has given his patented wonky treatment to two songs, “Crysalline” and “Cosmogony,” off Björk‘s upcoming Biophilia album. What happens when two of music’s most thought-provoking artists come together is pretty spectacular.

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Feb14

Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise (Review)

Nicolas Jaar

Space is only noise

Released by Circus Company


Nicolas Jaar was born in NY, grew up Santiago de Chile, and returned to NY as a teenager.  This can be heard in his music, from a slow disco thump to emotional pianos. He started making music at the age of 14, and now barely out of his teens he’s making an impact on dance floors worldwide. His emotional full length debut album Space Is Only Noise is fittingly released on Valentine’s Day by Circus Company. We all know him from Wolf + Lamb and on his own label, ...
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Dec16

Matthew Herbert Sings! “Dublin” (Video)

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.

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