Herbert and PETA Beef Over Pig Album - News
Right now, the idiosyncratic electronic musician Matthew Herbert is hard at work on One Pig, a concept album about the life and death of a pig. Herbert's original intent was to record everything that...
View ArticleOne One - Album Review
The post-modern music maker limits his contextual sampling to a single subject: himself.
View ArticleNew Release: Matthew Herbert: One Club - News
Artist: Matthew HerbertAlbum: One ClubRelease Date: September 20Label: Accidental
View ArticleOne Club - Album Review
Herbert pays homage to DJ culture on his latest record, composed from sounds recorded during one night at the Robert Johnson nightclub in Frankfurt.
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Brings a Newspaper to Life - News
British electronic music iconoclast Matthew Herbert might be more famous for the inventively batty ways he constructs his music than for the music itself. Recent albums were made entirely by sampling...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Preps Pig Album - News
Last year, we reported on restless electronic experimentalist Matthew Herbert's attempt to record an album chronicling the life and death of a pig. Herbert ran into some problems during the album's...
View ArticleNews in Brief: Fool's Gold Day Off, Matthew Herbert, Gui Boratto, RVA Fest -...
-- Fool's Gold Records' Day Off showcase takes place September 5 at City Winery in NYC. It's slated to feature sets from Three 6 Mafia's Juicy J, Danny Brown, Just Blaze, Brothers Macklovich (A-Trak...
View Article"December (Micachu Remix)" - Track
One Pigis the album-length result of Matthew Herbert's attempt to record an album chronicling the life and death of a pig; the thing drops October 11 via Herbert's own Accidental Records label. In...
View ArticleOne Pig - Album Review
The final volume of Matthew Herbert's "One" trilogy is an overwhelming, inscrutably political electronic record culled from an unlikely source: It consists of manipulated recordings Herbert made of a...
View ArticleNews in Brief: Micachu/Matthew Herbert, William Schaff, BPM Fest, Summadayze...
-- This week, Accidental releases Micachu's reworkings of tracks from Matthew Herbert's album One Pigon a remix EP. The album tells the life story of a pig, from birth to plate. Hear her remix of...
View Article5-10-15-20: Matthew Herbert - Feature
This UK producer's restless experimentalism has led him to create music that's ranged from house to pop to big band to something bordering on noise. Here, he tells us about the particular songs,...
View ArticleBBC Launches New Radiophonic Workshop - News
The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop was a group of composers and sound artists who created sound effects and theme music for BBC programs from 1958 to 1998. Their groundbreaking use of electronic music can...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Reissues Bodily Functions, Announces Retrospective Box Set -...
Matthew Herbert's 2001 classic Bodily Functions put the British experimental electronic producer on the map. Its collection of jazzy tracks featured Herbert's then-wife Dani Siciliano cooing over...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Details Retrospective Box Set, Shares "Foreign Bodies" Video...
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.6296]As previously reported, British sound scientist Matthew Herbert is readying a box set that will collect remastered versions of his work from 1996 to 2006,...
View Article"Part 1" - Track
Matthew Herbert’s work is often purposefully limited. 2011's One Pig zoned in on a series of recordings he made of the life of a pig, and his forthcoming The End of Silence, set for release via...
View ArticleThe End of Silence - Album Review
Further narrowing his focus from the meticulously reductionist values of his One trilogy, Matthew Herbert zeroes in on a recording of a pro-Gaddafi plane flying over Libya and dropping a bomb,...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Resurrects Herbert Moniker for New EP Part 6, Shares "One Two...
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.10123]Matthew Herbert has announced a new EP called Part 6, the follow-up to last year's The End of Silence and the first release under his Herbert moniker in eight...
View ArticleJamie xx to Release "Loud Places" Remix 12" Featuring John Talabot, Matthew...
Jamie xx has announced a 12" of remixes of his In Colour single "Loud Places" featuring his the xx bandmate Romy. Arriving digitally Friday via Young Turks, the 12" features a previously-shared...
View Article"Leipzig" - News
Matthew Herbert may still be at work on his concept album detailing the life cycle of a pig (now aptly titled One Pig), but first he'll release two more albums, One One and One Club, as part of what...
View Article"Marlies Hoeniges" - News
Electronic alchemist Matthew Herbert's latest foray into experimentalism, One Club, is out now via Accidental. Herbert made the album out of sounds he recorded during a night at the Frankfurt club...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Launches "Edible Sounds" Series With Tortilla Record - News
Matthew Herbert, the British producer who has made music from a pig's life cycle, bullets hitting a pie, and a bomb explosion in Libya, has unveiled his latest project: "Edible Sounds." Its first...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Unveils Records Made of Aubergine, Ham, and Cheese at London...
Matthew Herbert, the British producer who has made music from a pig's life cycle, bullets hitting a pie, and a bomb explosion in Libya, recently unveiled a new project called "Edible Sounds." Its first...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Records Nude Body Sounds for New Album - News
Matthew Herbert has announced a new project called A Nude (The Perfect Body). It's out July 1 on Accidental Records, and it's comprised of recordings of a nude body as it makes...all kinds of sounds...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert Shares Hour-Long “Is Sleeping” Video - News
Matthew Herbert recently released A Nude (The Perfect Body), an experimental album made up entirely of recordings of a naked human body over the course of 24 hours. Now the producer has shared the...
View ArticleMatthew Herbert’s New Big Band Project Protests Brexit - News
Matthew Herbert has announced a new big band project in response to Brexit. The two-year collaborative project is a trek across Europe “celebrating artistic and musical collaboration and communities...
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