Herbert

Although his methods may provoke more discussion than his music (at least among chin-stroke types and the British and American dance music presses), Matthew Herbert is an experimentalist of a subtle stripe, combining his love for all styles of dance-based electronic music with a desire to push their modes of expression into new areas. Herbert studied music formally, yet much of his creative impetus has been provided by the compositional potential of digital sampling technology, which he liberally applies to genres such as house, electro, ambient, and techno, fashioning tracks of detail and originality from such mundane objects of everyday life as kitchen flatware, crockery, and even his own body. His albums 100lbs (1996), Around the House (1998), and Bodily Functions (2001) are regarded as left-field house classics. Since 2006's Scale, he has devoted more time to experimental albums and scores under his full name, but he's returned to more club-focused releases as Herbert with 2015's The Shakes and 2021's Musca.

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