Producer, remixer, big band leader and boss of the Accidental Records label, Matthew Herbert is a man with a great many strings to his bow, and one of the most impressive CVs in modern music. Matthew Herbert is a man with a great many strings to his bow, and one of the most impressive and varied CVs in modern music.
In a career dating back to the early ’90s he’s worked with the likes of REM, Bjork, Moloko, Yoko Ono and Serge Gainsbourg: a fairly disparate bunch, which speaks volumes for the breadth of his musical ambition. A look at his credits reveals that he’s just as at home working on classical scores for film, TV and theatre as he is the pioneering electronic work for which he’s better known. Moreover, as boss of Accidental Records, you get the sense of a man still in love with discovering and nurturing new talent.
Who better, then, to curate this month’s Ones To Watch? And as you’d expect from a man whose debut live show was performed using a sampler and a bag of crisps, and whose manifesto states that “The use of sounds that exist already is not allowed”, it’s a stylistically varied, often challenging, but always interesting mix…
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