Scale
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HOUSE
Restless innovator, sampling wizard, classically trained pianist and superstar collaborator, HERBERT is one of electronic music's most versatile and prolific figureheads.
Recording under his own name MATTHEW HERBERT as well as DOCTOR ROCKIT, WISHMOUNTAIN, RADIO BOY etc, Herbert has also produced/remixed artists as diverse as BJRK, REM, JOHN CALE, ROISIN MURPHY, YOKO ONO and SERGE GAINSBOURG.
Herbert combines playful pop sensibility with a strictly imposed experimental agenda. In his increasingly conceptual and political albums he has emerged as a unique figure in modern music: a kind of one-man RADIOHEAD, or a BRIAN ENO for the 21st century.
His masterwork 'Around the House' (K7105CD) collected sounds from the house & home, while 'Bodily Functions' (K7097CD) derived much of its musical content from the human body.
In 2005, Herbert produced 'Ruby Blue', the debut solo album by MOLOKO singer Roisin Murphy. A fertile garden of flamboyant dance-pop and artfully textured jazz-funk.
Herbert's latest album, 'Scale', is his most pleasingly pop-friendly mellifluous release so far. But beneath its deceptively glossy surface sheen of jazz, disco and sensual house rhythms lie quietly anguished meditations on mortality, global suffering and the end of the oil age. Among the 723 objects sampled on these lush tracks are coffins, petrol pumps, meteorites, an RAF Tornado bomber, etc... More than any previous Herbert album, 'Scale' combines immaculately groomed dance music with subversive subject matter.
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Something Isnt Right
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The Movers And The Shakers
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Moving Like A Train
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Harmonise
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Were In Love
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Birds Of A Feather
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Those Feelings
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Down
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Movie Star
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Just Once
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Wrong
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