Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert is a composer, producer, remixer, DJ, Big Band leader, the label boss of Accidental Records and creative director of The New Radiophonic Workshop. If there is a key to Herbert’s success, it is his singularity. There has been shimmering, velvet sweet House. There has been musique concrete. There has been sampling. There has been polemical, protest pop. His body of work is unique in collapsing the walls between pleasure and the political, between the realms of created sound and reality as it is experienced and suffered, between the drily conceptual and the warmly immersive.