一聽音樂網

Matthew Herbert：古典音樂神童，IDM、Deep House 、電子爵士樂高手，90年代末至今世界最成功的音樂制作人之一，2003年巡游歐洲各大音樂節所到之處無不“最受歡迎”……他恐怕還是世界上最成功最“獨立”的獨立廠牌老板，是行為藝術家、政治狂熱分子，多趣怪之舉的狂人……狂人五短身材，十分瘦小，上下看似不成比例，額頭高得幾乎“碰到天花板”，門牙正中一條寬縫，令人忍俊不禁。中國人一定會想到——“天賦異秉”。 他是一個多產的音樂人，是一個全才的電子音樂人，他父親是一個聲音工程師，因此也造就他成為今天的聲音采樣魔法師，他叫Matthew Herbert，出生于英國，年幼時就已經在相當好的音樂氛圍下成長，懂得小提琴，鋼琴。06年在他的一張名為《Scale》的專輯中，采樣了723種音樂，有在海底，熱氣球，山洞，飛馳的汽車里等等錄音，他對聲音與音樂融合方面的觸覺實在令我驚嘆，對于他來說，整個大自然就是一個天然且獨特的采樣庫，只可以說他除了是一位音樂家之外更是一位藝術家。 The singular style of Matthew Herbert initially took shape during the late '90s, when he recorded under a variety of guises to much cult adoration, and before long became one of the most recognizable name-brand producers in the dance music field, well known for his ability to transform everyday sounds into quirky rhythmic material. His affiliation with music began at the young age of four, when he began learning the violin and piano. By age seven he was playing in orchestras, and at the age of 16 he began touring Europe with various orchestras. With his father being a sound engineer for the BBC, Herbert simultaneously became engaged with the relationship between electronics and music, furthered by a teacher he met at school, Pete Stollery, who moonlighted as an electro-acoustic composer in his free time. Later, as a drama student at Exeter University, Herbert became infatuated with performance and how it relates to music. Around this time, in January 1995, he first began sampling his immediate environment and using these sounds in his musical compositions, a tendency often associated with Aphex Twin-esque IDM producers. A year later, he saw three of his records get released: the first Wishmountain record, Radio, on Universal Language Productions; the first Doctor Rockit record, Ready to Rockit, on Clear; and the first Herbert record, Part 1, on Phono. He then released a long run of EPs along with several LPs: Parts 1, 2 & 3, 100 Lbs., and Around the House as Herbert, and The Music of Sound and Indoor Fireworks as Doctor Rockit. In addition to his sample-based house as Herbert, his updated electro as Doctor Rockit, and his experimental techno as Wishmountain, he also recorded as Radio Boy and runs the Life label. He later moved toward pop music, producing dance-pop albums for Dani Siciliano and Roisin Murphy.