小简介 Matthew Herbert：古典音乐神童，IDM、Deep House 、电子爵士乐高手，90年代末至今世界最成功的音乐制作人之一，2003年巡游欧洲各大音乐节所到之处无不“最受欢迎”……他恐怕还是世界上最成功最“独立”的独立厂牌老板，是行为艺术家、政治狂热分子，多趣怪之举的狂人……狂人五短身材，十分瘦小，上下看似不成比例，额头高得几乎“碰到天花板”，门牙正中一条宽缝，令人忍俊不禁。中国人一定会想到——“天赋异秉”。 他是一个多产的音乐人，是一个全才的电子音乐人，他父亲是一个声音工程师，因此也造就他成为今天的声音采样魔法师，他叫Matthew Herbert，出生于英国，年幼时就已经在相当好的音乐氛围下成长，懂得小提琴，钢琴。06年在他的一张名为《Scale》的专辑中，采样了723种音乐，有在海底，热气球，山洞，飞驰的汽车里等等录音，他对声音与音乐融合方面的触觉实在令我惊叹，对于他来说，整个大自然就是一个天然且独特的采样库，只可以说他除了是一位音乐家之外更是一位艺术家。 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.