Some info on Herbert that Scott Stone was nice enough to pass along to me. http://www.matthewherbert.com
It's a great site full of interesting introspection from Mr. Herbert, and info about all three of his primary guises and labels. I'm cutting and pasting the stuff that's relavent to what's been discussed here lately. On the promo-only 12" I reviewed yesterday: "The new Herbert release "Leave me now" is a Soundslike promo only and is out in very limited quantities now. A different version will be appearing on the next Herbert album, 'Bodily Functions' (due for release in spring 2001). We have made some copies of the record available free to members of our mailing list (to join see above) but there is a catch. We'll keep you updated with news on the album as things develop." On "Let's All Make Mistakes", his mix CD for Tresor, not to be confused with the 12", "Mistakes". The title says it all. I'm tired of a perfect universe where DJs feed the latest records in to a computer and perfectly beat match them. I'm human, I'm flawed and was never supposed to be a DJ. That said, I have played about 300 DJ gigs in the last four years in all sorts of amazing places, from Russia to Australia to Iceland. Increasingly people are wanting to hear new things on the dance floor and consequently going crazy over the wobbly stuff. This CD is supposed to be those tunes: from the consistently overlooked brilliance of Green Velvet to the structurally challenged records from Berlin. This really is my chance to play those records that make people either scream or leave dance floors. This is what I think electronic music is about, challenging conventions, trying to make people dance to ever increasingly weird sounds and rhythms. You have a captive audience, a big sound system and a spanish-strength vodka and tonic....what more do you require for a chance to play people some new music? So this is what DJing means to me at the moment. Sure I played some cheesy records in the past in an attempt to keep people moving, but now I'm deadly serious and whilst the mixing's not always perfect, the records mostly are. That's what's important. Hopefully after this release, 'Dusty Cabinets' will be number one and Green Velvet a national hero. I get the feeling though that whilst there's Ibiza and a load of magazines prepared to accept disco loops and drum machines as modern and exciting nothing will change, but in the words of Samuel Beckett, "fail again, fail better". Tristan ========================================== PHONOPSIA<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/5102 "FrogboyMCI" on AOL Instant Messenger "Most people have the cataract. They do not see what they look at. Dum Dee Dum Dee Dum Dee Dum..." - Stereolab _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
