matmos vs herbert

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they share some concrete sampling philosophy and assemblative methods. with my great surprise I prefer herbert's last album pop touch what about you?

― francesco, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I prefer the Tape Beatles

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that's because you smoke the crack roc k.

i prefer herbert too, because i prefer slinky house music to idm. (and yes we can get into all sorts of arguments about how matmos isnt idm, and how herberts work can veer just as close to blah blah blah, i don't care.) the fact that he samples from all kindsa crazy sources is just gravy. i think the best matmos album is "the west," which is a fine, fine album, but i like it for it's mutant country- meets-musique concrete vibe rather than the beatz.

― jess, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Matmos of course! They sampled a crayfish's nerve tissue & synapse then amplified it to gain a bassline.

― Kodanshi, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know. Both of their albums are among my favorites this year.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I prefer Herbert too. Brainy but with feeling.

― Omar, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

herbert's playing at PS1 tomorrow in Queens.

this is not the same guy as "matthew herbert" correkt?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wait it IS matthew herbert! good god. well y'all know where you can find me tomorrow afternoon. i'm the one with the moustache who's dressed like a preschooler.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Outside in the full sunshine it was a bit strange seeing all the clubbhedz but he was great. Twiddling and diddling. He had a singer who sang on many songs, and she contributed vocal effects that Herbert bent like putty, repeated, filigreed, sped up, and tweaked into the mix. She flicked her uppers with thumbnail - "click" - and that became the main 2 and 4 snare beat in the song that was playing. Neat.

Altho my favorite part of the day = when warmup DJ played the electric slide, cool Kangol and Converse dyke with shades showed everybody the moves, to huge applause.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my housemate urges me to mention that every now and again Herbert actually hit the several mics on stage with CD cases and a ping-pong paddle type device. which led, inevitably, to bouncy reverbing craziness. (he insisted i use the word "bouncy". bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

What about now?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 31 October 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

matmos by a factor of 12 although can they get anymore kitschier... i blame hstencil.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 31 October 2003 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we turn this thread into Matos vs. Hebert?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 31 October 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

they share some concrete sampling philosophy and assemblative methods. with my great surprise I prefer herbert's last album pop touch what about you?

Assemblative is my new favourite word.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 31 October 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

dude it's not my fault! I haven't seen them since like 1998!

― hstencil, Friday, 31 October 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Herbert - no contest. Matmos are bollocks.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 31 October 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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