There are few figures in electronic music as restlessly inventive as Matthew Herbert—a London artist who has spent over three decades dismantling and rebuilding the language of sound itself. Emerging in the late ’90s with boundary-pushing releases like Around the House—famously constructed from the textures of everyday domestic life—Herbert quickly positioned himself as a producer with both a concept and a conscience. With Bodily Functions, he pushed even further, using recordings of the human body to craft something intimate and uncanny. Then came his notorious One trilogy, including One Pig, a visceral, unsettling meditation on consumption and ethics. Beyond the club, Herbert’s reach extends into film scoring, opera, big band compositions, and collaborations with artists like Björk—a body of work that marks him as one of the most prolific and conceptually daring artists of our time. On May 8, 2026, Herbert performs live at Roland, the temporary pop-up club helmed by Alex Dallas. The night is rounded out by Dallas alongside Kalabrese, appearing together as Zukunft Soundsystem—two pillars of Zürich’s underground. A fitting collision: Herbert’s uncompromising live approach meets the loose, groove-heavy pulse of the Swiss scene, in a space that thrives on the fleeting.
