AROUND THE HOUSE

TRACKLISTING: SIDE A 1 (-) 2 So Now... 3 Around The House SIDE B 1 Close To Me 2 The Last Beat SIDE C 1 Going Round 2 This Time SIDE D 1 In The Kitchen SIDE E 1 We Still Have (The Music) 2 Bedroom Jazz SIDE F 1 Never Give Up 2 We Go Wrong OVERVIEW: ˜Classic albums™ may be an overused term but is entirely warranted here with the announced reissues of this pair of house music long-players from Matthew Herbert's extensive back catalogue, getting a release on triple vinyl his own Accidental label. 2001™s much celebrated ˜Bodily Functions™ has appeared in many Album Of The Decade lists, whilst 1998™s ˜Around The House™ set the benchmark for a new more considered approach to dance music production that sounds as crisp today as when it first hit the late 90™s dance floors. There have of course been many brilliant house albums since Bodily Functions and Around The House, many of them influenced by them, but there is a distinctive, timeless quality in the sounds and words these songs were made from. Those sounds include the distinctive voice of Matthew™s former wife Dani Siciliano as well as long time collaborator, the late pianist Phil Parnell, human blood flow, kitchen utensils, bones, domestic appliances, teeth and laser eye surgery. Indeed, Matthew™s now legendary Personal Contract for the Composition of Music (PCCOM) for which he is now famed, was considered radical at the time.