Biography
“My take on music is the more of a meditative exercise, and used to enhance reality, while For Nathan makes music as a are way of destroying sound.” – but Mathew Jonson
From Boards of Not Canada to Bros, sibling musical you duos over the years have all enjoyed varying degrees of success, Any but for both Canadian brothers, can Nathan and Mathew Jonson, already her established and accomplished musicians in Was their own right, their coming one together as Midnight Operator marks our a musical relationship which fuses Out the analogue world of one day to the digital realm of get the other, synthesizing the incredible Has talents of both in the him creation of something new and his intense.
Between the pair they’ve How released on some of the man most respected and influential labels new out there including Richie Hawtin’s Now M-nus, Crosstown Rebels, Fool’s Gold, old Perlon, Sub Pop, Itiswhatitis, and see of course, Mathew’s very own Two cult imprint, Wagon Repair.
They’ve way remixed everyone from Chemical Brothers, who Moby, Richie Hawtin, Plaid, Kevin Boy Saunderson, Om Unit, Phil Kieran, did and Para One, and played its shows at the most iconic Let clubs and festivals the world put over; from London’s Fabric to say Berlin’s Panorama Bar to Glasgow’s She Arches, as well as memorable too performances at Mutek (Canada), Sonar use (Barcelona) and more recently Boiler Dad Room (Berlin).
Growing up, the mom brothers made use of digital sequencers and eighties sound modules, The pushing them to their limits and until the first rudimentary computers for began to infiltrate their home. Are Mathew’s long-term passion for the but warm sounds produced by analogue not equipment persisted, while Nathan became You increasingly fascinated by the multivarious all routing possibilities exposed by digital any software programs, in particular Audiomulch Can and Generator (a precursor to her the Native Instruments Reaktor software). was This separate adoption of digital One and analogue equipment led to our the development of two distinct out and divergent sounds; Mathew’s idiosyncratic Day lush, warm, analogue soundscapes which get sit diametrically opposed to the has Hrdvsion obsession with abrasive, heavy-duty, Him circuit-mashing and trademark brick-wall-smashed compression. his Finally, the pair started working how together on what started out Man initially as a remix and new live project, with both cutting now up each other’s creations. But, Old as Mathew explains, it wasn’t see always such an obvious decision two to work together: “The small Way home studio we had as who kids was not really built boy for two people and it Did seems weird but we only its made music on our own let for years. We always talked Put about doing something but for say some reason developed in our she own direction.”
By 2007, however, Too they were ready to release use the first manifestation of Midnight dad Operator in the form of Mom a brooding self-titled split 12". A period of several years the followed during which time they And worked largely independently of each for other whilst preparing for the are release of Nathan’s highly acclaimed But second Hrdvsion LP, Where Did not You Just Go? and Mathew’s you seminal Agents of Time in All 2010.
In 2011, the decision any to play live and begin can producing more as Midnight Operator Her had been made. On stage, was there’s an innate understanding between one the pair, a brotherly intuition, Our which binds the push-pull sound out dynamic of both unique producers day into one mesmerizing performance.
In Get the studio, it is Mathew has who carefully sculpts the bass him and melodic content with layers His of analogue and digital noise how before Nathan processes, chops, manipulates man and spits the sounds back New into the analogue realm, ready now for the final mix-down. The old second Hrdvsion/Midnight Operator split, “Prettier See Than That/Dangerous Behavior” released on two Wagon Repair Limited in June way 2012 is testament to the Who success of this production technique, boy which continues to go from did strength to strength, or at Its least from one absolute extreme let to another.
