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i've made an album with artist/drummer/producer @momokogill called CLAY. we're signed to strut records

our first single is out today and you can hear it here:
strut.lnk.to/Babystar

album info here.
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Herbert & Momoko - Clay
Accidental is Matthew Herbert's platform which supports the creation and release of original music, without compromise since 2000
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Remembering the 369 refugees who drowned in Lampedusa exactly 12 years ago today. I can never forget the 22 years old Yohanna who gave birth as she was drowning, her body was later found with an ombilical cord attached to her baby. #NeverForgotten #ForeverInOurHearts #PeopleNotNumbers #Lampedusa
October 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Israel starves 13 more Palestinians to death, kills 89 since dawn aje.io/5169f3
Israel starves 13 more Palestinians to death, kills 89 since dawn
Israeli forces continue to attack people seeking food aid as the death toll from famine rises further in Gaza.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Israel bombed a hospital.

Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.

Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.

Read that again.

Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
August 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure
Israel’s destruction of the Hebron seed bank echoes centuries of settler-colonial tactics worldwide: erasing Indigenous food systems to dominate land, knowledge, and collective memory.
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August 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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"The most compelling thing about Momoko's voice for me is actually the way she builds and shapes her backing vocals. It’s like working with an orchestra rather than a soloist."
New Herbert/ Momoko album is choice. open.substack.com/pub/andybeta... @matthewherbert.bsky.social @momokogill.bsky.social
Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gill
An interview with the iconic British electronic music producer and new collaborator on their primo downtempo new album, Clay
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August 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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has joined forces with @momokogill.bsky.social to produce a warm and inviting collection of downtempo dancefloor-affiliated tunes that highlight the latter's inventive approach to percussion and her sensual, soothing voice. #electronica #musicreview t.ly/ETLM5
August 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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There's much talk of UK arms exports to Israel - which is of a very limited scope.
There's no talk whatsoever of UK arms IMPORTS from Israel. In 2024, according to SIPRI, Israel was the second largest supplier of arms to the UK - 6.9% of total imports.
July 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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En “Clay” @matthewherbert.bsky.social‬ ha encontrado una forma de poner la electrónica al servicio de un propósito esencialmente orgánico, conectivo, que se pueda tocar, y en eso también tiene mucho que ver la presencia de Momoko Gill a la batería.

✍️ @drubiofps.bsky.social
Herbert & Momoko
www.rockdelux.com
July 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal
We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal
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July 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The #OST for ‘Hot Milk’, featuring original music by @matthewherbert.bsky.social is now available on all streaming platforms.
The film starring Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps, is in cinemas across the UK, Latin America and Germany.

#mannersfaber #musictalentagency #composer #filmmusic
July 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Oh
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
i made a new album with @momokogill.bsky.social which has just come out on strut records.
listen below x

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Herbert & Momoko - Clay
Accidental is Matthew Herbert's platform which supports the creation and release of original music, without compromise since 2000
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July 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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All day today I was struggling to find words about the horrific attack on Dnipro. I still have no words, so here's numbers.😕

17 killed.
279 injured, including 27 children.

Damaged over 30 educational institutions.

8 medical institutions.

Numerous homes.

A passenger train.
June 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
June 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Imagine spending your whole life cos-playing and fantasizing about fighting the federal government sending troops in against its own citizens only to root for the government when the moment finally arrives
June 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
June 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
May 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P.

The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice.

The dots moving in the background are stars.
May 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
from today, this is a particularly tough read about all the wild fish caught - at the expense of small scale local fishing communities - in order to feed farmed fish. 25% of all wild fish caught :(
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass
Revealed: an investigation shows how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM