Midnight Operator fuses Mathew Jonson’s rich and melodic analogue-meets-digital-noise universe with Nathan Jonson’s complex processing chops and 'destructive' approach to techno. Meditative patterns break down as their music alters its course into beat driven club territory that never loses track of its rhythmic and melodic ambitions.
Mathew Jonson crafts moody, exquisitely layered compositions that run a rhythmic and melodic gamut, tapping into his classical training in percussion, piano and jazz drums. He’s made music since 2001, started the Wagon Repair label in 2004 and in 2012 became the owner of the Isitwhatitis imprint, along the way collaborating with artists such as Dandy Jack, Minilogue, Jesse Heartthrob and others, while being a regular Red Bull Music Academy presence. Nathan Jonson experiments in a different vein than Mathew, his Hrdvsion project letting the techno beast loose in stomping beats and rhythmic structures with a punk edge. From an early age, he bent the sounds of harpsichord, guitar, piano and “bush band” instruments, later manipulating digital sequencers and sound modules – a natural background for his experimental techno and intrepid club bangers that mor...
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