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Biography
randomNumber, aka Matt Robson, creates what has been described as ‘Northern Wrongbeat'; a mesh of emotive, brooding harmonies drawn and quartered by complex, beat-heavy rhythms. It's digital music with a human heart at its centre. More bands live in Leeds LS6 than probably any other single postcode area in the UK, and in the centre of that you’ll find randomNumber – the beating electronic exception to the hardcore, guitar-fuelled rule.
Robson’s hyperactive beat mechanics and alchemical sound manipulations are bound together with a keen sense of melody shaped by his many years of playing in the Leeds alternative music scene, most notably as drummer for Hood (which culminated with their release Home Is Where It Hurts). Coming from his background playing in bands, Robson has rallied hard against the stereotypical laptop clichés, and imbues his own shows with a keen sense of energy and punk attitude, using two unsynchronized laptops and a tabletop of controllers and effects.
