Stephan Mathieu, musician I was born october 1967 in Saarbrücken ...

”As Mathieu has shown in the past, he’s an artist who is able to bring conceptual ideas into the creation of his
work without letting it dramatically affect what he is doing. With The Sad Mac, he’s created a release that’s
shows off (whether or not he meant to) what one can do by simply thinking of different routes in getting to the
same point. There’s something that lots of artists could learn from that simple thought alone.”
almostcool.org
”What is immediately striking about this album is how strong and how unique Mathieu‘s signature sound is
becoming. While the archetypal application of laptop DSP synthesis ends up tainted by antiseptic, clinical, or
cold tones, Mathieu manages to wrap all of his digital pixelations in a dreamy, warmly crackling, and wholly
inviting atmosphere, not unlike the beloved Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works Vol II. ( … ) Mathieu‘s
work ranks way up at the top the increasingly prolific laptop community alongside Fennesz, Carsten Nicolai,
and Stilluppsteypa. ”Edits“ will undoubtedly rank as one of the best electronic records of the year. “
Jim Haynes, Aquarius Records Review, Los Angeles
”I wonder how I got there, how Mathieu could have taken me to this place so unsuspectingly, how he could have
made such an intricate structure out of only a few elements, how I could let myself be so surprised. But herein
lies the beauty of this work, its ability to surprise its listener.“
Vils de Santo, Incursion Music Reviews
”Although the computer plays a large part in all of Mathieu‘s productions, his appeal is in his sense of
acoustics. His reliance on played instruments and analog media as a jumping off point has produced a body of
work that is hardly ever cold and calculated. Instead it glows warm, and always invites us all in.“
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, FakeJazz, San Francisco
”A work of immeasurable beauty. Based around original piano pieces by Akira Rabelais, Mathieu takes the most
evocative of piano sounds and douses them in a kind of unknown ambiguity ... almost like standing at Kenwood
park in London on an August evening and hearing the saturday concert playing somewhere in the distance
echoed by wind and temperature. The sounds reek of solitude and emptiness but in an almost romantic way…
hazy, distant, soothing. Highly recommended!“
Paul Nise, Boomkat, London