Congratulations Matmos - you are the ONLY good show (besides fucking LED ZEPPELIN) in Boulder during my entire 2 month stay here. I look forward to July 15th to an inappropriate degree.
― Z S, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
most bands skip the denver/boulder area. maybe they are still under orders from barbra streisand?
― keythkeyth, Monday, 26 May 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks Z S! Email me and we will put you on the list because we don't know nobody in Boulder and it would be fun to see you in person.
Sorry to let u down chaki.
― Drew Daniel, Monday, 2 June 2008 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Reverend OTM.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 2 June 2008 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I am hoping to come and see you on Friday, but I have other commitments that are proving difficult to move.
― aldo, Monday, 2 June 2008 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I am hoping to come and see you on Friday, but I need a chauffeur due to the UK's garbage transport system.
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 2 June 2008 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Excellent show last night at The Beaconsfield in London. M.C. has such great stage presence. I'm kinda bummed now that I missed the (three and half hour!) improv set the night before.
Really enjoying the new CD too.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I made it on Friday and it was pretty sweet! A lot of people didn't seem to enjoy it as much, I dunno if they were expecting the old-style live shows rather than the current analogue synth fixation
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
feels like autobahn up in this mutha
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
wobmos on saturday!
― Dominique, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoa Drew, I just saw your guest list offer up there, thanks! I'll be e-mailing you shortly...
― Z S, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone else going to nyc show on 7/18
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
My favourite album I've heard from this year.
― Sundar, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
DO NOT MISS LIVE SHOW (based on the kickoff show on Monday)
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Just purchased tickets for the Chicago show next Sunday. Does anyone know anything about Lakeshore as a concert venue? Will I have to sit down? I don't know if I can do that.
― s. morris, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
never hear Matmos before their set at Whartscape but I enjoyed it. Drew, I think I was in the crepes place next door before the show same time as you, I shoulda said hi.
― some dude, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 00:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Drew, not sure if you got my msg as I've been having email problems all day -- but sorry I had to bail on the show tonight. Ended having to go do a TV thing around the same time and I hate arriving as late as I would have ended up being. Good to run into you today at the reading though!
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Last night's show was even sweatier than the set at the Pitchfork Festival two years ago (which was outside and in a tent, for reference) but I loved it. The Supreme Balloon material really translates well into a live setting. If you guys ever work up the inclination to do a Terry Riley style all-night concert, count me in.
― s. morris, Monday, 28 July 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
polychords
― I know, right?, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
can we talk about s/t debut cd? finally dug it out again, what, twelve years later? got my copy at mod lang (RIP) ... OG edition with the little cutout paper leaves under the tray.
first impressions:
1) at the time i was listening to lots of schematic recs and autechre but now this practically sounds like drum and bass, so break-beaty in places, especially "this is"
2) doesn't that sample george duke "north beach"? do you like the jazz funk classics or what?
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
3) "electric things #5" is a hardcore track, it even has rave sirens
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
4) "verber" is better than "ventolin"
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I get the vague impression that Drew from Matmos posts on this board or used to. Anyway, I'm not looking to score points or anything but the new Matmos album A Marriage Of True Minds on Thrill Jockey is fucking brilliant. I've always liked what they've done but this is blowing me away.
― Doran, Friday, 8 February 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose the lack of posts about A Marriage of True Minds is because everyone's sending their impression of said album telepathically - I feel good vibes itt of late.
― willem, Monday, 11 March 2013 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
I still love it! It's amazing.
― Doran, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
::presses finger to temple and smiles while beaming out positive opinions of album::
― some dude, Monday, 11 March 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
haha
It's The Marriage of True Minds, of course, though the error is excusable because well, the A's got the triangular shape and all...
Got the double LP and it sounds so great through headphones.
― willem, Monday, 11 March 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
"very large green triangles" could be on musick to play in the dark 2
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 15 March 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
'Teen Paranormal Romance' is so so good. As is the rest of it. Seeing them tomorrow!!!!11
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Monday, 18 March 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Not playing the Netherlands :-(Have fun merdeyeux
― willem, Monday, 18 March 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
I like it.
― dojo, Monday, 18 March 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
completely inexplicable that the mental ragabilly-Boredoms go glam thing of 'ESP' somehow works.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
THAT WAS AMAZING. so much fun. though after the opening triangle spiel i feel i've been inducted into my second cult in four days. but i quite like this one.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. I thought I saw someone who looked like a Merdeyeux, but there were an awful lot of ilx-lookin' people there and I didn't want to come across as even weirder than I actually am by approaching a complete stranger.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
there were certainly a lot of me-lookin' people in attendance, it would've been v risky.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
Was a fantastic show. I got overexcited during 'ESP' and whooped too loud before it finished.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
lately I've been vaguely considering getting a tattoo but with no real ideas of what, but Drew's Acéphale tattoo has got me thinkin...
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
this is fucking incredible
― check yr poptimism (imago), Thursday, 10 October 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
off the chain progbeat dancenoise mayhem. in fact as close to genreless as anything I've heard recently
― check yr poptimism (imago), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
but the main thing is that the compositions have substance - they go somewhere, they keep me excited, they are both eloquent & forceful
― check yr poptimism (imago), Thursday, 10 October 2013 20:05 (ten years ago) link
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― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
wasn't sure which thread to bump for this, but i noticed that Matmos put together a top ten ubuweb list! check it out on the right side of the screen at http://www.ubu.com/ for the links to the actual pieces, but here's the list for those that simply refuse to view in a new tab:
1. Steina Vasulka Switch! Monitor! Drift! 2. Electronic Music Review No. 5. 1968 3. John Baldessari Baldessari Sings Lewitt 4. Robert Hughes The Shock of the New 5. Storm de Hirsch Peyote Queen 6. Lou Reed View From the Bandstand" essay from Aspen No. 3 7. William S. Burroughs + Brion Gysin + Genesis P.Orridge Cold Spring Tape (1989) 8. Jon Leidecker Variations 9. Mark Leckey Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore 10. Call Jeff One Lonely Guy
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
lol at the author of the subsequent top ten list
― struggle blogger (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 06:20 (ten years ago) link
v much looking forward to hearing new material at cafe oto over the next two nights. anyone else going?
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 31 May 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Sadly not. Can't really afford London at the moment. They were so good last time, though, arrrrgh.
― emil.y, Saturday, 31 May 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
booo. i'll let you know how terrible it is.
i'm also tempted by the afterparty w/ live soft pink truth set, but i have naebdy to go with me and the club night (https://www.facebook.com/events/322411214574833/) looks tbh way too hip for it to be the kind of place where i could feel comfortable hanging out alone...
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 31 May 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
oh man
― mikelovestfu (wins), Saturday, 31 May 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
if I'd known about this I'd totally have gone
"Recorded in the basement studio of their home in Baltimore, the album is constructed entirely out of the sounds generated by a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II model washing machine."
http://thrilljockey.com/products/ultimate-care-ii
― koogs, Friday, 6 November 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
reads like parody, yet somehow still gets me excited to hear it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Songs from a One Room House in an Uninteresting Location (bernard snowy), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Also, they should get Toploader to do a remix
― StanM, Sunday, 8 November 2015 11:50 (eight years ago) link
very surprised at the lack of Hurra Torpedo referenceslooking forward to hearing this
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 November 2015 06:14 (eight years ago) link
Just recently got a turntable after slowly collecting vinyl for a while, and my 2xLP of Rose Has Teeth... is the best-sounding one so far. Killer album.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Saturday, 14 November 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
Can't wait to give this a spin
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Saturday, 14 November 2015 03:55 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4hc-F1g7tk
― Nourry, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
New album is fantastic. Side 1 is dreamier, with a lot more water gushing and flushing. Second half of Side 2 is this very intense percussion suite. The last five seconds of the record is a really cool moment, don't want to spoil it. Great review in Spin by Ray Cummings: http://www.spin.com/2016/02/review-matmos-ultimate-care-ii/
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
on WFMU, Ira the K[aplan] just mashed up his live vacuuming of the studio floor with the new Matmos.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
saw them perform the album in february with the washing machine on stage, show of the year
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z8v58
Matmos and Juxtavoices in sessionExperimental electronic duo Matmos and 'anti-choir' Juxtavoices meet for a very exciting collaboration.
On top of their ten excellent studio albums, Matmos are known for their numerous collaborations with Bjork. However, this Late Junction collaboration session is with a group they've never met before - Juxtavoices, the improvising 'anti-choir' from Sheffield. Add to that the collaborative powers of an everyday Ultimate Care II washing machine and some wine glasses, and you get something a bit special.
― koogs, Friday, 24 June 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAL-0cy17CM
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 October 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
just got the reissue of Wide Open Spaces, a record Matmos made with Wobbly and People Like Us in 2002. it's really great. I think there might be some copies left: http://www.discrepant.net/products/608404-people-like-us-matmos-wobbly-wide-open-spaces
http://s0.limitedrun.com/images/1272973/CREP52_WIDEOPEN_PLU_MATMOS.jpg
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 February 2018 05:10 (six years ago) link
I remember having a minidisc recording of this shortly after they performed it. I think I captured it off an audio stream or something at the time. Or maybe they made it available as MP3s?
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 18 February 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
new album Plastic Anniversary out March 15 on Thrill Jockey.
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5c12895727cb2c48985cec73/master/pass/Matmos-Plastic-Anniversary.jpg
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
Brooklyn Thurs night
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
who's buried under the bathtub?
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Still need to give the new one a whirl. But that's at least three albums out from the Matmos household this year, it's tough to keep up!
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
Feel like Plastic Anniversary was slept on, unless there's another thread talking about it somewhere? It's a great record.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
I still didn't pass through the first CD, but quite enjoying it.Some of their best compositions since 'the marriage of true minds'.
― Nourry, Thursday, 3 September 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
https://toneglow.substack.com/p/0275-matmos
New interview with the boys about their new album "The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form"
I have yet to hear it, but it sounds like Negativland + The Books + Matmos in style, featuring artists as diverse as Yo La Tengo, OPN, clipping., Max Tundra and many others, including former art students from the (now closed) SF Art Institute
Basic parameters: freeform arrangements of contributions from 99 artists performed at 99bpm. Results are three 1 hour long tracks (so 3CD release). In the interview they describe it more of as a mixtape. Lots of sampled words, conversations etc. Seems really intriguing.
― octobeard, Friday, 23 October 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
uh, not a new interview. and I'm now realizing this came out in August (loosely mentioned indirectly above). Fail.
― octobeard, Friday, 23 October 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
This sounds demented, looking forward to hearing it
― plax (ico), Saturday, 24 October 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
yeah i missed it first time around, intrigued
― lukas, Saturday, 24 October 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
New album was great! They remain great!
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6EeoS8R1xc/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2024 20:14 (one month ago) link
Was the live show from the new album?
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 April 2024 21:55 (one month ago) link
One track was specifically drawing on a lot of those Smithsonian samples but it might have been a wholly new creation for the set.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 03:00 (one month ago) link
the show I saw last week had at least one track that they introduced as from the new record (though maybe modified live), the rest seemed like a mixture of older work and tracks specifically for the live set. had a wonderful time!
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 04:28 (one month ago) link