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
the rose has teeth in the mouth of the bosch
― twunty fifteen (imago), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
"The clothes have bleach", surely?
Snippet sounds fucking awesome, btw.
― emil.y, Friday, 6 November 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
this is greathttp://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/11/matmos_releasin_1.html
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
lol emil.y
― twunty fifteen (imago), Friday, 6 November 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah excerpt sounded great, I'd happily dance to it
finding the cover image quite unsettling but can't articulate why
― Sheriff U. Agri (DJ Mencap), Friday, 6 November 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
looking forward to this texturally because washing machines make great sounds. i'm already planning on making a 130bpm club edit of that track.
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan), Friday, 6 November 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
cover image looks like rearranged cross section of human bladder + genitalia - top rorschach imagery from the matmos men
― twunty fifteen (imago), Friday, 6 November 2015 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Stoked for the madness.
― etc, Friday, 6 November 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
a+ cover art
― circa1916, Friday, 6 November 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 7 November 2015 04:45 (eight years ago) link
gonna be some fresh jams
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 November 2015 04:51 (eight years ago) link
tracklisting
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4391172712_7cb0f9dc1e.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 November 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
What do you need to play a washing machine? Arm and hammer.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 7 November 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
looking forward to this texturally because washing machines make great sounds. i'm already planning on making a 130bpm 700 rpm club edit of that track.― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan)
― expertly crafted referential display name (Jordan)
― StanM, Sunday, 8 November 2015 11:48 (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
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