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
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