New Matmos Album (C/D)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z8v58

Matmos and Juxtavoices in session
Experimental 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAL-0cy17CM

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

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?

new album Plastic Anniversary out March 15 on Thrill Jockey.

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5c12895727cb2c48985cec73/master/pass/Matmos-Plastic-Anniversary.jpg

Brooklyn Thurs night

who's buried under the bathtub?

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!

Feel like Plastic Anniversary was slept on, unless there's another thread talking about it somewhere? It's a great record.

I still didn't pass through the first CD, but quite enjoying it.
Some of their best compositions since 'the marriage of true minds'.

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.

uh, not a new interview. and I'm now realizing this came out in August (loosely mentioned indirectly above). Fail.

This sounds demented, looking forward to hearing it

yeah i missed it first time around, intrigued

New album was great! They remain great!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6EeoS8R1xc/

Was the live show from the new album?

One track was specifically drawing on a lot of those Smithsonian samples but it might have been a wholly new creation for the set.

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!