New Matmos Album (C/D)

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.

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.

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!

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.

polychords

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?

3) "electric things #5" is a hardcore track, it even has rave sirens

4) "verber" is better than "ventolin"

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.

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.

I still love it! It's amazing.

::presses finger to temple and smiles while beaming out positive opinions of album::

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.

"very large green triangles" could be on musick to play in the dark 2

'Teen Paranormal Romance' is so so good. As is the rest of it. Seeing them tomorrow!!!!11

Not playing the Netherlands :-(
Have fun merdeyeux

I like it.

completely inexplicable that the mental ragabilly-Boredoms go glam thing of 'ESP' somehow works.

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.

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.

there were certainly a lot of me-lookin' people in attendance, it would've been v risky.

Was a fantastic show. I got overexcited during 'ESP' and whooped too loud before it finished.

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...

this is fucking incredible

off the chain progbeat dancenoise mayhem. in fact as close to genreless as anything I've heard recently

but the main thing is that the compositions have substance - they go somewhere, they keep me excited, they are both eloquent & forceful

this is fucking incredible

― check yr poptimism (imago), Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:58 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

lol at the author of the subsequent top ten list

v much looking forward to hearing new material at cafe oto over the next two nights. anyone else going?

Sadly not. Can't really afford London at the moment. They were so good last time, though, arrrrgh.

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...

oh man

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

reads like parody, yet somehow still gets me excited to hear it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the rose has teeth in the mouth of the bosch

"The clothes have bleach", surely?

Snippet sounds fucking awesome, btw.

this is great
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/11/matmos_releasin_1.html

lol emil.y

yeah excerpt sounded great, I'd happily dance to it

finding the cover image quite unsettling but can't articulate why

looking forward to this texturally because washing machines make great sounds. i'm already planning on making a 130bpm club edit of that track.

cover image looks like rearranged cross section of human bladder + genitalia - top rorschach imagery from the matmos men

Stoked for the madness.

a+ cover art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8

gonna be some fresh jams

tracklisting

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4391172712_7cb0f9dc1e.jpg

What do you need to play a washing machine? Arm and hammer.

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)

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!

hit em https://t.co/7D0KwMTmT9 pic.twitter.com/3qrms5Ojdt

— jane (@janeplne) July 30, 2024

https://alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/hit-em-dreamgrl

I did one, too.

https://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com/track/hit-em-the-motionless-picture

I even made it 2:12 minutes long.

Nice!!!

Thank you 😊

love all this and can't wait to hear what machinedrum does with it too

send me your best "hit-em" tracks i'm putting together a compilation w/ @DDDrewDaniel https://t.co/fApRHRBAXo

— machinedrum (@Machine_Drum) August 1, 2024

!

One of the few times I've regretted leaving twitter. I want to join in!

Satire publication doesn't know about Ultimate Care II :(

https://thehardtimes.net/music/noise-fan-attempts-to-shazam-unbalanced-washing-machine-heard-through-apartment-wall/

Meantime, new album!

https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/metallic-life-review