New Matmos Album (C/D)

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

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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)

Also, they should get Toploader to do a remix

very surprised at the lack of Hurra Torpedo references
looking forward to hearing this

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.

Can't wait to give this a spin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4hc-F1g7tk

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/

on WFMU, Ira the K[aplan] just mashed up his live vacuuming of the studio floor with the new Matmos.

saw them perform the album in february with the washing machine on stage, show of the year

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.