New Matmos Album (C/D)

feelin it

It's fuggin' gorgeous. Love it.

kinda dull

Congratulations Matmos - you are the ONLY good show (besides fucking LED ZEPPELIN) in Boulder during my entire 2 month stay here. I look forward to July 15th to an inappropriate degree.

most bands skip the denver/boulder area. maybe they are still under orders from barbra streisand?

Thanks Z S! Email me and we will put you on the list because we don't know nobody in Boulder and it would be fun to see you in person.

Sorry to let u down chaki.

Reverend OTM.

I am hoping to come and see you on Friday, but I have other commitments that are proving difficult to move.

I am hoping to come and see you on Friday, but I need a chauffeur due to the UK's garbage transport system.

Excellent show last night at The Beaconsfield in London. M.C. has such great stage presence. I'm kinda bummed now that I missed the (three and half hour!) improv set the night before.

Really enjoying the new CD too.

I made it on Friday and it was pretty sweet! A lot of people didn't seem to enjoy it as much, I dunno if they were expecting the old-style live shows rather than the current analogue synth fixation

feels like autobahn up in this mutha

wobmos on saturday!

Whoa Drew, I just saw your guest list offer up there, thanks! I'll be e-mailing you shortly...

anyone else going to nyc show on 7/18

My favourite album I've heard from this year.

DO NOT MISS LIVE SHOW (based on the kickoff show on Monday)

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

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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

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.

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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.

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!