I found 2 great interviews today when I was surfing around my 2 fave UK music sites. One features The Cool Kids talking with Hattie Collins about life, music and the difference between their hometown Chicago and Hattie's UK home. Hattie is such a fantastic writer and this interview is a great read:The Cool Kids and Hattie Collins on RWD MagThe Cool Kids:The other is with experimental electron...
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Matmos revealed the tracklisting today for their upcoming LP Supreme Balloon. The album features only 7 songs (though they could be pretty long songs) and will be released via Matador on May 6th. Tracklist:1. Rainbow Flag2. Polychords3. Mister Mouth4. Exciter Lamp5. Les Folies Francaises6. Supreme Balloon7. CloudhopperLoads of info and a free mp3 of "Rainbow Flag" is available on the album pa...
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It's been difficult trying to find more info on what Matmos is up to these days. Like I said yesterday, the east coast is getting their turn with Matmos' magnificent electronic experiments ever since the duo moved from SF to Baltimore. Well, I finally found the definitive word on what's new, thanks to Prefix Mag. The electronic musicians will release a new album on May 6th via Matador. The ...
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Matmos haven't played together as much since transferring to the East Coast; focusing instead on side projects (like Soft Pink Truth). But today I found a video of a Matmos performance in B-more, MD February 9th and 2 shows in NYC at the end of February. Their B-more set was minimal and ambient but it looks like it was a stimulating environment that they created:The electronic musicians reloc...
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Matmos - Supreme Balloon(Matador, 2008)9 out of 10Supreme Balloon is a Disneyland of synthesized music, its listener given a choice of many lands in which to play — electro-funk, house, Baroque, classic video game, minimalism, and more — with an overall architecture designed for fun, harmless thrills and the eating of color-striped unicorn lollipops. I won't pretend to know what most of the sy
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Matmos are M.C.Schmidt and Drew Daniel, a fascinating electronica duo from San Francisco. I had briefly mentioned them in a previous post about Herbert/Matthew Herbert because they have worked w/him due to their similar interests in incorporating recorded body sounds in their music. This cd of Matmos incorporates recordings of surgical procedures being done on humans(one of the duos fathers is ...
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3:47 mins.Just picked up the new Matmos "Supreme Balloon" yesterday and it is oh so great. "Polychords" is one of my faves so far but truly digging the whole cd. This song really jumps. Love it. Here's a fan vid someone made for it on youtube & it's quite appropo since the song sounds like Nintendo game music:The songs are surprisingly short except for the over 24 minute title track opus whic...
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Matmos - Supreme Balloon(Matador, 2008)9 out of 10Supreme Balloon is a Disneyland of synthesized music, its listener given a choice of many lands in which to play — electro-funk, house, Baroque, classic video game, minimalism, and more — with an overall architecture designed for fun, harmless thrills and the eating of color-striped unicorn lollipops. I won't pretend to know what most of the sy
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Matmos revealed the tracklisting today for their upcoming LP Supreme Balloon. The album features only 7 songs (though they could be pretty long songs) and will be released via Matador on May 6th. Tracklist:1. Rainbow Flag2. Polychords3. Mister Mouth4. Exciter Lamp5. Les Folies Francaises6. Supreme Balloon7. CloudhopperLoads of info and a free mp3 of "Rainbow Flag" is available on the album pa...
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Matmos are M.C.Schmidt and Drew Daniel, a fascinating electronica duo from San Francisco. I had briefly mentioned them in a previous post about Herbert/Matthew Herbert because they have worked w/him due to their similar interests in incorporating recorded body sounds in their music. This cd of Matmos incorporates recordings of surgical procedures being done on humans(one of the duos fathers is ...
More >
I found 2 great interviews today when I was surfing around my 2 fave UK music sites. One features The Cool Kids talking with Hattie Collins about life, music and the difference between their hometown Chicago and Hattie's UK home. Hattie is such a fantastic writer and this interview is a great read:The Cool Kids and Hattie Collins on RWD MagThe Cool Kids:The other is with experimental electron...
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| 1 Rainbow Flag |
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| 2 Roses and Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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| 3 Mister Mouth |
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| 4 Banquet for King Ludwig II of Bavaria |
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| 5 Polychords |
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