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 ...
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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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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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"A Musical Enigma (From Seed)":http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/a_musical_enigma.phpIn a recent tribute to mathematician Alan Turing, electronic music duo Matmos uses the sounds produced by an Enigma machine.Daniel: ... There's this mantra, "every noise has a note." It's basically true. Even the Enigma machine is in a particular key. Martin came up with a piano part, and then thought, ..
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here is one of my fave tracks from a very interesting album, The Civil War by Matmos.these guys actually did a recording of a rat relocation, it's called Rat Relocation Project.no seriously...http://brainwashed.com/matmos/pretty awesome.here's a track called Regicide:
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Matmos is back ... maxing out their synthesizers : 100% This time M.C Schmidt & Drew Daniel hold back their urges to sample the universe {no sounds of bible pages turning, liposuction surgery, dogs barking, cards shuffling, and acupuncture tools here} In fact, a microphone wasn't even used during the creation of the new album : Supreme Balloonbut one heck of a happy helium-filled hula - squir...
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"THE MATMOS SIGNAL PHASES FROM WEST COAST TO EAST COASTThough rumors and mutterings have been circulating on discussion boards and such, it’s time to come clean on the official Matmos site about an earth-shattering switcheroo: as of August, we are moving from San Francisco, California to Baltimore, Maryland. That’s right, we’re leaving our hearts in The City By The Bay and trucking our enorm
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[photo credit] This is one not to miss — Matmos is performing at The Stone tonight — two shows at 8 pm and 10 pm. This is an improvisation session, and they will be joined by Zeena Parkins on electric harp for the 10 pm show. When we recorded Matmos in July at LPR, [...]~~
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Let's be honest here, I'm the only one who likes anything glitchy at The Tape. When the other members hear me say "Oh hey guys, I just downloaded a CD with a motif of surgical instruments (Matmos' A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure) or "This is so tight how he buries the [...]
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