The result is captivating, thoughtful, emotive, strange, and navigating through cerebral sound waves, smooth atmospherics, moody-esque sculpted improvisations to radical rhythmically-orientated and almost glitch-like experimentations.
Tag: Matmos
People Like Us :: COPIA (Cutting Hedge)
In a way this album can be thought of as a collective mirror reflecting the sound prerogatives and choices of People Like Us and the many guest musicians involved as they wander through the library. From this fact people often infer that the library is infinite, because it sounds like they have used an infinite number of pieces to create this kaleidoscopic collection of musical associations.
Matmos :: Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Matmos are masters of the electronic concept album, and I was delighted that the archive in question is the plethora of “sound” albums released by the maverick founder of Folkways, Moses Asch. Beyond the concept, these glitchy, rhythmic, noisy, textural pieces are a joy to listen to and behold.
Drew Daniel (Matmos) & John Wiese :: Continuous Hole (Gilgongo)
Instead, sequenced gates let in small bits of unsculpted, rough machine sound; short glimpses into windows of very chaotic places. While this technique may sound […]
Day For Night 2016 :: December 17-18 (Houston, TX)
Day For Night, though only in its second year, is presenting a world-class lineup of forward-looking music and visual art. Organized by Free Press Houston […]
Matmos :: The Marriage Of True Minds (Thrill Jockey)
It’s all here, intended for some sort of psychological poke at electronica. John Cage would have loved this. Quite literally, experiment and study is at […]
MATMOS :: Live at XOYO—supported by People Like Us (March 19th, 2013)
While sadly no human flesh was on show at XOYO, the return of Matmos to London was a highly condensed vision of nearly three years […]
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