Matmos
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| Background information | |
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| Origin | San Francisco, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
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| Members | M.C. Schmidt Drew Daniel |
| Website | Official Site |
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Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo formed in San Francisco and based in Baltimore. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances notably including J Lesser. Apart from releasing twelve full-length studio albums and numerous collaborative works, Matmos is also well known for their collaboration with Icelandic singer and musician Björk, both on studio recordings and live tours. After being signed to Matador Records for nine years, Matmos signed with Thrill Jockey in 2012.[1] The name Matmos refers to the seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo in the 1968 film Barbarella.[2]
Notable work
In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single "Alarm Call". Then the duo worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), as well as the Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours. In November 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as artists-in-residence, performing music with friends, musical guests and onlookers. The live album Work, Work, Work, essentially a "best of" collection of the session, was released as a free download on their website.
Matmos gained notoriety for their use of unconventional samples including "freshly cut hair" and "the amplified neural activity of crayfish" on their first album[3] and "recorded the snips, clicks, snaps, and squelches of various surgical procedures, then nipped and tucked them into seven remarkably accessible, melodic pieces of experimental techno" for their album A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure.[4] In 2011, Matmos participated in a programmed evening of events with the visual arts organisation Auto Italia South East. The event was produced in collaboration with record label Upset The Rhythm and included contributions from experimental electronic musicians John Wiese and Birds of Delay. Matmos have since collaborated with a large number of visual artists and arts organisations, including Cafe Oto and Metal.[5][6]
In 2015, Matmos appeared in Soundhunters, a documentary directed by Beryl Koltz and broadcast on the Franco-German channel arte as well as on many channels abroad.[7] In September 2023, the duo announced their album Return to Archive would be released marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Smithsonian Folkways label, with a three-hour free concert at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in which they remixed field recordings from the label's catalogue in octophonic sound.[8]
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had a dream I was at a rave talking to a girl and she told me about a genre called “hit em” that is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds thank you dream girl
Jul 29, 2024[9]
In 2024, Daniel tweeted about a new musical genre called "Hit Em" which he claims to have learned about during a dream while he was asleep; in the tweet he described the genre to be fixed at 212 BPM and 5
4 time signature.[10][11][12] The post went viral, with electronic music producers attempting to create examples of the fictional genre.[10][11][12]
Personal lives
Schmidt and Daniel are a couple.[13] Daniel received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the literary cult of melancholy directed by Janet Adelman. He is an associate professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.[14] That had the band moving from San Francisco to Baltimore in August 2007. Daniel also has a personal dance music project, the Soft Pink Truth. He is a contributing writer to Pitchfork, an online magazine, and he wrote the 33 1/3 book about Throbbing Gristle's 1979 album 20 Jazz Funk Greats in addition to two books of literary criticism.[14]
Schmidt formerly worked as a teacher in the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, and is a professor of music technology at Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Institute and the president of the High Zero Foundation, which organizes Baltimore's annual High Zero festival of improvised music.[15] Both Schmidt and Daniel appeared in the Carl Sagan music short Unseen Forces by Ryan Junell.
Discography
Albums
| Year | Album details |
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| 1997 | Matmos
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| 1998 | Quasi-Objects
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| 1999 | The West
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| 2001 | A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure[16]
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| 2003 | The Civil War[17]
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| 2006 | The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast[16]
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| 2008 | Supreme Balloon
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| 2010 | Treasure State[18] (with So Percussion)
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| 2013 | The Marriage of True Minds[16]
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| 2016 | Ultimate Care II
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| 2019 | Plastic Anniversary[19]
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| 2020 | The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form[20]
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| 2022 | Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer
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| 2023 | Return to Archive
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| 2025 | Metallic Life Review
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EPs
- Full On Night Split Disc with Rachel's (2000, Quarterstick)
- California Rhinoplasty (2001 Feb 12, OLE-501)
- Rat Relocation Program (2004)
- For Alan Turing (2006)
- The Ganzfeld EP (2012, on Thrill Jockey 315)[23][24]
Limited edition
- Matmos Live with J Lesser (2002)
- A Viable Alternative to Actual Sexual Contact, as Vague Terrain Recordings (2002, Piehead Records)
- "A Paradise of Dainty Devices: interludes, micromedia & sound edits" (limited edition of 100, for their "Wet Hot EuroAmerican Summer Tour", 2007)
- Polychords : Promo Single released on Matador
- I Want Snowden/Sheremetyevo Breakdown Blues, split single with the Disco Yahtzee Empire (2013)[25][26]
References
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- ^ announcement on the official website (July 20, 2012)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Album: Matmos". The Independent. October 11, 2013. Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
- ^ Cooper, Sean (2008). "Matmos", AllMusicGuide.com
- ^ Phares, Heather (2008). "A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure", AllMusicGuide.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Budzinski, Nathan. "Matmos Live At Auto Italia - The Wire". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davis, Nicola (June 16, 2015). "Digital park delivers talking trees and a fishy monster in the pond". The Observer. Retrieved August 18, 2015 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soundhunters, retrieved July 17, 2019
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Matmos Plays the Sounds of Folkways Records". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Retrieved September 10, 2023.
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hit 'em is the summer's crunchiest and most unlikely new genre". The FADER.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wray, Daniel Dylan (August 2, 2024). "Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos's Drew Daniel to a new music genre". The Guardian.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mullenpublished, Matt (July 31, 2024). ""It's in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds": Producers respond with real tracks following viral tweet about made-up genre discovered in dream". MusicRadar.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Matmos". Butt.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Drew Daniel". English, Johns Hopkins University. August 3, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Faculty: Martin Schmidt". Peabody Institute. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Matmos Celebrate Their 25th Anniversary: An Interview with Drew Daniel". PopMatters. March 14, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Music Review: Matmos - The Civil War". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."How Matmos and Sō Percussion compose with cacti". Public Radio International. March 22, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Matmos Plastic Anniversary". exclaim.ca. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Torres, Eric (July 7, 2020). "Matmos Announce New Album The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."'Return to Archive' Marks Legendary Electronic Music Duo Matmos's Entry Into the Folkways Catalog". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. September 6, 2023. Retrieved September 10, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Monroe, Jazz (April 17, 2025). "Matmos Compose Album Entirely From Metal Objects, Share Tour Dates and New Song". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Matmos - Very Large Green Triangles. Thrill Jockey Records. October 11, 2012 – via Vimeo.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Matmos's Ganzfeld EP: electronica meets ESP". Boing Boing. November 5, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Metason. "Matmos". ArtistInfo.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Matmos & The Disco Yahtzee Empire - I Want Snowden / Sheremetyevo Breakdown Blues". Discogs. July 2013.
Further reading
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Doyle, Tom (May 2004). "Matmos: The Art of Cut & Paste". Sound on Sound. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
External links
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- Matmos page at Matador Records
- Matmos at Myspace
- Matmos at furious.com
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