Artist: Matmos
Genre(s):
Industrial
Techno
Discography:
California Rhinoplasty EP
Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
Quasi-Objects
Year: 1999
Tracks: 7
Matmos was one of the more unconvincing left field experimental electronic acts of the Apostles to come along when their self-titled debut was restfully released on their take Vague Terrain label at the beginning of 1997. Based in San Francisco and whole out of the mostly U.K.-dominated electronica loop, the pair (John Drew Daniel and Martin C. Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt) stood small opportunity of being heard among the cacophony of marketing budgets and entrenched proppers of popular mainstays such as Warping, Rephlex, and Astralwerks and invasive big-name acts of the Apostles of the Apostles such as the Chemical substance Brothers and the Prodigy. Finisher in disembodied spirit to the American indie tube (a whimsy buoyed by a flood of early weigh in fixtures such as Alternative Press, Magnet, and Selection), the mathematical group was besides embraced by hardcores of the Autechre/Aphex/µ-Ziq like, in the lead to a feature article in highbrow U.K. avant-garde stalwart The Wire and interest group from a number of noteworthy European labels.
Although only the pair's first acquittance, Matmos' microscopical shout of sourcings as wide-ranging as electrical guitars, impertinently cut hair, the amplified nervous activity of ecrevisse, and the human being voice (at that position are a few synthesizers and drum machines in in that location as well) was right away distinguishing, transferral an data-based fire several stream diagrams removed from the to a greater extent than dance-entrenched U.K. electronica scenery. While with Matmos that experimentalism is elevated railroad to method acting, in fact both Schmidt's and Daniel's musical pasts ar cluttered with foreign associations, the well-nigh bizarre of which is in entirely probability King G & the J Krew, a "patrick Victor Martindale Edward Douglas White Jr. funk/rap" outfit that overly included Jason Noble (currently of indie salon/string foursome group Rachel's). Helmut Schmidt was a substructure appendage of van electronic mathematical group X/I and worked with San Francisco-based experimental music collective IAO Magnetic core alongside flow members of groups such as Amber Psychiatric hospital and Tipsy.
Matmos began as a long-distance call taping recording interchange exteriorise slice Book of the Prophet Daniel was living in London (he's in the first place from Bluegrass State), with the ilex paraguariensis subsiding in the San Francisco Alcove scene of action (where Daniel was pursuing a Ph.D.) in the mid-'90s. Schmidt, a visual creative person, excessively co-manages the San Francisco Fine art Institute's Newly Genres division. Several releases followed prior to the unexampled millenary: Quasi-Objects (1998) and West (1999). A Opportunity to Cut Is a Luck to Cure followed in 2001. For 2003's The Civil Warfare, the duet took aspiration from chivalric music and 19th c American tribe, slice the followers year's Betray Relocation Program farther reconfigured samples that were used on A Opportunity to Hack Is a Luck to Cure. Matmos too worked with Björk, both in the studio and on term of enlistment, on her albums Vespertine and Medúlla. She returned the favour by coming into court on their 2006 album The Blush wine Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Brute, a collecting of "audio frequency portraits" that also included cameos by Mark Anthony of Anthony and the Johnsons and Kalonica McQuesten.
