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KevinLesko
Alien Abductee
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 Posted - 06/08/2004 : 6:16:41 PM
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This is my attempt to turn the board on to one of my new favorite musical groups... Matmos. I mentioned them once before in the post about Bjork. Basically they are an experimental Electronica group that makes music out of non-traditional tools (not guitars, drums ect...) If you are into some of the Improv stuff that TR has done with Greg Howard, Soko, Offering, and all that you might dig them. Matmos recently did an art exhibit in Northern California and posted 12 songs in mp3 format on their website: http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos/news.html
Matmos spent 97 hours performing live in gallery one of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last November as part of their "Work, Work, Work" installation and residency. Each afternoon from one pm until the museum closed, Matmos hosted improvisational concerts with pals, friends, and gullible strangers. Much of the resulting ruckus, though sadly (?) not all, was recorded onto DAT tape. After the dust had cleared, the shameful process of culling something worthy of listening to from this archive was boldly taken up by M. C. Schmidt with much generous assistance from Wobbly and some mastering/hosting help from Lesser. The results are now available here for free download in the popular mp3 format. Unfortunately the assertions that this file format heralds the death of all music have so far proved premature, but we can live in hope. Some of these excerpted files are untouched, and others have had the boring bits cut out, and some are edited so much that the editing itself has become more interesting than what's left. |
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