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- Date Released: January 1, 1997
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental
- Label: Matador
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We Say...
Matmos' albums are more than simple song collections; they're conceptual containers into which Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt can pour their boundless ideas about samples and sequencing — except for the Bay Area duo's debut, that is. There's a little of everything here: "It Seems" chops warped vocal samples and various pedestrian sounds and packs them neatly around a characteristically funky bass line to form low-rider electro; the abstract "Three Guitar Lesson," which splices dozens of separately recorded guitar plucks, seems derived from the minimalist compositions of Steve Reich; and "Verber: Amplified Synapse," with its snarls of overdriven synths, metallic percussion and bass-heavy beat, draws heavily from industrial. When Matmos go epic, we get "...And Silver Light Popped in His Eyes," 18 minutes of complex, syncopated percussion arranged and layered on computer, sounding like an African drum ensemble living inside Tron.
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They Say...
Matmos is an extended meditation on the musical potential of weird noises. Integrating a range of distinctly non-musical sound sources (hair, breath, crustacean brain activity, etc.) into familiar contemporary forms such as electro, jungle, techno, and dubby downtempo breakbeat, the result is a perversion of both esoteric noise music and the (comparatively) more accessible electronica of artists such as Autechre, Locust, and mu-Ziq, which it most closely (but still only vaguely) resembles. Terrifically strange.
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| 01. |  |
It Seems |
5:12 |
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| 02. | |
Plastic Minor |
3:08 |
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| 03. | |
...And Silver Light Popped In His Eyes |
18:20 |
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| 04. | |
Lunaire |
5:12 |
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| 05. | |
This Is.... |
6:23 |
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| 06. | |
Three Guitar Lessons |
5:09 |
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| 07. | |
Office Furniture (After Evidence) |
3:31 |
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| 08. | |
Electric Things #5 |
6:45 |
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| 09. | |
Verber: amplified synapse |
6:17 |
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| 10. | |
Nugent Sand |
4:30 |
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| 11. | |
Schluss |
8:31 |
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11 Total Tracks, 72:58 Total Length
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Credits
- Rex Ray - Design // Martin C. Schmidt - Group Member // Drew Daniel - Sampling // Drew Daniel - Sequencing // Drew Daniel - Group Member
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