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Matmos
Matmos
country: USA
genre: Electronic
styles: Drill And Bass, Freak Folk, Glitch, Intelligent Dance Music, Queercore
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In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Folkways documented the audible nooks and crannies of existence on hundreds of LPs produced by field recordists, scientists, and experimentalists probing the margins of the human soundscape. Seventy-five years later, electronic music duo Matmos have diced, looped, stretched, and recontextualized these recordings on their new album Return to Archive, which was assembled entirely from the so-called non-musical sounds released on Folkways. On just the album’s first track, dolphins, beetles, telephones, humans stretching the limits of their vocal cords, a shortwave radio, and metal balers co-mingle in a fantasia of sound both everyday and extraordinary. Each track on Return to Archive morphs its source material into something completely unexpected, honoring and expanding on Folkways’ legacy of sonic exploration. Featuring Evicshen and Aaron Dilloway.
latest releases
Single
Injection Basic Sound
out on October 03, 2023
via Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Single
Mud Dauber Wasp
out on September 07, 2023
via Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Single
After Mud Guts
out on February 21, 2023
via The state51 Conspiracy
LP
Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer
out on May 20, 2022
via Thrill Jockey
Single
Flashcube Fog Wares / Głucha Affera Słów
out on April 26, 2022
via Thrill Jockey
Single
Cobra Wages Shuffle / Off! Schable w gurę!
out on March 23, 2022
via Thrill Jockey
