{"title":"Matmos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatmos is an American experimental electronic duo active since the mid-1990s and based in Baltimore, Maryland. Named after a \"seething lake of evil slime\" from the cult sci-fi film Barbarella, Matmos gained prominence for their postmodernist approach and ability to create \"listenable\" music from bizarre objects. Their releases feature samples and sources ranging from amplified crayfish nerve tissue to solid gold coins and plastic riot police shields.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel and Schmidt, the members of Matmos, create concept albums with diverse themes such as surgical procedures, Western\/country genres, medieval music, various types of plastics, whirlpool washing machines, and ganzfeld experiments \u0026amp; parapsychology. They have been signed to labels like Matador Records and Thrill Jockey Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout their career, Matmos has collaborated with guest musicians including Lesser, Jon Leidecker (Wobbly), Keith Fullerton Whitman, Dan Deacon, Jason Willett, Owen Gardner and members of Horse Lords, People Like Us, Matthew Herbert. They have also worked extensively with Björk on remixes as well as her albums Vespertine and Greatest Hits.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"return-to-archive","title":"Return to Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReturn to Archive\u003c\/i\u003e, Matmos' 14th album, is constructed entirely from the \"non-musical\" recordings released by Folkways Records in the mid-20th century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt contains sounds sourced from dozens of LPs, from Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Sounds of Insects to Voices of Satellites, Sounds of Medicine to Sounds of the Junk Yard. Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt were given unprecedented access to the label's fabled archive at the Smithsonian Institution and encouraged to repurpose and rework the source material however they liked. The resulting album illuminates the radical, inquisitive, and poetic aspects of the original recordings, extracting the latent moments of creative revelation on records intended primarily for the backroom shelves of universities and libraries. Some tracks cycle through source material at a rate of dozens of samples per minute, while others sit with specific recordings for their duration. Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of Folkways Records by Moses Asch and Marian Distler, Return to Archive is a whimsical, entrancing, and at times unsettling traversal of what Asch called the \"World of Sound.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smithsonian Folkways","offers":[{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50394695139659,"sku":"2055887","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_60a251e6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726445889"},{"product_id":"return-to-archive-3","title":"Return to Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. 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Highlighting the crises of convenience, the duo makes music from our refuse. True to form, the band have assembled a promiscuous array of examples of this sturdy-yet-ersatz family of materials: dominos, styrofoam coolers, police riot shields, polyethylene waste containers, PVC panpipes, pinpricks of bubble wrap, pills, silicone gel breast implants and most horrifically synthetic human fat. Where did this idea come from? Drew Daniels and M.C, Schmidts own “plastic” anniversary as a couple. Matmos glide from the tongue-in-cheek fun of \u003ci\u003eBreaking Bread\u003c\/i\u003e (literally smashing Bread LPs) to Cronenbergian body-horror of \u003ci\u003eInterior with Billiard Balls and Synthetic Fat\u003c\/i\u003e. 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