Even for all you music lovers out there, chances are you haven't heard anything like music from the electronic duo Matmos.But you may have heard bits and pieces of it every week when you do your ...
Look, washing machines make noise—that's just how they work. But there's a difference between the normal hum of a machine doing its job and the little sounds that mean something's going wrong. I've ...
Too often, concept albums come off like attempts at critique-proofing—canny, cowardly clusters of shticky songs to which you can’t say nothing because the pieces justify the whole and if you’re not ...
Experimental IDM duo Matmos have made electronic music from samples of medical procedures, the percussive sounds of a rat cage, Civil War folk songs, and parapsychological experiments, and their ...
Matmos are just about to release Ultimate Care II, their new album that’s made entirely from washing machine sounds. They’ve just released a new video for “Ultimate Care II: Excerpt Three.” It is, ...
Arty electronic duo Matmos have a new album, titled Ultimate Care II, due out February 19 via Thrill Jockey. Despite the Roman numeral in the title, this is not a sequel — “Ultimate Care II” is the ...
Local experimental duo Matmos announced a new album this morning, and continuing in their tradition of musique concrete, all the sounds came from the Whirlpool Ultimate Care II washing machine in ...
The idea to make an album entirely out of the sounds of a washing machine came to Matmos’ Martin Schmidt as he drummed his fingers on the Whirlpool Ultimate Care II in his home studio, lost in ...
Danny Dyer has become so iconic that even washing machines are spouting his best lines – well, according to one woman at least. EastEnders fan Lesley Hazeldine has claimed that she can hear her ...