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About Me

The first album of several to come, "carrying a deranged gospel choir", now available!

or purchase "carrying a deranged gospel choir" mp3s on itunes, click the logo below!goodluck/badluckmixes badmammal johns party set ^^^^^^^^^^ click link to download badmammal set 1 badmammal set 2 badmammal set3 badmammal chicago set-chrisbadmammal august 30th poleng set 1 tracklist (roughly)1) i know you well 2) gixon 3) retratos 4) novel/enterprises/little stranger/promise 5) ella 6) blue boy 7) dying digital herobadmammal august 30th poleng set 2 badmammal august 30th poleng set 2 tracklist (roughly)1) toppled statues 2) tide acid 3) we need breeze 4) shake funk/principio funk/papaya 5) memorial 6) kinky operator 7) my steam 8) blue 88s 9) ghetto bird 10) emergency goodluck/badluck podcast click image to subscribeBIObadmammal is the primary alias of Chris Matule, a musician and artist currently living in San Francisco. Chris has actively experimented with sound since he was a kid, playing both in bands and in smaller collaborations with friends. Making music that ranged from rock to acid house, he learned to play guitar, drums, and bass, always tinkering with audio gadgets and unorthodox sources of sound. During college, Chris attended many Friday nights at Washington’s D.C.’s infamous weekly event Buzz, where he grew closer to electronic music and began to explore DJ-ing and new forms of electronic production. Chris soon began making drum and bass under the name process, and after befriending label proprietor Kurt Gluck, achieved his first release on Ohm Resistance Records with a song called fascination, a remix/audio hat-tip to The Cure's Fascination Street. Soon after, Ohm signed the very well-received Rickshaw, releasing it on a split-label 10” between Ohm Resistance and Offshore Industries. Chris continues making drum and bass under the name messenger, and is expected to have another release on Ohm Resistance later this year. Not content, however, to limit himself to dance music, he worked constantly on developing his own sound, imagined as something that Brian Eno or Ninja Tune might listen to; a looser, less generic sound, one more expressive of his wide range of musical influence and capable of expressing a broader scope of moods and themes. To this end, he began to incorporate more live instrumentation into his music, blending lush, ambient guitars both acoustic and electric with IDM programming and analog bass. On Carrying a Deranged Gospel Choir, the songs commando (track 1), beach song (track 5) and big hills (track 8) showcase this mix well. Towards the end of college, Chris and his fellow artist friends Greg Korn, John Fransella, and Philip Wassibauer began piecing together what would eventually become www.c-a.at. A loose organization of multimedia artists from around the world, the majority from Europe, they gather once a year for the Schmiede Hallein, a weeklong working festival held in an abandoned Austrian salt factory where participants create collaborative cross-genre art projects and demonstrations, hold lectures and discussions on contemporary art, technology and society, and then throw a big party at the end. Chris then moved to Austria for a year, living in the mountains of Salzburg and working on the Schmiede project while diving deep into a colder, more computer and synthesizer-driven IDM sound, best represented on Carrying a Deranged Gospel Choir by the songs skydive (track 6) and song s (track 9). After his time in Austria, Chris temporarily returned to his hometown in New Jersey before setting out to Los Angeles. Introduced to Yamil Rezc from the Mexico City band Sub-Division by Trevor Randall of Hard Soul Records, Chris began contributing remixes to the band’s records and E.P.s, one of which appeared in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winning short film Ver Llover. Chris spent much of his time in Los Angeles collecting instruments and experimenting with new styles, sounds, and techniques. He began adding vocals, harmonica, ukulele and cumbus into the mix, and then found-sounds, Ableton Live, talking toys, modified igil… in the process bringing to maturity a sound that’s uniquely his own, at once sophisticated and wide-eyed, breezy and full, oftentimes playful and always worth a closer listen. Today, Chris happily resides in San Francisco, where he endeavors to make more music, take more photographs, release his work independently, and involve himself in art as much as possible.
RELEASESbadmammal/Carrying A Deranged Gospel Choir/goodluck/badluck/glbl001 badmammal/Knife Song /Exegene Presents: Noise Corrosion Exegene Recordings/XGNCD001badmammal/Promise (remix)/The Primos EP/Sub-Division/Hard Soul Records ASIN: B000A9QKKUmessenger/Sexphone and Express/Sexphone and Express single/Freestyle Recordings/FSR DIGI003process/Fascination/Ohmwreckers Resculpted Part 2 of 2/Ohm Resistance/14K OHM A process/Rickshaw/Ohm Resistance/ Offshore Industries Split 10” Series/Ohm Resistance/ Offshore Industries OHMOSR002process/Speak/Speak single/Exegene Recordings/XGN25OTHER PROJECTSRemix of Promise, originally written and performed by Sub-DivisionRemix of Blue Boy, originally written and performed by Sub-Division. Appeared in Ver Llover, 2007 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or-winning short film by Elisa Miller.Remix of Este Encanto, originally written and performed by Morbo

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/17/2004
Band Website: goodluckbadluck.net
Band Members: chris matule
Influences: a lot of things in life
“When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.” - erik satie
"As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency." --John Cage
"I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.' " --John Cage
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. - John Cage
We need not destroy the past. It is gone. -John Cage
influential musicians: john cage, prince, brian eno, erik satie, dinosaur jr, sonic youth, masonna, velvet underground, rza, serge gainsbourg, the pixies, ween, pavement, jesus and mary chain, iggy pop, the cure, richard d james, new order, daft punk, lee scratch perry, steely dan and others
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Record Label: unsigned/goodluck badluck
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

first badmammal album, carrying a deranged choir...

soon to be available for sale from the audio department of goodluckbadluckits called "carrying a deranged gospel choir"ill post up the tracklist soon (at work)should be getting test cd back in a week ...
Posted by badmammal on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:21:00 PST

i think i consoled a child today

and i felt pretty good about it.  I was at work when i hear some whimpering over in the lobby. i look over and theres this little girl kneeling almost what looked like to be a prayer position (on...
Posted by badmammal on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:01:00 PST

crab gods are good and the liberation of al roker

sighI am put under oath because the clumsy determination department is still considering the Igebrek as the "biggest, most tired, and most religious" How does it make me feel? Its a loose noose with...
Posted by badmammal on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:05:00 PST

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Posted by badmammal on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:23:00 PST

siesta on d**k = dadaism surcharge

Amongst mincemeat, leatherwork, and some quasistationary homosapiens who didn't try to pleasure us, we sought not pathology but truth...or "derbyshire discipline" in the sectarian juice colonies. Bedf...
Posted by badmammal on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:57:00 PST

i think i saved a dog today

i think i saved a dog today! :) i was riding my bike to go get a new cell phone when i see this car pulling over on the road with its horn honking like crazy and at some points just going on constant...
Posted by badmammal on Thu, 25 May 2006 06:04:00 PST

Struck and in order to die

This I have found.  I will share the good degree of convo, enterprise, dinner, and acquaintances.  I live near that roughly atheletic port of the King. I am surrounded by a  genuinely h...
Posted by badmammal on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:25:00 PST

does this microphone peel? (2 dollar cherries)

 Before you I made two dollars from soaking my desirable view of achievement. It is preceding.  It is preceding me and even more flattering are the co-operation results, the 2 dollar cherrie...
Posted by badmammal on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:49:00 PST

delays in Michelle's "Ice Turd of 26 legs "

The art of shitting.       Michelle Hines, a artist of species, reports an excrement that has 26 legs . Turd de Michelle reports say  "In February 1995,I would produce a ri...
Posted by badmammal on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:34:00 PST

the enormous interrigation constante.

 at the center in the soil remains my locking stream, where I always prefer the top. the troubled patient maintained the improved work. 
Posted by badmammal on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:43:00 PST