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About Me

Matmos is M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, aided and abetted by many others. In their recordings and live performances over the last nine years, Matmos have used the sounds of: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, a bowed five string banjo, slowed down whistles and kisses, water hitting copper plates, the runout groove of a vinyl record, a $5.00 electric guitar, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, violins, rat cages, tanks of helium, violas, human skulls, cellos, peck horns, tubas, cards shuffling, field recordings of conversations in hot tubs, frequency response tests for defective hearing aids, a steel guitar recorded in a sewer, electrical interference generated by laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions and balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones on a dinner plate, Polish trains, insects, ukelele, aspirin tablets hitting a drum kit from across the room, dogs barking, people reading aloud, life support systems and inflatable blankets, records chosen by the roll of dice, an acupuncture point detector conducting electrical current through human skin, rock salt crunching underfoot, solid gold coins spinning on bars of solid silver, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five gallon bucket of oatmeal.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/15/2006
Band Members: M.C. Schmidt
Drew Daniel
Record Label: Matador
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SUPREME BALLOON ACHIEVES LIFTOFF TODAY!

SUPREME BALLOON ACHIEVES LIFTOFF TODAY:The seventh Matmos album is called "Supreme Balloon" and it is now available in many forms: a compact disc with 7 songs is the form that M. C. Schmidt feels best...
Posted by Matmos on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:36:00 PST

Exciter Lamp and the Variable Band...!

So I made a video for one of the songs from "Supreme Balloon"...and there is a not-very-good translation of it on YouTube, so I thought I should direct you to a place where it looks, um, betterhttp://...
Posted by Matmos on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:27:00 PST

Horror Funk at Stereogum/Gum-Drop

Here’s the link to "The Gum Drop", the exclusive download part of the website Stereogum. http://stereogum.com/the-gum-drop/song.php?tid=8954It features a new Matmos song called "Unbeliever"....
Posted by Matmos on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:07:00 PST

Drew’s Happy Hour and reading in Baltimore...M.C. drinks.

Drew Daniel of Matmos presents Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk GreatsThursday Apr 17, 7:30PM @ Red Emma’sDrew Daniel of Matmos presemts his take on industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle &...
Posted by Matmos on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:05:00 PST

THIRTY THREE AND A THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THROBBING GRISTLE

THE THIRTY THREE AND A THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THROBBING GRISTLE: aka DREW WROTE A BOOKIt's simply too late to turn back now: Drew Daniel is a published author. His first book is brought to you by Cont...
Posted by Matmos on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:47:00 PST

Out Magazine finds us important gays!

Here's the page:http://out.com/out100/nominees_4.aspThey asked me to wear tennis shoes with a tie! As if! Ugh. Shock. Horror.-m.c.s.
Posted by Matmos on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:21:00 PST

A TV segment about Matmos...

Hey, did you ever see this? It's from a while ago, but hey...a fancy TV program made a segment about us!If you'd like, you can watch it here:http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=68 46...
Posted by Matmos on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:26:00 PST

BE THE PIG!

As a gesture of good will to the peoples of the world and in a decisive break with the soul crushing post modern manipulations that have characterized all too much of their previous "cultural producti...
Posted by Matmos on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:48:00 PST