Here’s the first thing to know: The album—all of it, every sound on its single 40-minute track—is played on a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II washing machine. The second thing you need to know is that Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel, who’ve recorded a series of brainy, witty sample-and-sound compositions under the sobriquet Matmos over nearly two decades, understand with total clarity what a gimmicky project this might sound like, on the merits. But Ultimate Care II was designed from the start to be a less weighty composition than many other Matmos projects—like A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure, which used sound samples from surgery clinics as its building blocks, or The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast, whose songs are each dedicated to a gay public figure, often of some controversy—that inspired the duo in some way. Schmidt and Daniel will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Matmos feature.
Schmidt: Perhaps you have heard Señor Coconut? The Chilean baile super-funky latin versions of Kraftwerk songs? Have you heard the rest of this fine gentleman’s catalogue of noisy clean funky fun brutal rhythmic/arrhythmic slick and cruel music? I hereby recommend it. He is called Uwe Schmidt, or Atom™ or Erik Satin or Lisa Carbon or Roger Tubesound. An incredible slab of his production, worthy of an entire life, though he has not stopped, is here on Bandcamp, the only truly civilized music service that I have used. My favorite, so far, is Erik Satin Light Music, though also the Roger Tubesound Ensemble Plays Just Notes.
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