quoted 5 lines Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:51:30 +1300>Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:51:30 +1300
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>From: Michael Upton <jetjag@mailandnews.com>
>Subject: Dancey Matmos?
>Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20010206084541.00aef9a0@mailandnews.com>quoted 3 lines I keep listening to 'Freak N You' off the Matmos / Motion split 12 on Fat>I keep listening to 'Freak N You' off the Matmos / Motion split 12 on Fat
>Cat. I'm sure it's highly unlikely, but there's no other Matmos material
>out there like this, is there?quoted 4 lines It's basically really chopped house stuff (to the extent that it hardly>It's basically really chopped house stuff (to the extent that it hardly
>ever has the old four to the floor), but it's got stabbing sampled chords,
>someone singing "feeling freaky" and I think it's really funky. I like that
>it's totally twisted, but doesn't have a menacing vibe. It's fun chaos. :-)
I agree with Michael, it's an amazing, amazing track. Kit Clayton dropped
it once in the middle of a "true" house set (well, at least his
approximation of said form!) and it was just astonishing.
Fun little factoid about that track: apparently it's all sampled & reworked
off some crappy R&B CD that the duo found in a dustbin, somewhere. I'm not
sure how apocryphal that is (after a few more tellings I'm sure it will
morph into something like "...a crappy R&B CD the duo found in Dave Eggers'
dustbin, after he smuggled it out of Puffy's studio along with a purloined
bottle of Cristal - the uncorking of which provided the core sample of the
drum track for their forthcoming 2step outing...").
Always happy to spread a rumor,
Phil
p.s. the new Matmos CD, "A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure," is pure
genius - I've had it on promo for a few weeks now and can't get enough of
you. There's a *brilliant* house track on there, a deeply funky jam sprung
from a few parched, arid samples, and lotsa lotsa crazy noise. Also keep
your eyes peeled for Drew Matmos' solo outing, "The Soft Pink Truth," on
Matt Herbert's Soundslike label.
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