July 5, 2000 — Matmos —
These guys are making everyone else look lazy.
“Our split record with the Rachel’s “Full On Night” is out now on Quarterstick/Touch n Go, and the newest 12" by Disc (called “Transfer,” it’s our collaboration with Kid 606 and Lesser making 100 locked grooves of CDs skipping) is out on Deluxe Records. These are not Matador Records but they’re still pretty good. Our Summer Vacation: We’ve been running around in Europe having all sorts of misadventures — we rented a car in Paris and toured the Languedoc looking for castles related to the Cathar heresy and the mystery of Rennes Le Chateau. Much fun, much duck fat. Then we drove on to Barcelona for SONAR (too many great shows to mention, but here goes: Stockhausen, Coil, Etant Donnes, Panasonic/Einheit, Kit Clayton, Hecker, People Like Us, Phoenecia/Rich Devine, PanAmerican, Herbert, Mark Almond (!?*!), laptop orchestra). Now we are home, eagerly anticipating our Fat Cat 12" (split with Motion) and slaving away on the new album. Oh yes we are. Oh yes. And working on new mixes for Mu-Ziq, People Like Us and Phoenecia, plus some sneaky house music that no one needs to know about.”

March 12, 1999
Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Matador Europe has licensed (from Vague Terrain) ‘Quasi-Objects’ and Self-Titled by the San Francisco experimental electronic duo Matmos. What do they sound like? Rhythm that hustles promiscuously somewhere between 2 Live Crew, Spike Jones and Muslimgauze; melodies inspired by slot machines and duck calls; basslines with the low end presence of dub or Miami bass; sharp bursts of abject noise puncturing the sound field when you least expect them, and most deserve them. As the title ‘Quasi-Objects’ indicates, the group have an ethic of restricting sound sources to everyday and not-so-everyday objects (balloons, whoopee cushions, walkie talkies, latex fetish clothing, a banjo, the human body).... We'll have a full bio, sound clips, and all that up shortly.