Halloween Special
10.31.23
Matmos is Drew and M.C. Schmidt. Our new album, Return to Archive, comes out Nov 3rd on Smithsonian Folkways, and samples the science and nature recordings of that label. For this mix, we’re trying to range widely across the map of genre in search of the beyond. With a Halloween theme in mind, our mix starts with a field recording by Aaron Dilloway- who guests on our new album—of a haunted house in Nepal, and then ranges across musique concrète, electronic music, field recordings, noise, free improvisation, jazz, industrial music, and various approaches to rhythm and percussion. Historically, we are meandering from the 1950s to the 1980s to things that come out next week. Time is perhaps subjective and up to the observer, but we will note with no little astonishment that this Halloween will be our 31st anniversary as a couple and as a band. Thank you for letting us into your ears.
In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Folkways documented the audible nooks and crannies of existence on hundreds of LPs produced by field recordists, scientists, and experimentalists probing the margins of the human soundscape. Seventy-five years later, electronic music duo Matmos have diced, looped, stretched, and recontextualized these recordings on their new album Return to Archive, which was assembled entirely from the so-called non-musical sounds released on Folkways. On just the album’s first track, dolphins, beetles, telephones, humans stretching the limits of their vocal cords, a shortwave radio, and metal balers co-mingle in a fantasia of sound both everyday and extraordinary. Each track on Return to Archive morphs its source material into something completely unexpected, honoring and expanding on Folkways’ legacy of sonic exploration. Featuring Evicshen and Aaron Dilloway.
Tracklist:
Aaron Dilloway – Walk Through 1 – Bhoot Ghar: Sounds of the Kathmandu Horror House (Hanson)
Nicole Lachartre – La Pêche à la Ligne – Mundus (Metaphon)
Marja Ahti – Dust/Light – Tender Membranes (Black Truffle)
Foom/Foam – A2 – Foom/Foam (Weird Ear)
Andrea Pensado – Right Here – Vocal Studies #8 (Econore)
G* Park – Zwei Freunde – 1983-1988+ (G*Park)
Microfilm – Bodies in the Haunted Grotto – Giallo Amore Mio (Microfilm)
Giuseppe Ielasi – 10 – 15tapes (Senufo)
Kassel Jaeger – Sôlên I – Shifted in Dreams (Shelter Press)
Olivia Block – Untitled Piece for 4 Track, Tapes – Intransitive 23 (Intransitive)
Current 93 – A Voice From Catland – Of Ruine or some Blazing Starre (Jnana)
Cook Audio – Turntableful of Sound Effects – Announcements and Horrifying Background Moods for the Making of Seductive Soap Operas – Cook’s Tour of High-Fidelity (Smithsonian Folkways)
David Moré – 115 – southwest suburban worry doll (DM)
Bridget Ferrill – Buchla – Only (enmossed)
Manja Ristić – Thin and Uneven – Awakenings (L-INE)
Dave Philips – Night Rattlers Huashan Shanzhai Panlong – don’t hurt me for your pretty (DP)
Genesis P-Orridge/Z’ev – East III – Direction Ov Travel (Cold Spring)
Max Eilbacher and Henry Birdsey – Bell Formations V – Bell Formations (Husky Pants)
Zero Kama – Love Alway Yieldeth – The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H. (L.A.Y.L.A.H.)
Archon Satani – Insane with Fear – Virgin Birth (Functional Organisation)
Zakir Hussain – Ryupak – Zakir Hussain and the Rhythm Experience (Moment!)
Irreversible Entanglements – Celestial Pathways – Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
Matana Roberts – but I never heard a sound so long – Coin Coin Chapter Fie: In the Garden (Constellation)
Milford Graves – Know Your Place – Grand Unification (Tzadik)
Mike Baroty and Ayb Dieng – Vibrations de l’Esprit – Rhythmes Africains (Auvidis)
Twink – Drum Crazy – The Lost Experimental Recordings 1970 (Get Back)
Model Home and Wolf Eyes – Invisible Thread Vocal – More Difficult Messages (Disciples)
Jennifer Veillerobe – B4 – Luftlöcher (Senufo)
Matmos – Mud Dauber Wasp, Return to Archive, (Smithsonian Folkways)
Minor Science – Summer Diary – Absent Friends Vol. III (Balmat)
Continuity – Drifting – Continuity (B.A.A.D.M.)
Purelink – Cricket Dub – Puredub (Lillerne Tape Club)
Ternion Sound x Kursa – Specimen – Emergent Lifeforms (Ternion Sound)
EPROM – Remorse – Syntheism (Square Records)
EVOL – Tommy Ache – The Worm (Superpang)
ELpH vs Coil – Hysteron Proteron Jewel – Worship the Glitch (Eskaton)
Alva Noto – HYbr:ID Ectopia Interacting – HYbr:ID II (Noton)
M.C. Schmidt and Obie Feldi – John of Dust – John of Dust (Vague Terrain)
Pauline Oliveros – Alien Bog – Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop (Pogus)
PGR + Merzbow + Asmus Tietchens – Book Of A Thousand Hands – Grav (Silent)
