Matmos - How To Turn Your Plastic Into Audio Gold

Matmos' upcoming album 'Plastic Anniversary' is set for release 3/15 on Thrill Jockey Records
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[@msdos]

It cracks me up how lossy the audio is in this great video. I think I actually like it? These guys turn medical equipment and rat cages into brilliantly produced hi-def orchestrations, but here it sounds like they accidentally sent the file back into the 90s via RealAudio stream and lived with the results. It creates a funny distance between my eyes and ears. I guess the artifacts sound sorta neat in themselves, too. I love Matmos. Plastic Anniversary is a fantastic record and it continues to grow on me. My god, just listen to those beats! Knowing everything is sourced from plastics just adds an extra dimension of appreciation for what they’ve done. It’s also twistedly melodic, sometimes gorgeous. And it’s a unique object that’s both thoroughly synthesized (its plastic sources, the transformations of the audio recordings) and highly concrete (the sounds come from the real-world objects we’ve created/produced; we have a serious relationship with plastics in our actual lives; and it’s basically a super-musical form of music concrete). It’s also pretty abstract in some ways. This album is lots of things! All the way to its conclusion, the synthetic ocean “field recording,” just a tad too uncanny to be relaxing. I’m actually really curious how they made that one.

[@robertsyrett1992]

1:09 The face Martin makes when he suggests they should be a podcast 😂😂😂

[@superjchamma]

yall are so cute

[@maxsync183]

absolute couple goals, i just want a cute guy to squeak plastic with

[@sammystank7174]

Greatest of our time I swear to God you two are way too humble

[@Zenene-ok5el]

2:00 - 2:25, Matmos go on Chapo

[@themusicaljunkie37]

Damn, i always wanted to make an album that's pretty much noisy rock but all the percussions are from everyday objects and sounds... these two are so inspiring..

[@kenmc555]

These guys are the left and right brain of God, seperated and cast unto Earth.

[@bensonadams9826]

Except they are too intelligent to believe in childlike fantasies of a "God".

[@SCWood]

They should collab with Stomp. Or maybe just replace stomp. We don't need stomp.

[@aboxintheblack9530]

What an amazing apolitical album.

[@randomuser3988]

6:11 Such a satisfying doink✨💕😍

[@urianger]

okay perhaps i love them

[@vinylmeister4333]

this is why i love matmos so much

[@rosswilkinson9095]

i love these two men

[@ansiaaa]

I love these guys

[@SNO-]

Found a new sound today!! I am so happy, proud, astonished, and just plain flabbergasted (yeah I use this word) I have never heard of Matmos'! (must have been deaf) Well, ... I have now! Downloaded the new Sample pack www.ableton.com/en/blog/matmos-making-their-free-sample-pack/ and now I am overly excited to dig into it. Thank you for the "day-after-xmas" surprise and the video link on the Ableton page. This is what I do on my albums turn/make sounds into rhythmic (sometimes cacophonous) music. Nice to see I am really not alone lol

[@neildevine3056]

this album was insane

[@HyneBlack]

Long Live the Lords of Micro Beats!

[@alsimanche]

The guy with tatoos has changed so much, i barely recognize him

[@BonoLightier]

The power couple

[@johnjulian3590]

This was awesome

[@nedogedell]

I didn't expect bad audio quality from anything to do with Matmos, but the compression(!) makes this difficult to listen to.

[@TheBronzeCookie]

its also the noise reduction algorithm which is fuckin horrible

[@daxterquiny]

+

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@eleanorgiovanni]

amazing!!!

[@SlyHikari03]

Riot shield Samba. These guys are goofy. Ps. Love the Blue man mention.

[@benasrudnickas7852]

HYPE HYPE HYPE!

[@maiconschlosserr]

love u guys

[@FAKoLL]

Yeasss

[@therandomperson02]

Can confirm the album is not political

[@quinnlewis2003]

I love them

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🎶💜🎶

[@robertkeyes258]

I am gonna 3d print some music. But Gold is the Plastic with the Broadest Shoulders.

[@sebastianvonp1467]

The crying pill must be the new Dr. Mario soundtrack?

[@viniciusnunes1999]

compression!!!!!

[@potatokingron]

ASMR: the album

[@timstill152]

Conqueror Worm!

[@brandonbehning]

🙇🏼‍♂️

[@orkunsanal]

Foley music

[@agap4238]

hiiiiii "you make me smile" !

[@SebastianBean]

your rails app for the CD:LP is bork

[@robngy8204]

Kind of like Severed Heads xo

[@beepbeep2446]

Was the spectrum filter necessary lmfao

[@justonknowles]

acab

[@gameofdespair]

X EARTH CRISIS X

[@shiv_ring]

Is the right guy a vegan or just a fan of Earth Crisis? 😁

[@yawnandjokeoh]

slip stick

[@jpaton9340]

A firestorm to purify the bane that society drowns in

[@erlineandrews]

Watching them break that vinyl record is painful for me. I'm surprised no one has asked what the record was. Seems like they were making a critical statement by breaking it. 😏

[@Yelooh]

it's most likely by Bread, as the sound is used on 'Breaking bread'

[@BiPhBiPhBiPhBiPh]

This video is as disorienting as their new album.

[@bonitabromeliads]

The irony these guys own a lot of property

[@lll000l00o]

how would you even know that lmao