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i noticed in an older post you mentioned that you got Matmos/People Like Us/Wobbly's "Wide Open Spaces" ... what do you think of it at this point... i've given it my first earnest listen all the way through today, and i'd say that when they want it to be... it's quite a beautiful album... the only thing that kind of frustrates me sometimes is the overusage of vocal snippets (i'm sure this is the work of Matmos) at times... when clearly, it is when the music takes precedence that they are really capturing the true vibe of the album... i'm not opposed to them altogether, in fact sometimes they work perfectly... but other times they seem to foregrounded in the mix.... and what about everyone else? i know a few other people have mentioned it... well what do you think? |
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i havent read anything about this album...i have no idea how much of this music is actually by matmos (as i dont know people like us and wobbly), but each time i listen to it it sounds more alike matmos. it's a funny album in a way but musicaly wonderful - it always puts me in a happy mood (unlike many other albums i listen to). those vocals im kind of not bothered with as they fit in perfectly... i listened to it quite often during the summer and others were quite fond of it as well. i definitely need to read some info about this album, to see if there's any story behind it do you have any idea what kind of music are people like us and wobbly doing? my favorite track is definitely "tremble valley peady", beautiful melodies... others i enjoy: -dolly pardon -holler -calling -clawing your eyes out down to your throat |
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here's the press release: WOBBLY / PEOPLE LIKE US / MATMOS "WIDE OPEN SPACES" The hour long performance on this disc was captured live on October 5th 2002 when Wobbly, People Like Us and Matmos circled their wagons in the lecture hall of the San Francisco Art Institute. Having mutually agreed upon a country and western theme, Vicki Bennett (PLU), Jon Leidecker (Wobbly), and Drew Daniel and M. C. Schmidt (Matmos) pored over their archives of honky tonk classics, chopping and dicing Nashville's finest almost beyond recognition, and collectively restitching the mangled shreds in a kind of crazed digital quilting bee. Several tense rehearsals and strong pots of tea later, the foursome shuffled on stage and delivered the goods: from panoramic twangfests to offkilter waltzes to barn burning stompers. Flickering and tranquil one moment, and wildly slapstick the next, Wide Open Spaces hits the sweet spot between song forms and improvisation, and showcases the qualities that all three collaborating artists share: absurdist humor, baroque sample manipulation, and stuttering rhythmic frameworks that lurch and sway. While the presence of five samplers, four laptops, three CD players and a pedal steel guitar on one stage could have led to a tediously ego-driven "jam" or simply cacophany, the results feel lushly detailed but not cluttered, and swing naturally between structure and freedom. It's an international media magpie summit where country's chick-a-boom meets tech house's boom-tschak, and tearjerking sentiment and patriotic hokum are subjected to a dense shower of coughs, sputters and rude noises. Listening back to the recorded results, all three musical units agreed that this concert was mighty fine, and worth sharing. |
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"where country's chick-a-boom meets tech house's boom-tschak" haha, this sums it up pretty good :) |
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apperantly all four are electronica artists...wobby and people like us are apperantly from the same genre btw, what is your favourite matmos album? |
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i think i still like the West the best... but i really haven't allowed any of the albums enough listening time... so it's hard to judge... |
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apperantly "civil war" (their newest) was just released...you heard that one yet? i dont know how i missed this...i get quite a lot of information about new releases, but this one sliped by somehow...no word about it on this mb either...weird |
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my roomate has a copy of it on vinyl about 4 metres from my head... it's pretty all over the place... |
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