Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt are a pair of musicians that effortlessly manage to combine style, substance, and concept with every album they make. On planet Matmos, musique concrete pioneer Pierre Henry could jam with Arkestra free sax legend Marshall Allen, while Icelandic siren of the strange Bjork narrates passages from Burroughs over the sound of clattering crustaceans. Rising to infamy after their surgical-operation-sampling LP ‘A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure’, the American duo went on to work with Bjork on two albums and world tours, while also releasing LPs on Matador that stretch the boundaries of an already-rubbery genre. Now residing in Baltimore, where Drew teaches as a professor of English at John Hopkins University, the pair operate with a musical logic that is as unpredictable as it is airtight.
In the clip below Matmos’ Martin Schmidt asks the question, do anyone really need to make records any more?
