Matmos Supreme Balloon The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast The Ganzfeld EP Ganzfeld experiment

Basically, the experiments, conducted at the Baltimore home of band principles Drew Daniel (who doubles as an English professor at John’s Hopkins University) and MC Schmidt as well as Oxford University, goes like this: the subject lies down in a sort of sensory deprivation state, blindfolded and with white noise-blasting earphones on. At which point Daniel attempts to psychically transmit “the concept of the new Matmos record” into the brain of the subject, who was asked to reply with anything they saw or heard “with their minds.” That translated to melodies, collage ideas, instruments, arrangements, and so on. The news comes with the boast that the new record is “the most conceptually elaborate yet weirdly poppy record of their career.”

We’re still waiting on a new track to post, but in the meantime, enjoy this episode of Electric Independence we did last year on Matmos.

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