Matmos

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Matmos is an experimental electronica duo from San Francisco on the Matador Records label. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including notably J Lesser. Much of their work could be classified within the musique concrète genre.

In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single Alarm Call. Subsequently, Matmos worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), as well as her Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours. In November of 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as artists in residence, performing music with friends, musical guests and onlookers. The live album Work, Work, Work, essentially a "best of" collection of the session, was released as a free download from their website.

Schmidt busies himself working in the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Daniel is working on his dissertation on the literary cult of Melancholy, and a personal dance music project, The Soft Pink Truth. Both Schmidt and Daniel appeared in the Sagan music DVD filmed by Ryan Junell.

The name Matmos is the name of the evil underground goo creature in the 1968 film Barbarella. Matmos' private record label Vague Terrain is a reference to the publishing company and bookstore in Paris that originally distributed the comic book upon which the film was based.