Matmos - The Consuming Flame - Open Exercises In Group Form on CD

Description

Matmos' practice of creative constraint has made them one of the most consistently exciting acts in electronic music. The duo of M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are well known for their long-standing practice of sampling unusual sound sources and experimenting with conceptual restrictions. 'The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form' was conceived by M.C. Schmidt, who made the decision to orient the record around a deceptively simple commitment. 99 different musicians were asked to contribute to the recording with only one instruction: they could play anything that they wanted, but the tempo of any rhythmic material had to be set at 99 beats per minute. The resulting album is a three-hour long assemblage that travels across a shifting kaleidoscope of genre, mood and density, all synchronized to a constant underlying tempo.

Tracks

CD 1
1 Cold Open
2 I, Voxelman
3 Moteswarm
4 Adam's Apple
5 Athens New Guinea Gas Can Japan
6 Thyrsus
7 Circle of Swords
8 Virgin Unspotted
9 No Concept
10 In The Shape of Beasts
11 Revelatory Mint Clot
12 Western Clot Rider
13 Cocktail Party How Glad Am I
14 I'm Fine I'm Fine

CD 2
1 Adepts
2 Maybeism
3 Garden of Tall Boys
4 Dancing Your Animal
5 Nice Men In Stable Relationships
6 Let Us In
7 Io! Lavendar River Karez
8 The Void At the Center
9 I Know What I Saw
10 Sarabande
11 The Dead City of Telphar
12 Platformalism
13 Verminiatures
14 Reciprocal Realms
15 Unmastering
16 I'm On The Team

CD 3
1 Blessed Order Of
2 Floaters
3 Goodnight Loving Bose Ikard
4 Tworivers Run
5 Boomchicka
6 Extraterrestrial
7 Circle of Shivers
8 Out of the Serpent's Mouth
9 Warm Opening
10 Decalcomaenads
11 It Isn't Necessarily The Case
12 Elsewards
13 All of the Powers Lie Quiet