'Ultimate Care II' is the new album from renowned conceptual electronics duo Matmos Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt Recorded in the basement studio of their home in Baltimore the album is constructed entirely out of the sounds generated by a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II model washing machine Like its namesake the album runs across its variations as a single continuous thirty eight minute experience that starts with the grinding turn of the wash size selection wheel and ends with the alert noise that signals that the wash is done Between these audioverite bookends we experience an exploded view of the machine hearing it in normal operation but also as an object being rubbed and stroked and drummed upon and prodded and sampled and sequenced and processed by the duo with some occasional extra help from an ultralocal crew of guest stars some of whom regularly do laundry chez Matmos Dan Deacon Max Eilbacher Horse Lords Sam Haberman Horse Lords Jason Willett Half Japanese and Duncan Moore Needle Gun all took part either playing the machine like a drum processing its audio or sending MIDI data to the duo's samplers The vocabulary of the 'Ultimate Care II' its rhythmic chugs spin cycle drones rinse cycle splashes metallic clanks and electronic beeps are parsed into an eclectic syntax of diverse musical genres The result is a suite of rhythmic melodic and dronebased compositions that morph dramatically but remain fanatically centered upon their single original sound source CD version in digipack with 8 page bookletA? LP Black virgin vinyl and packaged in a heavy stock jacket with full colour inner sleeve and free download cardA? LP Limited clean laundry blue with white swirl colour vinyl packaged in a heavy stock jacket with full colour inner sleeve and free download cardA?
'Ultimate Care II' is the new album from renowned conceptual electronics duo Matmos Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt Recorded in the basement studio of their home in Baltimore the album is constructed entirely out of the sounds generated by a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II model washing machine Like its namesake the album runs across its variations as a single continuous thirty eight minute experience that starts with the grinding turn of the wash size selection wheel and ends with the alert noise that signals that the wash is done Between these audioverite bookends we experience an exploded view of the machine hearing it in normal operation but also as an object being rubbed and stroked and drummed upon and prodded and sampled and sequenced and processed by the duo with some occasional extra help from an ultralocal crew of guest stars some of whom regularly do laundry chez Matmos Dan Deacon Max Eilbacher Horse Lords Sam Haberman Horse Lords Jason Willett Half Japanese and Duncan Moore Needle Gun all took part either playing the machine like a drum processing its audio or sending MIDI data to the duo's samplers The vocabulary of the 'Ultimate Care II' its rhythmic chugs spin cycle drones rinse cycle splashes metallic clanks and electronic beeps are parsed into an eclectic syntax of diverse musical genres The result is a suite of rhythmic melodic and dronebased compositions that morph dramatically but remain fanatically centered upon their single original sound source CD version in digipack with 8 page bookletA? LP Black virgin vinyl and packaged in a heavy stock jacket with full colour inner sleeve and free download cardA? LP Limited clean laundry blue with white swirl colour vinyl packaged in a heavy stock jacket with full colour inner sleeve and free download cardA?