The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form

by Matmos

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Operating as a colossal, three-hour logistical achievement, the experimental electronic duo solicited audio samples playing exclusively at 99 BPM from 99 different artists globally. Participants included Oneohtrix Point Never, Yo La Tengo, and clipping., with Matmos meticulously stitching the disparate audio into a wildly unpredictable, kaleidoscopic suite. It stands as a brilliant exercise in structural constraint and avant-garde collaboration.

Genres

  • Sound Collage
  • IDM
  • Experimental

Tracklist

  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
  15. Adepts
  16. Maybeism
  17. Garden of Tall Boys
  18. Dancing Your Animal
  19. Nice Men In Stable Relationships
  20. Let Us In
  21. Friendsylum
  22. Io! Lavendar River Karez
  23. The Void At the Center
  24. I Know What I Saw
  25. Sarabande
  26. The Dead City of Telphar
  27. Platformalism
  28. Verminiatures
  29. Reciprocal Realms
  30. Unmastering
  31. I'm On The Team
  32. Blessed Order Of
  33. Floaters
  34. Goodnight Loving Bose Ikard
  35. Tworivers Run
  36. Boomchicka
  37. Extraterrestrial
  38. Circle of Shivers
  39. Out of the Serpent's Mouth
  40. Warm Opening
  41. Decalcomaenads
  42. It Isn't Necessarily The Case
  43. Elsewards
  44. All of the Powers Lie Quiet