through thickly amplified silences punctuated by momentary eruptions of noise or a voice at the threshold of intelligibility

in the company of likeminded eccentrics and heroes

abstractly and in an evolving relationship to the grammars of reproduction and performance

This care and integrity can be clearly heard in this sweetly groovy collection

which grows with every spin

MATMOS - Ultimate Care II LP Grind through thickly amplified silences punctuatedUltimate Care II is the new album from renowned conceptual electronics duo Matmos (Drew Daniel and M. C. 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