Matmos Moves On
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 running time 08:49
Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt (a.k.a. Matmos) put San Francisco on the map as a hotspot for groundbreaking electronic music. Now, as they pack up and head for a new life in Baltimore, they reflect on the effect the Bay Area (and the dot-com boom) had on their music, and speculate on what's ahead.
Highlights
high school
(
3:43, 3:43
)
cutting edge
(
6:29, 6:29
)
censorship
(
3:06, 3:06
)
fertile ground
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4:54, 4:54
)
high school
(
3:43, 3:43
)
cutting edge
(
6:29, 6:29
)
censorship
(
3:06, 3:06
)
fertile ground
(
4:54, 4:54
)
Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
" Well."
" One seamless I'll show you how there -- houses right now. Zero -- we've lived here for eight years. You can now."
" We've never stopped doing -- their stores and buying cheap is cheap records and -- And so there's only play. This -- them down to convert them."
" Yeah."
" I lived in San Francisco. Since the eighties and we like it that way but. I'm also for allowed in trying to. Complete Ph.D. in English literature and I finally completed that and actually got a job as an assistant professor in the English department at just how. So we're going to Baltimore. Until blue jays eight days. Eight days eight days. Eight days until would do show -- the giant truck eight days."
" We had a good time here than normal home. -- home I've suffered a -- In terms of trying to read my dissertation here side definitely got us Canada punishment cell. I promised myself that I would learn quite costly natural for a -- Francisco. It. In this group we made. A bunch of mountainous albums and made it. Could Jessica does suggest secure here. We need the civil war here we made the rose has cheated them out for the peace here. We worked our New York's vast virtual here you did -- All the shopping street records here this. Recorded a lot of our friends mean so many people coming through -- Fullerton Whitman. Two lesser crosscourt had -- Worked aren't. Supported -- sound tracks here. It's 1254. In censorship -- more. Troopers arrived at to do what's his name Greenburg Clement Greenberg and Greenberg said that. He could recognizes painting it was a masterpiece in three seconds three seconds place you can get away your spike Terrence. Halloween album if for no other reason just for the cover you know. That's just obvious like of course you're you're -- swing music of the Nazi -- You know German touring this is the first house music acid house record ever got winners. In high school my parents went to England and I said bringing house and house record and I got this ordinance awesome. -- we argue about well I'd like this seeing -- album and Martin doesn't so we argue about that. Yeah I guess I would now I would not -- I would probably only retain about one shelf of these cleanse that act here you gotta have this is an awesome person cover art and it's got. See each who are great and none septic death terror -- septic death I mean look you gotta have that records from."
" There really going to miss a certain like to follow setting up cultural literacy where you know San Francisco from the coast. We're out structural zone and -- a guarantee that enough people are interested -- structural zone that can happen. Something like NA TA and -- and assets and attacking an asylum. Festival every year and you know that it's just it's rich in. People who are interest in here -- I'm curious to find out what the difference is because I feel like Baltimore is probably. But very fertile ground for certain kinds of weirdness that it probably -- quite different form."
" The diocese is being you know -- here Cisco is geographically. Not east side. It's certainly not the only place and move. San Francisco has enough clears that you can kind of get over the boring and obvious fact of quickness and then actually halfway interesting. Subgroups that hurts and you know historical buffs and we -- civil war arena actors or whatever you know like you can kind of flourish more so my anxiety that Baltimore is just that -- got smaller clear seen. Means that there's a lot less you can take for granted about people's attitudes and kind -- about Imus explaining. You may or may not have to deal on the other hand there's this huge obvious like. Cultural icon John you know John wires and his version of quickness is like one of them yes. Fabulous like Santa ousting the American models for the whole should banks they're not -- it was really cool to be going from one. You know game -- kind of another. It's the record we're working and we're going to be under the."
" The words and names. Or it's never too late to learn I'm inclined to think that that. Cultural. Production comes from trying to -- place better. Big that's (%expletive) Kazaa a lot of good stuff comes. Well I don't know what think about New York went what was the last time that New York actually produce new sort of cutting edge. "
" Art is people like people taken -- energy crews fighting against terror. There environment like struggled freeze. -- I think in it in no way today. You know comfy. Well funded it. Environments doesn't."
" I think we got it. Endured and benefited from. Dot com the -- yeah we're using software as a result of that news. ANC people's interest in electronic news in the late ninety's I think was directly related fast -- You have all these people who are working on the software that you using. So he went out there undergrad I went to a presentation about Maximus. She can meet the people that are designing the tools. That you use. And it makes you think differently about this tools."
" I've never had a couch in my entire life."
" They're sort of associate catches for laziness. Like he'll never laid down and now on the couch if you don't have a couch."
" It even -- it. Challenge from. The big step for me."
" We have asked this -- watching the accelerator dvds."
" Well."
" One seamless I'll show you how there -- houses right now. Zero -- we've lived here for eight years. You can now."
" We've never stopped doing -- their stores and buying cheap is cheap records and -- And so there's only play. This -- them down to convert them."
" Yeah."
" I lived in San Francisco. Since the eighties and we like it that way but. I'm also for allowed in trying to. Complete Ph.D. in English literature and I finally completed that and actually got a job as an assistant professor in the English department at just how. So we're going to Baltimore. Until blue jays eight days. Eight days eight days. Eight days until would do show -- the giant truck eight days."
" We had a good time here than normal home. -- home I've suffered a -- In terms of trying to read my dissertation here side definitely got us Canada punishment cell. I promised myself that I would learn quite costly natural for a -- Francisco. It. In this group we made. A bunch of mountainous albums and made it. Could Jessica does suggest secure here. We need the civil war here we made the rose has cheated them out for the peace here. We worked our New York's vast virtual here you did -- All the shopping street records here this. Recorded a lot of our friends mean so many people coming through -- Fullerton Whitman. Two lesser crosscourt had -- Worked aren't. Supported -- sound tracks here. It's 1254. In censorship -- more. Troopers arrived at to do what's his name Greenburg Clement Greenberg and Greenberg said that. He could recognizes painting it was a masterpiece in three seconds three seconds place you can get away your spike Terrence. Halloween album if for no other reason just for the cover you know. That's just obvious like of course you're you're -- swing music of the Nazi -- You know German touring this is the first house music acid house record ever got winners. In high school my parents went to England and I said bringing house and house record and I got this ordinance awesome. -- we argue about well I'd like this seeing -- album and Martin doesn't so we argue about that. Yeah I guess I would now I would not -- I would probably only retain about one shelf of these cleanse that act here you gotta have this is an awesome person cover art and it's got. See each who are great and none septic death terror -- septic death I mean look you gotta have that records from."
" There really going to miss a certain like to follow setting up cultural literacy where you know San Francisco from the coast. We're out structural zone and -- a guarantee that enough people are interested -- structural zone that can happen. Something like NA TA and -- and assets and attacking an asylum. Festival every year and you know that it's just it's rich in. People who are interest in here -- I'm curious to find out what the difference is because I feel like Baltimore is probably. But very fertile ground for certain kinds of weirdness that it probably -- quite different form."
" The diocese is being you know -- here Cisco is geographically. Not east side. It's certainly not the only place and move. San Francisco has enough clears that you can kind of get over the boring and obvious fact of quickness and then actually halfway interesting. Subgroups that hurts and you know historical buffs and we -- civil war arena actors or whatever you know like you can kind of flourish more so my anxiety that Baltimore is just that -- got smaller clear seen. Means that there's a lot less you can take for granted about people's attitudes and kind -- about Imus explaining. You may or may not have to deal on the other hand there's this huge obvious like. Cultural icon John you know John wires and his version of quickness is like one of them yes. Fabulous like Santa ousting the American models for the whole should banks they're not -- it was really cool to be going from one. You know game -- kind of another. It's the record we're working and we're going to be under the."
" The words and names. Or it's never too late to learn I'm inclined to think that that. Cultural. Production comes from trying to -- place better. Big that's (%expletive) Kazaa a lot of good stuff comes. Well I don't know what think about New York went what was the last time that New York actually produce new sort of cutting edge. "
" Art is people like people taken -- energy crews fighting against terror. There environment like struggled freeze. -- I think in it in no way today. You know comfy. Well funded it. Environments doesn't."
" I think we got it. Endured and benefited from. Dot com the -- yeah we're using software as a result of that news. ANC people's interest in electronic news in the late ninety's I think was directly related fast -- You have all these people who are working on the software that you using. So he went out there undergrad I went to a presentation about Maximus. She can meet the people that are designing the tools. That you use. And it makes you think differently about this tools."
" I've never had a couch in my entire life."
" They're sort of associate catches for laziness. Like he'll never laid down and now on the couch if you don't have a couch."
" It even -- it. Challenge from. The big step for me."
" We have asked this -- watching the accelerator dvds."










