Matmos -Return To Archive -Smithsonian Folkways LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Good Morning Electronics"

02. "Injection Basic Sound"

03. "Mud Dauber Wasp"

04. "Music or Noise'"

05. "Why'"

06. "Lend Me Your Ears"

07. "Return to Archive"

08. "The Way Japanese Beetles Sound To A Rose"

09. "Going To Sleep"

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Return To Archive by Matmos, released 26 January 2024, includes the following tracks: "Mud-Dauber Wasp", "Why?", "Return To Archive", "Going To Sleep" and more. This version of Return To Archive comes as a 1xCD. -

Return to Archive, Matmos' 14th album, is constructed entirely from the "non-musical" recordings released by Folkways Records in the mid-20th century. It contains sounds sourced from dozens of LPs, from Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Sounds of Insects to Voices of Satellites, Sounds of Medicine to Sounds of the Junk Yard. Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt were given unprecedented access to the label's fabled archive at the Smithsonian Institution and encouraged to repurpose and rework the source material however they liked. The resulting album illuminates the radical, inquisitive, and poetic aspects of the original recordings, extracting the latent moments of creative revelation on records intended primarily for the backroom shelves of universities and libraries. Some tracks cycle through source material at a rate of dozens of samples per minute, while others sit with specific recordings for their duration.

Hype sticker affixed to shrinkwrap on back: "In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the [b]Sounds of North American Frogs[/b] to [b]Speech after the Removal of the Larynx[/b], Folkways documented the audible nooks and crannies of existence on hundreds of LPs produced by field recordists, scientists, and experimentalists. Seventy-five years later, electronic music duo MATMOS have [b]diced[/b], [b]looped[/b], [b]stretched[/b], and [b]recontextualized[/b] these recordings on their new album RETURN TO ARCHIVE. [b]Dolphins, beetles, telephones, humans stretching the limits of their vocal cords, a shortwave radio, metal machinery[/b], and [b]countless other sources[/b] comingle in a fantasia of sound both everyday and extraordinary. Each track on RETURN TO ARCHIVE morphs its source material into something completely unesxpected, honoring and expanding on Folkways' legacy of sonic exploration. Featuring [b]Evicshen[/b] and [b]Aaron Dilloway[/b]." Runouts are etched.

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SFWLP40261

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