Matmos is an experimental electronica duo from San Francisco on the Matador Records label. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt & Drew Daniel come a core members, however it ofttimes include more creative persin on their records & in their performances, including notably J Lesser. Very much of their operate can be classified inside a musique concrète genre.

Matmos has worked by using Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), when well as her Vespertine & Greatest Hits tours. Inside November of 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as creative person around home, performing music using friends, musical guests & looker-on. A survive album Act, Act, Operate, in essence the "best of" collection of the session, was freed as a loose download from either their web site.

Schmidt busies himself working in a Future Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Daniel is working in his thesis on the literary cult of Melancholy, and the household dance music task, The Soft Pink Truth. Each Schmidt & Daniel appeared in the Sagan music DVD filmed by Ryan Junell.

A title Matmos is the title of the evil underground gunk animal in the 1968 film Barbarella. Matmos' personal record label Vague Terrain occurs as information to a publisher & bookshop inside Paris that originally distributed a comedian book upon which the film was depending.

Discography
Albums
Matmos (1998) Quasi-Objects (1998) The West (1999) A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure (2001) Matmos Live with J Lesser (2002) The Civil War (2003) Work, Work, Work - live at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2004)

EPs
California Rhinoplasty (2001) Rat Relocation Program (2004)