MATMOS - Ultimate Care II CD Jazz Knowing the Japanese

Knowing the Japanese

The other 7" features artwork from the 1968 Lollipop Shoppe 7" but since those two cuts were included on the LP

“Maroon” is the shortest and most straightforward track on the record - it’s also catchy as all get out

The second single was ‘Make It Real’ and was never released as the band were culled from the EMI roster in late ’84

and contradictions of sadness-so willingly wrapping their arms around a concept as existentially baffling as death itself-that they've created an album that is truly life-affirming

MATMOS - Ultimate Care II CD Jazz Knowing the JapaneseUltimate 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