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Dan Deacon, Max Eilbacher (Horse Lords), Sam Haberman (Horse Lords), Jason Willett (Half Japanese), and Duncan Moore (Needle Gun) all took part, either playing the machine like a drum, processing its audio, or sending MIDI data to the duo’s samplers. The vocabulary of the Ultimate Care II, its rhythmic chugs, spin cycle drones, rinse cycle splashes, metallic clanks and electronic beeps are parsed into an eclectic syntax of diverse musical genres. The result is a suite of rhythmic, melodic and drone-based compositions that morph dramatically, but remain fanatically centered upon their single, original sound source. Like their promiscuous DJ sets, the palette of genres in play reveals Matmos’ hybrid musical DNA: Industrial music, vogue beats, gabber, Miami bass, free jazz, house, krautrock, drone, musique-concrete, and new age music all churn up to the surface and are sucked back into the depths. 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They re-assembled \u0026amp; re-combined these recorded works with modern instrumentations in a way that only Matmos could, and what emerges is a composite portrait of the utopian 1960s Polish avant-garde and the contemporary dystopian cultural moment regarding each other across a distance.\n\n1. Resemblage \/ Parasamblaž\r 2. Cobra Wages Shuffle \/ Off! Schable w gurę!\r 3. Few, Far Chaos Bugles \/ Uff... Bosch gra Wałęsę\r 4. Flashcube Fog Wares \/ Głucha Affera Słów\r 5. Flight to Sodom \/ Lot do Salo\r 6. Tonight there is something special about the moon \/ Jaki księżyc dziś wieczór...\r 7. If All Things Were Turned to Smoke \/ Gdyby wszystko stało się dymem\r 8. 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