The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form (CD)

Matmos has a playful nature often lacking in other electronic compositions, bristling with a palpable sense of wide-eyed discovery undiluted across 25 years as a band. M.C. Schmidt & Drew Daniel are long-known for their practice of unusual sampling & experimenting with conceptual restrictions. The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form is both a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to the backlash against “conceptronica”, & their most ambitious project to date. The record is oriented around a deceptively simple commitment. 99 different musicians were asked to contribute: they could play anything that they wanted, but the tempo of any rhythmic material had to be set at 99 beats per minute. The resulting album is a three-hour-long assemblage that’s a kaleidoscope of genre, mood and density, while all synchronized to a constant underlying tempo. There’s a relentless forward-motion keeping more with traditions of pirate radio and mixtapes than the traditional album format. Disc 1: 1. Cold Open 2. I, Voxelman 3. Moteswarm 4. Adam’s Apple 5. Athens New Guinea Gas Can Japan 6. Thyrsus 7. Circle of Swords 8. Virgin Unspotted 9. No Concept 10. In The Shape of Beasts 11. Revelatory Mint Clot 12. Western Clot Rider 13. Cocktail Party How Glad Am I 14. I’m Fine I’m Fine Disc 2: 1. Adepts 2. Maybeism 3. Garden of Tall Boys 4. Dancing Your Animal 5. Nice Men In Stable Relationships 6. Let Us In 8. Io! Lavendar River Karez 9. The Void At the Center 10. I Know What I Saw 11. Sarabande 12. The Dead City of Telphar 13. Platformalism 14. Verminiatures 15. Reciprocal Realms 16. Unmastering 17. I’m On The Team Disc 3: 1. Blessed Order Of 2. Floaters 3. Goodnight Loving Bose Ikard 4. Tworivers Run 5. Boomchicka 6. Extraterrestrial 7. Circle of Shivers 8. Out of the Serpent’s Mouth 9. Warm Opening 10. Decalcomaenads 11. It Isn’t Necessarily The Case 12. Elsewards 13. All of the Powers Lie Quiet

• Released: 8/21/20
• Format Detail: 3CD 3 disc set comes in a deluxe triple gatefold package with full color 2x3ft poster.
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Genre: Dance & Electronic
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Format: CD