Matmos for a day

I'm going to shuttle into Afghanistan with my microphone, camcorder and authentic-African-jembe to colonize someone's village for a week. There's at least three double-gatefold albums just waiting to be bled out of bleating goats, wails of starving children and the dirge of bereaved women, woven together with parched earth tones and the apocalyptic wind.

And some running water.

Then I'm going to return with the tapes to my wood-lacquered studio, smoke some weed and tweak some knobs.

It would be cathartic.

Could also spin a series for Discovery out of it.

Stephen -- Bryn Jones of Muslimgauze (RIP) would have loved to get ahold of your Afghan sound library. He could have done all your remixes.

sounds from me breaking a matmos cd and jewel box. not that i don't like them, it's just conceptual.

This is a very odd thread, seeing as I just spent Sunday with the Matmos duo in Chicago. I tried to get them to host a class at my school, but the didn't have time. We ended up just hanging out and talking about music. It was like having IDM-ILM for a day. If I were either Drew Daniel or MC Schmidt...I would be content doing remixes with Bjork for the rest of my life.

I'd doubt it.

A liftetime of permanence will send anyone mad. You'd get bored and move on to something else, unless the sweet nipple of success became too enchanting to resist.