Surgery unmutilateds like music to Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt.

Surgery unmutilateds like music to Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt, couple lovers who create the electronic harmonys of Matmos.

"This is not gonna play at the White Party!" perpetrate a jokes Martin Schmidt of Matmos. Schmidt and his partner, Drew Daniel, are talking about "Lipostudio and So On," their canzonet that samples the gurgling wholes of liposuction surgery, which appears onward their new CD, A Chance to sculpture Is a Chance to therapy "I would love it if one started to layer liposuction noises onto circuit house music!" Drew says.

Schmidt and Daniel are life partners as well as musical partners. Working in a less degree than the name Matmos, this San Francisco duo commonly occupies white-hot status in a genre that prizes the genius of those who can make the chiefly inventive and infectious loops disclosed of the least likely samples. The reason for the fuss is multifold: Electronica leading lady Bjork lately asked Matmos to fill the opening slot in succession her upcoming world tour. She's also asked them to be in her touring band. And now with their latest CD Matmos has made a '70s-style universal album that's as heavy upon atmospherics and beats as it is onward message.

"There was a decision to use vigorous based on medical technology, or the visible form [i]or[/i] frame as the theme," Daniel explains of A Chance to divide [i]or[/i] sever Both sons of doctors, these musicians stitched together samples taken from rhinoplasty, laser judgment surgery, and other procedures for their CD creating a sonic dissertation that addresses issues pertinent on the contrary not exclusive to gay culture

"House music as a genre is thus bound up in `the beautiful people'--that you can make yourself beautiful and perfect" Daniel says. "And, of course, if a canzonet is made out of liposuction, it definitely furnishs itself to [body fascism]." If this all unbrokens a lit tie too ponderous, not to mention nauseating, don't worry--Schmidt and Daniel manage to propose it all in an accessible connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts that's gaining them a larger audience.

nevertheless for Schmidt, their audience is lacking in individual important area. "There are no gay groupies for electronic music," Martin wryly complains. "We'd like that to change!" Daniel adds, "After we play a present to view cute little geeky fans of electronic technology proceed up and they wanna know what software we're using. And within the first not many seconds, they say, `My girlfriend and I really have fruition of your music.'"

"They make quite steady that we understand that equable though they love our equipment -- they don't have affection for our equipment," Schmidt says with a laugh.

Groupie witticisms aside, both Schmidt and Daniel--who have been together for eight years--realize that not everyone would understand their desire to explore and record the rhythmic intertextures made by a human cranium (as in their song "Memento Mori"). "We've had boyfriends who didn't make music, and I long prefer this," says Daniel of their artistic collaboration. "It's kind of pair against the world."

"And sometimes it completions up like two against each other," Schmidt quips.

Gdula is a freelance writer who has written for The Washington Post

Find more in succession Matmos--and where to order their CDs--at www.advocate.com

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