Editing Matmos (section)

==Notable work==
In 1998, Matmos remixed the [[Björk]] single "[[Alarm Call]]". Then the duo worked with Björk on her albums ''[[Vespertine]]'' (2001) and ''[[Medúlla]]'' (2004), as well as the ''Vespertine'' and ''Greatest Hits'' tours. In November 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as artists-in-residence'','' performing music with friends, musical guests and onlookers. The live album ''Work, Work, Work'', essentially a "best of" collection of the session, was released as a free download on their website.

Matmos gained notoriety for their use of unconventional samples including "freshly cut hair" and "the amplified neural activity of crayfish" on their first album<ref>Cooper, Sean (2008). [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p224164/biography|pure_url=yes}} "Matmos"], AllMusicGuide.com</ref> and "recorded the snips, clicks, snaps, and squelches of various surgical procedures, then nipped and tucked them into seven remarkably accessible, melodic pieces of experimental techno" for their album ''A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure''.<ref>Phares, Heather (2008). [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r523131|pure_url=yes}} "A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure"], AllMusicGuide.com.</ref> In 2011, Matmos participated in a programmed evening of events with the visual arts organisation [[Auto Italia South East]]. The event was produced in collaboration with record label [http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/ Upset The Rhythm] and included contributions from experimental electronic musicians Jon Wiese and Birds of Delay. Matmos have since collaborated with a large number of visual artists and arts organisations, including [[Cafe Oto]] and [http://www.metalculture.com/ Metal].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/video/matmos-live-at-auto-italia|title=Matmos Live At Auto Italia - The Wire|first=Nathan|last=Budzinski|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/16/digital-park-netpark-southend|title=Digital park delivers talking trees and a fishy monster in the pond|first=Nicola|last=Davis|newspaper=The Observer |date=16 June 2015|via=www.theguardian.com|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref>

In 2015, Matmos appeared in ''[[Soundhunters]],'' a documentary directed by Beryl Koltz and broadcast on the Franco-German channel [[arte]] as well as on many channels abroad.<ref>{{Citation|title=Soundhunters|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4458220/|access-date=2019-07-17}}</ref> In September 2023, the duo announced their album ''[[Return to Archive]]'' would be released marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the [[Smithsonian Folkways]] label, with a three-hour free concert at the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden|Hirshhorn Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] in which they remixed [[field recording]]s from the label's catalogue in [[octophonic sound]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Matmos Plays the Sounds of Folkways Records |url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/matmos-plays-the-sounds-of-folkways-records/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden {{!}} Smithsonian |language=en}}</ref>

===Hit Em===
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| name = DREW DANIEL
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| text = had a dream I was at a rave talking to a girl and she told me about a genre called “hit em” that is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds thank you dream girl
| date = Jul 29, 2024
| ID = 1817910903557570569
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In 2024, Daniel [[Tweet (social media)|tweeted]] about a new musical genre called "Hit Em" which he claims to have learned about during a [[dream]] while he was asleep; in the tweet he described the genre to be fixed at 212 [[Beats per minute|BPM]] and {{music|time|5|4}} [[time signature]].<ref name="Fader HitEm">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefader.com/2024/08/01/hit-em-crunchy-new-genre-sound|title=Hit 'em is the summer's crunchiest and most unlikely new genre|website=The FADER}}</ref><ref name="Guardian HitEm">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/02/hit-em-matmos-drew-daniel-dreamed-the-summer-weirdest-club-sound|title=Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos's Drew Daniel to a new music genre|first=Daniel Dylan|last=Wray|date=August 2, 2024|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name="Musicradar HitEm">{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/hit-em-viral-tweet-genre|title="It's in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds": Producers respond with real tracks following viral tweet about made-up genre discovered in dream|first=Matt|last=Mullenpublished|date=July 31, 2024|website=MusicRadar}}</ref> The post went viral, with electronic music producers attempting to create examples of the fictional genre.<ref name="Fader HitEm"/><ref name="Guardian HitEm"/><ref name="Musicradar HitEm"/>