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A pleasant minimalist dance track to get through the rest of the workday. It's Friday and we're a few hours to the finish line of the week's worst day –why not actually attempt to work? All the little clips and gurgles that give this song it texture? That's the sound of fat being sucked out of the thighs of the rich. Matmos decided to dedicate this album of the surgery sounds to their fathers, both doctors. Using a wealth of sounds sampled from the cosmetic surgery practices with the tools themselves, the duo creates a disturbingly accessible dance record. The sound of rhinoplasty aside, the song furthers Matmos's point that underneath the most banal job there is music hidden, waiting for the surface to be scratched away and for someone to want to find it. It's the kind of inspiration that gets us to do 35 minutes of actual labor. And then we collect our check.

 

 
“In the Beginning there was Rhythm" - The Slits "On Parade" - Electrelane "Staring at the Sun" - TV on the Radio "Transit" -  Fennesz (w/ David Sylvian) "Fabulous Muscle" -  Xiu Xiu "Oh How the Boat Drifts" and  "Small Deaths are the Saddest" -  Mum "Less Than You Think" - Wilco
"Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups" - William S. Burroughs "Tooken Back" - Ghostface Killah (w/ Jackie-O) "Dry Your Eyes" - The Streets Break in the Road" - Betty Harris "Sizuku Ring Neng" - 00I00 "Hot on the Heels of Love" - Throbbing Gristle "Structure Tone" - Beans "I Gotta Go" -  James Carr "A Soldier


comments: mix tape
subject: redeemer
date: 09.01.2004
name: the quiet one
comment:
you are my redeemer, mix tape maker. i only see one group on this mix tape that i know--the gossip. now i have lots of new music to go out and hunt down. thanks for saving my soul.
 
subject: concerts
date: 09.01.2004
name: amy
comment:

the gossip and sightings are both playing on 9/25 in chicago.
 
subject: your politics are boring as fuck
date: 09.01.2004
name: are the motherfuckers ready for the fatherfuckers?
comment:
uh-uh. mix tape revolution to save us from working for the greater good of some rich White ass-WHOLE.
 
subject: Employee
date: 09.17.2004
name: of loves
comment:
Questionably boring (?) politics vs. Moron ranting and swearing. Hmmm...