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 melon expander 		there are 5 titles on met life in stock.
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locust (usa) #locust 54 cd
met life (united states) #met life 6 cd

matmos “rat relocation program (met life 6 / location sound series 1:6)” compact disc

  • rat
  • rat relocation
matmos here providing the last entry into the locust “met life / location sound series” series with their unadorned recordings of a captured street rat (track 1), then their krautrock-centric response piece...
locust press release...
“a street rat was breaking into our apartment, eating our food and chewing holes in our clothes, skittering across our kitchen in the dark, scuttling inside our walls late at night. since we already had a pet rat, the prospect of trying to kill one rat while feeding another struck us as intolerable hypocrisy, so we bought a non-lethal "have-a-heart trap". after several days of luring the invader closer and closer towards and then inside the trap with peanuts, we captured her. the first track is an unedited recording of the rat protesting its incarceration. the second track is our response, in which the timing and duration of the rat screams from the first track have been preserved. the following morning we took the rat to a wealthy suburban neighborhood and set it free.” - drew daniel

the dynamic hybrid electro-rock duo matmos strike again with this zany, completely mesmerizing 2 track contribution to the met life series of field recordings and ingenious sound responses.

the matmos boys stretch an ominous canvas with the bare sounds of an incarcerated rat ensconced in a friendly trap and paint an unlikely response. rat relocation program is a heavily elevated, gleeful electro-rock epic that combines matmos' patented blend of humor, drill & bass with cinematic krautrock reminiscent of the animated cult fantasy sci-fi film the fantastic planet. volume 6 of our location sound series, met life.

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locust (usa) #locust 34 cd
met life (united states) #met life 5 cd

chris delaurenti “the night i met maria c___ (met life 5 / location sound series 1:5)” compact disc

  • inside the wallingford transfer station (16:02)
  • the night i met maria c___ (19:17)
locust press release...
our fifth installment of our "met life" series of city field recordings and responses brings us a tongue firmly in cheek offering from the rapid cut up techniques of seattle's chris delaurenti. simply put, it’s a little exercise on waste and getting wasted. this field recording documents the removal of waste at a transfer station in seattle and the response rides the pun to its excessive extreme as delaurenti quickly becomes a participant in the flailing and drunken fanfare at a party, raising the ever important question "what on earth are we all doing!" no doubt, it's this style, edgy humor and raw guerrilla techniques that make delaurenti a sort of fellini of the audio underworld.

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met life (united states) #met life 4 cd

erdem helvacioglu “a walk through the bazaar (met life 4 / location sound series 1:4)” compact disc

  • a walk through the bazaar (16:38)
  • a walk through the bazaar (remix) (13:53)
locust press release...
helvacioglu is a tremendous electronic music talent based in istanbul, turkey whose contribution to the “met life” series captures the energetic day to day activities of an istanbul market where one can hear the sounds of hawkers buying and selling things, children running about, traditional music in the distance, cell phones abuzz and get a feeling for the very texture of place. his response is like an enriched memory of that place that both musically retains much of that raw earth feeling one initially encounters but also elevates the source material into a highly rhythmic, infectious piece that transforms everyday voices into a rich, layered chorus.

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locust (usa) #locust 28 cd
met life (united states) #met life 3 cd

reynols “rampotanza grodo rempelente (met life 3 / location sound series 1:3)” compact disc

  • rampotanza ronil grodorempelente (17:10)
  • rampotanza ronil grodo rempelente: response (15:19)
locust press release...
the primordial psychedelic sounds of argentina’s reynols continue the met life series with the raw, rhythmically entrancing field recordings of city workers in buenos aires drilling a hole into a busy city street. the natural response by this mysterious quartet doesn’t drill so much as gleefully massage the head with a monumental freakout of onomatopoeia and uber-intonation commandeered by the band’s lead vocalist miguel tomasin with the accompaniment of some seriously spaced-out delay driven tribal percussion, bellowing horn, piano plod and guitar plunder.

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met life (united states) #met life 2 cd

au “recycling (met life 2 / location sound series 1:2)” compact disc

  • cycling (16:11)
  • recycling (15:51)
locust press release...
month two of met life unveils the first stateside release by the psychedelic electronic duo, au. based in holland, multimedia artists jan borchers and paul klaui naturally bring us into the soundworld of the hague by doing what most everybody there does - ride their bikes. au recorded their tour through the city, capturing everything from the squeaky sound of old bicycle seats to the sudden intrusion of a street parade. the result is a fun panoramic earshot of the city's life imilar in effect to richard lerman's great travelon gamelon . au's musical response is a subdued, loose piece incorporating elements of the field recording, analogue electronics and reverberating guitars that recall the efforts of german krautrock bands like cluster or a mellowed-out faust.

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