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The astonishing way in which the latest outing from San Franciscan
deconstructionist darlings Matmos was put together is of such novel
conceit it threatens to overshadow the final product. A Chance to
Cut Is A Chance to Cure finds a surfeit of sampled source sounds
taken from the medical world, ranging from operations (including
rhinoplasty, laser eye surgery, and liposuction) to spoken hearing
tests, and percussive use of the human skull. On the opening cut
"Lipostudio," the squelching sounds of vacuumed fat are, in a manner
similar to Matthew Herbert's sampling work, used only to provide an
architectural depth to a dapper house tune. But later the sampled
"real-world" sounds are more forthright, with "For Felix (And All the
Rats)" composed of the sounds of a bowed rat's cage, and "Memento
Mori" assembled and edited from the rhythmic sources of human skull,
goat spine, and artificial teeth.
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