Ultimate Care II is a new project from renowned conceptual electronics duo Matmos (Drew Daniel and MC Schmidt). Recorded in the basement studio of their home in  Baltimore, the album is constructed entirely from the sounds of a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II washing machine.

Like its namesake, the album runs as a single, continuous 38-minute minute experience, that starts with the grinding turn of the wash size selection wheel and ends with the alert noise that signals that the wash is done. Between these audio-verité book-ends, we experience an exploded view of the machine, hearing it in normal operation but also as an object being rubbed and stroked and drummed upon and prodded and sampled and sequenced and processed by the duo. Dan Deacon, Max Eilbacher (Horse Lords), Sam Haberman (Horse Lords), Jason Willett (Half Japanese) and Duncan Moore (Needle Gun) all took part, either playing the machine like a drum, processing its audio, or sending MIDI data to the duo’s samplers.

Available exclusively through independent retailers such as ourselves, this limited edition LP is pressed on ‘clean laundry’ coloured vinyl. Blue with a white swirl, in case you were wondering...

Exclusive to independent retailers.

Vinyl LP.

‘clean laundry’ (blue with white swirl) vinyl.

Includes digital download.

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Ultimate Care II

Barcode: 5051083102483

Catalogue Number: THRILL401LPX

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