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Track Listings

1 Lipostudio...And So On
2 L.A.S.I.K.
3 Spondee
4 Ur Tchun Tan Tse Qi
5 For Felix (And All The Rats)
6 Memento Mori
7 California Rhinoplasty

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 0.39 x 4.92 inches; 3.53 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ MATADOR RECORDS
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ MATADOR RECORDS
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000059N62
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Best Sellers Rank: #113,470 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
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    4.0 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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  • Matthew Jaworski
    5.0 out of 5 stars The funky sounds of surgery coming from San Fran...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2001
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    Ahhh... The sweet sounds of surgery. Liposuction has never sounded so funky (nor has Lasik eye-surgery or rhinoplasty). Thru excellent source material, great sample techniques, creatvie ears, and a great melodic sense, Matmos have managed to construct their best release thus far. I never realized Bard Parker Scalpels, Draeger Anesthesia Ventilators, and the human skull could be used to such musical and melodical ends. A truly creative album here, that turns the sounds of surgery into sublime house music. This by far surpasses their previous efforts, as it is a much more cohesive work, utilizing their somewhat gimmicky methods of sound gathering to a fully realized end. This CD, along with recent Schematic releases (Lily of the Valley, Ischemic Folks, House of Distraction, and Otto von Schirach), are currently among the best, most daring electronic releases out right now. If you like Plunderphonics, Paul Lansky, Steinski, or anyone else who utilizes interesting sample techniques, you will love this.
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  • IRate
    3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting over engaging
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2009
    Some very creatively-creepy electronic work here comes closer to presenting a tongue-slightly-in-cheek audio surgical tour than anyone had ever cared to venture. The results are noticeably effective, often compelling texturally, though usually do not rise past what the inherent gimmickry suggests, making for morbidly splendid background.
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  • Ryan Hennessy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Are sounds inherently... icky?
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2001
    You've played songs on your teeth before. Admit it. Everyone has. You'll get bored, start fiddling with parts of your face, and end up clicking your teeth with your fingernails, making rudimentary percussion versions of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" or something by opening and closing your mouth to change the pitch. Well, apparently Matmos likes doing this too, and that's essentially the idea behind A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure.
    Forget for a moment that they went out of their way to record some of the most morbid objects for their songs and appreciate the fact that Matmos can use complete non-instruments and coax some of the most musical sounds from them, and make textures that range from the horrifying "For Felix" to the funky "Lipostudio." Electronic musicians have always loved using non-musical intruements in their recordings, but seldom do they use them are more than a quirky 4/4 beat. Matmos finds the essence of the objects and creates a song for them.
    Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel went into (of all places) the operating room to record much of this record. The record features the sounds of scalpels through flesh, fat being sucked through a liposuction tube, the buzz of eye surgery lasers and accupuncture point detectors, tones used for hearing aid tests, human and goat bones and a rat cage. And yes, they even use teeth on one song, althrough their not their own teeth. They belonged to some dead guy.
    This record brings up several interesting questions. Do objects like skulls and scalpels have an inherently sick sound to them, or if you listened to this record without knowing how it was made, would you just think it's regular electronic mumbo-jumbo. Certainly some of that depends on how edited the sound is, if it can be identified or not. A lot of the sounds have to be pitch shifted and changed to make music. Another question it raises is what exactly is a music instrument. We're at a point now where if you have the computing and mixing skills, you can make an instrument out of anything, as Matmos demonstrates. The record also shows that you don't even need engineering skills to make something of nothing. In "Lipostudio" Stephen Thrower plays a clarinet, and Schmidt blows through a straw into water, and almost the same effect is achieved with each. They get both to sound like a combination of a horn sound with the flesh sounds.
    Another question is "Would these songs stand on their own if they were made traditionally." The entire record is interesting, but why? Is it just because I know that they're playing a goat spine to get a beat? I really can't answer this question, but knowing what I know certainly makes the record more enjoyable. One song that would stand up well is "For Felix (And All The Rats)." It sounds like a cacophony of violins playing out of tune, then in the middle there is what sounds like the sound of a prepared xylophone or something being struck, until it all comes crashing together in what sounds like a wild animal attacking you. To read that all of this made by plucking a rat cage and playing it with a bow seems insane. The fact that they did it is pure genius. By playing the steel bars of the cage with a bow, they managed to coax out a sound that's simulaneously a violin, a horn and a whimpering animal. Absolutely beautiful.
    Don't get the wrong idea. This isn't an entirely dark album. "Spondee" is a playful song built over a speech record of phonetically balanced words, with equal stress on the first and second syllable (lunchbox, playground, raincoat). This makes the perfect beat for a surprisingly dancey song. The next song is a less bouncy but still danceable song made solely from the clicks generated from a accupunture point detector. Somehow, "Ur Tchun Tan Tse Qi" is a throbbing and droning song made out of sounds from a skull, teeth and a goat spine. The only real instrument on the final track is a nose flute. The rest was recorded during cosmetic surgeries in California. And it's never less than interesting.
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  • J. B Forgione
    3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
    Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2003
    On initial listens, I enjoyed this album's playfulness, inventive uses of sounds,and progression from funky to intense over the course of the album. Some of the basslines are quite nice as well.
    That said, I think this album is well made, but lacks an inherent complexity and depth that would inspire me to keep it in my collection for a sustained period of time.
    So to sum up this review, I found this album mentally entertaining, but not moving.
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  • Rafael Cova
    5.0 out of 5 stars ...Genuine blend between house music and musique concrète...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2002
    "A Chance To Cut is A Chance To Cure", the most recent album by San Francisco duo Matmos, released in the early months of 2001, has all attires and attitude of what could be perceived as the future of electronic music. Taking their influences from a bunch of very accurate and singular artists (Coil, Nurse With Wound, Brian Eno, Herbert, Autechre), the duo of Drew Daniel and martin Schmidt has come up with a record (their fourth) almost entirely composed from samples of surgical operations, eye surgery, autopsies, etc. However, when listening to the record, the raw material used for its conception is never obvious. It is only when reading the sleeve notes that the true nature of the sounds becomes clear. In weir way, "A Chance To Cut is A Chance To Cure", is a poetic record that challenges every cliché in the electronic music book. Matmos' work should be perceived as a true epiphany to those who strike to archive the success of both form and function, within the electronic music field. Their work is a genuine blend between house music and musique concrète, mixing the avant-garde's achievements and experiments with house music's more appealing and festive urgency. "A Chance To Cut is A Chance To Cure" levels John cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry's "Messe pour le temps présent" and Herbert up to the same creative stage. By doing so, it has set new standards for the next few years' up and coming electronic producers.
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  • Simon Mack - uk creative
    3.0 out of 5 stars matmos = clever electronica - but left me cold
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2012
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    i bought my cd of this release a year or so ago - wanting to hear what all the media fuss was about in the more "intelligent" music press. US duo - matmos are certainly inventive with this cd based on surgical procedures, recordings of which pepper the various tracks. so far so clever. tracks ultimately fall in the in crowded clever clever brigade for people who want to show off to non-aficianado friends some "avante-garde" contemporary music..

    as a big fan of forward thinking , inventive muasic - both electronic or otherwise "a chance to cut is a chance to cure" ultimately fails to move me, semi-impress perhaps for a few listens, but the overriding impression is 180 IQ students impressing each other , without adding any genuine emotion or soul (with a small "s") . Autechre may be deemed soulless also (wrongly), but are legends in the electronica field for fearlessly pushing the boundaries + mouse on mars - combine the ideal balance that the matmos guys are aiming for ,but fail. that of cerebral,humourous,inventive electronica. "a chance to cut" misses the mark..

    a miss.
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  • miyumiyu300
    5.0 out of 5 stars マトモス最高ー。
    Reviewed in Japan on June 26, 2003
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    マトモスを知ったのはビョークの去年のツアーでマトモスと一緒だったというところからです。ライブのDVDにマトモスのインタビューものっていて、頭いいんだろうなーー。マトモスのＣＤ聴いてみたいなって思いました。すごい賢いアルバムでした。音の変化に連れてからだの中の細胞がだんだん興奮するって感覚でした。いっぱい引出しを持っていて いっぱいアイディアが浮かぶ人たちだなってすごい思いました。細胞が興奮したのは久しぶり！！かなり快感です！
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