Decomposure - Taking Things Apart
[Unschooled]

Matmos have made a fruitful, unique and often damn right puzzling career from merely sampling the strangest of sounds and noises. Decomposure follows a similar successful ethos in an "anything goes" madness to his composing.

'Taking Things Apart' couldn't be a more suitable description, in which everything from matchsticks and yep, a game of scrabble is sampled, then rearranged into some truly atmospheric & emotive work. It's actually not as pretentious as first impressions suggest, instead he creates intriguing, entertaining and often amusing music.

Few musicians are as inventive to utilise such sounds as dropped matchsticks and a recording of an above-ground train network on 'Skytrain' - the perfect cinema music, a background for a desolate & smokey, late-night city film scene. Underlined with extended paranoia and a chilling sinister drama.

Other than the simple titles, ie 'sound card noise', it would prove impossible to tell what has been used to create the songs - after altering and tweaking individual samples, they become indistinguishable and as rewarding as real instrumentation. No tracks are alike, except in the sense of being percussion heavy.

A polished and original listen which excites time and time again. Consistently diverse and a genuine talent for sequencing & production skills. Immensely satisfying with unbeatable results.