Matmos - Rainbow Flag
I am closing out June with one of my patented, wild and weird instant compilations, where I take a band, a theme and Sound Forge 11 and challenge myself to put together a pretty representative career overview in just under 2 hours, start to finish.
These guys met in San Francisco in the 1990s, fell in love, and over the last 30 years have established themselves as pivotal Electronic artists with a child-like style all their own.
Their music ranges from the innocent and chiming to the pounding and hammering, with lots of aleatoric and fertile territory in between.
From what I can tell they are still a couple and still make music, having just released a new record last year.
Anyway there isn't too much to say about them, except that I've kind of had a crush on the one with the glasses since they, uh, came out in the '90s. Ok, that was bad... let's just cut the chatter and spin the platter, and boogie down to Gay Pride 2026 with the music of Drew Daniel and Martin C. Schmidt, collectively known in tandem as Matmos.
Matmos
Homo-Sexual
1997-2025
01 The Soft Pink Truth - Gender Studies
02 Adam's Apple
03 Circle of Shivers
04 Coming Soon
05 Enigma Machine (for Alan Turing)
06 Fist Power
07 Flight to Sodom/Lot do Salo
08 Freak 'N' You
09 Garden of Tall Boys
10 Going to Sleep
11 I'm Fine I'm Fine
12 Latex
13 Mister Mouth
14 Nice Men In Stable Relationships
15 Public Sex (for Boyd McDonald)
16 Rainbow Flag
17 Semen Song (for James Bidgood)
18 Teen Paranormal Romance
19 The Chrome Reflects Our Image
20 Total Muscle Control
21 Virgin Unspotted
22 Warm Opening
23 Yield to Total Elation
24 You
25 …And Silver Light Popped In His Eyes
26 The Soft Pink Truth - Homo-Sexual
Total time: 2:07:53
disc break goes after Track 15
career-spanning compendium of the gay male Electronic Music duo Matmos
selected, edited & remastered for unity by EN, June 2026
729 MB FLAC/direct link
729 MB FLAC/direct link
I made this rather instantaneously, by anchoring it to the theme of songs with titles related to relationship- and sex-adjacent ideas. This is pretty much every track they named with something related to those things, in more or less alphabetical order and framed by two pieces from Drew Daniel's 2000s solo project, The Soft Pink Truth.
I'll be back in July after we move to the Oregon Coast this week, where my partner and I just purchased a home from which you can see the Siuslaw River and the Pacific Ocean. But before I take this break, I'mma dedicate this to all those young lovers out there, who are sticking with their partners for the Long Game, and living the example of what committed, creative, sincerely-loving Queer relationships of all combinations can be.--J.
