Matotumba

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matotumba
Origin Flag of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico
Genre(s) experimental
electronic
Years active 2000–Present
Label(s) DDC Productions
Noisex Records
Website matotumba.com
Members
Wilberto Vazquez, Jorge Martinez, Milton Ramirez Malave, Hector Roman, Eric Xavier Wiscovich
Former members
Hugo Cruz, Andres Lugo, Johnatan Crespo, Nomar Diaz, Juan Marrero

matotumba or MTTMB is an electronic/experimental/ambient music band and art collective from Puerto Rico.

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[edit] Origin

Formed by art and photography students in the year 2000. After exploring in painting, photography and video they started to experiment with abstract and tribal sounds based on improvisation, utilizing the existing mediums to create their unique sound. Their music oscillate in parallel with organic, electronic and even non-conventional instruments, exploring in composition, structure, rhythm, dissonance and unorthodox methods of performing and recording in digital and analog process.

All of the artwork, photography, design, music videos, including album covers, T-shirts and their websites are created by the members of mttmb themselves. They also organize Art exhibitions collectivelly and individually, which led them to create a digital art gallery on the internet: Exponline. In 2003 they launched their own independent music label: DDC (Dientes de canibal).

On September 9th 2006, Matotumba released its first official full-length album titled "imbuiah". A double CD set containing organic, electronic tracks, and live performances. A third disc containing additional tracks is distributed exclusively online through matotumbas official site.

Currently they are Recording new material to be relased in 2008 and working on a documentary narrating their trajectory since the beginning through the present.

[edit] Members

[edit] Current members

[edit] Collaborators

[edit] Previous members

  • Hugo Cruz (Percussion)
  • Andres Lugo (Drums) (Astrid Pröll)
  • Johnatan Crespo

[edit] Guest musicians

Joined Matotumba on stage:

[edit] Discography

[edit] Full length Albums

Year Title Label
2000 Matotumba DDC
2000 MTTMB DDC
2001 La última noche en la cueva matotumbiana DDC
2001 En vivo desde el salón de los encuentros (double CD) DDC
2002 La káscara de mil colores DDC
2002 Soy un caníbal DDC
2002 Presencia de lo que no se ve DDC
2003 Frecuencia disonante DDC
2003 Un camino Un Ojo DDC
2004 Tecnología Primitiva DDC
2004 Re-mixes DDC
2005 ...Donde alguna ves estuviste DDC
2006 Imbuiah (double CD) DDC/Noisex

[edit] Singles / Mini CDs

Year Title Label
2003 Electro Fucket vol 1 DDC
2003 Electro Fucket vol 2 DDC
2004 CCC's DDC
2004 Transmisiones S.E.T.I. DDC
2004 Biogenesis DDC
2005 Imbuiah pre vol 1 DDC
2005 mttmb - shhh - introdujos/Split EP DDC/Noisex
2006 3C (mttmb/chuck gnoider) DDC/Noisex
2007 HIBRIDO DDC
TBA Ocaso del 2006 DDC

[edit] Videography

[edit] Music videos

  • Protocoloh (2001)
  • Sesion113x (2001)
  • Schrecken (2002)
  • IntrohRedux (2003)
  • Vid (2004)
  • Trayect8 (2004)
  • Siete espíritus (2005)
  • Espectro (2006)
  • Disco interno (2006)
  • No pasa nada (2006)
  • Ondea (2006)
  • OCTO 103007 (2007)

[edit] Short Films

  • Absoluto (2002)
  • 8 (2002)
  • Concepción atómica (2002)
  • El pueblo sus conocimientos y preocupaciones (2003)
  • Magnitud dimensional /Animation(2003)
  • Maldita guerra/Stop Motion (2003)
  • Inversamente proporcional/Animation (2003)
  • ___________ /Animation (2004)
  • Los que son como tú /Animation (2005)
  • Pieza_#031305 /Animation (2005)
  • El despiste de pichonsín /Animation (2005)


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