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I was quite pleased with a recent transaction which took place in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall, in which I exchanged 3 GBP (in the form, I believe, of 3 x 1 GBP coins) for a 5” cardboard box and disc.  This was a super super limited Matmos tour CD entitled A Paradise of Dainty Devices (interludes, micromedia and sound edits), with a cover compiled by Drew Daniel himself (as confirmed by the initials DD in the lower right back corner).

I’m not going to waste too much of your time on a record you will have some difficulty in actually procuring, but there is some neat stuff on this.  Amongst the aforementioned interludes, micromedia and sound edits festooned all over the disc’s surface, there are a couple of  brilliant tracks from their soundtrack to a BBC World Service radio version of Bram Stoker’s “Lair of the White Worm” (check the elegant reverse of “Mercy Farm”), and two from their first-ever cassette in 1994 (including the quite frightening collage“Living In That Wire House”).  Oh, and I almost forgot: it includes a couple of jingles Matmos wrote for a shampoo commercial (entitled, amusingly enough, “Frizz” and “Puff Puff”), which despite clocking in at a combined 43 seconds are more than worth 3 units of any country’s currency.