If God Is In The TV ever needed a warm glowing electronic house band of mechanical, nebula soul-searching quality, than the Metamono trio would fill the necessary requirements.

We’ve followed the intrepid troupe since inception, following their manifesto led endeavors through the releases of the Tape and Parcel Post EPs – both accorded 4/5 star reviews.

We’ve also played host to the sonic magi’s cover of Bowie’s ‘Warszawa’ – an exclusive addition to our recent ‘thin white duke’ celebrations mixtape, Ashes To Ashes – and featured a special, personal, paean to record shop experiences from the group’s Jono Podmore for Record Store Day.

 

Firm favorites than, the Metamono continue with their latest project, the long player With The Complements Of Nuclear Physics, which via Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/795891540/with-the-compliments-of-nuclear-physics) hopes to raise the £2,500 to see this LP become a reality. If you are still unaware, unfamiliar or new to the course, the Metamono seek to return the human element back into electronic music by discarding technological changes and equipment after a certain date. Antithesis to the laptop, bedroom bore of more recent times, the troupe formulate a more tactile approach, twisting, modulating and throwing a spanner into the machine-dominating artificial intelligent digital world. Producing acidic and busy techno opuses, they sound like visionaries from a world that called a halt to all development of computers and progression after the release of Trans Europe Express.

 

 

 

If that doesn’t explain it than get your goggles round this:

“Reevaluating electronic music’s fundamentals, stripping down and retracing its intrinsic values, is something the propound theorist trio of Metamono seek to practice.

With a pertinacious agit manifesto to work from – which bares them from using any digital sound generators and processing; microphones, and overdubs – they place a host of restrictions on their improvised compositions; reveling in limitations, or as the groups Jono Podmore puts it, “Limitations breed resourcefulness”.

The electro trinity of Bomb The Bass collaborator Paul Conboy, fine artist Mark Hill, and Podmore (the talent behind Kumo, and tenure aide to Irmin Schmidt of Can), announce their disenchantment and “disillusion with the expediency of much contemporary music” by reverting to the use of analogue equipment and ring modulators of a recent past – a full list of this hardware that includes the classic ARP 2000 and Korg MS 20, is available for any fanboy on the groups website.  Throw in the vibrating otherworldliness of the Theremin, and the static-crisp, lost transmissions from an atavistic valve radio, and you find yourself taken back to the era of R&S Records, Basic Channel, early Warp and the age of intelligent Acid-Techno. For despite the group’s postulations, and calls for something more challengingly new, they’ve certainly evoked the experimental spirit of the late 80s and early 90s.  The noble gas themed ‘XeF4′ and ‘H2NS’ both gargle, bleep, burp and pulse with the multi-layering acid manipulation of those years; displaying a fondness for such pioneers as the UKs Mike Dred.  On the other hand, there’s a real warm suffused reverberation and sagacious knowledge glowing around these stimulative sound capsules.

Previous electronic tracts of wisdom by Metamono have only been available on limited edition cassettes – a format which they feel best suits, “…aesthetically and in terms of audio quality”.  Therefore logic dictates that their first ever vinyl release should be christened the Tape EP, and that the path to a more creative electronic musical future, lies in first, deconstructing that past.”

Dominic Valvona

 

Details of this fund raising enterprise are as follows:

 

So now it’s time for the big one. The first album, entitled:

With the compliments of Nuclear Physics

All metamono releases are principally in analogue formats, and this album will be no exception – as laid out in this clip:

 

 

read Technical Specifications at the bottom of this page for more detail

Most of the music is already recorded and edited. We have enough funds to cover the mastering and to contribute towards the costs of manufacture – which doesn’t come cheap at our high standards. We just need to raise another £2500 to cover vinyl pressing costs.

Mark Hill, who is 33% of the band (MS20, radio, stylophone) is not only a musician but also fine artist. Mark designs all our sleeve artwork, creating it by hand using recycled source material. This was taken a step further with our recent 7″, each cover wasindividually handmade using antique pianola rolls.

For a limited run of With the compliments of Nuclear Physics we’ll use a similar approach – each individual cover being a unique work of art in its own right, using the full benefit of the double gatefold format.

Beyond this, some of you may wish to invest in a very special limited number of 10 drawings and collages created during the process of making the sleeves: stand-alone pieces derived from the design process created with the original materials, supplied with a vinyl copy of the album.

 

The copy of With the compliments of Nuclear Physics that you will receive by making your pledge is the result of a creative process set in motion with the metamono manifesto in 2010. Throughout the intervening years the manifesto has driven us in to areas of greater creative freedom than any of us have experienced before. This liberating effect is manifest in the range of rhythm, melody, harmony, technique and sound in the music; it’s in the artwork and at the gigs, but mostly reveals itself in the feelings this music generates. Our freedoms are infectious – no dour electronica or turgid 4/4 convention here.