MC Schmidt - Batu Malablab

American experimental electronic musician, producer, and composer. Born: 1964. M.C. Schmidt is best known as one half of an acclaimed duo . He also used to be an assistant manager of the New Genres Department at , where Martin taught people to edit video and use necessary lighting and sound equipment, and also maintained a small computer lab. In the eighties, Schmidt played in a legendary occult-avantgarde band . He also collaborated with (of ), and played synthesizer on a few tracks. Martin met around 1989 at Uranus, a gay bar in San Francisco, where Drew worked as a go go dancer. Prior to that, Daniel saw Schmidt playing with IAO Core at 's event at . Eventually the two started dating and formed the band together  named after a 'seething lake of evil slime' beneath the Sogo city in the film "Barbarella (1968). After making music together privately for a few years, in 1997 Drew and Martin established label and self-released their debut album "" (1997). Since then, the duo have released over ten albums, as well as numerous collaborations and EPs on many labels, including , , , , , , , and other independent labels. As half of Matmos, Schmidt has worked with , , , , , , , (), , , , and many others. For many years, Matmos had been collaborating with Icelandic artist , producing several remixes, and later contributed to a few of her albums. Schmidt and Daniel accompanied Björk on Vespertine World Tour (2001) and Greatest Hits Tour (2003) as part of her live band. In 1997-1998, Daniel Schmidt recorded several glitch albums with () as . In 2009, Schmidt hosted a series of improvisational sessions with , a veteran jazz basist who have played with , , , and the likes, and () at his home in Baltimore. A newly formed trio saw Ellis exploring the electroacoustic combination of traditional jazz techniques with real-time computer processing, Schmidt playing the usual variety of bizarre percussion, non-musical objects and synthesizers, and Jason Willett jamming on contact mic'ed rubber band, Sidrassi Organ, and custom-made electronic instruments. The sessions were documented on " (2010), a limited edition album on 's sublabel. Schmidt released his first solo album "" (2015), recorded on prepared piano, Chinese flute, Roland SH-101, Roland V-Synth, T.C. Helicon VoiceLive II, and other machines. It features and on miscellaneous synthesizers and electronics, Batu Malablab presents an original gamelan-inspired experimental take on Jon Hassell's "Fourth World" and other Western cosmopolitan renditions of non-western world music. He also made a soundtrack to a Jeffrey Rettberg's 27-min film, "Devotion" (2017).

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