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Drew Daniel: "Trump has weaponized a kind of insincere, smarmy trolling manner. I didn't want music that similarly relied upon that stance. I wanted something that was, in a way, the opposite. Something that felt affirmative and warm."

Here we are in 2019, and Matmos is still producing sounds that just don't fit comfortably into any electronic subgenre currently available for classification.

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Judged by concept alone, Drew Daniel has made one of 2014's most innovative releases.

Above all, 2013 was a year when electronic music's cream of the crop did what they do best and left no one wanting for more.

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