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matt middleton / crude
7+ albums
electronicnoiseexperimentaldark ambientglitch
about
Crude is Matt Middleton, a recording artist based in the university town of Dunedin, New Zealand. Established 1994. Releases on Flying Nun, Ecstatic Yod. Extensive back-catalogue of works spanning the worlds of lo-fidelity, noise and it's various associations, 'electro' of a low-tech and low-yield nature, , ambient - whether dark or merely 'darkened' , perhaps even ' blackened', glitch and all it's clicks and cuts and slips and slides,pock marks and pops, tinny,boyish bedroom-engineered kiwi rock, uncouth and artless punk,crude collage, whatever's voguish and smells bad i suppose, whatever softwares i can muster, whatever works...whatever interests the artist......,,,,...Recordings now available thru the web-site www.crude.co.nz. IN DEPTH BIO: The tradition of DIY is well and truly alive in New Zealand. One of it's most diligent and prolific protagonists is Dunedin based Matthew Middleton (34). Conceived in 1994, CRUDE is the working title for Middletons recordings - a universe of music and ideas concocted on a simple cassette 4-track recorder. History:1994 - The first 'album' released was the lo-fi outing "The world is so you have something to Stand on", a neurotic yet promising collection of songs used as a demo and social ice-breaker..By chance Middleton hooked up with ChCh city underground band Space Dust via that very tape. Thanks to drummer Duane Zarakovs' impeccable and comprehensive record collection Middleton would come to appreciate the underground and avant gard
