{"id":69,"date":"2008-10-01T14:54:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-10-01T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:54:56","slug":"i_am_sitting_in_a_basement_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/10\/i_am_sitting_in_a_basement_wit\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Sitting in a Basement (with Matmos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cover.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/cover.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"205\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which, if you&#8217;re going to sit in a basement, is totally how I&#8217;d recommend going about it. (They&#8217;ve got enough gear down there for at least three more band members. I was hoping they&#8217;d let me stay.)<\/p>\n<p>Matmos (a.k.a. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel) invited me over to their house for a chat about music and, in 2.0 fashion, I brought along a camera and a production crew to document the occasion. We talked about why pop is like junk food, why iTunes is like porn, and why Bj\u00c3\u00b6rk is a star. We also covered how money could kill your music and how making music might make you want to kill the love of your life (and how to best avoid both).<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the video and read the whole transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=5715\">here<\/a>. Like wearing out a mix tape, I&#8217;ve read it four times, and I was there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which, if you&#8217;re going to sit in a basement, is totally how I&#8217;d recommend going about it. (They&#8217;ve got enough gear down there for at least three more band members. I was hoping they&#8217;d let me stay.) Matmos (a.k.a. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel) invited me over to their house for a chat about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}