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biography
<<<BEEF TERMINAL=MDMATHESON>>>
Toronto's MD Matheson has been making ambient/electronic/post-rock instrumental guitar music under the name Beef Terminal since 1995. Starting with low key indie releases (1995's cassette only release "Old Mill/Claire") and eventually signing with Toronto's renowned home of all "beautiful music", Noise Factory Records (first home of Broken Social Scene, BSS splinter band KC Accidental, NAW, Sparrow Orange, Robin Judge and Tinkertoy) in 2000, Beef Terminal released the influential ambient/electronic guitar based album "20 GOTO 10". The album was a perfect introduction to the looping guitar sounds and galloping beats that have now become Beef Terminal's trademark. The album made waves on campus radio in Canada, as well as selling well in Germany, Spain, France and Japan. 2002 saw the followup to "20 GOTO 10" when "The Grey Knowledge" was released in July of that year. Continuing on the feel of "20 GOTO 10" yet with more sophistication, Beef Terminal marked this release by playing the first ever live shows to support the project. Using programmed beats and live and looping guitar, the music quickly enthralled those who saw it performed, both confounding and exciting them that all this music was being played live by one person. In late 2003 Noise Factory released "The Isolationist", and it marked a newer more mature direction, which was greeted ecstatically by music fans on both sides of the Atlantic. Sales in Canada, the United States, Germany, France, Spain and Japan hit new highs, and the album became a staple of Canadian Campus Radio for 2004, eventually earning the #32 spot of 2004 as one of the most played records of the year. Late in 2004 a b-side and unreleased material limited edition album "Crosscheck and Departure" was released on smaller Hamilton indie label Worthy Records. 2006 will see an increase in the volume of touring done by Beef Terminal, and a October 18th 2005 release date has been set for the brand new Beef Terminal offering "Anger Do Not Enter", released on Noise Factory Records.
live dates:
current review from Eye Weekly -Oct 27th 2005
" After blissfully sinking his emotional electronic sound to the deepest centre of a lonely heart on 2003's The Isolationist, it seems Mike Matheson, the man behind Toronto's Beef Terminal, is coming up for air on Anger Do Not Enter. Matheson's renewed interest in cut-up-style beats and burbling, fluid melodies harkens back to his earlier affairs, but the ghostly feelings and six-string plucking that informed The Isolationist are still lurking about, making Anger an intermittently eerie and uplifting amalgamation of Beef Terminal's different styles. In addition, there's a subtle intensity running throughout Anger that likens the album to a warning sign of sorts, entirely in keeping with its foreboding title and artwork, which recalls the emergency procedure pamphlets you find on airplanes. Cryptic and comforting at the same time." KH
links/contact
website
www.beefterminal.commanagement & booking contact
for bookings and press inquiries please contact Eric Warner - pleasedrivefaster@hotmail.com
http://www.wearebusybodies.com
Beef Terminal
Crosscheck & Departure
available on CD - $15.00___________________________________
NOISECD363 Anger Do Not Enter
Out Now
Beef Terminal
Anger Do Not Enter
CD - $16.001. everything is alive
2. no robbers no kidnappers no fires no
3.floods
4. avails
5. knife in the table
6. about to rain (or not)
7. say it to my face
8. out of step
9. furnace
10. for the sullen lass
11. free lemonade
12. we look to adults
13. anger do not enter
Current Releases:
NOISECD362 the isolationist
01. your revolution
02. daydreams of wasted time
03. january sun
04. nervosa
05. killing the corners
06. passing secrets through the window
07. lines of division
08. internal
09. the isolationist pt.1
10. the birds of september
11. a month of endings
USA
visit www.beefterminal.com for music samples.
NOISECD361 the grey knowledge
sounds:
01. her eyes turn black
02. an early start (MP3 file size - 3.8MB)
03. alchemy
04. whirlybird (MP3 file size - 4.4MB)
05. marson lane
06. losing
07. daisyscience
08. enter and leave with nothing
09. time apart
10. red sky take warning
11. steadfast
12. this city never sleeps
13. the grey knowledge
NOISECD551 20 GOTO 10
samples: 20 goto 10
I sat at my kitchen table at two in the morning staring at the clock for exactly one hour…during that hour I became convinced I was about to die…two hours later I came to the conclusion that this was the start of the breakdown, because they couldn’t understand me…they just stared.
