matkore aka erik strafinger has also played noize guitarz 4 le couteau jaune with WB (Bruce) McClure boss of
seedrecords
matkore has also in the past played out under other pseudonyms. he also produces the psychedelic new-order-esque post-punk band ’johnny glitterfist and the spoons of resistance’.
previous monikers and nicknames that occasionally appeared live or dj’ing included : Saul Pastenfold, VulBezRohu/OxWithoutHorns, Phroggy Et Ros Bíf, Hamish McKore, GrimKore, Solomon J. Tankmaster (Jaguar Transport Limited), Dustin Hardware, Da Wiggaman, Johnny Glitterfist, Hans Kochengrubel, Professor Fingerland, Dj iKore, Dj KrimKore, and The Krack Mack Daddy.
Influences
Yello, MC5, NIN, Front 242, Daft Punk,
Rob Playford (2BadMice), Fabio, SL2, Mickey Finn, Altern8, SHUT UP AND DANCE, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, S-Express, Bomb The Bass, The Smiths, Aux88, Rick Astley, Carl Craig, SpeedyJ, Surgeon, Drexciya, Afrika Bambaata and The Soul Sonic Force, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Prml Scrm, Black Lace, Andrew Weatherall, Weather Report, Tom Waits, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, My Bloody Valentine, Ray Keith, Jesus And Mary Chain, The Jesus Lizard, Teenage Fanclub, U2, Slint, Stereolab, Bros, Mouse On Mars, Schneider TM, Johnny Hates Jazz, Kraftwerk, Belinda Carlisle, Neu!, Can, Stockhausen, Suicide, An Albatross, Trencher, Lightning Bolt, Napalm Death, E17, Extreme Noise Terror, Luke Vibert, Aphex Twin, Def Leppard, Tortoise, Fugazi,
Edith Piaf, Led Zeppelin, Stan Getz, Roland Rat, Fraggle Rock,
Squarepusher, Outkast, LFO, Ray Parker Jnr, Bizzy B, Remarc, Debaser, Seba, Photek, Klute, Soundmurderer, Bon Jovi, Dj/Rupture, The Bug, Sizzla, Lee ’Scratch’ Perry, Mad Professor, Dj Distance, Slaughter Mob, Adaadat, ChrisClark, Daft Punk, Stevie Wonder, Common, Wu Tang Clan, NWA, Ultramagnetic Mcs, James Brown, Laurent Garnier, Trojan, Dj Shadow, Spacemen 3, Razor X, Beastie Boys, Missy Elliot, N.E.R.D, Dj Spooky, Spooky, Tiffany, Dangermouse, Europe ’The Final Countdown’, MF Doom, Beans, Jason Donovan, Anti-Pop Consortium, Prefuse 73, Roots Manuva, Air, Therapy?, Debbie Gibson, SAW, Ritchie Hawtin, 808 State, Bizzare Inc, The Scientist, FSOL, Ganja Kru, A Guy Called Gerald, Robert Owens, Phuture, Mr. Lee, Mr. Fingers, Sabrina, Frankie Knuckles, Adonis, Joe Smooth, Autechre, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, The Cure, WetWetWet, Clouddead, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Bark Psychosis, Taylor Dayne, Dj Scud, The Panacea, El-P, Dr. Dre, Grandmaster Flash, Valina, Squall, Vangelis, Mogwai, The Fall, The Who, The Wedding Present, The Jam, Velvet Underground, The Byrds, tHE aNIMALS, Pet Shop Boys, Grandaddy, Buzzcocks, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Dinosaur Jnr,
J Saul Kane, Juan Atkins, Baby Ford, Eon, Human League, Black Dog Productions, Unique 3, BamBam, Mantronix, Basic Channel, Meat Beat Manifesto, Kevin Saunderson, Man Parrish, Kool Keith, Giorgio Moroder, Egyptian Lover, Francois Kevorkian, Renegade Soundwave, Zoviet France, KLF, Kajagoogoo, Public Enemy, John Carpenter, Seefeel, Marco Passarani, Ragga Twins, John Foxx, Stakker, Eric B & Rakim, Cabaret Voltaire, Vince Clark, and so on....
MatKore djs at his new night called 'renegade disko'. He also runs a small independant net label called
'subliminal gonzo'
releasing fierce bass heavy experimental music like breakstep, electro, techno etc etc.
MatKore's musical aim is fusing electro with minimal guitars inspired by Joy Division, Kraftwerk and The Smiths. His first release was with KansasCityProphets on the SubliminalGonzo 'Sublime' E.P. which caught the attention of Arthur Baker among others.
The second was the track 'Headlong' on the Elektro Codes compilation on German label Elektrolux, also produced with KansasCityProphets.
After KansasCityProphets he began to produce music as MatKore.
His debut live performance was playing tracks as a shapeshifting child of the Illuminati in homage to David Icke at a friend's wedding reception in a library in Leytonstone, East London.
This monster has toured live and as a dj extensively for the past 5 years or so 1000's of times around the Czech Republic mainly in Prague where he has held monthly residencies in various clubs. He has also played abroad in places like France, Slovakia, Bulgaria, England and Switzerland in cities, towns, villages, festivals, a lot of pubs, small bars, a French monastery, 3 or 4 castles, an old washing machine factory now used as a tv/film studio, an 18th century brewery, a catacomb basement under a Czech palace, a military base, an old Communist nuclear shelter under a castle in Slovakia, a Victorian cinema in London, an art gallery, and 3 or four times in the middle of a forest...
he also curated and ran : 'digitalpenetration'
[in Prague and around the Czech and Slovak Republics]
Plus:
'DigitalProgression', 'Digitraction', 'Digigeddon', 'DigitalMachineFunk', 'Re:Evolution' 'Renegade Disko'
'Hevvy Bassment' and 'Bassment Dubz' ...
He played at these nights and others like Monastery Of Sound [FR], Zvuk [Bulgaria], Glade Festival [UK], Mighty Sounds Festival [CZ], CzechTekk [CZ] ...
etc etc etc ...
...with people such as ...
Luke Vibert, B12, Jimmy Edgar, Mark Moore [S-Express], Kenny Larkin, British Murder Boys, Surgeon,dDamage, The Grid, Altern 8, Jackson & His Computer Band,
Ceephax Acid Crew, Cristian Vogel, Neil Landstrumm, Phil Hartnoll [Orbital],
Kevin Saunderson, Autechre, Vitalic, Unique3,
Cursor Miner, Ardisson, Jan[os] Andersson [electronic desert], Rob Hall (Skam/Gescom), Baselogic/Bloc [Synapse, Ed Chamberlain],
The Doubtful Guest, Radioactive Man,
Fridge, KansasCityProphets, Tim Exile, Chris Clark, Vex'd, DJ Scotch Egg, Ultre,
Zilla, Futureheads, Battles, Extreme Noise Terror, Milanese, Bizzy B ...and many many more.
He has worked with these labels:
Seed Records, Elektrolux, SubliminalGonzo,
and has remixed
Cursor Miner, New Order, ddamage, Le Couteau Jaune, Dj Rum, Usher, Jaki Graham, and Posthuman,
People who have said they like MatKore's music include :
John Peel,
Andrew Weatherall,
Freq Nasty,
Dj Stingray [Drexciya/UR],
Ola Bergman [New Speak],
Stanzim [Radio1 Cz].
AHOJ!
Vcera vecer mi volali kuci, ze prej Kundo mame pruser, listky se neprodavaj, musis nam pomoct, vybombi majspejs, at nas zachranej aspon ty tvoji kamaradi. Vite co, ted jsem jim dobrej - driv porad, ze me zabijou, ale kdyz jim tece do bot, tak se jim hodim. Nakonec ja se moc nedivim, ze se listky neprodavaj. Kdo byl jako ja pred tejdnem na otviraku a videl, ze na Kabatech (a hralo jim to skvele!!!!!) bylo 40 tisic lidi, tak je mu asi, jako mne, jasny, ze lidi zajimaj jiny veci, nez delaj kuci. Jenze oni si poradit nenechaj, jenom my vyhrozujou a pak chtej abych jim na ty blbosti pomahal s propagaci. Chapete to?
Tohle je teda "trefa do cernyho". Kluci temhle americanum nejdriv vydali desku (ale ted bacha - to nebylo cedecko, to byla gramodeska! kluci mame rok 2008!!!!) kterou prej si nikdo nekupuje (hahaha, zkuste priste cedecko a mozna vas to prekvapi!!!) a ted jim delaj koncert, kam prej nikdo nechce prijit. No ja bych jim poradil jedno. Naucte se hrat a zpivat a pak prijedte znova, mozna budete mit uspech a vyprodany koncerty jako ted ty Jidasi v Ostrave, a to teda bylo neco.
A druha pecka tohoto tydne. Podle kuci nejvetsi bomba, je to trochu doomovy, to se ti bude libit. No, ja osobne nerozeznam jednu pisnicku od druhy, a krome toho ze je to nahlas, tak to nema s technickym metalkem nic moc spolecnyho. Podle me by to meli o dost zrychlit, udelat tam nejaky pekny paradicky, solicka, poradny aranze, silny refreny a mozna by nekdo prisel. Takhle to zas bude pro plac. Jenom muzete doufat, ze tak predkapela Ocean neni ta diskofilie s Petrem Mukem. Vzhledem k dramaturgickejm zkusenostem, jaky kuci maj, bych se ani nedivil.
Tak jim tam pridte, at moc neprodelaj, vzdyt jsou nepoucitelny.
Tak zas nekde na bigbitu cau!
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Tohle je teda "trefa do cernyho". Kluci temhle americanum nejdriv vydali desku (ale ted bacha - to nebylo cedecko, to byla gramodeska! kluci mame rok 2008!!!!) kterou prej si nikdo nekupuje (hahaha, zkuste priste cedecko a mozna vas to prekvapi!!!) a ted jim delaj koncert, kam prej nikdo nechce prijit. No ja bych jim poradil jedno. Naucte se hrat a zpivat a pak prijedte znova, mozna budete mit uspech a vyprodany koncerty jako ted ty Jidasi v Ostrave, a to teda bylo neco.
A druha pecka tohoto tydne. Podle kuci nejvetsi bomba, je to trochu doomovy, to se ti bude libit. No, ja osobne nerozeznam jednu pisnicku od druhy, a krome toho ze je to nahlas, tak to nema s technickym metalkem nic moc spolecnyho. Podle me by to meli o dost zrychlit, udelat tam nejaky pekny paradicky, solicka, poradny aranze, silny refreny a mozna by nekdo prisel. Takhle to zas bude pro plac. Jenom muzete doufat, ze tak predkapela Ocean neni ta diskofilie s Petrem Mukem. Vzhledem k dramaturgickejm zkusenostem, jaky kuci maj, bych se ani nedivil.
Tak jim tam pridte, at moc neprodelaj, vzdyt jsou nepoucitelny.
Tak zas nekde na bigbitu cau!
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