Most of us know Morgan Ågren is amazing, but the bass player really sticks the landing on his timing on this piece, which seems very challenging. It's extremely tight with some very unusual meters.

Met the drummer at a shoe store many years ago. He was very nice and autographed a large wooden spoon for me.

just one of the oddest collections of musicians playing one of the most hilariously technical tunes ever

Had the honor of opening for these guys in Detroit, 2004 or so? Amazing musicians, and great people!

My oldest son is 14 at the time of this post. When he was in diapers, I had him sit in my lap watching this. And today, he can thump a 7-string with the best of ‘em. This music undoubtedly helped. I saw Morgan perform in Houston with Devin Townsend right at the cusp of the pandemic. Regardless how well he fit to DT’s music, I thought constantly of this music. Couldn’t believe he was only 30 feet away. Absolute legends M&M are, and even more so in ‘21.

Sounds like 8bit Meshuggah

Morgan's work with Fredrik Thordendal is some serious mind-blowing stuff.

The bassist kinda looks like an alternate universe Fredrik Thordendal

Sick. I fucking love it. Scifi Jazz straight from the future.

3:06 I can loop that part and listen to it all day.

Mats/Morgan Band is a band that features Morgan Ågren and Mats Öberg. Morgan is a drummer and composer and Mats is a keyboard player and composer. The band is a showcase for their virtuosic skills on their respective instruments as well as their compositional skills. Their music is difficult to categorize, containing elements of jazz, electronic music, waltz, dance music, avant garde/free jazz, techno, rock, progressive and modern classical music.

Tommy on bass, what a beast!

Never heard of these guys, found them through my insatiable love of Frank Zappa, but I have to say that they're really good. Isn't the internet great?

The bass player is awesome!

still here 2021. so fucking sick. the special defects project with fredrick thordendal was nuts.

I loooove them.... I do know they love Zappa, Holdsworth, Gong, King Crimson and so on.....

These guys are so good. I'm surprised that they're not more popular.

Badass bassista!

Spread the word guys! Get this good music out to more folks. The world needs this stuff!

This kicks ass on multidimensional levels.

God fucking dammit... Dat groove at 3:06...

This is perhaps the coolest band ever.

Not suprised that Mats and Morgan was invited up on stage with Zappa just 17 and 20 years old(think it was 1988)

I Love the time signature that these guys play and create their music in!These guys are very talented,creative..

Sometimes, perfection doesn't have a top 40 hit. This is one of those times.

Always wondered what George Duke & Bill Bruford would have sounded like together. Now I know! Brilliant! Just a shame that Alan Holdsworth wasn't able to show,he would have ridden those grooves like the silver surfer.

I'm completely new to everyone here except Morgan - this band is amazing! Just absolutely rocking!

This whole song is incredible but the groove at the start particularly..... so good.

Its like tribal tech performed a Frank Zappa composition produced by Fredrik Thordendahl for the Alice in wonderland sound track

Wow! These guys are fabulous. Great drums and bass but really everyone is wonderful here. Thanks.

Best clav player ever. So funky

If only this was the musical appearance on all these American late talk shows...

2:22 ftw

This is a recording of the live show which was recorded and then played back along with the original performance. It's not a "lipsync".

Mindblown.

The most funky and absurd groove ever, huh? You can count this in 21, subdivided in cycles of 10 and 11. Morgan actually wrote this out in 4/4 though.. 10 bars of four with one bar of 2/4 to even it out.. Very nutritious.

the keyboard player is mats öberg. he´s THE mats in Mats/Morgan Band

Tommy rippin it on the bass

You made me "alive" again. Thanks!

that groove @3:06. and then a second helping!

See that "UR" sign in the upper right corner? It stands for Utbildningsradion or in separate language "Educationalradio", and they do not only radio but also TV. Those were the days. And now, for something completely different: The Larch, The Larch.

Amazing stuff, contemporary ELP,Gentle giant, King Crimson, i know Mat, fan of Zappa,pretty darn cool.

Jimmy is the guitarist. The bassist is tommy tordsson and the second keyboardplayer is Robert Elovsson. It's all in the info.

Awesome precision!

Good mixsound in the song by them.

Favourited.

3:05 foookin' grooove

In a word, BRILLIANT.

The part 1:27 to 2:20 is so good! Awesome rythm and harmonics.

OMG that was insanely great. +1 fan

This is brilliant!

This is amazing. Finally some unpredictable and fresh music!

This is AWESOME! Hic!

Simply awesome

Absolute Masters of their Craft! ;)

THIS is epic, truly epic :P

Man. The keys player's rockin' out must be totally organic. Being that he has not seen other people rock out. That is pretty badass.

Wow!!! This is just awesome!!! I had never heard anything like this.

This is fantastic

The problem with working from home due to corona is that I don't work. I'm watching stuff like this instead.

ils sont chauvins ces Suédois, ampli EBS pour la basse et Nord Lead pour l'un des claviers ;-) c'est génial en tout cas.

this is too awesome

Am I wrong if I want to headbang to this?

if without movie, we might treat this as all sequenced... . all players are great! i play some instruments, i know the difficulty of letting bass output stable sound, this guy does it in such enigmatic high speed manual chip tune! great stable picking!

Awesome.....!!!!

Jag har spelat med Mats! Han är hur skön som helst!

awesome!! that's really nice, a great mind journal, in mexican spanish we can say: que poca madre tiene eso!!!

Very interesting music 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

NEXT LEVEL

sick ! awesome

The drummer from Fredrik Thorndendal's side project! Dude is a sick drummer.

still love it!!

People who like this are good people - end of story. Hopefully, everyone who's watched like recognizes Jimmy Agren on guitar. The two brothers have made music together for longer than Mats Morgan. Jimmy's pretty damned amazing too, something this clip doesn't make very obvious. Check out his new song "Happiness Is A Walrus"

That little squealy noise at 5:14 makes me laugh. Sounds like some weird creature singing.

Time signature? I'm struggling here! God what a track

This is the craziest, funniest, funkyiest most progressive, jazz ive heard in the Last 5 years

@Bebopopotamus mhmhmhm maybe i wasn't in the mood O.o You made me come back to this, and i found it a lot more enjoyable

That snare is delicious.

this music is meant to be enjoyed with sexy stereo headphones, i'm hearing so many unheard synthesizer noises, it makes the music sound way more technical than it already fucking is!!!

To those that talk about these guys counting. Morgan, the drummer, is not big on counting per his own words. I won't put any more words in his mouth than that. I can't speak for Mats, Jimmy or Tommy as I've never heard the question asked of them, but Morgan plays by memory and his own feel. At least that's the impression I get since he doesn't count.

Elements of King Crimson. superb. :)

whow they are all so good! and i agree 2:30 is so awesome

What a nice comment :P There are types of musicians, you have performers, songwriters and both. Performers are people like Steve Vai and these people. Then you have the songwriters, people like Paul Mccartney, John Lennon and Brian Wilson. Then you have both, which is very rare. People who can both write brilliant stuff AND perform it as well. Point is, Mats & Morgan band are supermusicians, but they don't appeal to people who are not like them. Hence, most people can't understand what going on.

YOU'RE THAT GUY WHO DID THE GANGNAM STYLE COVER! WOOOOOAHHHH!

fuck fuck fuck I love this shit...

This song is clearly the best unicycleing song

banger.

i love how all the comments for the MM videos are about the bass player...yes, he's awesome. but so are the other 4 of them.

I tried dancing to various beats of this track. As a result, I've been in intensive care for the past 6 months to repair a broken pelvis and arthritic air-drumming fingers. (kidding)

year of this please. btw this rooocks!

Flawless craftsmanship in music WE NEED MORE OF THIS

bloody hell!

Why did you remove your comment? I read it on my feed and I think other people would find it useful! "The intro is 4/4. The next piece (at 0:07) is 21/16. I count it like this: 3, 2, 2, 3, (10) 2, 2, 3, 2, 2 (11) But of course the drums make it all sound even more odd :) Well, later on there's a drum break (at 1:27) in 4/4 followed by 10/16 (2, 3, 3, 2)" Now it's just a case of counting it out and seeing if it's correct... :s

Remember - the keyboardist is blind

Lineup Morgan Ågren Mats Öberg with Jimmy Ågren Robert Elovsson Tommy Tordsson

Jimmy is the brother of Morgan Agren by the way and Jimmy has his own band

YES, YES, YES!!!!!

Sweden's finest!

2:23 is so fukken omgplz i am fucking dying right now!! I love this hit guys! :D

Arghhh!!!!! This Is So FCKN AWESOME!