8 × Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Box Set, Limited Edition,

The Complete Matrix Tapes is a live album by the New York City-based experimental rock band the Velvet Underground, released on November 20, 2015. It features unexpurgated recordings of the band's two-night stint on November 26 and 27, 1969, at San Francisco club The Matrix, owned and operated by Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin. The band's appearance represents one of the rare occasions on which the Velvet Underground was professionally recorded in a live setting, and while several of the performances in this set have been released in various fashions and configurations before (in particular, on the album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live and the 45th anniversary reissue of The Velvet Underground, as well as via much lower-quality audience recordings in Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes), it is the first time all of them have been collected together. Additionally, this represents the first time much of this material has been presented in a CD or LP version sourced directly from the original tapes, which had been considered lost for decades, and nine tracks from this collection had previously been completely unreleased in any configuration. The resulting product has been widely praised both for its sound quality and for the power of its performances.

Tracklist

Set One
A1 I'm Waiting For The Man (Version 1) 13:07
A2 What Goes On (Version 1) 8:53
B1 Some Kinda Love (Version 1) 4:58
B2 Heroin (Version 1) 8:07
C1 The Black Angel's Death Song 6:20
C2 Venus In Furs (Version 1) 4:38
C3 There She Goes Again (Version 1) 3:13
C4 We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 1) 3:20
C5 Over You (Version 1) 2:24
D1 Sweet Jane (Version 1) 5:12
D2 Pale Blue Eyes 6:05
D3 After Hours (Version 1) 2:58

Set Two
E1 I'm Waiting For The Man (Version 2) 6:33
E2 Venus In Furs (Version 2) 5:11
E3 Some Kinda Love (Version 2) 4:04
E4 Over You (Version 2) 3:02
F1 I Can't Stand It (Version 1) 7:54
F2 There She Goes Again (Version 2) 2:50
F3 After Hours (Version 2) 2:30
G1 We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 2) 3:40
G2 Sweet Bonnie Brown / Too Much 7:50
G3 Heroin (Version 2) 10:05
H1 White Light / White Heat (Version 1) 9:27
H2 I'm Set Free 4:48

Set Three
I1 We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 3) 3:15
I2 Some Kinda Love (Version 3) 4:38
I3 There She Goes Again (Version 3) 2:59
J1 Heroin (Version 3) 8:28
J2 Ocean 10:59
K Sister Ray (Part 1) 19:40
L Sister Ray (Part 2) 17:34

Set Four
M1 I'm Waiting For The Man (Version 3) 5:31
M2 What Goes On (Version 2) 4:31
M3 Some Kinda Love (Version 4) 4:03
N1 We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 4) 3:24
N2 Beginning To See The Light 5:30
N3 Lisa Says 6:00
N4 New Age 6:28
O1 Rock & Roll 6:54
O2 I Can't Stand It (Version 2) 6:52
P1 Heroin (Version 4) 8:18
P2 White Light / White Heat (Version 2) 8:43
P3 Sweet Jane (Version 2) 4:20