How to remove ALL Match music?

I've been having a hellish time with iTunes of late - 12.0.1.26
had an iTunes library (only linked to one computer) since the second gen iPod of 2002 and just built upon it over that time (iPods, iPhones, iPads etc)
Its always been Media Folder Organised, since available, and I'm far to anal about track names and artwork for my own good
When it grew beyond 500GB I shifted the entire ~/Music/iTunes folder, to a RAID1 NAS and all functioned well until regular Mac crashes made me think that something had got corrupted or damaged and so it was time to do some proper house keeping (and upgrade to a RAID5 - 4bay)
Lately its just been spinning wheel after spinning wheel....even after getting a shiny new iMac to run it from!
I'm leaving it 1-2days at a time before I give up and Force Quit as its clearly not going to recover.
I configured a vanilla build of iTunes on my internal 1TB SSD and rebuilt the entire ~/Music/iTunes folder.
I then linked all my iTunes media on a RAID5 NAS, and configured iTunes correctly to access it
        (no alias fudge, all done through the iTunes Media Location prefs)
and when it was done my iTunes was finally calm and stable once more. HUZZAH!
~/Music/iTunes is now 1.35GB
and
/Volumes/Music/NAS iTunes is currently 368.74GB
N.b. this is pre Match...
<I then made a copy of the iTunes folder!>
THEN turned Match back on and it went Spinning Beach Ball of Death on me!
As I couldn't find a simply way to reset Match or clear the music from it,
I found this method of creating a vanilla iTunes library,
updating Match from this blank library and then highlighting and deleting all the tracks from the cloud <999 at a time.
This proved successful with over 22,000 songs being removed but now I'm stuck with the last 4836!
I've tried from three Macs now and I simply cannot get these remaining cloud tracks removed.
It lets me highlight, it lets me press delete, but when I go back in and Update Match, it says 4836 again (and displays them all in iCloud)
Is there ANYWAY to blank a Match subscription? or get these tracks to delete?
I've unauthorised ALL devices with my account
I've unhidden all purchases in the iCloud
I've got >152Mb of pipe
I've got the patience of a saint, who's probably sleeping it would seem!
and I've wasted more man hours than I care to remember
TIA

...well after a few blocks of 100 downloaded songs, then DELETE Local & iCloud, it began decreasing again!
then I was able to simply highlight approx. 100 iCloud items at a time, without first downloading, and then Update iTunes Match each time.
I've managed to erase ALL my Match tunes on iCloud, leaving ZERO uploaded.
Made a backup of the blank iTunes Folder, I've been using to achieve this.
Restored my cleaned ~/Music/iTunes
and now I'm re-Matching to see where this takes me...

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