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Boards of Canada sound like a human bean has never been NEAR their music, that's what makes them gr8 you mental!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i've just picked up "before the dawn ..." and am listening to it now for the first time. i'm three songs in; if it gets any better i will have exploded before the end. this is the music i hear in my dreams.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

heh, actually i didn't like that fourth track as much. it's brought me back down to earth slightly.

still. i fucking love this. and firstworldman, no, that makes absolutely perfect sense.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone heard everyone's favourite German, Aksel Schaufler's lovely remix of "Don't Save Us From The Flames"???

It's lovely, though the original may be even better.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

if this isn't my album of the year, i'll eat mrs fiendish's hat.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Farewell/Goodbye" sounds like the Cocteau Twins crossed with some Francis Lai romantic soundtrack song, originally composed in French but translated for the American release in 1966 or something!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not so sure about the rest of the record, it's so ecstatic but reminds me of Ulrich Schnauss and stuff, kind of neutral sounding in places.

Don't Save Us From The Flames and the Superpitcher remix of same are still ace though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

"Teen Angst" is at least as good as "Don't Save Us from the Flames". Actually I think the "ecstatic" element is exactly what's missing from the Ulrich Schnauss stuff (and from Shoegaze and laptop gaze in general).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I will give it a few more listens just the same!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

i just find this album very average and boring compared to the last one. I don't know....

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's an improvement on virtually every level - except that I don't think there's a single track as powerful as "Run Into Flowers". The sum of it though is overwhelming.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Also listening to "A Guitar and a Heart" at full CD quality and in the context of the previous track completely removes the cheese factor for me.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

there is a superpitcher remix of m83?
online anywhere?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a cd promo, I'll bring it home next time I'm in work and burn/gmail!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's an improvement on virtually every level

Very much agreed. This is a massive step up and I'm glad -- they had potential but I don't think it was reached fully until now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

please do, ronan! i have been longing for more of what i can imagine superpitcher would do with this... is it a bit like his mfa remix?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Take out "Farewell/Goodbye" and "Can't Stop" and that's a nearly flawless album.

― Matt Chesnut, Monday, 7 February 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Like I just said, "Farewell/Goodbye" is amazing. It's like "Autumn Leaves" or something!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

mere words cannot express how much i love this album. i can't even begin to articulate it. i'm still stunned.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link

firstworldman, it's more like something like Heroin, quite fast and with a big rocky bassline through it, he cuts up the vocals like the MFA remix. It's not as amazing as that one but it's still really nice.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm picking up my 2xLP copy tomorrow night; i'm hoping they'll have a clutch of the remix 12"s too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Apologies in advance if this too cute but I'm taking my five-year old to daycare this morning. As 'Run Into Flowers' begins playing the same chords over and over he says, "Dad, when is the song going to start?" Then when the throbbing keyboard part plays before the strings and vocals he comments, "Dad I think there's something wrong with this CD."

Still a great song though.

― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

this record really is fantastic... the first two months of the year have been pretty damn decent for music in general.

― t0dd swiss, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

yay! they're playing here supporting the secret machine. I might finally get round to getting their records after the show...

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Anyone know the lyrics from "Run Into Flowers"? I can't remember if it's in the booklet and I don't have it here at the office.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Let's run,
Let's run,
Let's run into flowers.

It'll be fun,
It'll be fun,
It'll be fun when we run into flowers.

(repeat)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

what about the chemicals bit

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

How were the recent shows?

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost, that's the part I'm curious about. Whether he even says "chemicals" at all...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Are M83 the musical equivalent of sherbet dips? enjoyable in small doses but too sickly to consume everyday.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

The show I caught was pretty impressive, although I missed the first half of their set. It made a lot more sense, the way that the sound surrounds you in a live venue. I guess their most recent album helps for that grand sound too.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post: no. they are the musical equivalent of oxygen, ie vital for the continuation of life.

as for what the gigs were like ... well, i can die fulfilled and happy now.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

*Stunning* set on KCRW this morning - especially the last track - wow!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh. is it saved for posterity anywhere?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Yep!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice, I must investigate...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it worth picking up the 2 singles from "Before the Dawn"...? They each have remixes (Superpitcher and Boom Bip do "Don't Save Us From the Flames," and Montag does "Teen Angst") and one has a b-side I think. Worth getting?

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

spencer, you fucking rule. thank you. i shall try to set up some kind of audio-hijacking before i go to bed.

as for the singles: the remixes of "flames" are astonishing, particularly superpitcher's.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooooh, if you could isolate that last track...

Also, I missed their Coachella performance, but I heard a lot of very good things about it. The drummer is excellent.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

There's also just plain real audio, maybe it would be of higher quality?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The audio-only stream does sound a lot better than the audio+video.

"A Guitar and a Heart" is indeed mindblowing when they do it live. When I saw them, that song alone was worth the price of admission. But I don't understand why they mix the synth so low in their live setup. Songs like "Run Into Flowers" should be drowning in it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

hurrah, have recorded that. won't get a chance to chop it up into individual songs for at least a couple of days, though ... i shall return here when it's done.

thanks again for the heads-up, spencer.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link

they don't look at all how i expected them to! good!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

The Luciano remix of "Teen Angst" is terrific.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Barry is right - the last track is "A Guitar and a Heart" from "before dawn...". It doesn't sound particularly different from the album version.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

. But I don't understand why they mix the synth so low in their live setup.

because at least when I saw them, no-one played the synth, it was a DAT or something.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Stop all this musician talk and discuss the fucking Luciano mix!

― X-PAT (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

m83 remixed Hey Luciano by the Fall????

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

that was a joke

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Stop all this musician talk and discuss the fucking Luciano mix!

it's really good. i like it alot.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link

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