M83 (band)

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M83
M83 at Pully for noise festival
M83 at Pully for noise festival
Background information
Origin Antibes, France
Genre(s) Dream pop
Shoegazing
Electronica
Years active 2001–present
Label(s) Gooom Disques
Mute Records
Website Official site
Members
Anthony Gonzalez
Former members
Nicolas Fromageau

M83 is an electronic music act consisting of Anthony Gonzalez (and formerly Nicolas Fromageau), and was formed in Antibes, France in 2001. The musical style owes something to the shoegazing genre in its extensive use of reverb effects and lyrics spoken softly over loud instrumentals, though M83's songs employ considerably less guitar than most shoegazing bands. For the third album released by M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us, Gonzalez decided to part from Fromageau (after an emotionally distressing tour for Dead Cities, involving members of the rock band Eon Megahertz) and record mainly on his own, with the help of a few other musicians.

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[edit] Songs and album history

M83 produced the remix of the track "Pioneers" on British group Bloc Party's 2005 album Silent Alarm Remixed. They have also remixed Placebo's "Protège-Moi", Goldfrapp's "Black Cherry", Depeche Mode's "Suffer Well" and Bumblebeez 81's "Vila Attack". Similarly, M83's songs have been remixed by Gooom labelmates Montag and Cyann & Ben.

In 2005, M83 also reissued their 2001 self-titled album. This was made available in the United States, unlike the 2001 release.

In 2006, after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony Gonzalez continued to explore a musical direction already heard on earlier M83 tracks and began writing and recording a collection of ambient works. The album was recorded primarily at his home studio with the assistance of Antoine Gaillet. The resulting project is called Digital Shades Volume 1 and was released on September 3, 2007. It is intended to be part of an ongoing series of ambient works.

Saturdays = Youth, M83's fifth studio album was released on April 15, 2008 on Mute Records. It was recorded with Ken Thomas (known for his work with Sigur Rós, The Sugarcubes, Boys in a Band, Cocteau Twins and Suede), Ewan Pearson (who has also produced for Tracey Thorn, The Rapture and Ladytron) and Morgan Kibby (of The Romanovs) The album is said to deliver the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known, but with a more focused approach to song structure and form. "Couleurs" was the first single from the new album, released to digital retailers on February 25, 2008. The album's second single, "Graveyard Girl," was released to digital retailers on April 8, 2008 and comes with an exclusive remix from Yuksek.

In 2008, they supported Kings of Leon on their UK tour. In 2009, they will support Depeche Mode in their stadium "Tour of the Universe" in April / May / June in Germany and France. [1] and they will tour with The Killers and play the V Festival tour around Australia.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] Singles

[edit] Remixes

[edit] M83 music on films and TV

  • "In Church [Cyann & Ben Version]" from Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, in Stranger Than Fiction, during an emotional scene between Harold (Will) and Ana (Maggie Gyllenhaal) later in the movie.
  • "Teen Angst" in the trailer for A Scanner Darkly.
  • "Unrecorded" on series 3, episode 2; and series 4, and episode 5 of Top Gear; "Cyborg" on series 3, episode 5. "Moonchild" on series 6, episode 6; series 7, episode 3; and series 7, episode 7. "A Guitar and A Heart" on the first episode of the series 11, shortly after the Ferrari runs out of petrol during the fuel economy tip sequence. "Moonchild", 'the McLaren vs Boat race', during sweeping shots of Jeremy Clarkson crossing the Oresund Bridge in a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. "*" from Before the Dawn Heals Us on (S11E03), during Clarksons review of the Bentley Brooklands Coupe; the song Couleurs is used at the start of the economy race from Basel to Blackpool (S12E04) and "Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun" during several shots from the Vietnam Special (S12E08).
  • "Unrecorded" from Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts in the trailer for the international release of the Russian movie Night Watch
  • "We Own the Sky" from Saturdays=Youth and "Moonchild" from Before the Dawn Heals Us in the movie "That's It, That's All"[1] starring snowboarder Travis Rice.
  • "Lower Your Eyelids and Die with the Sun" from the album Before the Dawn Heals Us was used for the credits on Britney Spears' 2008 documentary, Britney: For the Record.
  • "Lower Your Eyelids and Die with the Sun" was used as the opening song for the skateboarding video Fully Flared made by Lakai.
  • "Graveyard Girl" from Saturdays = Youth was used in a commercial for the British teen drama Skins.
  • The song entitled 'Gone' was used in the trailer for British drama trilogy Red Riding, which can be seen on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3qypfj8DY
  • On Britney Spears official MTV Documentary M83's song "Lower Your Eyelids and Die with the Sun" was used towards the end of the programme.
  • "Kim & Jessie" was used by the British channel E4 in an advertisement for American TV series 90210

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[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.ilovem83.com/index.php/virgin/m83/saturday_youth/tour
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