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Antibes, Nice, France (2001 – present)

M83 (named after the spiral galaxy “Messier 83”) is electronic artist Anthony Gonzalez. Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau founded the group in 2001 in Antibes, France. M83’s style owes a lot to the shoegaze genre, in that there is much emphasis on tonality, extensive use of reverb effects and often softly-spoken lyrics at times submerged in instrumentation.

All five of M83’s albums have been well received - in particular their second album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, which allowed them to break through to a larger audience. 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) and record on his own.

M83’s song “

Unrecorded” from Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts was used in the trailer for the American release of the Russian movie Night Watch, and the track “

Teen Angst”, taken from “Before The Dawn Heals Us”, appeared on the trailer for the film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel “A Scanner, Darkly”, which was released in 2006.

M83 produced the remix of the track ‘Pioneers’ on the British rock group Bloc Party’s 2005 album Silent Alarm Remixed.

The Deftones also use the song “Be wild” (taken from Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts) on their 2007 world tour as intro music. Snow Patrol also used “

Teen Angst”, taken from “Before The Dawn Heals Us” as their 2006 tour opener.

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proficient wrote:
yesterday morning

I always held the opinion of "meh it's M83" but now that I am actually consciously listening to M83's Before the Dawn Heals Us, I am thoroughly enjoying M83.

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WoofWoofit wrote:
Friday evening

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WoofWoofit wrote:
Friday evening

The elite or A list celebrities decided that they should define their status in terms of popularity and wealth , thus creating a recognised hierarchy for celebrities to adhere to. Lesser celebrities would know their place and would rarely encounter a celebrity from the upper echelons of fame. More recently lower status celebrities, particularly those of middle caste status have united with the lower caste celebrities and have taken direct and sometimes violent action to overthrow the elite celebrities. The response by the elite celebrities was to declare a state of emergency, introduce martial law and employ death squads to eliminate the ring leaders. It is not unknown on Tarmac for a lesser celebrity to be dragged out of a televised film or music award ceremony and unceremoniously shot.

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Oakenpale wrote:
Thursday morning

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE <

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S247 wrote:
Monday evening

I agree the self titled album should be talked about more! I love Sitting, Slowly, Kelly... love how it all makes a poem too :)! That being said, I just love We Own The Sky and i'm already anxious for a new album :)

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ghostlyyy wrote:
last week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPQM3z0LMA [9]

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coffeeandpigs wrote:
last week

I remember the first time I heard M83, years ago. I think the track was America. I was blown away

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TheShadowstorm wrote:
last week

Saturdays is incredibly disappointing compared to Lost Ghosts and Before the Dawn Heals Us. I remember when Last.fm said M83 has around 80,000 listeners...

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DartHomer wrote:
last week

замечательное музло)

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spilled_milk wrote:
last week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPQM3z0LMA [8]

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Urbanov wrote:
last week

we own the sky.

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Soulscream wrote:
last week

Saturdays = Youth... <33

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lwsn wrote:
last week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3L97_lFwpg

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ejmyto wrote:
last week

Nothing better than this. Just sit back, crank the volume and enjoy.

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turntheradioup wrote:
last week

Why doesn't anyone talk about the self titled album? That album is amazing and they are STILL playing songs from it and it was made 8 years ago. Enough with how much you hate Saturdays=Youth just because it's a little more mainstream then your hipster indie needs... I agree that Dead Cities and Dawn are so much better, but either way you look at it... Anthony Gonzalez is a musical genius.

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musicmanar wrote:
last week

does ANYBODY know anywhere where we can find live recordings or bootlegs of recent shows? i haven't had any luck searching.... any help appreciated, thanks!

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brettfarve wrote:
last week

sup barackflowbama

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Jordinho wrote:
13 days ago

Ritalin please.

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BarackFlowbama wrote:
13 days ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPQM3z0LMA [7]

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diorlandmine wrote:
14 days ago

before the dawn heals us and dead cities are infinitely better. [2]

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