[AnEmptyBliss]

Oooh my LP has been delivered!

[IkoOvo]

eagerly awaiting mine, hoping I get it today !!!

[bansheebeaten]

shoutout to people who keep listening to this pbvsgr.com mix over and over

go get up again
go get up again
go get up again
go get up again
go get up again
go get up again
go get up again
go get up again
go get up again

you can't run you can't hide it will find you

[AnEmptyBliss]

Spoiler: show

[onebraineno]

It's like our own personal Pete K. ca posts we can physically touch.

[Sonic boom]

my wife found this . appyollyloggys if its been up already .


http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/noah_le ... _meets_gri


btw gals ,
when yr greaper pre-order comes DONT eat the white t issue paper !
we been getting sum reports coming in that the white t issue paper is no goo to eat .
ok ??

glad u guise dig the sleeve notes . i wrote sum for Tomboy too , but in a differant style .
lotta time on those .........lot of fun....
buncha hidden levels & layers - like Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker - puns on wax , grain & pain (french for bread) ....... merry greaper pkx

[captainhowdy]

Can we expect any talk show performances in Los Angeles soon? I'd love to swoop on a seat.

[jetski]

Sonic boom wrote:

btw gals ,
when yr greaper pre-order comes DONT eat the white t issue paper !
we been getting sum reports coming in that the white t issue paper is no goo to eat .
ok ??

Aw but I was so excited to eat the paper

[lucasmoreira]

spin interview

http://www.spin.com/articles/panda-bear ... interview/

[AnEmptyBliss]

Another review here from TLOBF:

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews ... rim-reaper

[Dallou]

NOAH IS EVERY WHERE !

[kafkaesque]

unreleased gif from the p4k cover story: http://i.imgur.com/I60yGYs.gif

edit: that line of best fit review is magnificent

[Night Park]

^^agreed, best panda review in recent memory

[Takyon]

The album's truly growing on me. I sort of agree with some of the criticism that this is not a terribly bold progression in Panda Bear's style (with the exception of tracks like "Tropic of Cancer") but when judging the album on its own and not strictly in context with the rest of his discography, it's hard to find any major faults.

Also, the album gives me the bizarre flashbacks to LazyTown. I guess that some of the Noah's purported influence from children's shows is beginning to shine through.

[roopn]

anyone know when the high quality download will be available from the pbvsgr store? the 12th? the preorder one I mean

[roopn]

also, EmptyBliss, how are the tracks divided onto the sides of the LPs?

[bansheebeaten]

Sonic boom wrote:

btw gals ,
when yr greaper pre-order comes DONT eat the white t issue paper !
we been getting sum reports coming in that the white t issue paper is no goo to eat .
ok ??

glad u guise dig the sleeve notes . i wrote sum for Tomboy too , but in a differant style .
lotta time on those .........lot of fun....
buncha hidden levels & layers - like Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker - puns on wax , grain & pain (french for bread) ....... merry greaper pkx

I'm excited to read them.. gonna wait for my package to come.

almost as excited for the physical vinyl as I was for hearing the music.

[Sonic boom]

bansheebeaten wrote:

Sonic boom wrote:

btw gals ,
when yr greaper pre-order comes DONT eat the white t issue paper !
we been getting sum reports coming in that the white t issue paper is no goo to eat .
ok ??

glad u guise dig the sleeve notes . i wrote sum for Tomboy too , but in a differant style .
lotta time on those .........lot of fun....
buncha hidden levels & layers - like Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker - puns on wax , grain & pain (french for bread) ....... merry greaper pkx

I'm excited to read them.. gonna wait for my package to come.

almost as excited for the physical vinyl as I was for hearing the music.

! even the vinyl itself has mess ages on for you !

[meys]

just woke up to a shipping notification! so excited to read those liner notes!!!

[jetski]

^same here!

I wish I still lived in the Midwest so it would ship faster (mine's shipping from Ann Arbor, MI too)

[Sonic boom]

here's a piece in italian i got sent that mixes it up again , plus a goo goo translation behind the spoiler

Spoiler: show

When Alice falls into a deep sleep and finds herself in Wonderland , every experience that bizarre Lewis Carroll puts in front has a symbolic meaning con- link to reality . The dreamlike and surreal is a gimmick to make reference to aspects of real life , even quite serious that , on waking , the lead protagonist in an inner growth . Will that Alice in Wonderland is one of the most psychedelic fairy tales ever written , is that when Noah Lennox tells of medicines and other dimensions suddenly important Magino Peter Kember holding a bottle that says " drink me " , will be then we will end up dragging in even Disney, but while we dive in
Clare Hills
Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper is the first sensation of slipping in the parallel world of Alice . " Right from the title , the album is a game between irony and seriousness. The Grim Reaper ( the Great Mower , Ed) is a representation of death , there is a component in the can- zoni strongly obscuration ra , intense and profound . The texts speak of universal themes challenging ... But the title with this formula a bit ' ca committee , the colorful artwork and the format for the musical are the expedient to facilitate the approach to the content of the genre , inserted into songs very dynamic . Like when you have to give medicine to a child and try to make it less bitter with sugar . " Noah Lennox , aka Panda Bear , is the other side of the screen , in the
his home in Lisbon ; more our conversation via Skype goes on and more the way I will describe Peter Kember takes shape : " a musician very tolerant , with clear ideas , a sharp mind , reserved but with a sense of humor that you do not expect " . The collaboration began with the previous Tomboy , for which Kember was replaced in the mix . the two have worked side by side , and it is not surprising that there is a deep understanding between the thirty-six yr old of Baltimore and the guy English - for some time also a producer - that maybe someone will remember better if identified as Sonic Boom ( the pseudonym used at the time of Spacemen 3 ) or Spectrum (project with which still plays live ) .

Putting aside the original renovation work post-psychedelic implemented in fifteen years of activity with the Collective In- Animal, producing solo Panda Bear is still one of his com- piutezza. In 2007, the third album, Lennox close to perfection of the celestial spheres with Person Pitch: a roller coaster of drones and melodies warmed by the sun, the Brian Wilson listening modern electronic and hip hop, builds liturgies with circular sample and multiplies reflections with the voice, that powerful and peculiar that he can use as a tool - and is also the band's distinctive brand-mother. Were not enough ears to find similarities of approach in patrols between electronic experimentation and psychedelia from Lennox and Kember, we think them to draw a road con- divided: "With its sounds weird and liquids, PBMTGR is a record that really seems to come from another dimension. "I think one of the most interesting parts of the album is the u- know sounds adventurous, bizarre, sci-fi ... We played a lot with this
"Pete and
I love
music that can transport us elsewhere,
in a special place.
Who knows how to make us dream "
aspect, the addition of voices and sound vortices is in contrast to the rhythmic power the towing: the structure of many songs based on drum samples and action disorienting sounds helps to believe are a magical, playful. I wanted the disk transmit the feeling of something constantly changing, but with simple melodies and well defined: an- other similarity with Pete is a tendency to simplify, to ensure that a piece is made only from its vital elements. "If Tomboy was a work built custom guitars, a bit 'austere' virtualy - you wrote alone in a bunker, without permeating the light, "PBMTGR is linked to Person Pitch in terms of exposure to the sun (sometimes radioactive ) and use of sampling, also subject to due mutations. "The samples are returned to be a gimmick for writing, as in Person Pitch, but I needed to change method: then I used a Roland sampler of ways usable range very defined, and in fact the sampling was a small unit of measure on which I worked, repeating, developing and extending the melody from those particles drones. In PBMTGR I used a program for multitrack computer, with which the possibilities multiply; the mechanism is for the construction, as with Lego bricks, in which the samples are different: a drum samples, a co bislac- noise, interference, a line of animal (like that of a dog in Mr. Noah, Ed), a vocoder sound, different layers of percussions ... the creative process was more complex and also the result gives a sense of movement. "
Dynamism never really broken, believe atività flowing according to natural rhythms, pop and free form that intertwine, ex- biandosi roles: Panda Bear is the perfect unit of Animal Collective and an artistic journey that moves because can not do otherwise, but at their own pace. Born in Baltimore, inevitably swallowed up for a few years in New York, for a decade now in a permanent position in Lisbon with family (including two children), since 2000 nine albums with the Collective and five solo, Noah Lennox mixed audience of all kinds: 90s hip hop, classical and R & B's when he went to school and "music" was synonymous with radio, referring also the last album with the band, Centipede HZ ("radio is
was the primary mode of interaction that we have had with the music in my head have always shake so many kinds, those who passed through the top 40 radio, I never had a single filter "); Daft Punk ("My preferred rita band since I was a boy, Around The World I opened the doors of the dance. Working with them in Doin 'It Right for Random Access Memories is a substance GNO come true, although I found himself in a totally dif- ferent from my ") and Black Dice," that with their exploratory approach, always looking for new sounds, remain one of the groups that most influenced me in absolute ". A centrifuged rhythms, which assumes an almost exotic taste and sweet when Noah confesses "One of the questions I like to do to people is how they define the psychedelic music." It is at this point that the game roles reversed leads to- wards the area more allegorical and visionary of our chat: if the Panda Bear is not strictly psychedelia, it is undeniable that his music has in itself "a set of elements capable of confusing the ears, mechanism behind the psychedelic music. "It is not just sets of notes, but an approach al terato taking shape through components of different nature such as water, spirituality and interaction between suo- and no image. About the first - in the form of suggestion sound in vari- ous neo psychedelic band (one of all: Deerhunter) and traceable in PBMTGR, from sounds and videos of Boys Latin - Lennox said: "I have always lived near Ocean and each vol- ta that are not close to large amounts of water is as if I felt out of place. Since I became interested dub, around 17 years old, I was TI rato liquids inside these sounds, I am passionate about music that recreated an aquatic environment or atmosphere evoked rainy. I think it's also a matter of character, are a type melancholy ... With a strong connection to the water at multiple levels. "Perhaps because of his degree in Religion (!), Spirituality is instead a concept that handles very carefully. "My parents were not believers and did not grow up with any kind of religious education, would be able to speak only in terms disembodied. But I always thought the idea of one or more of, finding interesting how people's lives believers is influenced by religion. I believe that the ceremonies re- ligiose and musical ones have the same goal: to lead the participants to a higher spiritual dimension. Ever since I was young, to reach that place is the goal of my music. "Last but not least, the visual component intrinsically to his live (and those of Animal Collective), augmented by video image of the faithful man Danny Perez - known at the time of the first tour with the band, when do was roadie for Black Dice . "The images that brings together Danny follow un'este- policy different from mine: are visionary, strong, grotesque, dark, penetrating (to get an idea, have a look on YouTube to violence tragicomic teaser dell'al- bum, Ed), but act as a perfect completion of the music. Danny is a fundamental building block for my concerts, where the visual appearance is as important as sound ... Also because I do not think is so interesting to see me fiddling with machines (sghignazza- follow you, Ed). Today there are nothing short of monumental reproductions of this relationship between sound and image, the first that comes to my mind it is the Daft Punk and their pyramid on stage ... But I think one of the first things that struck me in this sense was the jungle Book Walt Disney, in which music and Imagin- they are mutually reinforcing. "Dall'empireo electronics in a cartoon for children, Panda Bear is one of those (few) musicians who like the slow pace of a city like Lisbon to the frenzy of New York because "not always be circumstances fertilized by too many things that move and happen fast around you is a positive stimulus. "Unless there is a half of the White Rabbit. ×

pt 2

With his music has gone through three of decadence, ecstasy and altered symphony of Spa- cemen 3 electronics mystical and vintage of Spectrum through the long and daring explorations droniche of Experimental Audio Research. Scientist minimalist rock'n'roll, Peter Kember has never abandoned his coat investigator: sound, collaborations and drugs (today only read). While maintaining this status as a researcher with a penchant for analog frequencies alien and a strong taste for melody, as the man behind the machines and with different roles Kember has in recent years to working with MGMT, The Vacant Lots, peaking Lights, Moon Duo, Teen, Sun Araw and, of course, Panda Bear. When the contact to ask if, at the release of Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper wants to answer a few questions, the priority that repeats in continuation is that "the article speaks especially disk Noah". How would the Panda: Oh, sweet.
The atmosphere vaguely sci-fi album sounds like a confirmation of the strong agreement in terms of approach and plays with you and Noah Lennox ...
It was the first time we have worked side by side, for Tomboy we had to factor in everything away, but already at the beginning of the session the engineer looks at me and says, "You two are perfect together: Noah knows what he wants and you know how to get it. "We compared a lot to find a sonic palette that depart from assemblies of sounds and instrumentation most common. The music is conversation before creation and the use that you do is the key point. We have many things in common, different abilities that are aimed at a similar approach - both we prefer to be essential, a pure sound, taking care of the details - and even musical tastes similar: it is rare that Noah let me hear something that I do not appreciate. Two of the few things on which we do not get agreement are Elton John (I do not like it) and the Talking Heads (he does not like them)!
Sound pure, simple melodies: minimalism has always been a trademark of all your work. Where is rooted in your training?
I started playing the guitar at age 14 and was immediately fascinated by its wide spectrum of sounds. Then there was an illusion tion, when I realized that my favorite of discs were based on two or three agreements, even if the result left no trans- disappear this simplicity. In the basement of the school I attended there was a rehearsal room: my first encounter with an analog synthesizer took place there, with a Kong MS-10 (monophonic synth intro- duced in 1977, Ed). It was the most bizarre thing I had ever seen, but I had no idea how to approach it ... How could play only one note at a time? And with quell'effet- to so strange! I used the machines man- black first with Spacemen 3 and then with Spectrum, but the big breakthrough came with the EAR (first album Mesmerised, 1994, Ed), when I started using synths as the EMS Synthi AKS (including another famous fan was Brian Eno, Ed): complex machines and elegant, capable of absolute simplicity or complexity infinite .
Forever Alien, album released under the name Spectrum in 1997, is a manifesto: title and cover.
I've always had an attraction for sounds that seemed to come from this world: the title refers to this, but also a kind of alienation that I had towards the human race ... I am a religious person, but far from common acce - tion of God, from organized religion. I find myself in quite some fundamentals of Buddhism and especially in animism, are convinced that sounds and objects can have a real personality. Like that VCS3 on the cover of Forever Alien! That analog synth, one of the first laptops whether marketed, is a declaration of love for that technology. With the guitar sound spectrum is more limited, because with modular synthesizers can play the same effect by having a much more detailed control and amplify the possibilities of connections between the sounds. At the time of Spacemen 3 experimenting a lot with those machines, but only after I began to understand what I was doing (laughs, Ed). In general I have always loved to be dangerous, work with security locks open.
With EAR project created to be shared with other musician sti, you worked with Kevin Shields, and as Spectrum've released an album with the Silver Apples, A Lake Of Teardrops of 1999. But above all, there is Forever Alien
a song dedicated to a pioneer of electronics and pillar of the seminal Radiophonic Workshop, Delia Derbyshire, which have subsequently collaborated on two discs of the EAR, Vibrations and continuum, shortly before she died in 2001. What do you remember her?
The first disc of the Radiophonic Workshop, BBC Radiophonic Music of '68, has been my constant companion during the recordings of Forever Alien. I knew also that Delia, like me, was born in Coventry, then took the phone book and ... I found her number. Delia was extremely generous and patient towards me, taught me most of the things that I know today about the sound, especially physics, showing how mathematics is the driving force of the music. It was a huge privilege for me. Noah is usually define his music more than psychedelic, "transformative": I find it a perfect expression even to summarize the approach that I shared it with Kevin that with Si- meon of Silver Apples.
Looking ahead, what do you think which have as bia made the Spacemen 3 so im- portant for the music of the last thirty years?
I believe that the fundamentals have been the ability to inspire each other with crazy stubbornness and the fact that feelings Vamo that in modern life there was massive un'i- pocrisia who did not want to accede. All that harmful misinformation about drugs, sex, religion, political ca ... We had not expected to change the music, but we were confronting a lot about how distance ourselves from all this. ×
6 PIONEERS
DELL'ELETTRONICA
FOR Kember
Delia Derbyshire
& Ron Grainer
"I think of Doctor Who
Theme (made in 1963
but released as a single
BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1973, Ed). Exceptional genius, in a totally higher level. "
Kraftwerk
"The song Neon Lights (album The Man-Machine of 1978, Ed), sublime, elegant, essential, he sent me out of my mind."
Silver Apples
"The self-titled album (1968, Ed) has definitely expanded the boundaries of music, unique training. The new definition of a kind. "
Morton Subotnick
"As the Silver Apples, he is a pioneer, supremely interesting. I would mention the album The Wild Bull (1968, Ed). "
Tod Dockstader
"Would indicate any of his numerous works. The first composer of concrete music to which I approached, an innovator crowds. "
Peter Zinoviev
"Electronic Calendar: ten years of study on the music of the early synthesizers and computers
by this genius, founder of the EMS,
the company that invented many synths, including the VCS 3. Coming in February, one of the albums I'm working. "

[AnEmptyBliss]

roopn wrote:

also, EmptyBliss, how are the tracks divided onto the sides of the LPs?

Sides A/B finish at CTYS. But there is no indication anywhere in the box that says how the tracks are split over the sides themselves. Not listened to it yet. Sorry!

[JohnsonNoise]

dat shipping notification

Spoiler: show

^ me eating the white tissue paper when it gets here

[jetski]

I have Google News Alerts on for "Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper," but it's kinda funny because I actually see most articles/reviews posted in this thread before I even get the email. CA always has the scoop

[MossMain]

This is so sick! My record just shipped and I'm 45 minutes away from ann arbor!

Something for the weekend!

['Bros' Owl]

The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/j ... per-review

positive reviews across the board so far..

[SlashingGoodTime]

Had no idea Pete learned the ins and outs of synthery from the legend herself, Delia Derbyshire. kinda blows my mind!

[SlashingGoodTime]

'Bros' Owl wrote:

The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/j ... per-review

positive reviews across the board so far..

Recurring 4

[Losercore]

Stanshant wrote:

BU-RRI-TO
BU-RRI-TO
BU-RRI-TO
BU-UH-RRI-I-TO

is what it sounds like to me.

incoming 7.4 confirmed

[Sonic boom]

SlashingGoodTime wrote:

Had no idea Pete learned the ins and outs of synthery from the legend herself, Delia Derbyshire. kinda blows my mind!

she didnt really teach me about synths as much as she taught me about the principles of sound & how to control the harmonics & overtones , how to build stuff from scratch by analysis by ear .
And mostly - about the math of music -which she had special lenses for where she could instantly find magic in the math .
it makes me sad to realise how much i miss her still.
there are some presences that can never be filled . and u just dont know . the reaper dont knock twice.....
luckily.....I only have to listen to her era defining & tech smashing masterpieces & she comes racing outta the speakers like a bat out of hell......

Noah loves her stuff too .
mr noah & boys latin both feel like they give her original dr.who theme a fair tip of the hoodie .

[dervish]

i loved reading that you recorded your desk chair for a bass sound. any other random ones you can throw our way that may be unconventional like that?

[jetski]

Sonic boom wrote:

it makes me sad to realise how much i miss her still.
there are some presences that can never be filled . and u just dont know . the reaper dont knock twice.....
luckily.....I only have to listen to her era defining & tech smashing masterpieces & she comes racing outta the speakers like a bat out of hell......

Noah loves her stuff too .
mr noah & boys latin both feel like they give her original dr.who theme a fair tip of the hoodie .

Thanks for sharing, Pete. Her legacy certainly lives on not just through her own music, but through yours and Noah's too.

[Zero Cool]

Seeing the magic starting to happen!

pbvsgr.com looks & sounds awesome!

the snippet of Cosplay sounds sweet as well

OG Faces in the Crowd, Jabberwoky, Papadum & Cosplay, those tracks are just as good as the rest, you guys must have had a hard time choosing between tracks, Sonic! you nailed it, though!

Reading, Watching, Listening and Experiencing the Grim Reaper... Too much info.. can't handle it, hehehe...

Speaking of reading, I've read Panda's Pitchfork Story and this surprises me a little bit: "We watch the covers flip past, like tiles in an old airport arrivals board: There’s Detroit techno producer Omar-S, Sade’s Love Deluxe, Norwegian disco prankster Todd Terje, a Sierra Leone musician with an album called Dead Men Don’t Smoke Marijuana, plus Oasis and Deadmau5 (one early Grim Reaper demo was actually dubbed “Deadmaus Thing”)"

Noah likes Deadmau5?

Sonic, if you're reading, could you clarify this - Does Noah like Deadmau5? if so, what's the latest album or song by Deadmau5 Noah has been playing lately?

PS

I'm making that question 'cause recently I've been listening to the latest Deadmau5' album because of my brother, he's into him and he has played to me that album a couple of times, but I haven't take a proper look into this guy Deadmua5 TBH. Actually, there's a song by him that reminds of 'Comfy in Nautica' 'cause it has car racing sounds.

Hope you can give us some insight on that, Sonic.

[Sonic boom]

Hmm....
.... The toilet flushing is one of the water sounds we used in either sequential or lonely wonderer...
.....I think in tandem with a vocoder .......
The intros and some of the 'attendant' sounds are from old kids toys with voice synths I re-wired 15 years ago or so . I used a lot of modified stuff for that - prince real starts with some I think ...
I used equipment from the '60's thru to present day .
We wanted a unique palette , with super powers .....

I expect he would like deadmau5 .
He has a very wide and open music taste .
Hope it's goodtimes all points
Pk

[Zero Cool]

Oh, thanks for the reply, Sonic

And I apologize for all my grammar mistakes. (I'm at school, I shouldn't be on-line here... but there is too much too read lol)

[StrangeClams]

doing math hw and listening to GR like "it comes to span these spaces, only you construct this basis"

[jetski]

StrangeClams wrote:

doing math hw and listening to GR like "it comes to span these spaces, only you construct this basis"

The spasm is a line defined by the equation y = 4x + 3

Graph the spasm

[hazel wet lap]

btw, is the album 33 or 45 rpm? and what about 3rd disc, mr noah? also is that ep available separately or just w/ the album?

[faded arrow]

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/panda-bear-fireside-chat

Has this been shared yet? About to listen

[tender]

fadedarrow wrote:

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/panda-bear-fireside-chat

Has this been shared yet? About to listen

Thanks so much for sharing this