The Avalanches
The Avalanches Prep Since I Left You 20th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue
It’s hard to imagine (at least for some of us) that 2001 was 20 years ago. That’s good news for music fans since it means a ton of great music has and will be released with a deluxe reissue. The latest from that batch is the Avalanches’ highly influential debut album Since I Left You [it was released in their native Australia in November 2000]. No one quite used samples like the Avalanches did on Since I Left You and became a blueprint for emerging genres years after its original release. Thus, it makes perfect sense that there’d be material that had yet to be heard from the original sessions from the turn of the century. That album is set to be reissued on June 4 via Astralwerks and will feature a number of audial goodies, including fresh mixes from such artists as the...
The Avalanches Announce Release Date for We Will Always Love You
Australian group the Avalanches are back, and they’ve brought some talented peers with them. On Monday, the electronic group announced that their long-awaited record, We Will Always Love You, is set to drop on Dec. 11. Along with the announcement, the Avalanches shared two new singles from the project: “Music Makes Me High” and “Take Care in Your Dreaming,” the latter featuring Denzel Curry, Tricky and Sampa The Great. “Music Makes Me High” is a sweet, atmospheric reminder of what it felt like to be in a club with a gospel choir leading the way, while “Take Care in Your Dreaming” is a piano-backed, auto-tuned journey in itself. The record announcement follows the release of tracks like the Blood Orange-featuring “We Will Always Love You” and “Running Red Lights” with Rivers Cuomo and ...
Tony Hawk Teams Up with The Avalanches to Sell One-of-a-Kind X-Ray Vinyl for Charity
The skateboarding and electronic music crossover you didn’t you know you needed is here, thanks to Tony Hawk and electronic music outfit The Avalanches. The legendary skateboarder has joined forces with The Avalanches to launch a fundraiser for Hawk’s The Skatepark Project, which helps underserved communities create safe and inclusive public skateparks for young people. Following the release of their single “Reflecting Light,” the renowned duo teamed up with custom vinyl manufacturer Small Run to press a limited number of records onto X-ray film. “In a tribute to the ‘bone records’ of the 1950’s Soviet era, (where banned western records were cut onto X-Ray film and smuggled into the USSR to avoid authorities) we’ve come togeth...
The Avalanches are Digitizing and Converting a 1974 Broadcast Signal Into Music
A message that was first used in an attempt to contact intelligent life is now being turned into music. That’s right, if you thought you’d seen it all when it comes to clever sampling and creative audio to MIDI conversions, Australian electronic duo, The Avalanches, are about to take things a step further. It’s unknown whether Frank Drake, creator of the 1974 Arecibo Message, envisioned his work being turned into a song several decades later, but that is exactly what’s been teased in The Avalanches’ latest post. The astronomer and astrophysicist’s now-famous radio wave message was originally beamed to a star cluster 25,000 light-years away. The message contained basic information about humanity and planet Earth. At the time of t...
