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M83 HUWD

Justin,

Hope you are well. Do you know of any detailed interviews you or Anthony have done regarding the production of this album? I was late to the party and discovered how great and deep this album is beyond just the hit single, probably finding it 3 years ago or so. Been a constant fixture in my personal rotation ever since. Would love some insight into some of the synths and drum machines, layers, etc. that went into the production. So much of it is so dense but still breaths. No simple task.

Checks all my boxes for huge pads, shoe gaze guitars, awesome arps, retro tones, etc.

BTW, when I'm working in my home studio on something, my six year old daughter frequently comes in and requests I put the "frog song" up on the monitors, loves dancing to it and thinks it's so rad to hear another little girl in a song.

Thanks brother!

Blake
 
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Howdy. Very glad you enjoy that record, thank you for the high praise.

I'm sure I did interviews relating to it, but I'm not sure how much production detail I actually covered. At present, I just don't recall where and when I may have expounded upon all the detail. Maybe Tape Op? Maybe on some podcast interview type stuff? I frankly just don't remember. So cool re: your daughter. :)

Suffice to say, the album was an indulgence in pure maximalism. Also, I made everything super bright lol. Just my taste I guess.
J
 
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