Battles - Futura | A Take Away Show

La Blogotheque presents Battles | Futura | A Take Away Show

"Nous étions tous épuisés, le groupe en particulier : ils avaient perdu de leur rigueur, ils se laissaient plus aller, John le premier qui face à sa batterie, montrait qu'il luttait avec son instrument malgré la fatigue. Jouer « Futura » ce soir là, pour eux, c'était lutter contre la bête. Leur bête."

"We were all exhausted, but the band was dead tired. They were less rigorous, drifting, especially John, struggling with his drumkit despite the fatigue. Playing Futura, that night, was like fighting the beast. Their beast.."

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Directed by Nat Le Scouarnec
Image by Benjamin Rufi | Charles Cornier | David Ctiborsky | Denis Gaubert | Nat Le Scouarnec
Sound by François Clos | J.B. Aubonnet
Edit by Clementine Decremps
Mix by J.B. Aubonnet

Shot with Nikon DSLRs : D5100 / D7000 / D3S

[dashwig]

John Staniers' drumming is how drummers wish theirs to be...without most of them knowing it ;-)

[renapeppers]

The entire band is amazing. As a "drummer" I find so many things in John Stanier's drumming. Really terrific musician.

[nicknickson]

damn the way the loop chugs back in at 4:25 is so nice. what a good band man

[nonotreallyok]

Please tell me why the rest of the world cannot recognize BRILLIANCE like this performance.

[mtrps_]

i come back to this performance every now and then, still blew me away, like most take away shows does . holy fuck they're good.

[AmpliFreQuency]

I forgot I had this song in my favorites playlist on Spotify. When it started playing I didn't know what it was (phone in pocket, headphones on), but let it continue. As soon as 0:53 came around I legit made the stanky face and head bobbing hard from how taken back I was. Still sounds amazing as it did the first time.

[ChicChicken]

I am so amazed. I need to invent new words to express what this song makes in my guts.

[warinMoscow]

This is by far the best Take Away Show. I love this guys, ...

[SQUEEDGEY]

I don't know why but this song kinda reminds me of like Mordor and the husel and busel of orcs building weapons and you can hear a big fire dragon in the background starting to stir in the depths😮 I f!@#$% love this song!

[Seth]

These guys are all really talented musicians, This track is groovy as hell

[CancunMimosa]

probably one of the coolest songs about a font ever.

[BGriffJames]

Ian Williams has been doing the only interesting things with a guitar since 1998

[MichaelCoull]

wow when it goes into that riff at about 5.30.... the echo of the room, ahhhh so good

[WeirdBeach]

Christ.what a fucking performance.the perfect band.

[shellyboy]

I remember years of bleeding fingers. I started guitar lessons when I was 13. I played in bands for 25 years. For the first 10 years I practiced 5 hours a day. I still sucked in comparison to real musicianship, but I became proficient. I can still recognize the few from the fakers within seconds. Opinionated? Yes, and harsh when it comes to musicians and vocalists (yes, I took singing lessons too). Whether you love or hate Timberlake or GaGa, (I don't dislike), they put in the time.

[shellyboy]

What can I say? How nicer a way can I say expand your musical horizons? It's good to see some bands attempt to play instrumental music, which does require musicianship. Bands today don't start for the music, but for the girls/guys and the money. It's practice on your instrument, not rehearsal that makes a good musician. One guy took a survey of great musicians and found it took a minimum of 10, 000 hours of practice to attain a high level of musicianship. At 5 hours a day do the math.

[JuanVanDusen]

Body movin, body movin
with the a-1 sound sound so soothing.

[iwazused]

@Illumirage Mirrored is MOSTLY instrumentals, but there is a few tracks with vocals but the vocals are used as more of an instrument because the lyrics are indistinguishable and the vocals drenched in effects. Its not like there is a verse chorus verse and a hook, the vocals on mirrored are used to and some new textures to the sound. they kicked out the vocalist member for there new album....haha

[thomo]

The reverb from the room makes it even better

[SoundofaSmirk]

this is absolutely sick. crazy instrumental shit.