M83 is the music project of Anthony Gonzalez, named after the Messier 83 spiral galaxy. It was started by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France in 2001. Together, the two released the self tittled debut album in 2001, and went on to release the sophomore album, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, in 2003. Fromageau left the group shortly after the tour for that album. Gonzalez went back to the studio to work on the next album, Before the Dawn Heals Us, which was released in 2005. M83 also made a bunch of remixes for other shoegaze indie rock electo pop bands, like Goldfrapp, Bloc Party, Van She. M83 then went on to record some ambient sounds, and compiled them into the album, Digital Shades Vol. 1, released in 2007. Saturdays=Youth, the fifth album by M83 was produced and helped by Ken Thomas (known for his work with Sigur Rós, The Sugarcubes, Boys in a Band, Cocteau Twins, and Suede), Ewan Pearson (who has also produced for Tracey Thorn, The Rapture and Ladytron) and Morgan Kibby (of The Romanovs), and was released in 2008. This album was a tribute to the 80's and is really about teenage life. The latest album of blissed out electo shoegaze inspired by the 80's music from M83 is Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, a double album released in October 2011. According to Gozalez in an interview the idea behind the album is that everyone dreams, but depending on age and environment those dreams vary greatly. He said that the album was "written like a soundtrack to an imaginary movie with different ambiences, different atmospheres, different tempos, different orchestrations and different instrumentation."
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