Animal Collective
Danse Manatee
sophomore animal collective album never before released on vinyl released here in a special edition heavyweight dmm edition 'danse manatee' was the second animal collective album and was originally released by catsup plate in july 2001 under the name avey tare panda bear and geologist the album was recorded in many different locations including avey's parents house the house the band shared in brooklyn heights and geologist's college dorm room and radio station to create the sounds the group made use of guitar synths samples and did percussion with whatever was lying around at the time of recording the band was into extreme frequencies their goal was to experiment with intense high and low sounds and how they occupied space in the room and moved around in the listener's head this created a challenge during the mastering process as they could not raise the volume of the whole mix without causing the sounds to digitally distort