History Music / TheAvalanches

After the parting of Alarm 115, they used some old vinyl records they bought to make a demo tape consisting of 30 songs called ''Pan Amateur''. A new group was formed in 1997 that had Chater, Diblasi, Seltmann, and new guy Gordon [=McQuilten=] on keyboards to play the tracks live in concert. Their first four shows were played under [[IHaveManyNames various names]]. [-[[hottip:*:Swinging Monkey Cocks, Quentin's Brittle Bones, and Whoops Down Syndrome. No, really.]]-]

It wasn't until their fifth show until they finally became The Avalanches. The name is actually a ShoutOut to the album ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' by... [[NamesTheSame The Avalanches.]] [-[[hottip:*:Fun fact: a giant replica of the vinyl pressing of ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' appears in the video for "Frontier Psychiatrist" as another ShoutOut.]]-]

The Avalanches started work on their debut album, ''Since I Left You'' in the middle of 1998, using the WorkingTitle, ''Pablo's Cruise'' [--[[hottip:*:which would later be merely the title of one of the songs]]--]. They finally finished it in 2000. However, the release was [[ScheduleSlip delayed]] due to attempts to get the samples cleared. The album finally dropped in Australia in July (America and the UK got it in 2001), along with a mixtape that served as sort of a preview of the album, along with mixing in some of the samples used on it and the group's personal favorite songs.

* OneWomanWail: The intro of "Electricity", in a sense. It's actually multiple wails by the same woman layered over each other.

After the parting of Alarm 115, they used some old vinyl records they bought to make a demo tape consisting of 30 songs called ''Pan Amateur''. A new group was formed in 1997 that had Chater, Diblasi, Seltmann, and new guy Gordon [=McQuilten=] on keyboards to play the tracks live in concert. Their first four shows wer eplayed under [[IHaveManyNames various names]]. [-[[hottip:*:Swinging Monkey Cocks, Quentin's Brittle Bones, and Whoops Down Syndrome. No, really.]]-]

The Avalanches started work on their debut album, ''Since I Left You'' in the middle of 1998, using the WorkingTitle, ''Pablo's Cruise''. They finally finished it in 2000. However, the release was [[ScheduleSlip delayed]] due to attempts to get the samples cleared. The album finally dropped in Australia in July (America and the UK got it in 2001), along with a mixtape that served as sort of a preview of the album, along with mixing in some of the samples used on it and the group's personal favorite songs.

* RegionalBonus: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Some sample had to be taken out of international releases due to licensing issues. Most notably the flute sample in "Summer Crane".

* WordSaladLyrics: "Slow Walking" and "Everyday".

** There's also an instance of Siamese ''Triplet'' Songs; "Flight Tonight", "Close To You" and "Diner's Only". The synth sample heard in "Flight Tonight" keeps playing for a bit while it goes into "Close To You", which in turn has a section near the middle that is sort of reprised in "Diner's Only". There's also a vocal sample used in "Close To You" that goes "Gentleman that's going round, turning the joint upside down" that can be heard in "Diner's Only, but a lot quieter.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I found a world so new..."'']]

* BrokenRecord: A few of their songs.

* ''El Producto'' (1997)
* ''Undersea Community'' (1999)

* LastNoteNightmare: "Two Hearts In 3/4 Time", a [[SweetDreamsFuel lovely, calming, bubbly song,]] ends with discordant blip sounds and frantic drumming drowning out the rest of the song before segueing into "Avalanche Rock".

* {{Sampling}}: Lots. In fact, ''Since I Left You'' was supposedly made using over '''3,500''' samples.

* WordSaladTitle: The three names teh group had before settling on "The Avalanches".

* GenreRoulette: ''Since I left You'' switches between House and Trip-Hop a lot, with some ambient thrown in near the end of the album.

They've also started work on a second album... in 2005. [[DevelopmentHell No, it still hasn't come out yet.]] There have been many announcements of the album's development, but no release date. They ''did'' reveal [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0 a new track, though.]]

* LastNoteNightmare: Two Hearts In 3/4 Time, a [[SweetDreamsFuel lovely, calming, bubbly song,]] ends with discordant blip sounds and frantic drumming drowning out the rest of the song before segueing into "Avalanche Rock".

* WordSaladTitle: The three names teh group had before settling on "The Avalanches".

* WordSaladTitle: The three names teh group had before settling on "The Avalanches".
* WordSaladLyrics: "Slow Walking" and "Everyday".

It wasn't until their fifth show until they finally became The Avalanches. The name is actually a ShoutOut from the album ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' by... [[NamesTheSame The Avalanches.]] [-[[hottip:*:Fun fact: a giant replica of the vinyl pressing of ''Ski Surfing with The Avalanches'' appears in the video for "Frontier Psychiatrist" as another ShoutOut.]]-]

* {{Sampling}}: Lots. In fact, ''Since I Left You'' was supposedly made using over '''[[BeyondTheImpossible 3,500]]''' samples.