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Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy

Warp Records · music · Watch on YouTube

Music performance & songs

What it is

The official video for Boards of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy, built from reassembled documentary footage. It forms a dreamlike journey from space to the sea and shore, including Kittinger's 1960 high-altitude jump and surfing footage.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN mentions it as a favorite ambient track and as a nicely edited tribute to Kittinger's jump.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “you can watch nicely edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 record of 100,000 feet”

    Music video opens with edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 jump

    NelsonMinar, 2012-10 · Recommendation · in “Supersonic free fall from 120,000 feet live at 8:30AM EST”

  2. “Listed among favorite ambient tracks”

    radiorental, 2015-08 · Recommendation · in “Ferrolic”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: boards of canada, dayvan cowboy, ambient, music video, joe kittinger

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