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Matt&Dan's new Daniel Avery video is a 48-minute chill-out classic

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Date
5 October 2018
A series of curved white lines form a broken circle against a black background. The lines vary in length and thickness, creating a sense of rotation.
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Daniel Avery, Matt&Dan, Connor Campbell: Visible Gravity

Earlier this week, mop-headed techno titan Daniel Avery treated listener’s to a brand new 50 minute long ambient composition. Downloadable for free via electronic music site XLR8R, Visible Gravity is, Daniel says, “an ode to those early and quiet moments in a night where the strobe light is still only a hopeful glimmer beyond the horizon, a sign of the euphoria to follow.” Which basically means it’ll sound perfect when you’re trying to shake off the memories of the night just gone.

If that wasn’t enough, Daniel also released a super-soothing animation to go alongside Visible Gravity, directed by Matt&Dan and produced by It’s Nice That’s very own Connor Campbell.

The deadly duo say that the concept arrived after an experiment with sound waves. “We began to ask ourselves how we could evolve the process of how we recorded the album cover further and bring this new world to life unlike the static images we have captured before,” say Matt&Dan. “This time we imported the mix into Ableton and used an Oscilloscope to view the waveforms. We then added various plug-ins which let us manipulate the frequencies which gave us a live visual representation in a totally new way to how we have created previous artworks.”

Detailed, granular, and beautiful, not many things have made us want to go out and get wrecked quite so much in recent years. A future chill-out classic has arrived.

A 3D render of concentric white circles and dotted rings on a black background. The shapes create a symmetrical, target-like composition.
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Daniel Avery, Matt&Dan, Connor Campbell: Visible Gravity

A 3D render of white, glowing lines swirling in a circular motion against a black background. The lines curve and taper, creating a sense of fluid, orbital movement.
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Daniel Avery, Matt&Dan, Connor Campbell: Visible Gravity

A 3D render of a white, geometric wireframe shape against a black background. The form consists of intersecting lines that create a symmetrical, hourglass-like silhouette, surrounded by a field of fine white dots.
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Daniel Avery, Matt&Dan, Connor Campbell: Visible Gravity

A 3D render of a white, shimmering ring of particles against a black background. The circle is broken on the left side, where the dots form a denser, more structured arc.
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Daniel Avery, Matt&Dan, Connor Campbell: Visible Gravity

A 3D render of sharp, white and grey shards radiating from a central point against a black background. The geometric forms create a sense of explosive movement and depth.
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Daniel Avery, Matt&Dan, Connor Campbell: Visible Gravity

A black and white 3D render of sharp, intersecting shards and angular lines. The white forms create a fragmented, crystalline structure against a dark background.
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Daniel Avery, Matt&Dan, Connor Campbell: Visible Gravity

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Josh Baines

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Josh Baines joined It's Nice That from July 2018 to July 2019 as News Editor, covering new high-profile projects, awards announcements, and everything else in between.

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