THE VIDEO SHELF · ambient electronic music
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
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 HN readers recommended it
HN mentions it as a favorite ambient track and as a nicely edited tribute to Kittinger's jump.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Warp Records
- Topic
- ambient electronic music
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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While we're waiting for the weather to clear, you can watch nicely edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 record of 100,000 feet; it's at the start of the Boards of Canada video for Dayvan Cowboy: [VIDEO]
NelsonMinar on Hacker News · 2012-10
In Supersonic free fall from 120,000 feet live at 8:30AM ESTAphex Twin: Avril 14th [LINK] Boards of Canada: Dayvan Cowboy [VIDEO] Solar Fields: Reborn [LINK] Brian Eno: Music for Airports [LINK] And so forth, I have something of an incomplete playlist of similar 'ambient' [LINK]
radiorental on Hacker News · 2015-08
In Ferrolic
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