Mind Field, Jake Johnson and Music with Animal Collective
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- There’s no denying Animal Collective deserves a seat at the table when talking about music-skate video pairings, so when we heard about their latest album “Isn’t It Now?” we used the opportunity to hit them up and talk skateboarding.
Interview by: Ian Michna [ / ian.michna ]
Edited by: Max Seeger [ / mrseeger ]
Thumbnail Photo: Jonathan Mehring [ / mehringphoto ]
Additional Photography:
French Fred
Abby Portner
Brian Feinzimer
John Edmonds
Jacob Constenstein
Alexandra Garcia
Robin Laananen
I have a story about Mindfield. I emailed someone from AWS asking where the premier was going to be and they said in downtown Manhattan. They said feel free to show up and attend. Me and a friend went from Long Island to Manhattan on cold February night and it turned out you needed tickets so we had to go home without seeing the premier. I emailed the same person from AWS a few days later saying what happened and they felt so bad they sent me the Mindfield DVD and an AWS deck that's hung on my wall as we speak.
Respect
I’ve read your story somewhere else he, maybe Slap?
@@TongueOfCrow yep lol
@bill855 that's awesome
Time is broken down as: Before Jake Johnson's Minefield part and After Jake Johnson's Minefield part.
Fact
Double fact
Man this is a trip back to my formative years. Sneaking into the local reservoir on a sunny summer day in 2010, blasting Animal Collective and drinking beers like only teenagers know how. Life feels a lot less colorful now.
Animal Collective forever
Next Jenkem interview - Built to Spill?
Hell. Yes.
or DJ Premier. I bet he'd be down to talk about skateboarding.
wowwwwwwwww
Kinda weird seeing their actual names instead of Panda and Avey. I really enjoyed this. More please!
I was trippin out. I didn’t know their real names lmao.
the Jake part is still my all time favorite
mind field introduced me to animal collective at the age of 15 who then became my favorite band to this day :)
MORE LIKE THIS PLS
The mini-disc part was interesting. I had a friend who'd bring his with the wide mic to most shows in the late 90s and record them from the audience. The recording quality was surprisingly good.
It even looks like the VX of audio
i bet all the sung tongs era AC tunes were recorded with that thing .
This is one of Best vids you guys have ever uploaded.
the first time i heard animal collective was on the digital skateboarding IMAGINE my favorite skateboarding video when was a kid the intro is epic and give me a ton of nostalgia i miss those days
2:15 definitely felt that immediately way to convey that message
The first skate video I’ve ever bought with my own money. Fell in love with Animal Collective ever since
This was great lads, please explore the relationship between music and skateboarding more!
I’ve been touring in bands for years at this point and it wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t discover so much music through skate videos, such an important part of my life and I can imagine many others feel the same!
I saw them at Melt! Festival in 2009 wearing Mindfield Shirts on stage. It was my first time seeing them live. I hope they'll come to Germany again soon, but it seems tricky.
That set is legendary, you witnessed real life sorcery
Mindfield and animal collective changed my approach and vision about skateboarding. Also I got lucky when I saw them in a show in San Francisco like ten years ago 👏🏽👏🏽
really good interview
What he said about skateboarding surviving all these years is so accurate. It’s 2024 and a vast majority of us are still obsessed with a plank of wood nailed to a roller skate.
When I think of skate nostalgia their music is playing in my head 😅
My girls changed my life thank you guys forever
Shout out to the Mini Disc! I bought one in the early aughts right after the iPod came out. I remember thinking "That thing will never catch On".
very cool thank you for the interview
My girls all time classic
world class content
back in the days, I was get into skateboarding again by Mind Field video, I remember I watched the Heath part first, but still the part that still mesmerize me to this day is Jake and AVE part.
Nice video! Stuff like this is great and I really appreciate it!
One of my favorite parts
Jenkem don’t miss 👏❤️
Amazing work !!!
this rules, AnCo has been one of my favorite bands for over a decade thanks to mindfield
This is dope, more good music in skate videos. I wonder if next you could interview somebody from David Bowies estate? It seems like they are in a similar mindset when it comes to music rights for skate videos and movies
Shoutout to MJ for using Five Years in Pretty Sweet. I was in 8th grade and though i didn’t fully get into Bowie until i was 20, that song was the seed.
I wouldn't be into half the shit im into if it wasn't for skate videos. Anybody have some examples of artists or bands you've found through skate videos that you've become massive fans of?
The Delgados in that Danny Brady vid.
Placebo, from Appleyard Flip parts.
Future Islands
The Walkmen
Rodriguez (Blueprint, Sugarman)
Judas Priest
Gang Starr
Nas
Jeezy
Canned Heat
Black Sabbath
The Clash
Joy Division
When Mindfield came out i was only skating for less than 2 years. I already watched classics before Mindfield like Baker 3, Fully flared and more. But when Mindfield came out and I watched it, everything changed for me in skateboarding. I realized that skateboarding is more of an art form. The art direction, style, visuals/fillers and edit of this whole video really activated some shit in my brain to look at things differently which really made this video TOP NOTCH TO THIS DAY!
From Howard county maryland like 10 min away from Merriweather love animal collective
Legendary interview, I wish u spoke on their relationships with skaters bc iv seen on Instagram panda is pretty close with Attiba & his brother.
Jkjhnsn Mindfield part is a fucking masterpiece. I should get an iPad, frame it and put it on an endless loop in my living room.
This is awesome
Shout out Fancy Lad from Boston!
ohhhh, panda bear x fancy lad collab when?
jake is like the tim duncan of skateboarding.
Panda liking Fancy Lad is awesome
no mention of the comfy in nautica music video? that's all clark hassler skating around NYC. i wanna hear from noah how that came about.
💚
I wanna hear the my girls demo
💙💙💙
song at the end??
animal collective - "prester john" : )
Do Streetie Boys next?
Panda!!! 🐼
Merriweather post pavilion is amazing.
This was fuckin rad🙏
SebastiAn clears
Heeeey I Kno that guy
avey tare and panda bear
They're both so cool
I’ve never felt so seen lmao
s2
There have been so many bands and songs I got into because of skate videos. But even skate videos couldn’t make this band good.
They suck now but everything up to their visual album ODDSAC is good
@@ambientrealms_ Highly disagree. Isn't It Now? was really good, imo
Dude stop moving your hands all over when talking