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Last night I ripped and dumped the entire Mogwai discography onto my iPod and this morning was re-listening to one of my most favourite songs of theirs - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong from their epic 2001 album Rock Action. It's an absolutely breathtaking nine-and-a-half minute instrumental song. I love the breakdown at around five minutes in, where it's just a luscious combination of glitches, whirls and a banjo. I know it makes no sense that that combination could sound beautiful, but trust me. Listen to it accompanying someone's film experiment here.

I was just reading up on it and learned that the chanting towards the final two minutes of the song is performed by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) and Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol). The Scots (and in this case, a Welshman as well) have a 'broken social scene' not unlike Canada's own indie circle - like Feist, BSS, Metric, Stars, The Dears, etc., they're constantly collaborating with one another.

Take Gary Lightbody's 2001 project Reindeer Section, for example - it brought together the talents of members of Scottish bands Mogwai, Arab Strap, Belle & Sebastian, Idlewild, Teenage Fanclub and Mull Historical Society (which reminds me, I should go investigate what he's been up to lately). They released two excellent albums and then wrapped things up to continue working with their existing bandmates. But according to a recent interview with Gary Lightbody, there's interest in working on a new Reindeer Section album sometime in 2008.

In other Mogwai news - remember when Summer (Priority Version) was used in a Levi's ad?! And, what Stuart Brathwaite thinks of Radiohead's 'business model'.