John Maus - The Combine (Official Video)

"The Combine" is from the new album Screen Memories out now. Screen Memories is also a part of a career-spanning limited edition 6 LP box set being released in April 2018. www.johnma.us
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Directed and edited by Tina Rivera
Produced by Nic Amato
Footage shot by Luke Berhow

[@MrTonyxbox58]

I don’t understand how someone can make music this good. Blows my mind

[@davequinn2369]

I'm with you. Style.

[@joeking6972]

John has literally been my favorite musical artist for the past 2 years. Every single one of his tracks is at least a 7/10 for me. There are certain songs of his that I listen to every single day, I just can't get enough of the Maus man!

[@thomasdupont7186]

7/10 is a good note

[@morrisalanisette9067]

i think from studying medieval music. i think if these were voices instead of synths it would sound very similar to old medieval chanting music in terms of how it was written. im almost positive he wrote sheet music of this like a composer in a midi program. Writing music this way gives it a certain structure that can't be replicated in the normal pop way of writing music

[@zackjp]

When you drop a 15 strip of acid but you still gotta work the farm

[@panzeralienofficial]

lmao!

[@panzeralienofficial]

Most underrated comment on youtube! :D

[@JonathanGorr]

THAT is dangerous

[@zackjp]

@@JonathanGorr look out I see the combine comin

[@torbue5680]

i can confirm it with mushrooms

[@LeCoquinAmericain]

I absolutely cannot explain why or how much I love this song. The combine's coming....

[@bobbyperu8414]

I hope this is what it feels like to die

[@cristiandaspacoca3414]

Ugh! Freeman!!

[@nvjq]

In 1826 in Scotland, the inventor Reverend Patrick Bell designed (but did not patent) a reaper machine, which used the scissors principle of plant cutting - a principle that is still used today. The Bell machine was pushed by horses. A few Bell machines were available in the United States. In 1835, in the United States, Hiram Moore built and patented the first combine harvester, which was capable of reaping, threshing and winnowing cereal grain. Early versions were pulled by horse, mule or ox teams. In 1835, Moore built a full-scale version with a length of 5.2 m (17 ft), cut width of 4.57 m (15 ft) and by 1839, over 20 ha (50 acres) of crops were harvested. This combine harvester was pulled by 20 horses fully handled by farmhands. I see the combine coming. It's gonna dust us all to nothing. By 1860, combine harvesters with a cutting, or swathe, width of several metres were used on American farms. A parallel development in Australia saw the development of the stripper based on the Gallic stripper, by John Ridley and others in South Australia by 1843. The stripper only gathered the heads, leaving the stems in the field. I see the combine coming. It's gonna dust us all to nothing. The stripper and later headers had the advantage of less moving parts and only collecting heads, requiring less power to operate. Refinements by Hugh Victor McKay produced a commercially successful combine harvester in 1885, the Sunshine Header-Harvester. Combines, some of them quite large, were drawn by mule or horse teams and used a bullwheel to provide power. Later, steam power was used, and George Stockton Berry integrated the combine with a steam engine using straw to heat the boiler. I see the combine coming. It's gonna dust us all to nothing. At the turn of the twentieth century, horse drawn combines were starting to be used on the American plains and Idaho (often pulled by teams of twenty or more horses). In 1911, the Holt Manufacturing Company of California produced a self-propelled harvester. In Australia in 1923, the patented Sunshine Auto Header was one of the first center-feeding self-propelled harvesters. In 1923 in Kansas, the Baldwin brothers and their Gleaner Manufacturing Company patented a self-propelled harvester that included several other modern improvements in grain handling. I see the combine coming. It's gonna dust us all to nothing. Both the Gleaner and the Sunshine used Fordson engines; early Gleaners used the entire Fordson chassis and driveline as a platform. In 1929, Alfredo Rotania of Argentina patented a self-propelled harvester. International Harvester started making horse-pulled combines in 1915. At the time, horse powered binders and stand alone threshing machines were more common. In the 1920s, Case Corporation and John Deere made combines and these were starting to be tractor pulled with a second engine aboard the combine to power its workings. The world economic collapse in the 1930s stopped farm equipment purchases, and for this reason, people largely retained the older method of harvesting. A few farms did invest and used Caterpillar tractors to move the outfits. Tractor-drawn combines (also called pull-type combines) became common after World War II as many farms began to use tractors. An example was the All-Crop Harvester series. These combines used a shaker to separate the grain from the chaff and straw-walkers (grates with small teeth on an eccentric shaft) to eject the straw while retaining the grain. Early tractor-drawn combines were usually powered by a separate gasoline engine, while later models were PTO-powered. I see the combine coming. It's gonna dust us all to nothing. These machines either put the harvested crop into bags that were then loaded onto a wagon or truck, or had a small bin that stored the grain until it was transferred to a truck or wagon with an auger. In the U.S., Allis-Chalmers, Massey-Harris, International Harvester, Gleaner Manufacturing Company, John Deere, and Minneapolis Moline are past or present major combine producers. In 1937, the Australian-born Thomas Carroll, working for Massey-Harris in Canada, perfected a self-propelled model and in 1940, a lighter-weight model began to be marketed widely by the company. Lyle Yost invented an auger that would lift grain out of a combine in 1947, making unloading grain much easier. I see the combine coming. It's gonna dust us all to nothing. In 1952 Claeys launched the first self-propelled combine harvester in Europe;[14] in 1953, the European manufacturer Claas developed a self-propelled combine harvester named 'Hercules', it could harvest up to 5 tons of wheat a day. This newer kind of combine is still in use and is powered by diesel or gasoline engines. Until the self-cleaning rotary screen was invented in the mid-1960s combine engines suffered from overheating as the chaff spewed out when harvesting small grains would clog radiators, blocking the airflow needed for cooling. A significant advance in the design of combines was the rotary design. I see the combine coming. It's gonna dust us all to nothing. The grain is initially stripped from the stalk by passing along a helical rotor, instead of passing between rasp bars on the outside of a cylinder and a concave. Rotary combines were first introduced by Sperry-New Holland in 1975. In about the 1980s on-board electronics were introduced to measure threshing efficiency. This new instrumentation allowed operators to get better grain yields by optimizing ground speed and other operating parameters.

[@Clintyminty1]

Damn you shared some genius level shit, but as someone who drove modern combines: all you need to know is that those sumbitches will saw your goddam legs off if you don’t turn that shit off. It’s a mean machine that makes modern agricultural yields possible and a wicked smart thing

[@LauSaili]

So educational ... and slight of the hand ... I love the trick you pulled.

[@Luckingsworth]

That synth touches my soul

[@HouseholdDog]

Perfect mowing music.

[@Freedomfighter76239]

Household Dog you are 200% correct about that

[@tishainess9339]

Household Dog 😂😂🤓👍🏻

[@taylortrash]

i lol'd

[@enclave3908]

I rofld

[@jjll7019]

LOL I'm literally mowing my lawn now! Heard this song on my playlist and stopped to check if anyone commented on this awesome piece of music!

[@Caligula138]

*JOHN MAUS HAS RETURNED TO SAVE US*

[@dinlo]

Gustav get that nazi shit out of here

[@dinlo]

tip

[@surfthestreets86]

Caligula138 Indeed he has

[@l.l.b.4350]

from nostalgia

[@LDuke-pc7kq]

Getting obsessed 😍....

[@norwegianchill2886]

This dude proves it's never too late to start a career in making 80s music.

[@struckdown5533]

JOHN MAUS NEVER DIES

[@bracket8706]

@bookmarkthis oof

[@dss1095]

Mde

[@spitfirefrench]

MDE NEVER DIES

[@ujhazilaszlo5885]

I'm sure those who return here again and again are certainly special people

[@Pizza653]

I just found his music. This shit is so good it's unreal

[@DialloFTW]

JOHN MAUS IS THE FUCKING GOAT

[@ViewbobTrue]

# Yippie-kie-yay!

[@hospitalcleaner]

Thank you John Maus this is literally music to my ears

[@flowerdoodle2438]

He's in fine form here. Intense, brilliant tune. I especially dig the little runs at 2:01.

[@1234Staylor]

RING THE BELL. THE KING HAS RETURNED.

[@sachadcx]

this song gives me the chills

[@kevinfortsch]

Good chills

[@casketfactory]

MY LIFE HAS MEANING AGAIN!!!

[@minuteskill]

We wondered if he would ever come back and here he is... shimmering like teary eyes behind a veil of blur.

[@crbmchn]

thank you john maus

[@michellebadillo7574]

I hope John Maus releases more music soon! 💖 and please come back to south Florida when it’s safe to tour!

[@ljove3d]

THE DOCTOR IS IN!

[@2nasalad]

All that time in rural Minnesota really did something for his musical themes, I see

[@syndeemontgomery4528]

Have you been to Minnesota?

[@teddyn3051]

well i mean he’s from there

[@yeetmcskeet1446]

@@teddyn3051 wait hes from here?

[@ifound000]

who else has this on repeat since release?

[@planetofthewattsmadrid1490]

still do

[@oscarleedefur]

@@planetofthewattsmadrid1490 still do

[@DS-rx7nz]

The best song about combine harvestry since The Wurzels

[@lorelaim3294]

lmao I was just thinking about that fucking song when I saw this title.

[@tishainess9339]

😂😂🤓👍🏻

[@MDJarv]

This song is a velvety biscuit of delight floating through the unseen depths of the universe.

[@MotorsportUK2009]

We all thought you were dead, but you were just secretly making more gem for us, thank you

[@jonassnell132]

The more I hear anything from John Maus the more I like! Brilliant Art.

[@Nice_Fella]

John Maus I really enjoy your sparkly melodies and spooky synths. Spookly music. xxx

[@surfthestreets86]

TheDerpleton haha nice.

[@adhhxgxhhg]

TheDerpleton haha nice,

[@limpicatto]

haha, nice

[@dividualist]

haha, nice

[@croatiangroyper5195]

haha .nice

[@donnyhaywarddiscoinferno5871]

JM - thanks for existing

[@Axe-of-Boniface]

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible: Mathew 13-30 "Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn."

[@WillVanDenBerghe]

24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

[@user-on6ol8eh5w]

I was wondering if anyone else picked up on the religious themes of the song. Right down to the regal choir and symphony. Thanks for the post

[@davemckay4359]

this is musical composition

[@Tattedpitdad76]

that drum break gets me every time

[@sofiamoralesc.826]

John maus is the inmortal Soul of the beauty 💜

[@hahaxd6544]

wow, this track is complex, all my respect to you John, this is just the best thing you ever made!!

[@derekdolecki2759]

oh , theres more brotha

[@nyxia1]

THANK GOD FOR JOHN MAUS

[@gustafmarz9880]

Flo Mirtains part "Welcome to Habitat Skateboards" brought me here, and I am glad it did! Skating, & good music. All we ask for.

[@vl5545]

He did it again

[@christiansmithpercussion6472]

TIME TO GO BACK TO MY OLD TOWN HYYYYPPPPPEEEE

[@pedromcfernandes]

man... the digital pipes kill me every time. love everything

[@kevintwin7777]

Holy shit, this is something else.

[@KarenGarcia-pm2ck]

Great job, John Maus!!!!

[@cheesepwnage]

the video elevates the song to another level. The combine is coming....

[@EmergencyChannel]

Matthew 3:12 ESV His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

[@bretteveretthowell3276]

John Maus came down from the heavens to warn us: The combines coming!!!

[@pdymm]

yes. he's returned. thx universe.

[@MoistCubicle]

R.ip. Dolphasty Farkonis aka Adam Bretall. I wish you were here to see this new album by John Maus. I'm glad I showed him to you and I wish you were here to suggest more music like Ariel Pink.

[@treesonstumps]

Yeah, that's the stuff, LOVE the sounds, can't wait to have the cd to hear through headphones!

[@edenthearcane]

the bell at 0:47 makes me so happy lmao

[@samtheman5025]

It completes me

[@youdbettertube]

this is such a glorious tune, so magisterial

[@seelieee3098]

love this song

[@B.LEAGUER]

Phenomenal track, couldn’t be happier. What a video too-all the more fascinating given John’s childhood in Minnesota.

[@javierjones]

Every year i come to give love to this absolutely unique artist ❤

[@clararb99]

Maus is life ♡

[@miguelhurtado7227]

Mozart would be sooooo proud

[@zandre007]

Best comment ever!!!! Oscar Wilde would not come up with this shit.

[@nevinofbabel1297]

Best retort ever!!!! Groucho Marx would be amazed at your prowess.

[@authentichumanprogramming]

All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree. The heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away

[@SoundStationStrategy]

This song is perfect for the Bang Bang Bar. Hi Lynch, are you there?

[@youdbettertube]

Well Agent Cole don't hear so good....

[@electrocute1979]

Screen Memories is such an amazing title. it works on so many levels.

[@beatc]

finally new music form this genius 😍

[@diggyd]

Tune's Heavy

[@pazomotti]

My favorite song of all time.

[@regmtait100]

Glorious.

[@mikhailpuzanov1049]

Tears of joy!

[@rachelvessels]

LIKE A SCYTHE TO MY HEART

[@azyt7]

Love it . The combines comin’ alright

[@_crimewavves]

Love him so much. He's gonna come back with something new soon. 💖

[@canalenterparasair]

FOCKIN HYPE

[@TheDupeMaster]

Is he singing about half-life? City 17? The combine is coming!!

[@blablableh724]

combine = harvester = reaper = death

[@eyeprod3101]

It sounded so strange at first and then I got into the groove. Love it!

[@thedoc8008]

HE'S BACK BABY

[@danielacosta7814]

Sublime hypnotic track 💋

[@booringification]

ITS HAPPENING

[@zandre007]

Apocalypse?

[@SurfRawFiles]

Sick song,just watched Flo' s part its fits perfect!

[@Flexipop76]

- Ahhhhh aahhhh ahhhh ahhhh, AAAHHH AHHHH AAHHHH.

[@semiotecs]

I read in an interview where the journalist compared his stuff to Kraftwerk, John had never heard of them. "Some German band from forty years ago."

[@Drebel503]

I'll listen to this on my lawn mower once I become a boomer.

[@bloodcumulus]

catcher in the rye

[@j000gn]

THANK YOU

[@neptunb]

What a lovely day!

[@denisenova7494]

It's autumn. This means: John Maus season. Rejoice!

[@peoplewithoutaface]

Can't wait to see them

[@___kamal0902]

que grata noticia, nueva canción de John Maus, gran regreso

[@Renzsu]

John harvesting the souls of synth-heads all over the world with his heavenly combine harvester synths.

[@reservoirdude92]

This is one of those songs where I wish it just continued to build and build. This thing has a real orchestral vibe that i can't get enough of. And the fucking beats on this track are dusting me to nothing...

[@lorelaim3294]

it's gonna dust us all to nothing

[@patrickconnolly8146]

One of the best performances at Desert Daze 2017.

[@actarusminerva3481]

Thanks John, happy to listening your art again, after many years of patience

[@ilhan6378]

SIX FUCKING YEARS

[@paulxx11]

Ilhan Dogan I know.

[@Zealotux]

It's gonna dust us all.

[@Laroling]

This shit is lit lol. On a more serious note I love how it combines eighties elements, camp, retrowhatever and feckin religious music. Also reminds a bit of a perfect soundtrack for a Giallo.

[@taylortrash]

I wrote a poem to this song legged it, hoofed it, toe-heel express(ed) it, hit the bricks, hit the dirt, hit the grit, diddy-bop-jaywalked, in my, star-gazed castles in Spain. When apeing, climbing, wooden staircase, like, inside of your letters, your sugar reports, like, inside of perfectly-crisped just-around-the-edges marshmallow smores, a bit wide, because crackers, small, potato-skin-like, with my, skinny limbs, I put it in, spreading, its, lags, disco-dancing, like that, shindigged it, ootchy-cootched it, thrashing, I ate it up. My bonebag, saran wrapped, in, light-purple-people-juice color. Where I was, beat-pounding, pounding to beats, burning shoe leather, sashaying, I’ve already forgt. Standing, under, a weedy, tenobrosic-like-thick-twig, one day, slant-stood, and fell into depths of bamboo-like-green-decks. A rabbit, using that monkeyshine, doublecross, bait-n-switch, hid bones. The figure of a man was coming, to float up gently. My chest chassis, was, tinfoiled, like, packed-for-school-lunch-sodas, in claret-goo color. Where, I was, chevrolegging it, I’ve already forgt. Has that hump with that rock-jockeyed-top-area, begun, to turn color yet (Is that Bald Mountain?), I asked, a rocker creepybopper, when, I was changing, from the second or the third hit. Deep inside, ski-squatted, a voice, was asking. The stroll, toll-taking roll-up, bushy hill, in my castles in Spain, dream-swimming upstream, like, salmon, without limbs. (I don’t need a napkin anymore, then do I?) The ankles break off, elbows bend, those humerus regions. When, climbing the star-gazed staircase, rock-jokeyed-home-like-volcano (where’s the white vinegar?), where’re the skinny arms, and he who once got excited by mail. Tore the envelope open, spread my skinny arms and danced, like, that, I aped up. Also, there were days, when, I’d notice, the sight of my art, the art I love most, Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning,” (and wished I had binoculars). In a small shout, this seems like a pleasure of mine alone. As in going to find flashbacks, love letters, one third, of the envelopes, were legible. The green voice, of Christmas trees, whispers. I saw, in, deep briny, towards, doomsday-rock-shocked-quartz, curved-color commotion-causing-things, like, cuffs, all wool and a yard wide, formed, the big-drink-like-pond, lightbulb-warmed, and was, emulsified, hotfooting towards, the next celestial basin.

[@atricnina]

Vamos!!!!

[@snuffhappening]

how the hell did i not see this until now. bought the fuck outta that boxset, thank you Lord Mouse

[@genera28]

Love it!

[@recommendacious8026]

He is boss. Most triumphant!!!

[@Maximillion666]

What a birthday present today to find out Maus coming back. I'm just as hyped as I am about the new LCD Soundsystem. Welcome back John we've missed you :D

[@Toxeensynth]

The second part was BoC alike, I like this so much!

[@bandit600kult]

The beat sounds a little bit like "things that dreams are made of". Cant get this out of my head again!

[@snaccos4cattos]

FUCK YESSSSSS!!!!11 I literally screamed out loud. Don't even care about my neighbors. JOHN MAUS IS BAAAAAAAAACKKKKKK!!

[@Kazemijazi]

YES! 6 YEARS!!!