Boards of Canada

[Qonfused]

I actually didn't mean how it sounds. I meant the work put into making it.

Anybody can buy a cheap groovebox and lay down a simple beat spliced with some old record for background sounds, aka rave music and all that. But as for "complex" dance music like BoC or AFX or Venetian Snares or Squarepusher, even the simplest sounding songs have a complex and tweaked synth, or whatever.

Of course.

I wasn't really addressing you, though.

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[venturon]

There are quite a few songs that I like. But some tracks that really stood out for me are as follows.

Wildlife Analysis
An Eagle in Your Mind
The Color of the Fire
Sixtyten
Turquoise Hexagon Sun
Roygbiv
Rue The Whirl
Pete Standing Alone
Happy Cycling (This song is a source of some frustration because it is not included on my release of Music has the Rights to Children. I heard it on a friend's stereo and I am actually considering buying the release with it on it.)

Chromakey Dreamcoat
Satellite Anthem Icarus
Peacock Tail
Dayvan Cowboy
'84 Pontiac Dream
Oscar See Through Red Eye
Hey Saturday Sun
Slow This Bird Down
Tears From the Compound Eye

Music is Math
Beware the Friendly Stranger
Sunshine Recorder
Julie and Candy
1969
The Beach At Redpoint
Opening the Mouth
Alpha and Omega
The Devil in the Details
Over The Horizon Radar
Corsair

Directine

They stand out to me because they are so rich and beautiful. When I listen to them I feel as if I'm exploring a vast aural landscape, a landscape that has moods and feelings. That probably sounded awfully corny, but I'm afraid it's the best way I can describe it.

 

[Qonfused]

They stand out to me because they are so rich and beautiful. When I listen to them I feel as if I'm exploring a vast aural landscape, a landscape that has moods and feelings. That probably sounded awfully corny, but I'm afraid it's the best way I can describe it.

Nope. We completely understand.

 

[Absinthe]

I got their album, The Campfire Headbase, at the suggestion of you guys saying they were an amazing band and I was pretty underwhelmed. I rarely listen to it ever. I don't know, maybe I'm too use to post-rock.

That's their latest album, and it's far from their best. I don't think it's a good example of their sound as a whole.

If you're up for trying them out again, I'd strongly recommend the album Music Has The Right To Children instead, as it's not only a better album, but also a more defining output IMO. Even the recent Trans Canada Highway EP would be a better choice. Just download some tracks or summat. And if it's still not your cup of tea... oh well.

I've personally yet to meet a person who didn't like BoC in real life.

 

[brink's]

You live in North Carolina.......look harder.

I'm suprised you've met people who even know who they are.

 

[Absinthe]

You live in North Carolina.......look harder.

I'm suprised you've met people who even know who they are.

Unfortunately, my social contacts in North Carolina are... limited. I particularly meant everybody I know in Europe. But of course, that's no surprise. Land of the cultured and all that shit.

 

[Qonfused]

Has anyone seen the Rue The Whirl fan video? It seems really... weird, but it matches the song very well.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-pwo7qpL7A8

 

[ComradeBadger]

I got their album, The Campfire Headbase, at the suggestion of you guys saying they were an amazing band and I was pretty underwhelmed. I rarely listen to it ever. I don't know, maybe I'm too use to post-rock.

I had Music Has A Right To Children and thought it was rather boring to listen to. I also detest most post-rock haha.. I just don't think it's my thing.

 

[Ennui]

Why in the world would they think that?

.........oh

Yeah, peaking on mushrooms while lying in my bed solotripping after years of research and contemplation about it it's not really 'stoner' or 'raver' behavior

BOC is very, very simple.

Start with a simple beat, add shit each "stanza", end with fading.

That's not how they go about it at all, though. They've got very specific ideas in mind, and they generally start with melody - I read through an archive of every single Boards of Canada interview on file and they talk a fair bit about the music creation process.

You live in North Carolina.......look harder.

I'm suprised you've met people who even know who they are.

Aside from people that I've exposed to Boards of Canada, I have only met one or two people in North Carolina who have heard of them. Coincidentally, they like them too.

Unfortunately, my social contacts in North Carolina are... limited. I particularly meant everybody I know in Europe. But of course, that's no surprise. Land of the cultured and all that shit.

I'd suggest that we should meet up but I'm a tad sketched out about the concept of meeting someone from the internet. I'm also afraid that you would murder me and then eat my flesh. You do live quite close by, though.

 

[brink's]

Yeah, peaking on mushrooms while lying in my bed solotripping after years of research and contemplation about it it's not really 'stoner' or 'raver' behavior

Face facts ennui, you listen to BOC and do mushrooms. you're a stoner. There's no getting around it.

 

[Ennui]

Bollocks.

Did I mention it was cream of mushroom soup I was peaking on? Certainly nothing illegal. I'm a respectable citizen.

 

[brink's]

In that case you just have really horrible taste in canned soup.

 

[CrazyHarij]

I don't think BoC is simple music, it's deceptively simple. They do alot of hard work behind the sound, use alot of old gear like tape machines and shit and re-distort every sound and shape it the way they like. alot of the synth sounds on geogaddi are distorted flutes for instance.

let me add that it's very hard to make good "simple" music. Making music is much like making a statue where you have to know how to block out the small parts and remove everything that's superfluous.

they are obviously technically good musicians, with alot of unusual chord progressions and odd time meters. there's a few old tracks of them playing stuff on the organ very very well. they do that live sometimes nowadays.

my favourite tracks:

5-9-78
olson ver. 3
music is math
pretty much all of music has the right to children
spectrum
corsair
you could feel the sky
sunshine recorder
kid for today
amo bishop roden
a beautiful place out in the country

 

[Vegeta897]

Thankyou for backing up my explanation, CH.

 

[Ennui]

I've decided that the EP "A Beautiful Place Out in the Country" is one of the best albums ever. I've been listening to all four tracks over and over and over.

 

[CrazyHarij]

I've decided that the EP "A Beautiful Place Out in the Country" is one of the best albums ever. I've been listening to all four tracks over and over and over.

definitely. the tracks work perfectly together!

 

[Qonfused]

That's not how they go about it at all, though. They've got very specific ideas in mind, and they generally start with melody - I read through an archive of every single Boards of Canada interview on file and they talk a fair bit about the music creation process.

I was being sarcastic, in a sense.

 

[Ennui]

I was being sarcastic, in a sense.

Oh.

... well, I completely missed that then

 

[Ennui]

SixThree: thank you
Ennui: eh?
SixThree: for boards of canada
SixThree: I love you
Ennui:
Ennui: new listener?
SixThree: aye