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Free BoC Remix mp3

2007-11-04T20:30:46Z

The ECC mashes Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick
over Boards of Canada

8mb MP3 Right Click - Save As...
http://evolution-control.com/sounds/DJ%20Pantshead/The%20ECC%20-%20Boards%20of%20CanaDaDiDaDi.mp3

If you like that then you can download his whole album free here, lots of crazy remixes:
http://evolution-control.com/sounds.html

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my favorit place to listen to BoC

2007-10-22T04:19:41Z

- The sun is shining, the speakers pointing onto the lawn and the music is flooding across the veggie patch.. I am gardening, splashing myself with water to cool off, laying in the sun.. listening to BoC

where do you listen to it?

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That Takes Care of That...

2007-08-03T05:44:35Z

Well hey there everyone! Looks like I'm the new moderator...thanks for the couple votes of confidence that I received, they won't be forgotten. So I want to hear from everyone that I can, let me know what you want, you know...more of, less of. Whatever. I'm going to begin by posting any info I can dig up on their new projects, live shows, news, pics, links to videos and whatnot a little later on this evening. Be sure to check in and say hi! Let's do this.

Vs

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'a few old tunes' mp3 link

2007-08-01T01:00:55Z

Right click and 'Save As...'

http://sound.modelfruit.com/sets/boc-a_few_old_tunes-sides_a_and_b.zip

Sides A and B

85mb

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Headphone Electronica

2007-06-21T23:37:56Z

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Here is an EXCELLENT artist bio. Make sure to notice what it says on the end!!!

2007-06-15T09:45:45Z

Boards of Canada is a Scottish electronic music duo composed of brothers
Michael Sandison (b. 14 July 1971) and Marcus Eoin Sandison (b. 27 May 1973). They have released a number of works, most notably Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, with little advertising and few interviews - like many of their label-mates on the pioneering electronic music label Warp.

Boards of Canada have had an enormous influence on the ambient and idm scenes. They have frequently made reference to the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970's television. Indeed, the Sandison brothers admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which they take their name. The duo have recorded a few minor works under the name Hell Interface. Some songs by Boards of Canada (such as "Beware the Friendly Stranger") have been featured on the cartoon series Salad Fingers by British animator David Firth. Boards of Canada's music has been used in several CSI episodes and on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim interlude shorts; small bits of their music have been used on the BBC program "Top Gear" for transitional music.

Wikipedia page:

Early Boards of Canada (1970s-1995):

Growing up in a musical family, brothers Michael and Marcus Eoin began playing instruments at a young age. They experimented with recording techniques at around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. In their teens they participated in a number of amateur bands, however, it wasn't until 1986 when Marcus was invited to Michael's band that Boards of Canada was born.

By 1989, the band had been reduced to Sandison, Eoin and Christopher Horne. In the early 1990s, a number of collaborations took place and the band put on small, fairly regular shows among the "Hexagon Sun" collective.

In early 2000, the official website for the band, Music70.com, removed the early discography of Boards of Canada, although some information has been preserved by fans. Early tape releases by Boards of Canada include Play By Numbers, Acid Memories, Hooper Bay, and the earliest known release by the band is titled Catalog 3. None of the material from those days is readily available, and since official Boards of Canada sources ignore the existence of this material, there seems to be little chance for this early material to ever resurface.

Boards of Canada from Twoism (1995-present):

In 1995, the band released the first work from the Hexagon Sun studio, the EP Twoism. Like earlier Music70 releases, it was produced in a self-financed limited run and was privately distributed, primarily to friends and labels. Unlike previous releases though, a small number of copies were also released to the public through the IDM mailing list. Though not a widespread commercial release, it was considered of such high quality to be subsequently re-pressed in 2002 and serves as a demarcation point into more professional releases.

The precursor to Music Has the Right to Children was released in 1996. Titled Boc Maxima, it was a semi-private release that is notable for being a full-length album. Boc Maxima's work was later used for Music Has the Right to Children, with which it shares many tracks.

Boards of Canada's first commercial release occurred after attracting the attention of Autechre's Sean Booth of the English label Skam Records, one of many people sent a demo EP. Skam released what was considered Boards of Canada's first "findable" work, Hi Scores, in 1996.

Music has the Right to Children was released in 1998. Many fans consider this record to be a masterpiece. The popularity of the record was substantial enough to start a wave of sound-alikes.

John Peel featured Boards of Canada on his BBC Radio 1 program in January of 1998. The session featured two remixes from Music Has the Right to Children—“Aquarius (Version 3)” and “Olson (Version 3)”—along with the tracks “Happy Cycling” and “XYZ”. Excluding “XYZ”, the set was released on a Warp Records CD titled Peel Session TX 21/07/1998.

Though never an actively touring band, Boards of Canada did perform a handful of shows. Early shows saw them supporting Warp labelmates Seefeel and Autechre in a scattering of UK dates. They also participated in a few festivals and multi-artist bills, including two Warp parties: Warp's 10th Anniversary Party in 1999 and The Incredible Warp Lighthouse Party almost one year later. They made their most prominent showing in 2001 as one of the headliners at the Tortoise-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival. They have not performed a live show since.

Boards of Canada released a four-track EP, In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, in November 2000, their first original release in two years.

The full-length album Geogaddi was released in 2002. It was described by Sandison as "a record for some sort of trial-by-fire, a claustrophobic, twisting journey that takes you into some pretty dark experiences before you reach the open air again."

Throughout most of their career, Mike and Marcus chose not to publicize their brotherhood and were simply portrayed as childhood friends. Their kinship was finally revealed in a 2005 Pitchfork interview. Michael explained that they concealed the fact to avoid comparisons to Orbital, another well-known UK electronic group composed of two brothers.

Their third album for Warp Records, The Campfire Headphase, was released on 17 October 2005 (18 October in the United States). The album covers much of the same musical territory as their previous works and featured fifteen tracks, including "Peacock Tail", "Chromakey Dreamcoat", and "Dayvan Cowboy". Two versions of "Dayvan Cowboy" --the original and a remix by Odd Nosdam -- are on the six-track EP, Trans Canada Highway, which was released on 26 May 2006.

Sound and methods:

Brief songs or “vignettes” feature prominently in their music. Such songs are often weaving melodies or speech accompanied by atmospherics to capture a specific moment or mood. They often last less than two minutes, but, as Sandison says, “those short tracks you mention, we write far more of those than the so-called 'full on' tracks, and in a way, they are our own favorites”.

Boards of Canada have written an enormous number of song fragments and songs, most of which will never be released. It does not appear that music is made exclusively for commercial release. Rather, albums seem to be the result of selecting complementary songs from current work. Geogaddi's development involved the creation of 400 song fragments and 64 complete songs, of which 23 were selected, one of which is silence.

Subliminal messages, symbolism, and religion:

Marcus and Michael have both expressed a strong interest in the power of subliminal messaging and their work is full of cryptic messages.

Some critics refuse to listen to their music on account that they are positive the band is trying to brainwash their listeners for unknown motivations, citing references to David Koresh and occult symbols as proof. Others approach these facts from the skeptical angle, saying it is nothing but a bunch of "cute tricks" and an ironic gesture towards people who take such things seriously (and some would say, as a bit of a similar gesture towards their own body of work in later releases, such as Geogaddi).

Warp Record's description:

BOARDS OF CANADA

A good knowledge of North American TV shows of the late seventies helps in an understanding of the ideas and sounds of Boards of Canada. As children, Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin taught themselves to play various musical instruments whilst soaking up the American cathode-tube culture of the likes of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ and ‘Sesame Street’, as well as the bleak vision of movies like ‘The Andromeda Strain’, ‘Logan’s Run’ and ‘Silent Running’. The duo was also picking up influences from the more synthetic exponents of new-wave pop of the time, in particular Devo and The Human League. For a few years Mike focused on creating a band, to keep himself anchored whilst his family relocated several times between northern Scotland, London in England and Alberta in Canada. By the age of ten, now based back in Scotland, Mike was making his own home recordings on old worn-out cassette tapes.

The sci-fi paranoia and flawed TV soundtracks of that era were a big influence on the duo, as were the early arcade videogames of the time. At the beginning of the 1980’s Mike and Marcus had begun writing tracks that imitated the warbling, damaged-sounding music found on the soundtracks of 16mm educational documentaries made by the National Film Board of Canada, and they later named their band as a nod to this early influence.

The band spent the early eighties near the beaches of north-east Scotland making crude multi-track recordings with friends, using borrowed tape machines, analogue synths and live drums. Around 1981 they had begun producing home-made movies on Super-8 cine film, and were creating the films’ soundtracks themselves. By 1984, aged thirteen, Mike was already visiting a local recording studio and making rough demos. Mike and Marcus were by now producing more structured songs with any instruments they could lay their hands on, as well as completely abstract tape collages of found sounds from radio and TV.

In the mid-eighties, now based near Edinburgh in Scotland, Mike recruited a few friends to form the first of several incarnations of a ‘proper’ band. Marcus Eoin was drafted in, initially as a bass player, but he soon emerged as co-writer and co-conspirator for what the band was later to become. At this point the band had a fairly traditional live set-up; guitars, bass, keyboards, drummer and occasional vocals, but the emphasis was on minimal, atonal electronic songs, a sound that easily stood out amongst the abundance of traditional rock and hair-metal bands the audiences in their local area were used to. The line-up of the group changed frequently, and Marcus was later quoted as saying that they had gone through at least fourteen other musicians during this period, a statistic Mark E. Smith would be proud of.

During the late 1980’s whilst working on a series of film and photographic projects, the group decided to create a studio of their own. Unrewarding day-jobs funded the purchase of audio gear and a variety of exotic acoustic musical instruments, and with the acquisition of samplers the band began producing do-it-yourself garage demos on their own label ‘Music70’ which they distributed mainly amongst friends. Soon the band was producing cassette EP’s and even entire albums of demo material, some of which have since gone on to become legendary collectors’ items. It was during this period that the name ‘Boards of Canada’, initially an EP project title, became the name of the band.

Around 1990 Mike and Marcus, frustrated by the traditional line-up and the lack of commitment of other band members, started to mould the band’s performances into something altogether more bizarre. Every summer Mike and Marcus collaborated with friends under the name ‘Hexagon Sun’ to throw late-night outdoor parties in the countryside near their studio in Scotland, where bonfires were accompanied by electronic music, processed television themes, films, projections and reversed speech tapes to create an exciting, if slightly threatening, atmosphere. These nights, which the band still occasionally organise to this day, became known as ‘Redmoon’ nights after an early event which was dramatically backdropped by a blood-red full moon.

In the summer of 1995 Boards of Canada recorded and self-financed a vinyl-only limited-edition album called ‘Twoism’. It was essentially a well-produced demo, and the intention was to mail it out to record companies and artists that the group were listening to at that point. The album was a breath of fresh air to those who had grown tired of the frantic and polished sci-fi studio acrobatics of jungle and drum&bass which were the predominant trends in electronic music of the time. ‘Twoism’ was a collection of spacious, gnarled and glacial tones and dissonant, melancholy melodies over sparse hip-hop beats, but with a curiously deliberate ‘broken-ness’ to the production. Every melody had been created to wobble and flutter slightly, like damaged music from an old worn-out cassette. In an era of clean, digital music, and with compact discs having largely replaced vinyl as the primary format for commercial music, this nostalgic, imperfect sound was to earn Boards of Canada huge respect as innovators in subsequent years.

At the beginning of 1996 a copy of ‘Twoism’ arrived at the headquarters of Skam Records in Manchester, England, and within a day of hearing it, Autechre’s Sean Booth had contacted Boards of Canada. Mike and Marcus recorded the ‘Hi Scores’ EP for Skam and it was released later that year. A string of live dates followed, notably including an appearance at the 1997 Phoenix Festival, where BOC brought their anachronistic sounds and Super-8 visuals to play alongside various luminaries of the electronic music scene.

In February 1998, amid much speculation, the announcement came that Boards of Canada had signed to Warp Records, and after a few remixes and single appearances, the band completed the album ‘Music Has the Right to Children’ which was jointly released between Warp Records and Skam Records in April 1998.

‘Music Has the Right to Children’ combined beautiful sparse melodies with off-pitch analogue synths and moments of unsettling fragmented speech, all produced with the band’s trademark ‘damaged’ sound. The record closes with the wry anti-censorship message ‘One Very Important Thought’ which pastiches the messages usually found at the end of 1980’s porno videos: a very ‘BOC’ moment.

‘Music Has the Right to Children’ received rave reviews in the international music press, and after landing a licensing deal with Matador Records in the USA it went on to become one of the most highly acclaimed records of 1998 and received multiple end-of-year awards. "Album of the Issue" - Jockey Slut, April/May 1998, "Album of the Month" - Wax magazine, May 1998. "No.16" – NME Albums of the Year 1998, "No.3" - Jockey Slut Albums of the Year 1998, "No.5" - The Wire Albums of the Year 1998, "No.8" - DJ Magazine Albums of the Year 1998, "No.19" – Muzik Albums of the Year 1998.

Boards of Canada recorded an exclusive session for the John Peel Show on the UK’s Radio 1 in June 1998, and performed live on the show during the recording of the session. Peel described it on air as an "excellent session." Warp later released the session as a single.

‘Music Has the Right to Children’ returned to the UK Independent Chart Top 20 in February 1999, and after staying around for three weeks it peaked at number 7. Simultaneously the Peel Session single hung around the Top 10 of the Independent Singles Chart for several weeks. Boards of Canada soon found themselves in demand for remix work and obliged with a handful of mixes for various artists, including the hugely influential Meat Beat Manifesto.

In May 1999 NME included Boards of Canada in its "Top Ten Nu-Psychedelic Bands," alongside Mercury Rev & The Beta Band. In the same issue, NME ranked Boards of Canada's debut album 'Music Has The Right To Children' in its “Top 25 Psychedelic Records of All Time”. 'Music Has The Right To Children' sat alongside other luminaries such as 'Tomorrow Never Knows' by the Beatles, 'Interstellar Overdrive' by Pink Floyd, 'The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice ' by Hendrix and 'To Here Knows When' by My Bloody Valentine to name but a few.

From 1999 onward various tracks from the BOC back-catalogue were being licensed for compilation albums, TV synchronisation and film soundtracks all over the world.

In the summer of 1999 Boards of Canada commenced work on their second full-length album for Warp Records. Meanwhile they contributed two exclusive tracks to Warp’s 10th Birthday celebration albums which were released later that year.

In November 2000, after a few more live dates in the UK, the band released a four-track EP called ‘In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country’. It was a deceptively optimistic title for a collection of beautifully sad, melancholy tunes, especially as closer inspection revealed references in the artwork and titles to the 1993 killings by FBI agents of David Koresh’s Branch Davidian cult at Waco in Texas.

In April 2001 BOC headlined at All Tomorrow’s Parties, a festival on the south coast of England with an esoteric line-up including Lambchop, Television, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise, Broadcast, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many others.

In February 2002 Boards of Canada released ‘Geogaddi’, the long-awaited follow-up to ‘Music Has the Right to Children’. Described as a darker partner to the previous album, with its swirling psychedelic melodies and layers of dense ephemeral detail, it managed to be both beautiful and disturbing. ‘Geogaddi’ immediately entered the Top 20 Album Chart and stayed there for several weeks. In interviews, Mike and Marcus revealed that the album had included many so-called ‘easter eggs’, and that some of the music had been developed using number theory and equations such as the Fibonacci Ratio. This led to some of the band’s fans setting up entire websites devoted to decryption of the ‘back-masking’ and other hidden details on the record. Ultimately, BOC’s true intentions were written there clearly all along; in typically sardonic style they had even included a track on the album entitled ‘The Devil is in the Details’, as a kind of knowing ‘wink’ to the astute listener…

In September 2002 Boards of Canada produced a lush remix of US artist Boom Bip’s track ‘Last Walk around Mirror Lake’ for a single taken from his ‘Seed To Sun’ LP, and in February 2004 BOC created a giddy reworking of the song ‘Dead Dogs Two’ by US band cLOUDDEAD from Oakland. The BOC version brought in the whole gamut of retro psychedelic elements including reversed guitars, flutes, sitars and strings, and culminated in a wigged-out Beatles-esque climax reminiscent of ‘A Day In The Life’.

In the summer of 2004 Mike became a father. His daughter was born during the writing sessions of the band’s third studio album for Warp.

At the end of 2004 US artist Beck asked Boards of Canada to remix a song for his upcoming album ‘Guero’. BOC took the vocal lines of his beautifully wistful track ‘Broken Drum’ and created a whole new melody around them, with an epic, heavily layered crescendo. In an interview with Clash Magazine in the spring of 2005, Beck described the remix as “…my favourite remix I’ve ever had done … they brought out something that was there but then they just added a whole new dimension. I guess it’s quite an emotional song and they brought out something bittersweet in it that was kinda hippyish, but it doesn’t maim you with saccharin. It kinda gets you right in the chest.”

In summer 2005 Boards of Canada completed work on their third album for Warp Records. “The Campfire Headphase” was released in October 2005. Described as an ‘epic sci-fi western’, the album is a surprising deviation into 1970’s guitar licks and graceful, summery lysergic melodies. A video was released for the track “Dayvan Cowboy”, featuring a sky-diver falling from space into the ocean then surfing into the sunset at the song’s euphoric climax. This was the first publicly-available video to be released outside the band’s live shows.

The album was followed by the release in June 2006 of the “Trans Canada Highway” EP. Originally intended as a single release of the track “Dayvan Cowboy”, BOC took the opportunity to create several supporting tracks, and drafted in friend and collaborator Odd Nosdam for a cinematic remix of the single, thus expanding the release to EP status.

In the autumn of 2006 Boards of Canada began work on a new album.
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Biographical details by PIC, S. Goderich & A. Wilson, 2007.

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BoC gives an interview pre-Geogaddi.

2007-06-14T06:01:24Z

IN AN NME EXCLUSIVE, THE MOST MYSTERIOUS AND REVERED MEN IN ELECTRONICA GIVE THEIR FIRST EVER INTERVIEW

TEXT: JOHN MULVEY

From the Pentland Hills, just south of Edinburgh, it's possible to examine the world at a different angle. Nature becomes reduced to a pattern of hexagons. Melodies sound better in reverse. Bonfires make for better nights out than clubs. And the colour of the universe is, unequivocally, turquoise.

This is where Boards Of Canada, Britain's most exceptional and reclusive electronica group, see things from. Or, at least, how they may see things. In comparison, the Aphex Twin is an open book, as straightforward in art and life as Fran Healy. A trawl of the internet for facts about the Boards duo of Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin turns up a proliferation of witchy rumours but precious few hard facts. They record in a disused nuclear bunker, it's suggested. They belong to some defiantly obscure art-collective-cum-cult named Turquoise Hexagon Sun. They fill their music with backwards messages, alternately sinister and playful, that range from invocations to a "horned god" (one old side project was named Hell Interface) to samples of ELO's Jeff Lynne.

In the Boards of Canada section of the Warp Records website, alongside cover images and a few scant details about release dates, is a link to a Guardian news story which offers conclusive proof the average colour of the universe is "A greenish hue halfway between aquamarine and turquoise" when all visible light is mixed together.

All very intriguing, of course. But when BOC have made one of the most anxiously anticipated albums in years, hardly satisfying. To date, Sandison and Eoin have made a tremendous amount of music, most of which has neither ever been released or else is long unavailable; their 1996 debut EP for the Skam label, "Twoism", is currently available for a tidy £710 on eBay. For most people, their reputation rests on 'Music Has The Right To Children', the 1998 album that mixed spectral, quasi-ambient melodies and dulled hip-hop beats with the constant chatter of infants, hovering tantalisingly beyond comprehension. Deceptively simplistic, there was something about the way the melodies twisted backwards and forwards around each other, about the tangibly creepy atmosphere that pervaded it, that made for an extraordinary debut.

By the time 'In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country' an uncommonly beautiful EP, was released at the end of 2000, the band enjoyed a near-holy status among electronica fans - not to mention artists, plenty of whom had diligently adapted BOC's spooked, rustic kindergarten vibes for themselves. And when the long-promised second album, 'Geogaddi', unexpectedly appeared on release schedules a month ago, the grassroots hype became phenomenal.

Knowing that part of the band's allure is their inaccessibility, Warp embarked on a campaign to make hearing 'Geogaddi' as difficult as possible. Virtually no new music made it onto the internet: download apparently new tracks from Audiogalaxy and you're as likely to discover an ambient fake, four minutes of looped speech samples or an old Brian Eno tune. The track titles, meanwhile, could only be located on HMV's Japanese site. Eventually, 'Geogaddi' was premiered in six churches around the world - in London, New York, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Berlin and Paris. Slides of children playing, of sunsets where the sky is bent into a hexagon, were projected above the altars. Small turquoise hexagons took the place of hymn books.

And then there was the album: 66 minutes and six seconds of music that is both soothing and disorienting, lushly beautiful yet creaky and unnerving. One track, 'Opening The Mouth', sounds like a heavy-breathing call from a banshee. Another, the truly horrible 'The Devil Is In The Details', alternates between the instructions on a relaxation tape and a desperately crying child. There are ghostly organs and distant tablas, warnings of volcanic explosions, an ecstatic vocal about "1969 in the sunshine" and an overall feeling that this heady, saturated music is how My Bloody Valentine might've sounded had they released anything after 1991's 'Loveless'. Honestly, it's that good.

"We take that as a real compliment," accepts Sandison. "We love the sound of music that seems to be barely under control. We love music that's out of tune in a beautiful way, or dissonant, or damaged. We tried to make the record work as a giddy, swirling soundtrack. It's okay to be imperfect - in fact the imperfections are where the magic is. To us, perfect music sounds sterile and dead. The tunes we write are imperfect, the sounds are imperfect, even the artwork. I can't listen to perfect music, it bores me. We actually put a lot of effort into making things rough and difficult and noisy, even more so on this than on the last album. I think most bands get more polished and over-produced as they go along. But one of the ideas with 'Geogaddi' was to go the opposite way, to get it to sound as though it was recorded before the last one."

Early February 2002, and boards Of Canada have consented to a rare interview with NME, on the understanding it runs after the album's release. To preserve their privacy, it's to be conducted by email, but the resulting answers still shed a little light on the world of Sandison and Eoin, without ever completely dismantling their mystique.

To begin, their name derives from the National Film Board Of Canada, whose nature documentaries enraptured the Scottish-born pair when they spent some time living in Calgary as children. "My parents worked in the construction industry out there," writes Sandison. "My memory of Calgary is a picture of boxy 1970s office blocks dumped in the middle of nowhere against a permanent sunset."

They started making tapes around 1982 or '83, when they were still children. At their Hexagon Sun studio, there's an archive of 20 years of music. "We're a bit anal about this," admits Eoin, "and I guess one year we might hunt through it all and release some of it. Though we've actually already got the next album half-finished, which will surprise some people to hear. There's a lot of music." Though the paucity of their released might suggest otherwise, Sandison and Eoin are anything but lazy. "A typical day for us," writes Eoin, "is something like 15 hours thumping the shit out of drums and synthesizers and samplers, with frequent breaks for coffee or a beer." Expectations and pressures from the outside world hardly make an impact, either.

"We're too busy to give a shit," reckons Sandison. "Either working in our studio or being out in the fresh air with our friends somewhere. We put pressure on ourselves more than anything. Marcus and myself are pretty ruthless to one another, musically. That's the toughest criticism we get, which is another reason the album took a long time."

Why is it so much better to live in the country rather than the city?

Mike: "I don't think it's easy to be truly independent as an artist at the same time as being part of an urban community. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it just doesn't suit us. Besides, when I'm faced with the choice of hanging out with my friends round a bonfire where we live, or being squashed in a London tube with some suit's elbow in my face, it's an easy choice to make."

What's the significance of hexagons to you?

Marcus: "The hexagon theme represents that whole idea of being able to see reality for what it is, the raw maths or patterns that make everything. We've always been interested in science and maths. Sometimes music or art or drugs can pull back the curtain for you and reveal the Wizard of Oz, so to speak, busy pushing the levers and pressing buttons. That's what maths is, the wizard. It sounds like nonsense but I'm sure a lot of people know what I'm talking about."

The turquoise hexagon sun idea, the ring of people on the 'Geogaddi' cover, and that slightly eerie bucolic feel there is in a lot of your music, suggests something cultish, vaguely pagan.

Mike: "That's probably just a reflection of the way we live our lives. We are a bit ritualistic, although not religious at all. We're not really conscious of it in our music but I can see that it is happening. We're interested in symbols. I don't know, we never just make a pleasant tune and leave it at that, it would be pointless. So I suppose there is an intention to let the more adult, disturbed, atrocious sides of our imaginations slip into view through the pretty tunes."

What's the fascination with children's voices? Is it to do with a nostalgia for childhood?

Mike: "It's something that has a peculiar effect in music, it ought not to be there, especially in atonal, synthetic music. It's completely out of place, and yet in that context that you can really feel the sadness of a child's voice. Being a kid is such a transitory, fleeting part of your lifespan. If you have siblings, then if you think about it, you'll have known them as adults for a lot longer than you ever knew them as children. It's like a little kid lost, gone." You've talked in the past about subliminal messages, hidden ideas, bombs planted in your tunes. What's the fascination, and what form do these take?

Marcus: "If you're in a position where you're making recordings of music that thousands of people are going to listen to repeatedly, it gets you thinking, 'What can we do with this? We could experiment with this...' And so we do try to add elements that are more than just the music. Sometimes we just include voices to see if we can trigger ideas, and sometimes we even design tracks musically to follow rules that you just wouldn't pick up on consciously, but unconsciously, who knows? 'The Devil Is In The Details' has a riff that was designed to imitate a specific well-known equation, but in musical terms. Maybe it won't mean anything to anyone, but it's interesting just to try it. We do things like this sometimes."

One thing Boards Of Canada are emphatic about, for all the talk of bonfires and rural retreats, is that they're not hippies. We ask if they're a psychedelic band, and Marcus replies: "If you mean psychedelic in a scientific way, then, yeah, that's probably fair. But if you mean it in a lifestyle way, you know, hippy-large floppy hat, patchouli oil and colourful trousers way, then nothing could be further from who we are."

Further from what, though? Tempt BOC into the open for a few moments and still, you can only make out the faintest of outlines. And ask them, finally, how important mystery and a lack of information is to their music, and they'll prove it by sidestepping the question. "We just try to keep ourselves to ourselves," concludes Marcus Eoin. "The music is what is important." Of course.

(***Moderator's Note***) I am aware that this is old news, but with 581 people in the tribe, I know someone will appreciate this. If you've never read it, it's pretty interesting.

Vs

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BoC listeners can like "pop" music too...it's ok.

2007-06-14T01:14:34Z

I was doing the usual research when I came across this interesting post...I think it's kind of nice actually. I love the complexity of Boards of Canada and how much goes into all the details, but I also think "The Wizard" by Uriah Heep is a freaking amazing song and while it is not equal in my affection for BoC, it's close...Maybe some of you will be able to relate or at least get a laugh out of the comparison. (The post is a topic which uses BoC and its listeners as a point of reference.) The message is clear, music is music as long as there is something real behind it.

http://www.last.fm/user/Orange_Anubis/journal/2006/06/25/164672/

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you know..

2007-06-12T10:20:44Z

I had No idea they are from scotland..!!- but that does explain a lot. I love scotland!
And hell yah, I think I'll send them a letter! (see intro text)

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Dayvan Cowboy Video

2007-06-12T01:15:01Z

I checked to see if this was posted, didn't see it. Well, if it IS, there here it is again. I think it's def. alright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

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Plaid Telefon Tel Aviv Bluetech and science sound

2007-05-07T02:33:11Z

YURI'S NIGHT '07/ Mountain View - 4.13.07

YURI'S NIGHT '07
A world celebration of space exploration in a unique convergence of artists, scientists, astronauts, performers and musicians.

Friday, April 13th, 2007

@ NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA, 94035

Directions

Event doors opens at 6:30pm and goes until late!

Tickets are on sale now. Limited $25 presale tickets still available, but not for long!

Purchase advance tickets at: www.worldspaceparty.com/tickets.php

Complete Info: WWW.WORLDSPACEPARTY.ORG

Yuri's Night is a commemoration of humankind’s first venture into space, by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. This gathering bridges national, cultural, generational and social barriers to ignite excitement about what is new on the horizon in space exploration and to remind us of the magnificent feats humanity is capable of.

Yuri's Night Bay Area will be held at Moffett Field in the NASA Ames Research Center's massive SOFIA hangar, home to the world's largest aerial observatory. Our host for the evening is pioneering space traveler Anousheh Anasari, the first privately funded female to reach orbit. She is joined by Dr. Chris McKay, world renowned expert in astrobiology and terraformation with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames Research Center, as they welcome you to a dazzling array of interactive art installations and science demos, interwoven with musical and acrobatic performances by some of the world's finest entertainers.

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Live dance and acrobatics fused with audiovisual performances, will be coordinated with a world-class lineup of live electronic music:

~ PLAID - Warp Records, UK
~ TELEFON TEL AVIV - Hefty Records, Chicago
~ BLUETECH - Aleph Zero, Native State, Portland
~ OOAH + BORETA - Glitch Mob, LA/SF
~ SUTEKH - Context, Soul Jazz, Leaf
~ MR. PROJECTILE & JONAH SHARP (aka SPACETIME CONTINUUM) - Merck, Reflective, Astralwerks
~ RD - Designed Disorder, Glitch Mob
~ WELDER - Cyberset
~ MOZAIC - Nexus
~ DR. TOAST - False Profit

Witness awe-inspiring space-themed performances by an armada of acrobats and dancers, featuring:

* KC Bella Fuega and Spiral Hoop Dance (orbital hooping and bellydance)
* Flowtoys (celestial light performance and UFO flowplanes)
* VigilAntiUP (intergalactic stilting)
* A Parade from the Future (with cutting edge Bay Area circuit benders and other worldly creatures).

Top SF bay area visual artists CELESTINESTAR, and KOSHO, intertwined electrifying music while spinning light into space all through the night. Stunning space imagery from NASA AMES Space Media Research Center, Deep Space images from HUBBLE Heritage Project, HBO’s
From Earth to the Moon, Sci-Fi/ Technological Fact montage and much more. RECURSIONVIDEOLAB and VIBERATION

Meanwhile, outside on the tarmac, the SPACE COWBOYS will have their own dynamic lineup of djs aboard their interstellar party transporter, the UNIMOG. Also on the tarmac will be Playaflies and Rabbit in the Moon's outside VJ set PLUS large scale sculpture and multimedia installations from the bay area's finest and beyond.

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Cutting-edge interactive technology and live demos including:

* Exploration of the world through NASA World Wind
* Gigapan, explorable high resolution panoramas from around the world
* A portal into Second Life
* Burning Man Earth, Google's Black Rock City browser

Science demonstrations and innovations from the worlds of robotics, engineering, and astronomy, will also be on display:

* ASME's Human powered vehicle
* NASA robotics, including the next generation of rovers
* Exclusive heavenly imagery from Slooh

Engage with space-inspired and technology-infused art installations, including:

* StarZipper, created by internationally renowned artist Michael Light and collaborator Dave Rattray
* Peter Foucault's Motion Sensor Drawing Robots
* Spot Drave's collaborative evolutionary high-definition visual algorithm generator, Electric Sheep
* Visual Artists Recursionvideolab and Viberation present Space images that light
up the night with images from Electric Sheep.
* Meet the artists and scientists face to face or chat virtually with visitors from around the globe at a kiosk.

Experience rare video works documenting art in space:

* Matières Chorégraphiques by Kitsou Dubois, celebrated French dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Ki Productions

* Projects from the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, Lowry Burgess's monumental project The Seed of the Infinite Absolute, Loreli Lisowsky, and Frank Pietronigro's 'Drift Painting' in microgravity
* Meet Japan's space artist Ayako Ono
* Jean Luc Soret's Space Art project videos curated direct from Paris's International @rt Outsiders Festival.

Enter the Documentary Dome and fuel your imagination with the planet's greatest space-related documentaries, including screenings of:

* Dr. Maryanne Galvin's 'What's Going On Up There?'

* 'Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery': a project of international cooperation between European Space Agency & NASA that dramatically documents The Hubble Space Telescope.
* HBO's original production, 'From the Earth To The Moon'

* PLUS Golden Star Production interviews from the International Space Development Conference 2006 of space entrepreneurs including Dennis Tito, George Whitesides, and Peter Diamandis

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This year’s theme is the greenification of space. The event is bio-diesel powered, a variety of organic food and drink will be available, waste products will be composted and recycled, and one tree will be planted for every ticket sold in an effort to offset the event's carbon emissions.

Limited VIP tickets available. Privileges include: VIP room overlooking the main floor, open bar and food throughout the evening, a chance to meet silicon valley innovators and dynamic thinkers, exclusive Bay Area Yuri's Night memorabilia and much more to be announced.

PLUS! Space Cadets are invited to go weightless and experience zero-gravity on Sunday, April 22, 2007! This unique VIP experience will provide you with a ZeroG flight flown from San Jose International Airport PLUS exclusive access to all Yuri's Night Bay Area 2007 events. 3-2-1 Liftoff! VIP Flight Tickets $5,000.00 each. Email zerogartists@mac.com to reserve your seat today. Don't let this zero gravity opportunity to fly float by!

As always, please check www.worldspaceparty.com for the latest…

Come join us in celebrating the accomplishments of mankind on a collective cosmic journey to the depths of space and beyond.

Yuri's Night Bay Area Crew, Over and Out.
End Transmission.

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Boards of Canada...dance.

2007-05-06T00:15:17Z

Here's a little improv dance session using Boards of Canada songs: "Over the Horizon Radar" & "Slow This Bird Down". :)

Sharon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAt8tvl9Xog

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boc t-shirts

2007-04-29T23:18:06Z

Hey kids, there are some new boc t-shirts available on www.warprecords.com.

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TRIPNOTICA opening night TONIGHT

2007-03-30T18:15:38Z

TONIGHT!

Location: REBEL
251 west 30 st.
NY, NY

More Info: www.myspace.com/tripnoticanyc
OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY, MAR. 30
Electronic, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Chillout Music And Art
Live:
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KING OF BEERS (LOVELESS MUSIC ALL STARS)
ECHOSTREAM
X: THC

EXCLUSIVE ONE-NIGHT ONLY LIVE ART EXHIBITION Hosted By Art For Progress.

LISTENING PARTY
for
Ed Banger Records
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featuring
JUSTICE, BUSY P, SO ME
UFFIE, DJ MEHDI, SEBASTIAN
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AUTOGRAPHED PROMO GIVEAWAYS & PRIZES

DJs THE CHRISTOPHER EFFECT
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Spinning:
+Massive Attack+Portishead+Bjork+BoardsOfCanada+
+AphexTwin+DJKrush+Underworld+Morcheeba+Zero7+
+Kruder&Dorfmeister+Goldfrapp+ThieveryCorporation+
+Leftfield+DepecheMode+Glideascope+DJShadow+
+GotanProject+Enigma+CafeDelMar+FutureSoundOfLondon+
+Esthero+Hooverphonic+ PinkFloyd+NewOrder+FilaBrazillia+
+SneakerPimps+Jem+Spook+Archive+Alpha+Mono+
+Lamb+Ruby+Terranova+SmokeCity+More!

AT: REBEL
251 West 30 st.,
(Btwn. 7th & 8th Ave., NYC)
First Floor
212.695.2747
DOORS OPEN 10PM

$7 with invitation/$10 without

More details to follow...
www.myspace.com/tripnoticanyc
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TRIPNOTICA has been created by a collaboration of artists,to help you discover new art and electronic, downtempo, trip hop and chillout vibes with underground shows and parties.

An alternative to the alternative, showcasing diverse, tripped-out live music and art...

Put some chill on your grill and get tripnotized..
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Ciaran Byrne - Galtrim

2007-03-02T02:52:35Z

check out this album def on tha level

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RD - 'Archive' ALBUM RELEASE on dD!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-01-25T20:44:04Z

Out now on the Designed Disorder!!!

RD
'Archive'
dD003

A body of RD's unreleased work from 2001-2003,
presented as an IDM/Glitch, Mini-album/Time-capsule
you can finally bury in your back yard!!!!
Give it your place in history, buy a copy now!!!

Available for download at the following locations:

ADDICTECH
thedesigneddisorder.addictech.com/

dD
www.thedesigneddisorder.net

Myspace Store
www.myspace.com/designeddisorder
www.myspace.com/rd

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Tycho

2007-01-22T20:35:05Z

http://www.myspace.com/tycho
http://www.tychomusic.com/

this music goes well with boards!!

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Christ

2006-12-29T08:53:54Z

anyone heard of this album, it s so awesome, better than boards of canada, i think his newer stuff will be out soon

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Tears from the compound eye remix..

2006-11-06T02:43:29Z

http://www.mp3-center.org/download_mp3/Boards%20Of%20Canada/Tears%20From%20The%20Compound%20Eye%20%20Lachrymatory%20Edit%20/4033391

I really like this mix, basically just adds a nice laid back beat to the track........and its free to download

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666

2006-11-05T20:33:07Z

http://www.warprecords.com/666

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BoC unreleased live track

2006-10-05T15:39:50Z

This is a track from a bootleg live performance in 2001 @ ATP.
It has no title and is not listed on any albums.
This track should never fall under the radar.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6fgrqe

The link will be disabled in 48 hours.

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The Official dD release of Morrow Choral Orchestra!!!!!

2006-09-20T20:50:25Z

After months of holding back, the Designed Disorder is proud
to announce the official release of our second Compilation!!!!

Morrow Choral Orchestra
dD 002/MCO
Various Artists
Featuring:

Deework
edIT
Machinedrum
Richard Devine
Deru
Anon
RD
Ben Milstein
Logreybeam + Linkophi
Sympathy Belated (Deru + Ginormous)

For audio bites visit
www.myspace.com/designeddisorder

The biggest way you can support is by purchasing a CD copy!
Find one on-line or at your local record store September 26!!!
Artwork by Trevor Smith (aka T.L. Smith) of Revector Design!

Also available on iTunes, Bleep.com and Beatport.com

Look for more info (soon to come) at
www.thedesigneddisorder.net

Thank you for supporting our disorder!
the entire dD team

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MORE boards of canada-ish...

2006-09-20T19:37:04Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XafmMroJVDQ

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what i can do to increase the traffic to my links? i keep registering on myspace as a musician, but they're not providing me with musician modules (like a player to upload my music!)

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boards of canada-ish...

2006-09-18T00:52:58Z

i have a tune to share... check this link out, lemme know what you think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-msCNGcig4

thanks!

-vert

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when will BOC tour again? (if ever)

2006-09-15T08:36:12Z

when will BOC tour again? (if ever)

there's much interest surrounding the new album, the time is right.

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m:cast radio

2006-09-08T18:29:07Z

For the finest in ambient, chill and electronica tune into http://www.live365.com/stations/macornley

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Leave It Turqoise.....

2006-08-13T23:40:13Z

Just thought I'd upload and post this song for you guys to hear as its pretty hard to find.

Boards Of Canada - DJ BrokenWindow - Leave It Turqoise

MP3 (5.7Mb) here: http://www.upload2.net/page/download/oryrcywSOz5Ol2V/18-boards_of_canada-dj_brokenwindow_-_leave_it_turqoise.mp3 (link expires in 1 year :)

Its a mix of "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" from the 'Music Has The Right To Children' album but with added vocals, all harmonised and you may even find yourself singing along with it!

It can be found on this mix album by DJ BrokenWindow here: http://www.discogs.com/release/113216
Also here is Beck's Broken Drum song remixed by B.o.C full song to listen to, not download http://media.putfile.com/heavenly-98
Here is a similar artist called Tycho, who I'm sure you all know about. again, just a listen :p http://media.putfile.com/tychooo
:)
Hope you like..

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cascade of mirrors

2006-06-05T15:50:53Z

I’ve seen it all already
I’ve been it all already
All cascades before me
All cascades… no more me
Every facet, every flaw,
Every reflection, I ever saw

At the hollowest of centers
Ever quiet, ever still
Feel the whirlwind blowing
From the windowsill
Density expands,
Material contracts,
As my Minding wanders
The construct of the facts
Recorded through my Castle
A castle formed of clouds
Shifting in a storm front
Of undulating shrouds
Brilliant light and color
Afire on the air
Details more than clever
Exploding everywhere
Details less than stable
Collapsing as they wear

Is it Heaven or Hell?
The Realm in which we Dwell…
The answer may be, “Well,
It depends on the Swell”
For Riding a Wave
Is a High that will Save
But to Crash on the Sand
Is the fate of the Damned
The world is what we make
And so to turn the wake
We must rise above the tide
And form our Falls in stride
Dancing with the Rhythm
Of our Soular Cataclysm

Travel this way to the Core
Leave behind the phantom Shore
We do not need it anymore
No time to glide on Winds of Yore
Let’s Fly beyond the Revolving Door

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Trans Canada Highway

2006-05-12T12:44:31Z

is Warp's 200th EP single and will be released on 29th May 2006!!!

You can hear "Skyliner" at warprecords.com...diggin this song...it's got that old school BoC vibe rollin thru it like crazy...

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TAX POLLUTION!!! New MASHUPS for TAX DAY!!!

2006-04-18T06:48:00Z

TAX POLLUTION!!! New MASHUPS for TAX DAY!!!

Here's some new music MASHUPS sure to motivate you to turn in those taxes by midnight...

click on this link...
"http://www12.asphost4free.com/erecords/music.html "

Enjoy!

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'June 9th' video..

2006-04-16T21:41:29Z

Just thought I'd post this video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8m77pG2BkIQ

I have no information other than the track being 'June 9th' and the poster said it was by Boards of Canada. I personally like the video, its minimal but colourful! suits the track quite nicely in my opinion

Can't wait for the 'Davyan Cowboy' video thats on the way too :p

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the campfire headphase...

2006-04-14T17:43:56Z

... is lovely. new styles abound. realllllly mellow.... gurgle

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New BoC album!

2006-04-07T16:33:48Z

http://boardsofcanada.com/news.html

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setups & software

2006-03-24T23:41:23Z

hello all,

i'm wondering if anyone has links/articles/info about the setup BoC has for their recordings. anyone know what programs they're partial to?

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boards of psilocybin

2006-01-13T04:01:14Z

tonight was the first time i listened to boards on mushies. one of the best musical experiences i've had. i really thought that "the color of your fire" was going to creep me out, but it did just the opposite.

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L'usine, Richard Devine, Tipper, Twerk, Deru, edIT + more!!

2005-12-06T21:25:18Z

the Designed Disorder:
Support the Experiment!

Our first release, 'Autonomous Addicts', is now available (World-Wide)
on CD in Tower, Virgin, Ameoba or your local record store!!!

the Full length CD comes with 6 page foldout artwork from T.L. Smith and
12 tracks from our featured artists including a completely new version
of Richard Devine's 'Per-Cer' not sold on our website!

dD001
Autonomous Addicts, a compilation featuring:

Tipper
L’usine
Richard Devine
Twerk
edIT
Deru
Ben Milstein
Anon
RD
Hologram
Logreybeam

dD reviews:

"..a comp boasting a robust line up of veteran
and neophyte Intellegent dance music talent."
-XLR8R Magazine

"The talent pool here is impressive and those
into progressive electronics & bleeding-edge
sound design would be well-advised to score
a copy.."
- Meanstreat

"Autonomous Addicts will revive your faith in
unconventional music." -DJmixed.com

.."interesting and essential." -brainwashed.com

support the experiment-
the Designed Disorder
dD
www.thedesigneddisorder.net
www.myspace.com/designeddisorder

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BOC Oscar Track versions

2005-11-10T01:16:43Z

Despite having the same track name the online version is completely different to the album version and to my mind vastly superior ... I would particularly commend it to downtempo DJs as it sounds great on a big rig ....

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http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc

2005-11-05T23:02:12Z

http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc

Now I'm sure you've all seen this site but its the best fan site I've seen and has information about EVERYTHING related to BoC. I'm making a post about it because it answers alot of questions for people.

Every known and unknown release is listed. Has Info, news, biography, discography, lyrics, interviews, links, goodies, wallpapers, photos, etc.

Also download this great 7minute-27secs mp3 of a 30 track megamix! [192k, 10mb, by audiodile]:

http://leptorks.org/~audiodile/Anew%20Contraption.mp3

Fantastic site for those who don't know about it already.

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boc and psychadelics

2005-11-01T23:40:30Z

It's pretty much a given that much of Boards of Canada's work has been inspired by psychadelic drugs.
I'm anxious to hear accounts, if any, of people listening to Boards of Canada while tripping.
I tried listening to "Music..." about three weeks ago while tripping on mushrooms. I listened to it on headphones while sitting in a chair before I peaked and it put me in somewhat of a transe. I had planned to skip "Color of the Fire" because I had assumed that it would freak me out, but I just let it go into it.
The strange thing was that the next song's (Telephasic Workshop) percussion really annoyed me, and I ended turning it off and putting on Autechre instead. I only made it about two songs through Tri-Repeatae and I started getting really upset and had to put on an ambient CD to calm myself down. "Telephasic Workshop" actually set that off though.
Since "Campfire" is much more mellow, I'm going to try it the next time I trip.

Anyone have any experiences like this?

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new oink.me.uk tribe

2005-10-30T20:00:16Z

a place to request oink uploads and tell each other about cool oink treats. also a place to beg for an invite.

http://tribes.tribe.net/oink

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It happens to the best of us

2005-10-29T21:33:40Z

I know there is already a discussion about The Campfire Headphase on this tribe, but I thought I'd start a new one anyway- as I'm sure there will be more.

I feel that BOC have taken a rather disappointing route with their new album. They seem to have succumb to the classic 'watering down' syndrome that seems to happen to almost every mainstream(ish) musician out there (almost) - Mike Patton is one rare example of an exception - he's actually gotten more and more interesting since leaving Faith No More (no, I wasn't a fan!). It's funny 'cos the same thing seems to have happened to Beck. One Foot In The Grave and Mellow Gold were incredible albums whereas Guero is very weak by comparison. Music Has The Right To Children and Geogaddi are two of my favourite albums, but like Guero, Campfire is uninspiring, repetitive and quite dreary. There are interesting sounds here and there for sure, but on Campfire the only really great track is Oscar See Through Red Eye. I don't understand how anyone who is a fan of previous BOC albums can honestly praise this one. It is simply lacking in richness and diversity. It's not that I don't like the fact it isn't as dark or layered or complex as other BOC stuff - and I have no problem with the guitars - it's just not exciting. Even the melodies seem tired. It's like BOC are trying to make their melodies sound like old BOC but do something new at the same time. Well, you can tell.

Bitch bitch bitch. All that said, I still love BOC and Beck, honest! I just lament the lack of texture in their latest albums. But I mean really, if BOC and Beck want to save themselves, they should really abandon their new 'clean' directions and get off the beaten path and back into the dirt where the good shit grows, non?

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i've got a question . . .

2005-10-23T03:51:28Z

how many people actually _paid_ for the album?

~e.

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Slow news day

2005-10-22T08:30:10Z

Wow, it sure got quiet in here. Ya'll must be scouring for a torrent or getting your fix over at Bleep 30 seconds a hit.

"Dayvan Cowboy" is available as a single at iTunes.

PS: What's with all the guitar hatin' BoC fans on the Internets?

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Pitchfork has online BoC interview

2005-09-29T06:02:41Z

They're brothers?!?

http://pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/b/boards-of-canada-05/

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Wire mag BoC interview

2005-09-25T00:09:00Z

http://www.thewire.co.uk/current/index.php

Out in the current issue of The Wire, Boards Of Canada are on the front page. (added pic to tribe album)

I'm buying it a.s.a.p, same goes for the album.

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Campfire Reviews

2005-09-22T11:13:01Z

Here's mine, Posted in my blog...

When there's a leak and tracks from any other particular band spread like wild fire you are likely to get burned in this day in age where even the fakes are savvy enough to "sound" like the band that they're encompassing. The Internet has re-invented truth, in addition to it re-invention of music and the way we think of it, buy it or steal it. A month go there was a soul seek leak of the tracks from Boards of Canada's fourth coming "The Campfire headphase". An eagerly awaited album by those who were enchanted with the otherworldly and meticulous sounds coming from their past 2 LP's and several Ep's,that were sparsely planted into the landscape of musical consciousness during the years of 1998 to present. Yet there was a yawning gap of new material from this Duo from Scotland after the 2001 release of Geogaddi that led to sensationalism in their absence. They became somewhat of myth, rumors of Satanic messages and musical wizardry surfaced. Some had serious gravity, some didn't, but the band wandered into mystic territory and got cool points for it seemingly without having to try. They got name dropped by important people in "important" magazines, made a few top 100 list, and dozens of rock bands and electro-producers alike started coping Boards of Canada's sound.

Music has the right to children was released in 2004 by Warp. Thereafter Beck and Boom blip got remixed by them. who the fuck cares about Boom Blip....Beck! Boards got another mainstream point. I sighed with stomach pains as was this the beginning of the end. Were boards going to become Air-lite and litter their next album with big name guest vocals by hip has been's....Hope Sandoval make an appearance. No. of Course not for we all know that these guys are "Better than That." We'll get a "Classic boards album". We say Classic because they sit in this area where few can sit in music where their sound is so exclusively their own, as if it exist only for them, that it would matter to us really if they released 10 Music has the right to children and 9 geogaddi, just give us some more of those breathtaking, soft, warm syntheses and that otherworldly yet human emotivity you do so damn well, and while you are at it, give the track hallucinogenic names that are fun to say when you are shrooms.

And that's kind of..........Sort of......what we got. On October 5th Boards released the single "Oscar See through Red Eye" as a sort of shot gun warning to those fakes floating around the net, "The real shit was about to hit the fan." And upon listening to Oscar see-through red Eye, one gets the feeling of anticlimactic beauty. A sparkling black sea at midnight with tides that roll....they never reach land, or get angry and make a fuss, it's pretty through and non confrontational. A notion best left up to the listener about whether pretty is better than risk. I was not impressed.

Time came where i did find the real album. A month before it hit shelves and i expected that pretty sea to adopt a storm and turn a little. Nope. From Into the Rainbow Vein to Farewell fire, start to finish that pretty little sea just sparkles, and glows, the ripples remain constant. Rowing. This is where I demanded that I must indeed have a fake. I was sorta disappointed.Wha-wha-wha-what's that I hear in every other track? Guitar. Please let this not be. When Warped did it press release announcing the sale date of this album, they made mention of "Classic Boards sounds" following in the vein of the previous Beck and Boom Blip remixes. I wouldn't have dreamed that Warp meant this, Literally.

The Beck remix for Broken drum is strewn across this album like a thin dust storm covering Iraq. Speaking of Iraq, one could reason the seriousness that engulfs this album could be due to what our world has endured since Geogaddi. We had 911, Tsunami's and Post-facto: An entire city wiped out state side, not to mention a war on terror. With that said, Nothing to groove to here, Nothing to invade the dance floor with here. And That is Not necessarily bad.

What one would have to do is to ignore the creepy silences some songs invent for the listener. Mostly towards the end of this album, You are given absolutely nothing but sonic dreamery, Guitar hooks, and downtrodden beats. What's with the Shoe-gazer Renaissance electronic music has had in the last 3 years, with M83, Chemical Brothers and Air adopting the hollow icy guitar reverb and thrash? That makes it's appearance here. That's probably what makes the album a let down. Boards of Canada, Following trend? With one foot seemingly in the "Chill Out" section grave only one thing saved this album with me. One thing that is un-doubtable Boards, and one thing they evidently own:

Time.

I waited 3 days and plural "confirmation" that what I had in my hands was the real deal. But the only thing that could confirm this as Boards of Canada was the time it took for the songs to breathe from the first listen and come to actual life in detail by the 20th. That's what makes Boards singular, Their close attention to detail and production. Song wise There's nothing quite as stand-out as say "1969" or "Gyroscope" or "Pete Standing Alone". The album sounds as it's Title....a K trip in the desert, while looking at the flames roll in a campfire. Introspective, quiet for the most part, with Chromackey Dreamcoat, the album "actual" opener serving as the albums on driving track. Peacock Tail unfolds glorious as the emotional center after 18 spins and you become well aware with a smile on your face that Boards can evoke more emotion out of mechanical manipulation and just stand out production than any voice feeling from human vocal chords can. Dayvan Cowboy fuzzy guitar warb warble and Sherbert Heads Charming stagnant static warmth are potential highlight for the most diligent of listeners. Instant music this album is not. Beauty will only coax you to go back and close your eyes and dream along.

I'll be waiting for the tally of backwards messages and mathematical alignments in this album though.

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entire album available for preview

2005-09-07T22:55:31Z

BLEEP.com has the entire album up for preview. Search for Boards of Canada, and then choose "Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (WARP123)" from the "Other Releases" section. 30 secs at a time, you know the drill...

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single to be released online Sept 5

2005-09-06T18:48:14Z

from http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=969 :

Boards of Canada will release a download exclusive single on September 5th ahead of the release of The Campfire Headphase. It will be the first opportunity to sample the new material. Oscar See Through Red Eye will only be available via Bleep.com/boc from this date.

The Campfire Headphase, their first album since 2002's Geogaddi is released on 17th October.

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new BOC album in october!!

2005-09-04T19:43:10Z

Boards of Canada have finished and mastered their new album, to be released in October ..

thats an official info from WARP REC

http://www.warp-net.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=969

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white noise discussion - geogaddi albumn

2005-08-20T22:03:52Z

hey all- I would like to know others thoughts on this topic:

The conscious use of white noise, or sound in upper registers by BOC. I am usually hypersensitive to music that holds these frequencies- and yet I am always amazed by BOC skillz. I *just* got geogaddi and was really suprised to hear every song has overtones of these higher pitch and white noise elements woven into the tracks.

Making a few statements here for getting feedback:
1. Are others aware of the subtle and not-so subtle effects of using white noise in the BOC geogaddi tracks? How does it affect you?
2. I personally feel that these sounds affect the consciousness in a wiping away manner- clearing out the psycic centers, and providing consciousness shielding for the mind to accept new space and perception. Do other hear/feel/see this in the music of geogaddi as well?
3. For me this albumn pushes the envelope of what I can listen to as music- and as usual with BOC music for me-puts me in the special place:) Not good for meditation, but instead for clearing the mental house.
4. Has anyone done any brain wave analysis of BOC music listeners? I would love to know of any research.

cheers!
Aryana

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devil is in the details equation

2005-08-15T18:34:33Z

marcus once claimed the following in an interview...

'The Devil Is In The Details' has a riff that was designed to imitate a specific well-known equation, but in musical terms. Maybe it won't mean anything to anyone, but it's interesting just to try it. We do things like this sometimes."

does anyone know what equation he is talking about? always thought it was a pretty cool tune, but could never figure out the mathematical pattern of the beat that he was talking about.

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BOOM BIP - Last Walk - Boards Of Canada Remix

2005-08-13T05:27:36Z

http://downloads.betterpropaganda.com/music/Boom_Bip-Last_Walk_Around_Mirror_Lake_Boards_Of_Canada_remix_128.mp3

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New Boards' Beck remix

2005-07-05T20:22:57Z

Taken from the B.o.C website today.

February 2005:

Boards of Canada have contributed a remix to Beck's forthcoming album "Guero".
The melody-drenched BOC remix of "Blank Space" appears on the deluxe 2-disc version of the album, alongside remixes by Dizzee Rascal, Octet & Royksopp.

The album is due out on March 29th.

:D

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The Only Book About Loreena McKennitt

2005-06-14T19:23:23Z

I just wrote a book called "Travels With Loreena McKennitt - My Life as a Friend”. According to one London journalist, "It's not only a must for every Loreena McKennitt fan but for anyone interested in the phenomenon of "Celebrity"”. The book is a behind-the-scenes look into the world of stardom and the consequences of fame. It is a gripping tale focusing on the relationship of two close friends and the impact on the friendship when one rockets to superstardom.

Many of you know Loreena through her music and her concert appearances. My book is about Loreena behind the footlights, about Loreena not only as a talented and famous musician but as a real human being.

For more information about me, my books and how to order signed and dedicated copies, please visit my website at http://www.niemaash.com or email me at purpleinc@fastmail.fm.

Niema Ash

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Populous

2005-06-09T02:38:16Z

While lisetning to this Italian act I was struck by the resemblance to BoC

The CD is called Queue for Love and it's on Morr Music

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www.bellaunion.com

2005-05-26T17:49:45Z

bellaunion.tribe.net

serve chilled & enjoy*

xo

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Music has the right to children

2005-05-18T17:36:24Z

On vinyl. Must have it. Although I haven't seen it anywhere but ebay and someone always snatches it before me.

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Song Query

2005-05-09T20:35:30Z

I heard this track a long time ago, and it was by BoC and I've had problems locating it, it had a woman's voice that gave out random numbers, do you know what it is?

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Influences...

2005-04-29T17:01:42Z

Has anyone else here noticed the influences of Emerson Lake and Palmer on BoC ??? They even sample from an old ELP tune from Brain Salad Surgery on one of the tracks on 'A Few Old Tunes Vol 2'....Those who know ELP may remember...

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laptop lounge in pdx every tuesday

2005-03-24T00:47:52Z

live electronic weekly in portland... not just for the laptoppers as we enjoy having live PA as well

check

www.laptop-lounge.org

for weekly info, and get in contact if you are from out of town and heading through portland...
free

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Rare tracks

2005-02-24T00:05:28Z

There are some tracks that you can apparently only get on cassette? Anybody know how / where I can get some of these goodies.

Like : Forest Moon, Nine Rubber Wisdom or really any tracks. I've developed a sort of obsession with hearing Nine Rubber Wisdom although its only a minute and a half long. I do searches but they just turn up peoples play lists.

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How I found BoC!

2005-02-23T19:03:01Z

Greetings!

So cool to find a BoC tribe :-D

Well, I'd never heard of Boards of Canada until I became addicted to a disturbing, eerie, creey and buttkicking cartoon series by this sick brit named David Firth. The Salad Fingers cartoons are not for everyone, but the use of the BoC music was what drove me to seek out their stuff!

Thanks for the tribe!

Peace

Mollena

PS - You can see the cartoons on his site here http://www.fat-pie.com/flash.htm or on http://www.newgrounds.com; just search for salad fingers.

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cLOUDDEAD vs BoC - Dead Dogs Two

2005-02-20T06:49:42Z

there is a remarkable new mix by da boards out this month
on the very fine BIG DADA label

i think you will be suprised`!!!!!

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here is a link...

2005-02-16T18:52:49Z

STS9 playing "ROYgBIV"

streaming:
http://www.archive.org/download/sts9-2005-02-05/sts9-2005-02-05d1t03_64kb.mp3

download:
http://www.archive.org/download/sts9-2005-02-05/sts9-2005-02-05d1t03_vbr.mp3

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BoC fans, check this group out...

2005-02-09T21:05:25Z

STS9 - sound tribe sector nine.
http://www.sts9.com

Their new album "ARTiFACT" was just released today.
A must have. You can get it through this website:
http://www.sts9music.com

In Joy.

PS - They covered, "Roygbiv" at the Fillmore Midwest in Denver CO just a few days ago.

Cornflower
cornflower-creations.tribe.net

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coachella

2005-02-09T16:49:32Z

i boc are playing at coachella this year :)

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official line-up posted and...

2005-02-01T21:37:27Z

BOC is not there.
I kinda figured. I mean, they NEVER play shows and the new album isn't even out yet.
Que lastima!
Feel free to check out the line-up anyway:
http://content3.rm04.net/ra/2005/01/31/319997/Cont_17.jpg

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will they...

2005-01-03T07:02:45Z

ever play live....
AHHHHHHHHHHH
Would love to hear it in a live setting.

Blessings to the BoC and all that are open to the sound of life.

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BoC type artists

2004-12-14T00:31:05Z

Something of interest, Benbecula Records has some artists that fall into the BoC sound and style.
http://www.benbecula.com/

artists like Christ, Frog Pocket, Beluga are right up there as far as creativity and style goes...highly suggest to check it out!

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new

2004-12-05T03:22:06Z

ima boards of canada fan and i make electronic music

http://www.myspace.com/Mistafex

what do you all think?

-ME!!!!!!!!

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free idmbient recordlabel

2004-12-02T04:59:16Z

some of it is really influenced by BoC

we just launched our little idmbient record label
all the music is downloadable for free ,
please spread the music if you like it !

here it is :

www.ambients-anonymous.org

greenthings

Walter

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a is to b as c is to d

2004-11-19T03:26:05Z

hello Im new..
I fell in love this band while riding my my exgf's friend..
And have been searching for their stuff eversince..
What a great band.

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