TS: Boards of Canada, "Music Has the Right to Children" vs. Cluster, "Zuckerzeit"

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These records seem more related every time I listen to them. I wouldn't say that BoC is aping Cluster, but there's definitely some similarites (more than the similarites between, you know, every single experimental ambient group to release an album post-Cluster).

I would probably go with "Music Has the Right to Children," for sentimental reasons, but "Zuckerzeit" is a little more satisfying and to the point. Anyone else?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

[Commits seppuku after failing yet again to close HTML tag. Dying gasp: "Italics should end after 'experimental ambient group' in the parentheses.]

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't say that BoC is aping Cluster
... because they're aping Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity".

"Zuckerzeit", easy.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Kraftwerk? Hm. I don't own Radioactivity. I'll check it out.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

cluster. not really that into boc, but i do like "geogaddi" more than the first one. never thought about the "radioactivity" similarity but i'll give that a listen since it's been awhile. for some reason that cd won't play in my computer!

― eman (eman), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

for some reason that cd won't play in my computer!

I hate it when this happens. For a while I thought that certain CDs were protected somehow, but then they would work fine on my friends' computers. Crooked Rain, Rock Bottom, or Iaora Tahiti still refuse to be recognized. Maddening.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

zuckerzeit by a long shot.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Sunday, 20 February 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

does anyone else think that boards sound sleazy? i want to wash my hands after listening to it...

― deru, Sunday, 20 February 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Cluster could wipe the floor with Boards of Canada, are you kidding?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 21 February 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Cluster for me, though I did come around to BoC in a big way last year after years of casual listening and going 'oh this isn't new'.

BoC do owe a particular debt to Cluster, but the thing about them is, they rip off _everybody_. Brilliantly enough to get away with it; all those woozy early 70's variable-fidelity synth records all go into the blender. The precision hip hop beats make it contemporary but the melodies just harken back.

The other Cluster record that BoC's particularly guilty of is 1981's Curiosum, the really lo-fi one they recorded at home... that's a fantastic fuzzy record, permanently vague. TD's Phaedra, also in there... right down to the echoey children's playground...

― (Jon L), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"music has the right..." sounds like it was made in the past.

"zuckerzeit" still sounds like it's from the future.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.michaelrother.de/img/harmonia/600/Arbeitsplatz-Moebius-300dpi.jpg
http://www.michaelrother.de/img/harmonia/600/Arbeitsplatz-Roedelius-300dpi.jpg
http://www.michaelrother.de/img/harmonia/600/recording1973.jpg

― eman (eman), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Damn. I thought this would be a little more contested. Ah well. You guys might be right, though. One listen to "Rosa" (under proper circumstances) will floor you.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I think like Harmonia more than Cluster, but I like both more than Boards (even though I love Boards.) I'm beginning to think that those two Harmonia albums are the two greatest krautrock(ish. . . since there ain't much rock to them) records ever.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice photos up there!

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link

What two Harmonia albums? Damn. Every time I read a thread, there's some other classic Krautrock group I've never even heard of...

(poortheatre = krautrock poseur)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I just checked AMG... you meant, "The only two Harmonia albums" haha. which should i check out first?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link

the 2nd, Deluxe, is my favorite of the two ... and one of my absolute favorite albs of all-time. IOW, Alex OTM.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link

get the musik von harmonia first.
http://www.michaelrother.de/img/harmonia/600/harmon73.jpg

― eman (eman), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd post some boards of canada studio photos but there aren't any, just numerous pics of them looking dour in winter hats.

― eman (eman), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Thoughts on Harmonia : De-Luxe
Harmonia: Who knows this stuff?
finally heard harmonia

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

One listen to "Rosa" (under proper circumstances) will floor you.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, February 21, 2005 6:47 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This just happened. What a great track.

Is it wrong for me to tut when Moebius' tunes come on? I just adore the Roedelius ones so much. On this record at least I think they're far superior. I guess the Moebius crash bang wallop approach gives the album as a whole a depth and variety Roedelius' solo work sometimes lacks, as much as I love it.

― kraudive, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link

Aphex took SO MUCH from Roedelius. It's almost comical. Just listen to Fotschi Tong.

― kraudive, Friday, 20 January 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link

Did poortheatre ever come back under a different username? I liked him/her.

― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 20 January 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link

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