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Is there any chance some could yousendit Boc Maxima? I’m curious.

― Orange, Sunday, 10 April 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

im not saying they should have done more with the beats, i think they should have done less, or, perhaps what i mean is, have them less prominent. they're a bit domineering and heavy handed.

i think the drums on something like Mort Garson's Plantasia would have been a better approach

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 10 April 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dawn Chorus" is simply one of the most gorgeous slabs of noise ever committed to record. Total fucking ace!

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Sunday, 10 April 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll try and YSI some Boc Maxima shortly, Orange

i nearly always find the beats a welcome addition, and BOC always seem to have valued electronic rhythm to a fair extent and they tend to prefer it heavy. it's usually one of the last things to come in, which can give the impression the track has been built to support the beat rather than the other way round, no? which is an understandable criticism if true, only i don't hear it as a big problem myself - i don't think it would make a significant difference to how i hear BOC. 'ROYGBIV' seems as good an example as any of the beat being useful, if only for the bit where the bassdrum drops out again just for 4 bars - that's possibly the best bit, but it couldn't work without the beat beforehand.

how about Autechre or Biopshere? do their beats sound better because they're complex or 'modern', or 'lighter'?

what are the drums on 'Plantasia' like (hint)?

― $V£N! (blueski), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, that would be awesome.

It’s pretty coincidental; I listened to Music again last night and it didn’t work for me as well as it usually does. (I believe) I too felt the beats slightly lacking. But hey, some of my favourite moments are things happening to the beats. There is a wonderful bit in ‘Kid For Today’ where the heavier beat enters and plays two snares in a row (so that one is on the spot of a bass drum). And the lo-fi drums at the end of ‘Aquarius’. And the fantastic beat fucking in ‘Pete Standing Alone’. And the sonically beautiful drums in ‘Roygbiv’, ‘Turquoise Hexagon Sun’, ‘Last Walk Around Mirror Lake’... yeah, they’re not so bad after all.

― Orange, Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

here's 'Whitewater' from 'Boc Maxima', one of my personal favourites, tho it may be a bit of a 'grower': http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1V3D8YRVAAONM3F266TA58BUFD

― $V£N! (blueski), Sunday, 10 April 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud. Dullsville. Dudsville.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 April 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

huge dud.

― f-a-b-o-l-o-u-s (adamwest), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oh goody, i thought they would be such a shoo in for classic status on here, good to hear from disapprovers - but why?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I love them. Find their stuff moving, emotionally centered...melancholy, even. "Geogaddi" is a record I was quite obsessive about for a while, back in 2003.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The best way I could describe them would be "surprisingly predictable"

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd agree with that description and yet despite that i still dig "geogaddi"

― Amon (eman), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i tend to like the shorter filler stuff more than the longer tracks ("dandelion" is one of my favorite tracks on geogaddi, no joke), but still: classic.

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Turquoise Hexagon Sun" is one of the 100 greatest songs ever recorded.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 10 April 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The other day I heard BoC on a French TV show about the ocean.

as for BoC, they're like one of those artist everyone Loves and is influenced by, but justifiably. I Love Boards Of Canada, and I don't care what anyone thinks.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 11 April 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Just heard a Beck remix which was very good. More orchestral and sounds like a french soundtrack or something.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 25 June 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Last time I heard (friends copy, borrowed) MHTRTC I found it too boring to want to actually keep. There were some moments in the last 1/3th of the album that seemed to hit the a good spot though (Roygbiv and Aquarius I think).

But I'll say that some of their tunes stick in the head alarmingly well for 'ambient' music. Is there a reason I haven't gone and re-investigated them since? Yes, it's that I actually find their music a little creepy and disturbing.

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 25 June 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dawn Chorus" is simply one of the most gorgeous slabs of noise ever committed to record. Total fucking ace!

Yeah, this is one of the greatest things ever.

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 26 June 2005 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(BoC = classic of course. Geogaddi isn't perfect, but I like it more than Music Has the Right...)

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 26 June 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i love how some of you romanticize the music. it's just music. i bet you're putting more thought into than they did in making it.

― fgjfgj, Sunday, 26 June 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it's just music. it's just poetry. it's just film. it's just beauty. it's just life.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 26 June 2005 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, my post way upthread is the perfect mix of prentension and fawning. I still stand by it, though.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 26 June 2005 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Music is Math. It's just Math. Y'know, like DNA.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 June 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Boards of Canada can be heartbreakingly beautiful or heartbreakingly boring.

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Sunday, 26 June 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Boards of Canada. But I don't know that much about new-fangled "techno" musicks. It's pretty and I like to listen to it, though.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to like MHTRTC well enough... but not even enough to check out Geogaddi until I'd found cheap + used. And now that I've listened to Geogaddi (many, mang times) I find MHTRTC even more dry and uncompelling, save for a few tracks. The "more of the same" reviews at the time of the release misled me in this respect.

― original bgm, Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "many, mang"

http://www2.kwcinema.kataweb.it/scarface/images/film_1.jpg

― original bgm, Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Does anyone have an old track of theirs called "Trails"? I understand it may never have been released but there's a snippet on their homepage and it's lovely.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

anyone heard this Cardamar remix of ROYGBIV?

― blueski, Thursday, 13 December 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

nopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

― stephen, Friday, 14 December 2007 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

i think this is one of those bands that more than others, sometimes they are just EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I need a new album from these guys

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 April 2010 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

Classic. I'm pretty sure they're aware at this point how they keep rehashing their sound in every album since MHTRTC, and will probably pull something out of the park... being a little optimistic, but BoC just doesn't strike me as a band that doesn't care about it's legacy.

― kelpolaris, Friday, 9 April 2010 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

Have you heard Walls on Kompakt? They don't sound the same but have a comparable aesthetic.

And, well, I like both of them.

They've got a ST album coming out soon and an amazing single out already called Burned Sienna.

http://www.myspace.com/wallsjams

― Doran, Friday, 9 April 2010 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

Anyone know anything about "Chameleon"? Just popped up on iTunes, with the copyright listed as BoC's own Music70, not Warp...

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIadksm7wjE

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

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― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

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― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

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― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 October 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

Apparently, the last time a new discography entry was reserved (that black square next to their last EP) a new album/EP was announced within the week -> ?

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/discography.html

― StanM, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

Hoping.

― Young, Thursday, 3 March 2011 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

that def feels like the sorta thing they'd do, provided their history.

― kelpolaris, Thursday, 3 March 2011 03:04 (fifteen years ago)

if only

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:43 (fifteen years ago)

...I had the guts to feel this way

― Moka, Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:01 (fifteen years ago)

1. Talk To The Sword (6:17)
2. Netskape Eschaton (3:01)
3. Bermuda Short (0.59)
4. Harlem Numbers (8:10)
5. Roundings (7:22)

― barieling cosder chout a fagh in a ballme thrantuman (dog latin), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

^ excuse me but what?

― kelpolaris, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:05 (fifteen years ago)

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

― Z S, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

dear jesus, i don't ask for much, but if you don't deliver a new boards of canada release within a month i am going to look up things that satan would like me to do and do them over and over

― Z S, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

"a god with horns..."

― Z S, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

i was listening to 'a beautiful place out in the country' today!

― Lamp, Friday, 4 March 2011 03:11 (fifteen years ago)

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