boards of canada - the campfire headphase

take it on its own terms, y'know?

Though I wasn't in love with it at the time, this has become the album that I turn to when I want to listen to BoC these days. MHTRTC and Geogaddi are still great, but the former sometimes sounds a little chintzy and the latter has never been served well by all those interludes.

the interludes are what make it BOC dude!

haha dog latin is making me consider bothering with this. was never a huge BoC guy but maybe if they made nicer music i'd like 'em more.

Odd this should kick off on the morning I decide to listen to the album again for the first time in months, if not years.

"Dayvan Cowboy" is Mondeo chill out bar Buddha nonsense? I shake my head at you. Sometimes, keeping it (fairly) simple is the way to go. Especially when you can get such uniquely blissful sounds out of your instruments. Sonically and structurally, this album and Moon Safari are miles apart.

louis, what do you think of their other albums just out of interest?

I really like Music Has The Right To Children although I'm rarely tempted to listen to it ahead of TCH. Geogaddi I have but I don't really ever stick it on. Maybe I should rectify this! My brother has every single BoC release, obscure or otherwise, just in case I need to hear some of the non-album stuff. TCH is just so much...meatier, so completely at one with its own blissed-out vibe. It's hard to explain but the addition of guitar-sounds probably appeals to some sort of electro-friendly rockist in me. :D

yeah i think the guitar factor puts me off as well really. don't know why, it just seems like an unnecessary gimmick to appeal to Q magazine critics. gone are the analog synths and gnomic samples, here's some lush strings and slow picked guitar.

I think Geogaddi and In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country are my favourite releases by BOC. I've always enjoyed their eviler undertones as I said. MHTRTC is great too but I may have over-listened to it. Geogaddi is claustrophobic and messy in many places but I think it's also their most detailed and interesting.

Probably, Geogaddi is the one I admire most but tbh I haven't played in years. 'Beautiful Place' is the one I never tire of.

beautiful place is amazing. i like it because all the tracks are really really simplistic - I was thrown by it at first when I first heard Kid For Today as it's really long and repetitive compared to stuff on MHTRTC, but as an EP it's so bleak and pretty, like a forlorn winter's day after snow.

Note to self: put BoC on yr iPod

dan what sort of a time does your work start?!

This week I'm pretty much on London time, so... 4:30? 5:00?

(Of course by "London time" I mean "come in before the sun rises and leave after the sun has set"; yesterday was a 17 hour day so I'm in the mood for BoC's creepy pastoralisms.)

:(

did you become the big boss in the end then?

and yeah BoC would be my prescription too

more like the miniboss

grozart OTM, summing up my exact hesitancy about CH. there's this kind of uneasiness/weirdness to geogaddi that was so enthralling to me, and really sucked me in. CH is nice enough but it was a complete disappointment to me when it came out.

'84 Pontiac Dream is really really good. Not enough props go to that track.

omg I had forgotten how much I LOVELOVELOVE Muisc Has A Right To Children

"Telephasic Workshop" is so fucking nice right now

I just downloaded this... beautiful.. once again BOC prove to be masters of radiant divine joy... breathtaking... simply breathtaing... a religious experience.... fuck cutty and all the other techno haters... BOC are gods!

-andrew

― andrew b, Thursday, September 8, 2005 2:27 PM

a 100% quote of a four year old posting including the spelling mistakes. i am flabbergasted. don't you have an opinion of your own, am0n?

andrew b is my old login

Anybody ever figure out what that track was that had the sample "I was kind of on my own" in one of the fake sets with all the Freescha tunes?

never did ID this track - took me a while to realise it also samples the line "this is the promise of the tree of life" from the Star Wars holiday special.

andrew b was ethan

all right, now everything is crystal clear.

what have you contributed besides coming at my main man am0n sideways

just read the thread carefully, cutty & you will see...

it's still great but slightly yes than about a month ago. fading slowly away into the silence/past. i wonder if that has to do with the music ageing process they apply.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:40 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

please elaborate on the music "ageing process"

they make electronic music sound brittle & old by applying some special techniques. in the beginning they used taping, then analog synths. iirc they copy samples so many times that the end result has got this warm, nostalgic, hissing sound. something like that.

not buying these special techniques

you know what my ipod shuffled to a minute ago? a remix of alex c of music has the right to children. actually it is more of an r&b cover. sweet.

SWEET BRO

dudes this album about campfire headphase is pretty nice
i like it

andrew b was ethan

― la monte jung (cutty), Monday, November 30, 2009 4:21 PM

lol it was?

yes he confessed years later

on his banbed

Still *such* a great album - Satellite Anthem Icarus just filled me with such delight that I felt compelled to revive.

Much news on the new one other than the title?

This video is incredible. Watch it in HD if you can. The song is from the Japanese version of the lp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSM-jyQh3o

!!!

nice! thanks

Have really come round to this.

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/19/boards-of-canada-the-campfire-headphase-2005/

Nice write up as usual sicko.

Are they even still a group?

As hinted in my intro, I suspect not, but like Orbital, they'll always be brothers, so who knows.

i had forgotten TCH was released almost 10 years ago already -- it feels so recent

Boards of Canada & Ctrl All Del – The Phasefire Camphead

The remixes are horrid.

wait a minute this is their best album