boards of canada - the campfire headphase

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (699 of them)

According to one of the main BoC fansites, this is the cover art: [image removed! it was goatse! not spencer's fault! - mod]

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

That also appears on Pitchfork.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Goatse, we meet again....

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anyone heard the background music on the music70 website? I honestly don't know if it's something from MHTRTC or not.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

the drums sound thin on that track.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

(thanks MODS!)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's see if Pitchfork does it to us too!
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/cover-boardsofcanada.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, non-goatse website: http://www.boardsofcanada.com/ seems to have samples from the um, what is it, Telefire Campspace Octogon Moon?

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

(thanks Mark! for modding)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

campfire headphase is a googlewhack! not for long i imagine ....

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/ people! Trippy, duuuude!

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh wait old stuff.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

no problem spencer!

boc's official site hasn't been updated in three years. but man, how ridiculously talented is james tindall.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone know where to get that "Trails" track from the site?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not so big on that leaked track. It seems to run out of ideas after the first two minutes and just plods along for the final three.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i wouldnt be at all surprised if it turned out to be a Luke Vibert track

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah it sounds like him "remixing" BoC.
my tinny computer speakers are not good for assessing drum tracks.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Needs kerning.

― Typographer Joe, Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Nerds keening.

― jerginsk (jergins), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

the yellow in the new one's cover art is fucking piss ugly and ruins an otherwise decent cover

BOC 'N' ROLL

― amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the faded yellow is kind of fitting.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

they're "taking the piss" and putting it on their cover? you're right, it does fit.

― amon (eman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link

ha ha!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 11 August 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i went to a boards of canada listening party at a gay party with free vodka... weird mix of people, but i got too drunk to pay attention to the music, though it sounded a lot like boards of canada.....

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:00 (eighteen years ago) link

YAY WE ALL GOT THE SAME EMAIL TODAY YAY I LOOVE MARKETING

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link

this song serves notice on Caribou and Four Tet.

― jerginsk (jergins), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think it does and i'm not a huge fan of either band.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

hstencil to be precise VIRAL MARKETING

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing

[The timing just after 5pm UK time would have caught the UK finishing work slot, plus the US Eastern time zone would be midday - therefore the perfect timing to create maximum viral marketing.]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

on my screen it seems a lot more blue.

As we all know, there is absolutely no relationship between the colors blue and green.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link

this is hardly viral marketing, martian. more like simple word of mouth.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

viral marketing = word of mouth

http://www.vbma.net/mission.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_mouth

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Never bought a BOC record yet... and that cover/title is still a buzz-kill.

Jeez, self-parody ahoy!

The Strokes get dissed for this kind of thing but BOC are on Warp...

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, an email announcement hardly constitutes viral marketing!!

xpost

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

it's only viral marketing if mark p is working for warp or its publicist (cuz he started the thread) or if he found out about the new album when a hot girl at a bar mentioned it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link

slocki i am sick of you and your mythical hot idm girls!

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

imagine a room full of 19-year-olds doing jazzercise to confield

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i am. they all have beards.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

and viruses.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

hey, i'm EATIN here!

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

It's what people DO WITH the email that makes it Viral Marketing:

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases in brand awareness, through viral processes similar to the spread of an epidemic. It is word-of-mouth delivered and enhanced online; it harnesses the network effect of the Internet and can be very useful in reaching a large number of people rapidly.

Viral marketing is sometimes used to describe some sorts of Internet-based stealth marketing campaigns, including the use of web logs, seemingly amateur web sites, and other forms of astroturfing to create word of mouth for a new product or service.

Five years ago before blogs and ILM, Warp would have issued press releases that would have be picked up by convential media.

Warp decided to use the email network to break this news yesterday NOT press releases via a PR firm or a news story on their website, because they knew that Viral Marketing via an email message would create an internet BUZZ. i.e Connecting direct to the fans via email.

FACT: Blogs/ Rate Your Music/ ILM etc all responded FASTER than any conventional/ commercial media outlet on the web yesterday ! This was text book Viral Marketing in action ! RANT OVER

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

ok martian i guess i'll tell everyone in the advertising industry they're using the term wrong!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

fact!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i imagined dj martian saying that as the "it's a fact!" girl from kids in the hall

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost) Make sure you include a seventeen page list that enumerates the reasons why they're wrong and sign it "Precious Hugs 4EVA, DJ Martian (XOXOXO)".

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

hey guys, so i just heard about this hot new band called boards of canada. they're really cool. u should chek them out at http://www.boardsofcanada.com - i think they're really awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

phil-two that is not viral marketing, that's being an ironic laggard in marketing adoption terms. Whose next for marketing theory & practice lessons ?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

holy crap you're being annoying.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

FACT!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

what a dick

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

ironic laggard :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Skipping 599 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.