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oh, don't get me wrong, i like a lot of this record, i guess i just wanted the moon.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I want mark to have the moon :(

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

question for the techies...if i were to use a program (goldwave) to resave the 192kb files at 320kb, would that improve the sound quality (or just take up more disk space!)

help please!

― venimdenim, Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Isn't that just a re-encode?

That will make the quality worse i think.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, in addition to taking up more disk space, you might open yourself up to some weird artefacting. any of the frequencies you'd hear above 192kps have already been eliminated in the wave -> mp3 encoding process.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

you can't add quality that wasn't there to begin with

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

touché

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Thursday, 8 September 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I was pretty underwhelmed at first. Some songs seemed kinda bland, others seemed mistakable for Moby, some of the beats seemed drum machine-ish. Some of the progressions just seemed too...happy. I think I really was expecting to hear more Geogaddi or MHTRTC, and this album isn't either of those. It's not a linear progression from their previous albums. It's more of a sidestep.

After a few listens, it really started to grow on me. I threw on the good ol' headphones and gave it some good attention. The layers and melodies and complexities really started to reveal themselves, and before long I realized it's the same BOC I know and love, just with a new spin. The guitar is great on some songs (Hey Saturday Sun is my current favorite), and the beats are better than I gave them credit for initially. There are, true to BOC tradition, lots of OMG-shit-my-pants-so-dope melodies buried in there. I think the backwards synth bassline that kicks in at about 3:45 on Oscar STRE is one of the dopest lines they've ever made (and, of course, it doesn't repeat, which I've always loved about their best melodies.)

All in all, it's a really sweet album. I'm not sure that it tops MHTRTC or Geogaddi. I don't think it does, but that will take months of listening to determine. It certainly is a quality BOC album though, and it'll be in my car and on my computer playlist and in my MP3 player and in the bathroom boombox for months to come. (And of course I'll be buying in on cd and vinyl in BOCtober.)

― junklard, Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

can someone list the total playing time for the entire record for me.....wanna make sure i got the right thing.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

cutty...thanks for the blunt rudeness.i was having such a great day....TOO much of a great day.....man,i needed a change.so,thank you.nothing better than witnessing the words of an asshole on your 20-minute break from work.i pray karma exists.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

PHEAR THE KARMA CUTTY

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

he should.he most certainly should.though something tells me that karma has already had it's day(life?) with him.hence the juvenile antics.dude,it's time to fess up....and do the right thing.otherwise,you'll gain MORE wait,grow MORE depressed,and not even your mother will look at you......dude,that's the only woman that still does!
oh
and i got my answer elsewhere.
thank you to all kind souls.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I wouldn't invest too much headphone time into an mp3 version of the album btw. The waves contain digital gems that fill the voids.

― snakefukker, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

One more thing to keep in mind. BoC was never half as entertaining as when they made mental associations with such commonplace items as the golden ratio, occult literature, cults and the like. Remove the hype and anchors to the real interesting materials and the magick disappears a little more with every listen now.

― hipNoSYS, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

wait.wait.damn cutty,you win this one.it should've been "weight".....not wait.cutty-1,jimmy-0.
maybe karma is getting me.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah.The guitars work on the album is mediocre atbest.Real basic chord progressions that only really barely work on satelite blah blah blah.Lets hope this promo is all the left over material from the real album.

― johnweener, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

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, 8 September 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

andrew....man...can you help me out?what is the total playing time for your copy?

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

cockledoodledoo is turning out to be the rodney dangerfield of this thread

― venimdenim, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

rodney dangerfield?hmmm,that's not such a bad thing i guess.as a matter of fact,i'll take that as a complimet....even if that's not how it was intended.i'll take the lack of respect,and spin it into comedy gold.yeah.....that's it.
anyway,my first impression of the record is a good one.it's probably their most straightforward effort......well hell,it's early....i have to listen to it a few more times.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

damn....did it again.complimet.i was thinking of the 86 world series i guess.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

can someone list the total playing time for the entire record for me.....wanna make sure i got the right thing.
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oh
and i got my answer elsewhere.
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can you help me out?what is the total playing time for your copy?

agagagagagagaeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

― agagagag, Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

http://jokezone.8m.com/_borders/ijz.jpg

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

"techno"

― don't be jerk, this is china (FE7), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU NERDS?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

man,it's easy to irritate people on this forum.simple questions...much like the one i asked...drive these characters batty.maybe,just maybe,someone will answer my question.what's the total running time?am i going to lambasted for this request?do i give a fuck?this is fun.

― cockledoodledoo, Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

is your space bar broken?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 September 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

it is lovely, and you can find it here if you (still) dont have it...
www.brunobanani.blogspot.com

― Bruno Banani (Bruno Banani), Friday, 9 September 2005 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Extract from .svf file. Contains CRC32s. All you need to check it's right.

01_Into_The_Rainbow_Vein.mp3 d92e2b81
02_Chromakey_Dreamcoat.mp3 a40586e5
03_Satellite_Anthem_Icarus.mp3 8207c42f
04_Peacock_Tail.mp3 953fe543
05_Dayvan_Cowboy.mp3 fed364f1
06_A_Moment_Of_Clarity.mp3 cf4c2e20
07_84_Pontiac_Dream.mp3 68eefd10
08_Sherbert_Head.mp3 f271a5b8
09_Oscar_See_Through_Red_Eye.mp3 e3e97d8b
10_Ataronchronon.mp3 7649b190
11_Hey_Saturday_Sun.mp3 3f6ea0bd
12_Constants_Are_Changing.mp3 cecb3819
13_Slow_This_Bird_Down.mp3 87475376
14_Tears_From_The_Compound_Eye.mp3 43cb4724
15_Farewell_Fire.mp3 f7d7cf28

― defor, Friday, 9 September 2005 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link

you gotta be quick!!!!

BOARDS OF CANADA "The Campfire Headphase" (2005)
bitrate: 192
pass: giraffe

http://rapidshare.de/files/4849418/B01.zip.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/4849434/B02.zip.html

thanx to rockrock on & claude

― ALIJASON, Friday, 9 September 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Why did Warp release the track listing except to give the green light to a load of fakers to get the discussion groups going?

― fingers, Friday, 9 September 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

the album I downloaded was ruuuuuuuubish

― toes, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

you gotta be quick!!!!

also you need to pay for premium acct to dl pt.2 zip. rapidshare lame. use megaupload.

― webbers, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Whatever Bruno linked to is GREAT.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuckin' Google.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

If this is them then it's easily my favorite BoC.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

huh. the guitar tracks make me think of...

http://yoda.zoy.org/photos/2001/07-18-Boston/01-StarBucks-small.jpg

― amon (eman), Friday, 9 September 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

if you people are downloading the album, please buy it as well,
i am downloading it and will buy it when it is released.
please support these brilliant artists.

― benc, Saturday, 10 September 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

lossless rip????

come on already.....

― stu, Saturday, 10 September 2005 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/32/39073801_b8dde750dd_o.gif

― amon (eman), Saturday, 10 September 2005 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link

if someone had a lossless rip it would have been up already....

― chimeme, Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

At the end of the day, BOC produce music. Nothing too wonderous really. It's not like they deliver babies, or feed the starving. I like them as good as the next guy, but I am so bloody sick of the slavish following and "ooooh what could it mean" type shit

― Spunky Onions, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

boc produce... music?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Mmm... listened to this one all the way through today. Must say that no tracks really stand out except Chromakey Dreamcoat, and even that song after a few listens has gotten old and lost it's appeal. I think the main thing I have to say about this album is it's just a major down step in quality and real emotional songwriting. It sounds like someone trying to be Boards of Canada who sucks. I also dislike the excessive silence in the last few tracks. There just isn't enough concrete BoC melody and addictive beats. It's very simple, quiet, and dramatically less thoughtful, calming, and interesting. Not enough intrigue, not enough originality, and what's with those lame guitars? I'm sorry but this album sucks, in comparison with BoCs other albums and electronic music in general. Any one of Venetian Snares album has more thought and feeling put in to one track than all these tracks combined.

― Curtiss, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Another complaint... Does anyone else hate how a lot of the songs fade out? What happened to the seamless instrumental interlude transitions of MHRTC and Geogaddi. Man I so friggin disappointed and I don't think I've ever built an album up as much as this one.

― Curtiss, Monday, 12 September 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

DAYVAN COWBOY.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I think that it sounds less creepy, which always seemed affected and pretentious to me, as if they were just baiting the fans who read too much into it. Maybe there's an eerieness that's lost? I don't know, I'll listen again, but I really really enjoyed it this weekend.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm wondering why you would have built this one up so much. I mean, Geogaddi wasn't a huge departure, were you expecting something radically different? I guess I'm not clued in to what the die hard fan's expectatings were for this one.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i can't figure out if i like "dayvan cowboy" or not! i think maybe i would be more receptive to it if it was by a different band. i find the strings very trip-hoppy, which is something i thought i'd never ever say about boc, much less in 2005!

"peacock tail" is still my runaway favorite, with "slow this bird down" a distant second.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

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