Boards of Canada: Classic or Dud?

lol

they salvaged that nevermen remix

Maybe instead of calling it IDM we should call it "Chairgroove" or something like "Algorythmic Dance Music".

It's kind of a useless term because the original wave of artists changed a lot between ambient, breakdance, downtempo, noise sometimes even in the same record and they range from cyberpunk to pastoralism in their aesthetics. I don't see how AFX and BOC should be piled in the same collective.

That said if someone tries to describe me what the "IDM" sounds like I thinl of a spacey pad, a beat with fast transients that doesn't fit into the standard rhythmic pattern of other established electronic genres, and possibly an acid influenced synth line.

yeah and Plaid are also out on their own as well. Good post Moka

man i was just kidding afaik there is no music w/ claps on 1 and 3

whatever man, whatever

i rather like chairgroove

but i feel like i killed an important conversation here

dog latin (and other people) i would like to know your thoughts

I try and keep these ephemeral flights of fancy contained in one or two threads but this now like feels a suitable temporary home for this waywardly optimistic charmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNyqIWm_Dg

A+

I believe in Braindance?

Holy shizz is that your work saer? Do you Bandcamp? It's WONDERFUL.

"Chairgroove" made me laugh out loud

i associate braindance w/ a specific sound: aphex, ovuca, global goon, etc

drill and bass w/ floaty, fuzzy, wistful pads

it is a good word though

seat-ronica

sofa'n'bass

Holy shizz is that your work saer? Do you Bandcamp? It's WONDERFUL.

― attention vampire (MatthewK),

Its not one of mine, its by Lizz. Don't think this gone is going to be released though.There are a couple more Lizz track on the bobbins of 2017 thread

Thanks for informing my ignorance - one to check out thanks.

Simon Reynolds on the 20th anniversary of Music has the Right to Children...

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/why-boards-of-canadas-music-has-the-right-to-children-is-the-greatest-psychedelic-album-of-the-90s/

I think that was discussed on some other thread a few months ago when it was published

(Was 3 months ago but someone retweeted so came up in my timeline). Good read

missed that initially so thanks for sharing

Sounds like early them (and this is a series by artists not revealing who they are, it might well be some old track of theirs) : https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/november-air

i must catch up with those Touched comps (although all the anon stuff makes maintaining a digital collection difficult)

meanwhile, what is this? a new trendy compilation with a lot of Boards and other warp artists?

Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Boards of Canada - Peacock Tail
Bibio - The First Daffodils
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Four Tet - Peace for Earth
Boards of Canada - Corsair
Jon Hopkins - The Wider Sun
Four Tet - Memories
Max Richter - Shadow Journal
Stars of the Lid - Requiem For Dying Mothers (Part 1)
Orbital - Dwr Budur
Clark - Petroleum Tinged
Pete Fowler - Barred Growl
Boards of Canada - Ready Lets Go
Air - Alone in Kyoto
Chilly Gonzales - Carnivalse
Richard James - Space Instrumental
Slowdive - Falling Ashes
Philip Glass - String Quartet no 2 "Company", last movement
Max Richter - Cd2 01 A Catalogue of Afternoons
Black Sabbath - Orchid
Beck - Cycle
Aphex Twin - Jynweythek
Four Tet - Alap
Boards of Canada - Uritual
Stars of the Lid - Broken Harbors (Part 3)
Cliff Martinez - On The Beach
Cliff Martinez - They Broke His Pelvis
Richard David James - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 - Untitled 12
Plaid - Do Matter
Jon Hopkins - Emerald Rush
Daft Punk - Solar Sailer

(no, it's an episode of BBC4's Hidden Wales - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bsrhh2 lots of these clips are tiny, a few seconds, and low in the mix.)

jeez, that's either a boards of canada song or somebody took advantage of their anonymity to do the most on-the-nose boards of canada rip ever

I was watching that programme about Wales and was really amused at how much of my record collection kept turning up in it

also: R.I.P. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/prominent-kanai-elder-pete-standing-alone-dead-at-90

That track, someone on Reddit claims it sounds more like Tycho than it does BoC (so... Tycho probably sounds a lot like early BoC)

Something about the filter in the drums sounds kind of generic for them, and the vinyl crackle effect also doesn't seem like something they'd do. But maybe that's why it wasn't released under their name. 50p on it being a very well done pastiche.

the stuff it's being compared to - tycho, the twoism mailing list comps - they don't sound as much like boc to me as this does. certainly as many fakes as boc fans have heard i'd be inclined to go under the assumption that anything that sounds like boc isn't. all i can say is that it sounds like boc circa "music has the right to children" and it's a great listen.

ROYGBIV now reminds me as much of the time and place I first heard MHTRTC as it does some indistinct moment in 1976.

I live in California and the fact that the smell of campfire smoke now has a sinister undertone is the most Boards of Canada thing ever. Tomorrow's Harvest indeed.

In 20 mins - https://artists.wxaxrxp.net/boardsofcanada

Thanks!

Just tuned in. On a train.

What's this rueful glam-prog thing just after Devo?

First of many ID requests no doubt.

Ppl are trying to work it out, nothing coming up so far, the one that sounds a bit like 10CC or the first Peter Gabriel solo record?

I wondered if it was Jobriath but I think probably not.

https://youtu.be/ouP2A0aMR-4

I see it's ID'd in a playlist on YouTube. Dude from mid 70s Amom Düül II. Shoulda guessed!

Found it yeah, Stefan Zauner, Discogs says 1978, it sounds exactly like something from Peter Gabriel II, even the production.

has this been archived anywhere for replay?

https://rareboc.ax.lt/23-21_00-Boards_of_Canada_2hr_complete.mp3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXV1dsx5yfs

nice, thanks!

Look out for the lovely Hell Interface style edit of Slave To The Rhythm/Just An illusion/Aquarius

The These Trails song is pretty wonderful. Shout out to man like Dave Choy on synthesiser and (presumably) vocal trmolo effects.

Head's up: poster Ledge has graced us with a link to a torrent of the whole shebang!

Crikey!

I've always been a stan of these guys but have never been much interested in remixes by anyone, ever. The ones I've caught on spotify are a fucking revolution, esp in observation that the source material I found to be sonic duds. Intentional choices, if I want to give the elusive duo a bit of ego. I don't mind.

whoooo!!!

Man this radio mix is great

"The (1998 Peel session) radio broadcast contained an additional track, "XYZ", which was originally included on the EP, but soon removed due to sample licensing issues, meaning that original copies of the CD containing "XYZ" are extremely rare."

I did not know this. It's going to be re-released with the track reinstated, it just came up on spotify - *chef's kiss*