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I only have the big two

Roygbiv
1969
Music Is Math
Happy Cycling
Telephasic Workshop
Turquoise Hexagon Sun
Alpha and Omega
The Beach at Redpoint
Gyroscope
Eagle In Your Mind

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 18 January 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

1. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
2. 1969
3. Roy G Biv
4. Everything You Do Is A Baloon
5. Julie & Candy
6. Iced Cooly
7. Telephasic Workshop (Live)
8. The Devil In The Details
9. Alpha & Omega
10. Happy Cycling

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 18 January 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Amo Bishop Roden
Pete Standing Alone
Roygbiv
Everything You Do Is A Balloon
Sixtyniner

1986 Summer Fire
Julie and Candy
Dawn Chorus
You Could Feel the Sky
Over the Horizon Radar

― Leee Majors (Leee), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

roygbiv
whitewater
amo bishop roden
orange romeda
m9
trapped (as hell interface)
kid for today
this from ATP 2001 (anyone ID?)
this from the Lighthouse party 1999 (i think) - uploading now - anyone ID?
june 9th

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Amo Bishop Roden
2. Roygbiv
3. Everything you do is a Balloon
4. 1969
5. Turquoise Hexagon Sun
6. In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
7. Hi Scores
8. Alpha and Omega
9. Smokes Quantity
10. Pete Standing Alone

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(I only have the big two -- sundar subramanian
yeh, same here.)

open the light
olson
triangles & rhombuses
bocuma
roygbiv

julie & candy
1969
dawn chorus
the beach at redpoint
alpha & omega

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Telephasic Wokshop
2. In a beautiful place..

the only two i like.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

b-but they all sound the same!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

surprised no-one has Aquarius yet

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 18 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

1. in a beautiful place out in the country
2. everything you do is a balloon
3. the beach at redpoint
4. zoetrope
5. olson
6. smokes quantity
7. dandelion
8. music is math
9. triangles & rhombuses
10. wildlife analysis

why no love for the one minute tracks??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i like many of the one minute tracks a lot but they don't feel as essential or even substantial - and when 'roygbiv' fades out i am almost always disappointed.

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't think of 10 but off the top of my head

aquarius (yay!)
roygbiv
hi scores
olson
kid for today

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

They have titles?

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah they do all sound the same pretty much but Telephasic is a bit more fierce and multi leveled. I find their music too simplistic.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

you only listen to 'complicated' music?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 18 January 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yeahh, that's right.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 19 January 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ORANGE

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 19 January 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(this is based on what i think the songs were titled, i'm not 100%)
• dawn chorus
• the beach at redpoint
• everything you do is a balloon
• 1969
• turquoise hexagon sun
• music is math
• iced cooly
• aquarius
• telephasic workshop
• a beautiful place out in the country

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 19 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i hardly ever listen to complicated music although i do - i find BOC Simplistic and one dimensional. I dont hear anything in their stuff i havent heard better in Black Dog, Autechre etc.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 January 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: simplistic vs simple

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

that's funny because i think Boards Of Canada are like icebergs, with a huge amount of 'stuff' beneath the surface of what are simplistic, often monotonous or nagging loops, rhythms and warped shifting patterns and hooks. for example all the muffled dialogue and obscure samples, the titles, what compels them to make some tracks so short and others so long? the hallucinogenic and nostalgic elements that most people refer to and pick up on. the bizarre aspect of how i found so many of their tracks just so bleak and depressing but my friend(s) found those same tracks so sublime and uplifting (i came round a bit later on). i think they apply the same level of obsessive implementation into their tracks as Autechre, the only thing that makes the latter seem more complex is the percussive element to me.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

When i think of the ae i love the most its the really still and almost beatless stuff like overand, yulquen and Bronchusvnmx (not that that's the only stuff of theirs i like) but i think i think i like Telephasic Workshop by BOC for the reasons you listed.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem otm. boards of canada are more interesting than you may at first think. there's a secret element in there that makes me get more and more into geogaddi every time i listen to it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

the boards isn't for people lacking in patience.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

:-o

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

no musical artist has 'unnerved' me more than Boards Of Canada

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i.n.p.o:

- roygbiv
- aquarius
- in a beautiful place out in the country
- music is math
- 1969
- julie and candy
- the beach at redpoint
- june 9th (remix)
- happy cycling (peel session)
- meat beat manifesto - bubbah's turn (boc remix)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 19 January 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i am with stevem and dog latin here. i share the general ILM distaste for equipment-fetish but these guys really ARE masters of analogue synth programming. i have spent literally days fumbling about with a nord lead trying to approximate their wispy, hazy tones only to watch it disappear forever with the wrong quarter-twist of a knob. each of their songs has several of these elements and they never seem to run out of new tones, always with new shadings of unnameable, "unnerving" feelings ... earlier today i was listening to both "dandelion" and "opening of the mouth" and trying to figure out how they'd used these similar sounds and effects to hit on two very distinct moods.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 January 2004 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

also they make me very twee when i think or talk about them. you can't overrate that.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 19 January 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

They write such beautiful harmonies. Such gifted boys.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 19 January 2004 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 19 January 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Will they release new album for leap year 2004? I hope.

― Star Hustler, Monday, 19 January 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

roygbiv
open the light
iabpoitc
happy cycling
oirectine
colour of the fire
1969
amo bishop roden
telephasic workshop
the smallest wierd number

― Star Hustler, Monday, 19 January 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

A random thought worth relating: you know "Pete Standing Alone" is actually the name of an actor who was in a few educational films in the seventies...and isn't that just such a fucking cool name to have?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 19 January 2004 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i think Boards Of Canada are like icebergs, with a huge amount of 'stuff' beneath the surface

Stevem, this was a wonderful description.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Monday, 19 January 2004 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

gee, everyone really loves roygbiv.

i didn't even know what bofc stood for without reading the thread. i was always under the impression that boards of canada were a lame pseudo-experimental/IDM type groop?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 19 January 2004 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Over the Horizon Radar
2. Roygbiv
3. Aquarius
4. In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
5. Hi-Scores
6. Kid For Today
7. 1969
8. Music is Math
9. Wildlife Analysis
10. Olsen

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

BofC = Boards of fucking Canada?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Ol' Fucking Cocks, natch.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

astounded at the seeming meh for 'kid for today'! i saw that one as like the last huge swell of blue sky boards before they went intense and kinder-tinder crackly

― prima fassy (bob), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Diving Station
2. An Eagle In Your Mind
3. Amo Bishop Roden
4. Directine
5./6. Bocuma + Roygbiv
7. Gyroscope
8. Kid For Today (Stereolab Remix)
9. Julie and Candy
10. One Very Important Thought

― springtime! cue me coffee ludes (Wintermute), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Boards Of Canada have been on my stereo a shitload these last few days. Theoretically they should be right up my alley, but I've always found something almost unpleasant about them, and even though I've had Music Has The Right To Children since not long after it came out, I've probably only played it a dozen times. There's something very unsettling about them, and the only thing I can think of that has the same affect is some of the tracks from Selected Ambient Works 85-92, only I have no problem listening to that at all.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

this is such a non point, like geogaddi wore its occult leanings blatantly. a long remake of beach boys - 'fire'

― prima fassy (bob), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure it's that though, because that is so blatant. It's an emotional rather than spiritual unsettling.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ew! right right, yours is a more personal disquiet if u say so but refusal to believe in boards' manipulativeness is also key to boards general aesthetic

― prima fassy (bob), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

well i'm with Nick totally - i think i know what he means as i said upthread with my own 'unnerving' thing. it wasn't until 2000 when i was working with a guy who listened to them so much that i finally got into them and started picking out the tracks that didn't just make me feel like mentall nauseous. there's very little on 'Music Has The Right To Children' that i actually like or would choose to listen to - i like half of 'Geogaddi' but i think i prefer 'Twoism' to both and the IABPOITC EP and one-off tracks like 'Orange Romeda'

can ANYONE ID those live tracks i posted???

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

missed those the first time around stevem. downloading now and will report back

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem neither of those tracks have ever appeared on anything else and don't have names attributed to them

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

we should title them then now then - is there a Boards Of Canada Track Title Generator out there? 'Antimony / Syphon Early' for the first, 'Telemacus' for the second

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"stevem types the fire"

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"BofC" = no one tries to be clever by picking "Don't Fear the Reaper"

"Antimony" and "Syphon Early" are very nice. "Syphon Early" reminds me of MBV's loop codas.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 19 January 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Unnerving...

They are pyschopaths. They are lal bad acid trips and creepy. I think they are bloody hippie pagans.

They make me believe in devils, not the Devil, but devils.
Horned goatmen, tumescent types that pluck angeldust and build fires on the Pentlands.

There is an uncertain didactic element within the tunes.

I reckon we ought to give it chance.

― Brainwashed Dickie Thon, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

They make me believe in devils, not the Devil, but devils.

yes, especially the kind that look like small gray men with big heads and huge black eyes ...

the backwards-masked bits from "a is to b as b is to c":

- "I don't know, it makes me nervous...and I still dream about it, I don't know, I just wish it never happened...the whole thing, the whole thing goes over and over"
- "If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone..."
- "I've been gone about a week.."
- "We love you all"

see also: "over the horizon radar", "1969" (moon landing!", "i could feel sky", etc...

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of their tracks have evangelical overtones too (the kids prayers for example)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

everything you see is just a weather balloon

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

that's probably just too non sequiter to make sense on excelsior, but genius duly noted, stevem.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

They make me believe in devils, not the Devil, but devils.

yeah, Geogaddi is a bit creepy. Anyway I'm a sucker for the short ones:

1. Olson
2. The Color Of Fire
3. Roygbiv
4. The Beach At Redpoint
5. Bocuma
6. Turquoise Hexagon Sun
7. Wildlife Analysis
8. Everything You Do Is A Balloon
9. You Could Feel The Sky
10. The Devil Is In The Details

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Every list without "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" on it is wrong. So says the Self-Important Man.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

C-Man's a BofC fan?!

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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