Boards of Canada: Classic or Dud?

hmmm I just listened to Semena Myrtvykh again and I'm starting to come around to your way of thinking, and that was before I googled what it means

They're no Blue Öyster Cult, that's for sure.

https://bocpages.org/wiki/Semena_Mertvykh

Mike had the following to say about this track:

"...at the end of the whole album, you've reached some sort of sanctuary and then the whole thing is stolen away from you again with the final track. That last track has a deliberate feeling of complete futility that I find kind of funny. That's where the obsessive, scientific work comes in, and yeah, it takes us ages."

Good thread. I've never picked up despair from BoC or at least I've not been very sensitive to that side. Creepy yes, bleak sometimes, but also regularly serene and life-affirming (eg Campfire, which unlike most is prob my fave). For me the most disturbing aspect of their stuff is the whole "past inside the present" thing (very similar from what I ger out of Patrick Modiano's books) and the idea on the one hand that the past is still very much alive in what we do and how we live, and on the other hand that the present is twisting our grasp of the past (that's kinda how I interpret the blurred faces on the cover of MHTRTC). The pagan mystic stuff and numerology is fun but secondary and probably not really worth digging too deep. Mainly, I just find their music incredibly beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3b6EEltD4

machine yearning

New Neverman remix. Hopefully they release a new full length soon. https://lexrecords.com/news/treat-em-right-boards-of-canada-remix/

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

Possible that this YouTube upload is genuinely a 30 year old copy of Hooper Bay that some guy in a Edinburgh has had in a box for 30 years

side A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H9Kk8V1Rp0

side B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pIFVsAw6mI

I know there have been lots of fake BoC leaks in the past but this one sounds good to me, especially side B

Someone, probably the YT uploader, has also uploaded a couple of photos to discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/release/26811377-Boards-Of-Canada-Hooper-Bay

and he just happens to be unable to record it properly? bull.

(sorry, I'm not a believer)

There’s been discussion about the recording quality on the BoC forum. Posters who I assume are teenagers are speculating that if this is a 50 year old from Scotland that maybe he doesn’t have access to smart phones and can’t use technology. Which I laughed at but also cried a bit because I resemble that demographic. But it makes sense to me, he’s apparently said he was posting because people didn’t believe he had it. Posting in deliberately low quality helps back up his claim, but if it was a FLAC quality rip it would be all over the net and might open him up to WARP’s solicitors contacting him.

then why not record 1 minute of each track in high quality? Anyway - I've been burned by hoaxes too often, it's safer to not believe :-)

Iirc the only previously known snippets of this single/ep was “circle”, shared by BOC themselves.

If that one matches the snippet then it could be legit.

Here’s the snippet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s-LHQdQnsU

as any medieval monk worth his salt will tell you, the secret to a good forgery is mixing in actual authentic stuff with the fakes

Turns out this was a fake after all. At least the people responsible didn’t drag it out too long

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiXfSh1tYP0

I wish they'd just work with Warp and drop all this old material already and put these bootlegs and BS forgeries to rest finally.

gy!be did it with "all lights..." and it seems to have worked out pretty quietly, which I always understood to be what they wanted, so you never know, maybe one day.