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The Natural Way
12:26 / 18.02.02
I don't care what they say, it's great. Like a nice, warm, hexagonal sunshine pie.

[thread retitled by Flux = Moderator]

[ 21-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Triangle Body Mode ]
 
 
plank
12:35 / 18.02.02
I knew it was on it's way, but it still caught me by surprise when I saw a flyposter for it today on my way to work.

It was released today, yeah?

How does it compare to "music has the right to children"?
 
 
The Natural Way
12:47 / 18.02.02
It's not exactly striding boldly into the realm of the new and novel, but it's just as good as the first. A nice progression - slow, but sure. And still possessed of that wonderful *detailed simplicity* they do so well. Very warm. As an album, it's a laster - you just know that some of the tracks are just going to unfold and unfold on yr arse. Listen no. 1 is never the best as far as the Boards are concerned.

[ 18-02-2002: Message edited by: Fantastic YOU [I, Runce] ]
 
 
plank
14:37 / 18.02.02
If it's just as good as the first then that's no bad thing. Couldn't really see them striking out in some bold new direction anyway, but this album has been on the go for so long I was beginning to worry whether or not it would be up to scratch.

I have very fond memories from about this time last year of spending an afternoon lying in a canoe in the middle of this lakein Sumatra with nothing but a big bag of ganja and the boards of canada for company, so I think I might have to go out and (bank balance permitting) purchase this new one forthwith.

With a bit of luck it will stop me lamenting the fact that I'm not in Indonesia this year.

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Red Cross Iodized Salt
16:48 / 18.02.02
Its out in the US this week...I can't wait (literally - I went looking for it a month ago, after reading the release date wrong on the Warp website).
 
 
Seth
18:18 / 18.02.02
It's in my bag, awaiting a play. Why are they so oddly addictive?
 
 
Red Cross Iodized Salt
18:54 / 18.02.02
I find that one of the main reasons I play their records again and again is the fact that each track seems to be put together so carefully..

...of course, I like how they sound too.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:58 / 21.02.02
Loz: I deleted yr other thread, but PM'd the contents of your post to you. Please feel free to repost in this thread.


So, anyway, I haven't heard this record yet. Would anyone mind pimping a few songs from the record for me to look for on Audiogalaxy?

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casemaker
17:15 / 21.02.02
Yeah please post a link. They had a pre-listening party at our local Other Music last week. I missed it, but would love to hear a tidbit.

Does anybody like Vladislav Delay? I just heard them last week and Boards of Canada was the first thing I thought of.
 
 
The Natural Way
06:50 / 22.02.02
Want do you want, Flux? Names of tunes?

Well: 1969, Music Is Math (which you can hear over at the Warp site), The Beach @ Redpoint.......
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
10:18 / 22.02.02
[repost] Just bought the little book version of their new album 'Geogaddi', very nice, sort of like a more interesting version of the Aphex Twin, the difference being that on this album there are tracks you actually want to listen to. Now if 'Godspeed' would just hurry up there's a chance I might actually buy two albums put out this year.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:24 / 22.02.02
Yeah, they do all their own photography and stuff (there was talk of a coffee-table book....). But the cover itself - someone else did that. NOT Designers Republic, thank God.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:50 / 22.02.02
They actually have a song called Music is Math.

Music is Math? Music is Math??? Music is cunting math???!!?? And people ask me why I hate the idea of IDM.

Listen up Boards, you labcoat-wearing, prematurely balding, supposedly-esoteric no-fun numpties. Music is a lot things. Music is sex and death and joy and pain and love and hate and drink and drugs and fun and friendship and sex and revolution. It is lying in the gutter and staring at the stars. It is cum in your hair and blood in your mouth. It is the first shag, the last dance, the last kiss goodbye.

It is not, repeat NOT, math.

The only people allowed to mention 'math' in a title are Jeru The Damaja and Mos Def. Well, okay, actually all rappers. (They means something quite different, anyway.)

But not you. No. You are Not Allowed. Your music does not have the right to children. Your music only has the right to burn. And as it crackles and fizzes and pops, perhaps you could sample that sound and turn it into a fucking five-minute track called 'Dodecahedronal Rhombus'. You fools. You physics teachers. You twarts.

[/rant]

(Disclaimer No 1: yes, I have heard the tune. It starts off okay, but you can actually hear the exact moment when Boards of Canada, sitting surrounded by a pile of glowing glitchy glitchy technology and rollie butts, said "Fuck - we've just found a groove!" "Quick - better lose it again!" Anyway, it's certainly not good enough to justify such an offensive title - unlike, say, 'Smack My Bitch Up'.)

(Disclaimer No 2: I may not really mean any of the above. But then again...)

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The Natural Way
11:24 / 22.02.02
Crap. Boards of Canada don't make difficult grooves, Fly, that's why so many people like them. That's why I like them. And their music isn't fucking lab-coaty either - the emotions are just a little gentler than all that SEX, DEATH, PAIN, LOVE etc. yr so fond of.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
11:34 / 22.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:
It is not, repeat NOT, math.
%Yeah, 'cos 4/4 rawk's got nothin' to do with structure or timing, either...%
 
 
nikon driver
11:45 / 22.02.02
hey flux.

it's pretty difficult to get the full versions of any of the new tracks on audio galaxy. but i did eventually manage to get 'music is math', '1969', 'the weirdest little number'(i think it's called that), and 'the devil's in the details'. all of which are pretty good and well worth hearing.
still prefer the 'beautiful place...' EP though.

happy hunting.
 
 
Red Cross Iodized Salt
22:00 / 22.02.02
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Red Cross Iodized Salt
22:01 / 22.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:
They actually have a song called Music is Math.


It's a reference to Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio, which they used to set spaces in tracks and select frequencies for the new album. Apparently.

Good Steven Wells impression though...
 
 
uncle retrospective
23:03 / 22.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Vote for Iron Man Wang:

Good Steven Wells impression though...


That's a terrible thing to say to anyone.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:43 / 23.02.02
Actually, that's pretty much what I was shooting for...
 
 
The Natural Way
12:05 / 25.02.02
Can't mess w/ Fly's opinions.... he doesn't really care about them - just wearing a suit.

Jeez.

Anyways...

Did anyone see the *review* of Geogaddi in The Times? Hilarious! Going on about how dark and dangerous the Board's new music is. Wonderful. I think the reviewer even threw in the word "ennui", at one point... Just for good measure. Tho', the other day, someone described the cover to me as a "snowflake on fire"... Which, I suppose, is kinda dangerous in an airyfairy, *rural* kinda way.

I reckon it's tie-dye. Dirty hippies.
 
 
Watts
09:05 / 26.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:
[QB]They actually have a song called Music is Math.

Music is Math? Music is Math??? Music is cunting math???!!?? And people ask me why I hate the idea of IDM.

Listen up Boards, you labcoat-wearing, prematurely balding, supposedly-esoteric no-fun numpties. Music is a lot things. Music is sex and death and joy and pain and love and hate and drink and drugs and fun and friendship and sex and revolution. It is lying in the gutter and staring at the stars. It is cum in your hair and blood in your mouth. It is the first shag, the last dance, the last kiss goodbye.

It is not, repeat NOT, math.

[/rant]

Then music definitely isn't a band that has every song with the same chord sequence time after time with a verse-refrain-verse structure that gets duplicated into each song.

Music is math. Live with it. Just remember that math is physics describing the planets in their orbits, and math is fractals capable of generating images of infinitely repeated patterns. Math is the language of the universe, or so some Galileo guy said.

[ 26-02-2002: Message edited by: Watts ]
 
 
Jackie Susann
09:43 / 26.02.02
Oh, you've really made me want to go out and get the album now. Galileo recommends it. Fucking hell.
 
 
Red Cross Iodized Salt
09:43 / 26.02.02
All said - having now listened to the record a couple of times - it is a little disappointing. No new ground broken (belying the promise of the In a beautiful place... EP, which sounded a lot more shiny and new) and not as absorbing as music has the right to children. Oh well. Maybe it'll grow on me...
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
16:22 / 31.10.05
So, has anyone got 'The Campfire Headphase'? I've got it, haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
16:48 / 31.10.05
And looking back up this thread we hear the crash and thunder of our Petey Shatoe being forged long ago, back in his flamethrower days, before he cooled to the razor sharp knife we all know today.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
20:17 / 31.10.05
it's quite nice. not as dark as Geogaddi and mining more of the same territory as the first album.

they use guitars much more prominently then they ever have in the past, which lends a nice "folky" bent to the usual hazes of distorted synths and voices.

like my friend and I always say when confronted with opinions on BoC....how can you not like this stuff?
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
15:19 / 04.11.05
Well, I suspect that there's nothing here to convert the unconverted. I don't think the guitars are worth mentioning, it seems much the same as the rest of their work.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
15:31 / 04.11.05
which is? Opinion please?

I'm not so into the new album as i feel that the super clean production style has washed away the more crunchy edgy sound of MHTRTC & Geogaddi. However they are apparantely obsessed with POP production at the moment.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
18:17 / 04.11.05
However they are apparantely obsessed with POP production at the moment.

A bad thing?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
20:45 / 04.11.05
Well I think that it is, yes.

Pop music these days is such a sordid affair - Who in their right mind wants to have anything to do with, say Simon Fuller, or any of those other characters who really don't have the best interests of teh artistes at heart (see: the fiasco about S-Club 7.)

For all this ugly bourgeois cant, courtesy of the likes of that clown who used to manage Boyzone, this apparent return to the Brill Building/Motown type-style of music-management as a way forward, might seem like an amusing pitch from the likes of Pete Waterman, the fact remains that... It is totally fucked.

That the songs, the tunes, the lyrics are, objectively, total bollocks.

The Swans, say, will live on timelessly, in a way that Girls Aloud never will, damnit.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
21:18 / 04.11.05
i'm so bored with crunchy "IDM" sounds at this point that the nice, clean natural drums are much more pleasing to me.

the first time i heard it, i felt like the guitars were a very pronounced feature of it, which is why i mentioned it. they are much bolder.
 
 
gordasm
18:32 / 12.11.05
At this point, The Campfire Headphase is my favourite disc of 2005. Sure, there's been a lot of hype over it in the months leading up to its release including a rare cover feature last month with The Wire, but there's good reason for it. It's effing great! The prominent guitars and live drums are *perfectly* blended with their usual sound/beatscapes. The disc has rarely been out of my car CD player, except for quick switchovers to the latest from Broadcast, which is also great.
 
 
TeN
01:06 / 14.11.05
I completely disagree with Shaftoe about BoC's music being cold and calculated. They're by far my favorite electronica group precisely because their music is so warm and human and emotive. it reminds me of the place between sleeping and waking.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
14:44 / 15.11.05
I would be willing to pay money to stop the same few tracks from 'Music...' and 'Geogaddi' being regularly used for TV documentaries though.
 
  

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