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Dang, hope your hearing recovers soon! As for the album, I have intentionally avoided listening to any of the promotional material (except the VHS tape), and although I bought the album today, I will be sitting on it until I feel like listening to it. Maybe I'll age it in my cellar like a bottle of ...

Oligarchs Have the Right to Children

Would someone please explain?

I read a couple of books this year that relate to this topic:

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

The first book presents a convincing argument that we should curtail our use of digital media, and the second explains how to go about it. I highly recommend both if you ...

There is no sense in 'debating' the merits of neo-fascist ideas. People who abuse their free speech privileges to stir up chaos and hate should be ostracized.

vitriolie wrote:different culture, can't understand without a bottle

Russian culture is poison, and I hope it dies.

Arvy, nobody cares about your vile fascist bullshit.

"Much of the energy for the album comes from written word, thinkers like James Howard Kunstler and Dmitry Orlov. These writers are like modern day prophets, and it’s a much more fertile source of inspiration than just listening to other people’s music."

I haven't read much Kunstler (just a bit ...

i'd like to hear them really push the organic / live instrumental side of their work further than ever - kinda like the beck, sexual objects or why remixes

I have read in interviews that they have recorded a lot of tracks with traditional instruments, but they feel that this music does not fit ...

I am sick of Arvy's incendiary posts. I wish that the moderators would consider permanently banning him.

Yes, and the one track title that’s in Russian translates to ‘Seeds of the Dead.” It’s obviously a reference to the fear of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War era. What does this have to do with an ‘anti-west’ perspective? The album was influenced by American films of the 1970’s from what I’ve ...

Without the 'West,' none of the technology that Boards of Canada uses to make music would exist. Also, growing up in a prosperous western country enabled the brothers to make a living as musicians, rather than doing drudge work in a factory. Also, none of the music, TV shows, or films that inspired ...

rolypablo wrote:mysterious video

Ooh la la! How did you find this channel?

You're making a lot of assumptions here. And you're also calling them lazy?

No, I assume that they have been working on music (and maybe some other projects) throughout this period. I guess that their perfectionist tendencies prevent them from completing tracks that they feel comfortable ...

HUMO: " There's a gap of eight long years between the 'The Campfire Headphase' and 'Tomorrow's Harvest', long enough to build houses and raise families. Is it true you've been mainly dealing with pacifiers and trowels?"

"Mike Sandison: " We did some travelling for a while and have been working ...

About the quality v quantity remark. I recon BoC doesn't feel that much of a pressure to frequently release anything. Kind of obvious really. The frequency was higher in the past during their first years. I suspect they nowadays focus more on family and enjoying nature. It wouldn't surprise me if ...

For those who are interested, the Academy Award-winning documentary, '20 Days in Mariupol' is available to watch for free on YouTube. The film provides an inside view of the first several weeks of the Russian siege of Mariupol in Southern Ukraine.

did you really just say that?

:shock:

Many people focus on the creative production techniques that this band uses more than the music itself. While I appreciate the attention paid to all those psychedelic details, I think that the melodies are the most interesting aspect of Boards of Canada ...

It seems that the brothers Sandison are perfectionists, and perfection is the enemy of the good. They ought to stop procrastinating by obsessing over minute details in the mix, and just release some music. I'm sure that many of us agree that some of their best tunes are from those shitty cassette ...