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Mike and Marcus are sitting in their farmhouse studio, listening to a truly beautiful piece of music. It has a genuinely etherial quality. It's like nothing that has ever been on earth before. If God listens to music, it would be this.

"What a quality track" says Marcus.

"Yeah" says Mike. "I've ...

Reversing Boards of Canada songs is always worth doing. There's a lot of interesting stuff in there.

I actually think the reversed version of Dandelion is one of their best melodies.

Cheers for sharing that Polar Sky, got it saved on my HD for the next time i'm decorating a room.

There is a big advertising campaign on the London underground at the moment for Tomorrow's Harvest. I'd really like one of the big six sheet posters being used. It would be a dominating presence in a ...

psthmn wrote:
Analysis of Shoreditch, talk of "hipsters"

I've lived in Shoreditch for near enough 5 years now and this sort of talk just makes me cringe. I also hate the word "hipsters", it's not even a real thing. No offense.

Anyway, I'll be there for sure. Looking forward to it.

There are maybe six or seven songs that they've done that are better than any one song on TH.

Having said that, I think that it's probably their best album as whole.

It's a tough call though. It's always hard to compare one great thing with another great thing, especially when it comes to music.

Agreed, Palace Posy is definitely the stand out track on this record.

Absolutely sick.

I'd just prefer that if these changed hands, they'd be gifted to a friend and not sold. Not realistic, but whatever

I don't understand why it matters how they change hands to you. It seems a bit fetishistic to elevate them above commerce, as if they are the Ossuary of the bones of Jesus Christ ...

Opothecary wrote: Until they take down entries 10, 13, 41, and 111 from their official (free) Youtube channel, I will consider it fair game to have this material in my possession.

So why is it fair game for you to have illegal copies but it's not fair game to sell a legal copy?

If you are specifically a fan of BoC (as opposed to an IDM fan in general) you know their past wishes regarding these releases. I could see if you are an IDM fan first rather than a "BoC fan", being concerned about an individual artist's wishes for their work could elicit indifference or it may ...

He isn't telling you to stop talking, he is rebuking your comment. He has just as much right to do that as you do.

And I have the right to rebuke his comment. And so on.


I have been here about as long as you, and as far as I can see this place is mainly full of intelligent, balanced and ...

Opothecary wrote:You've been here an entire month, and on your 11th post, you've managed to set us all straight! We'd be lost without your opinion.

Hahah. I thought this was an open discussion forum, not the army. What rank do I need to achieve before I can freely state my opinion, sir?

Some complete lunatics post here.

Boards of Canada aren't sacred. They are just a band. These tapes aren't the Arc of the Covenant. They're just a few cassettes.

All this "the Brothers" shit is absolutely wacko. The guys in BoC might be interested in cults, but I don't think they ever intended to ...

he CAN afford to keep it as it cost him less than a packet of ciggies and a beer. What it's "possibly" worth has nothing to do with whether or not he can afford to keep it.

So if you found a bar of gold in the street you could afford to keep it? I mean, after all, it didn't cost you anything to ...

I think it's creepy when people try and forge a personal connection with strangers just because they've created something they appreciate a lot. I'm sure there are ways to do it without crossing that line.

Regardless, I just don't think it's something they'd be into. It's treating them like ...

This is a nice thought, and I'm not trying to put a downer on a nice thought, but doesn't this seem a little bit cringey?

It seems to me that these guys want it to be 100% about the music and 0% about them. I get the distinct impression that the last thing they want is to be hero worshipped, or ...

Bonkers, do you want to sell it :oops:

No, he's not a greedy American, haha.

It's too bad that we have to be the ones to eBay something special like this, and post a complete recording of the listening party when asked not to. This is why we can't have nice things!

You're a complete arsehole ...

Tonx you're a legend. You helped us experience it from all over the world. It looked like a truly awesome event and i wish I could have been there in person, but thanks to you I did the next best thing. Really cool.

To be honest I'm not really fussed about HQ recordings.

Out of the first three tracks, Reach For The Dead is by far the best.

It's clear that the gold is hidden later in the record. Like that Vine snippet that was posted. I can't wait to hear that song.

High quality recordings of the rest of ...

Ok, here's my honest assessment:

First listen - a little underwhelmed. I thought it was very good but I was hoping for something less ambient and more melodic. Found myself hoping that it was an intro, a taster, and only representative of the album stylistically rather than musically.

Then I ...

PlacentaSand wrote:"Word"

There's no fucking way they'd ever say "Word".