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by Heysanna
Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:10 am
Forum: Boards of Canada
Topic: Your First Listen
Replies: 67
Views: 15804

Re: Your First Listen

First time I heard BoC was probably on an Adult Swim bumper, Rue the Whirl if memory serves.

The first song I really listened to was Pete Standing Alone, I found it while randomly browsing the internet looking for new music to listen to, which is still my favorite track by them. Shortly thereafter ...
by Heysanna
Wed May 27, 2015 2:06 pm
Forum: Boards of Canada
Topic: Your own imagination
Replies: 15
Views: 5069

Re: Your own imagination

Wow that's really cool, being a synesthete must add a whole other layer to all of this stuff!
I relate the albums to seasons, like MHTRTC for me is Winter into Spring, Geogaddi is Fall into Winter, TCH is most definitely Summer and TH is the very end of Summer going into Fall.
Heard From the ...
by Heysanna
Wed May 27, 2015 1:56 pm
Forum: Boards of Canada
Topic: BoC and dreams
Replies: 33
Views: 7090

Re: BoC and dreams

I have a playlist specifically designed to bring on dreams!

I was in that in-between stage with waking and sleeping and listening to Orange Romeda, and that bubbly synth sound followed by the "wow" made me dream of a bus driving through mud, gaining and losing traction every so often.

Everything ...
by Heysanna
Tue May 26, 2015 11:19 pm
Forum: Boards of Canada
Topic: Your own imagination
Replies: 15
Views: 5069

Re: Your own imagination

Interesting, smacks somewhat of synesthesia. But I totally experience that myself too at times, I often imagine falling, colored geometric shapes when listening to Zoetrope for instance.

The titles of the songs themselves tend to color what I imagine as well, it's pretty hard to listen to IABPOITC ...
by Heysanna
Mon May 25, 2015 3:19 pm
Forum: Boards of Canada
Topic: Your own imagination
Replies: 15
Views: 5069

Your own imagination

Hey twoism!

This topic was inspired by a little snippet from an interview the brothers did regarding TCH:

"We usually imagine our music to have a visual element while we're writing it, so we were picturing this character losing his mind at the campfire and compressing weeks of events into a few ...