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[Fredd-E]

but seriously, go and climb a mountain in the meantime.

but don't fall down else you might miss the album drop!

[The Telepathic Kid]

http://newcleardawn.com/
is this new?

Also I noticed the banner on BoC's site on Warp.
http://warp.net/records/boards-of-canada

[Fredd-E]

http://newcleardawn.com/
is this new?

No. Unrelated to the forthcoming album.

Also I noticed the banner on BoC's site on Warp.
http://warp.net/records/boards-of-canada

What about it? It's old.

[turquoise70]

yeah, something always bothered me about that banner. if i am correct, that's a pretty common image of a nuclear blast. in fact it's like... THE most common one i see around. ...why? BoC never resort to crummy stock imagery, they always have had something originally produced in the past. that just doesn't seem like them. didn't someone once mention that the Warp BoC site is pretty much done by Warp only?

[Fredd-E]

yeah, something always bothered me about that banner. if i am correct, that's a pretty common image of a nuclear blast. in fact it's like... THE most common one i see around. ...why? BoC never resort to crummy stock imagery, they always have had something originally produced in the past. that just doesn't seem like them. didn't someone once mention that the Warp BoC site is pretty much done by Warp only?

Well, I refer to the following Dutch interview: http://bocpages.org/wiki/The_Last_Secret_of_Pop

Op Geogaddi waren de 'dingetjes' ontsproten uit de donkerste krochten van hun ziel, op al hun andere platen kun je ze herleiden tot een verlangen naar hun jeugd - het Leitmotiv in dit verhaal. De verloren jeugd, de tijd dat gevoel dat iedere adolescent langzaam kwijtraakt. 'Als ik depressief ben, en ik heb een lange geschiedenis van depressies,' bekent Mike, 'dan zoek ik altijd troost in mijn kinderjaren. Die weemoed is altijd aanwezig in onze muziek.' Eén ding wil hij nog over Geogaddi kwijt: 'Het was een project, It's its own thing. Een claustrofobische trip door een wereld vol paranoia en duisternis. Veel mensen verwarren de plaat met de mens. Wij zijn geen doemdenkers.' 'Vergeet niet,' zegt hij even later, 'dat we in de studio zaten toen 9/11 gebeurde. De laatste vijf maanden van Geogaddi vielen samen met de nasleep van 9/11. Het was een angstige tijd, het voelde alsof we terugkeerden naar de Koude Oorlog. Opeens bekroop me weer de angst die ik als kind al gevoeld had voor de atoombom. Ik denk dat iedereen van onze generatie dat gevoel wel kent. We ontkwamen er niet aan, het drukte ons gemoed. De toon werd steeds beklemmender. De sfeer, de samples, het heeft er allemaal mee te maken.' 'Bovendien,' gaat hij verder, 'ging ik zelf door een moeilijke periode. Het was een klotejaar.'

--> google translate

Geogaddi were on the "little things" sprung from the darkest depths of their souls, on all their other plates they can be traced to a desire for their youth - the leitmotif in this story. The lost youth, the feeling that every time the adolescent gradually lost. "If I am depressed, and I have a long history of depression," admits Mike, "then I always look for comfort in my childhood. That sadness is always present in our music. "One thing he wants to rid Geogaddi: "It was a project, It's Its Own Thing. A trip through a claustrophobic world of paranoia and darkness. Many people confuse the plate with the man. We are not defeatists. ""Remember," he says later, "we sat in the studio when 9 / 11 happened. The last five months of Geogaddi coincided with the aftermath of 9 / 11. It was an anxious time, it felt like we went back to the Cold War. Suddenly came over me again the fear I felt as a child had the atomic bomb. I think everyone of our generation knows that feeling. We have not escaped, it expressed our minds. The tone became more oppressive. The atmosphere, the samples, it all has to do with it. ""Besides," he continues, "I myself went through a difficult period. It was a shitty year.

There you have it.

[turquoise70]

well yeah, i understand that, i just don't see why they're using such a cliched photograph. maybe it's just me that thinks it's a generic-looking image for them to use, i dunno.

[dp]

wow. I haven't seen that Interview before. very revealing and interesting. thanks Fred.

[Fredd-E]

wow. I haven't seen that Interview before. very revealing and interesting. thanks Fred.

It's a great and old (2005) interview. But for the most of you unfortunately in Dutch. But yeh google translate will help a bit.

You might want to check out the interview index: http://bocpages.org/wiki/Interviews

There might be more hidden gems?!

[turquoise70]

I want to add that I agree, that little snippet from the interview is awesomely revealing. I don't think it would be wrong to say that BoC are very directly, personally emotionally connected to the music they make. And actually, if that's true, I think that's something that we have in common. It really sounds like they pour their minds and hearts into what they do, which in my personal experience, makes sense when you consider that it coincides with their perfectionism and the sporadic nature of their releases - as I'm the same way with visual art, every drawing is a piece of my soul so to speak, and I can't crank it out when it's just not in me, so I go periods of drawing absolutely nothing, then a week where I generate like 12 great finished, polished pictures. it gives me a sense of supreme, sublime satisfaction to draw something well, and by well I mean when it honors and fulfills that urge, that hunger in me to express something that's on the inside and put it out there on the outside. that's what i get out of art, I get it from music too, but mostly my drawings.

[bleak.]

but seriously, go and climb a mountain in the meantime.

but don't fall down else you might miss the album drop!

[portiss]

but seriously, go and climb a mountain in the meantime.

but don't fall down else you might miss the album drop!

Don't fall down the step you might hurt your bum!



This guy was awesome back in the days, best show ever made!

[turquoise70]

but don't fall down else you might miss the album drop!

Don't fall down the step you might hurt your bum!



This guy was awesome back in the days, best show ever made!

this shit, no joke, was my introduction to music on the computer. first song i ever downloaded off the internet, first time i ever heard of Winamp and installed it... man, Tom Green and the Lonely Swedish is one of my most cherished middle school memories. I fuggin loved it then and I love it now.

[Synthestesia]

Don't fall down the step you might hurt your bum!



This guy was awesome back in the days, best show ever made!

this shit, no joke, was my introduction to music on the computer. first song i ever downloaded off the internet, first time i ever heard of Winamp and installed it... man, Tom Green and the Lonely Swedish is one of my most cherished middle school memories. I fuggin loved it then and I love it now.

...my bum...is all alone...

[Negamuse]

well yeah, i understand that, i just don't see why they're using such a cliched photograph. maybe it's just me that thinks it's a generic-looking image for them to use, i dunno.

For this I can forgive them using stock photography, I mean what are they going to do, detonate a nuke in the North Sea and get Peter to stand on the beach taking snaps of it?

[747Music]

well yeah, i understand that, i just don't see why they're using such a cliched photograph. maybe it's just me that thinks it's a generic-looking image for them to use, i dunno.

For this I can forgive them using stock photography, I mean what are they going to do, detonate a nuke in the North Sea and get Peter to stand on the beach taking snaps of it?

lol, good point.

[mondo swooper70]

well yeah, i understand that, i just don't see why they're using such a cliched photograph. maybe it's just me that thinks it's a generic-looking image for them to use, i dunno.

yeah i agree with you entirely..the font too looks very stock. i doubt they had much to do with the creation of that

[ryetronics]

WTF is this?

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/images/boardsofcanada.swf

[Numerator]

WTF is this?

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/images/boardsofcanada.swf

I want to touch it...

[rick7487]

WTF is this?

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/images/boardsofcanada.swf

I want to touch it...

DON'T GO IN THERE!!!

[dono]

WTF is this?

http://www.boardsofcanada.com/images/boardsofcanada.swf

It's a logo, that says, "Boards of Canada."