GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC

bluesky · Post by **Fredd-E** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:41 pm

polar sky wrote:
noby wrote:

How about this?
This shit makes me sick. It's like shitting on a Mona Lisa. I can just see the newest trend, rapping about fucking shit up with your dick while getting your ass licked over a BoC song. I bet all the Hipsters love it.

Then call me a fucking hipster. But I really love this one! Hah!

bluesky · Post by **Fredd-E** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:51 pm

T. Intel wrote:
noby wrote:Someone else later thought he'd throw it over Rue The Whirl.
I threw a Mos Def acapella over "Rue the Whirl." Personally, I think it sounds pretty tight.

+1 tightness.. make some more!

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:29 pm

fujee wrote:Maybe the black box is an event horizon, all consuming.

It's the singularity.

2020k · Post by **2020k** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:34 pm

Let's make one for BoC:

Synthestesia · Post by **Synthestesia** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:35 pm

mechanismj wrote:
fujee wrote:Maybe the black box is an event horizon, all consuming.
It's the singularity.

O_O

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:27 pm

Just jumping into gripe: What could possibly be "outwith the bands control" at this point? The only thing I could see delaying it this long is a world war or something of that nature. How powerless are BoC? The length of the wait makes any explanation of that sort seem absurd.

I check on their website/twoism about twice a month for developments and am bewildered to continually not find any. Especially after how many weeks of the black box being up? A period of time will come up where an announcement would be significant/likely/logically expected. Nothings happens then we coast back down into a span of waiting time till the next wave culminates then crashes, bearing no fruit. This cycles has been recurring for about 6 years now I believe.

I wonder what their intentions are. A reformation of their style perhaps? Maybe something completely impenetrable? I dont know. Their music has completely changed the direction of my life in subtle and manifest ways, from the people I know to the places I've lived. A lot of the things I've done, if i think about the causality behind them, kind of developed through some association with Boards of Canada.

It's like their music is not just music. It is that, but its also a form of energy/technology. It is a heavy rock thrown into the pond of history that sends out waves, and through its sympathetic vibrations changes experience of being, it changes the order of certain individuals in a subtle way. I think it's this force which they are acknowledging in "One Very Important Thought".

To the people who resonate with them they function more as life-blood than as a band. I could see the next album having lots of "transformative potential". We are living in the externalities of the last century, a lot has changed since 2005 and most of its a facade/weak or fucking garbage.
Their response to the world in their music will likely be different. We all respond to the sphere of culture in an unconscious way I think.

My fear is that they can't disentangle from this hyper-technological-global disassociation we're all stuck in. That they can't find a coherent point of view to work from within all this chaos. That's what has worried me about this wait: Perhaps they've fallen off the ride and can't get back on with anything relevant or at least refreshing.

T. Intel · Post by **T. Intel** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:54 pm

Fredd-E wrote:+1 tightness.. make some more!

Haha, thanks. If I can find some more acapellas, I might make a few more for you. Thanks for favoriting it, by the way! Once I get home I'll listen to some of your stuff.

vballs · Post by **vballs** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:14 pm

isawdrones wrote:
My fear is that they can't disentangle from this hyper-technological-global disassociation we're all stuck in. That they can't find a coherent point of view to work from within all this chaos. That's what has worried me about this wait: Perhaps they've fallen off the ride and can't get back on with anything relevant or at least refreshing.

I cant imagine they have "fallen off the ride" and even if they had, the amount of stuff they already have written I bet is huge. They could work on remastering those tracks and release an album or three like that, they would sell like hot cakes.

I find it very re-assuring to visit BoC pages and read through the interviews with boards of canada, they explain them selfs pretty well and from this I can make sense of the 6 year gap, id say all the explanations as to why its "taking so long" has already been explained by them selfes pre-emptively. I bet they are working their nuts off and were all in for some real treats.... Some day.

sexagon hun · Post by **sexagon hun** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:38 pm

isawdrones wrote:What could possibly be "outwith the bands control" at this point?

Well, Plaid (from what they said in an email to a fan earlier this year) finished their new album at the end of 2010 and gave it to Warp. But since Warp already have their release Queue for all of 2011, they couldn't put it out until September, instead of Feb/March. They have a LOT more artists than they did 10 years ago, and they have to make sure the albums go through the proper protocol (Announcing months in advance for promo and magazines to review the album, advertising, etc) so even if Warp has the finished, mastered LP that doesn't mean we get to hear it, at least for a good half year or so.

Maybe they finished the album in April (around the time the update on their website appeared) and Warp told 'em they are gonna get an open window in October/November - gives them time to get the album artwork and interviews set up.

this is just me thinking out-loud...by October if there is no official announcement I'm done caring!

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:57 pm

sexagon hun wrote: Well, Plaid (from what they said in an email to a fan earlier this year) finished their new album at the
Maybe they finished the album in April (around the time the update on their website appeared) and Warp told 'em they are gonna get an open window in October/November - gives them time to get the album artwork and interviews set up.

cool, I hope that's what is going on.

Synthestesia · Post by **Synthestesia** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:14 am

sexagon hun wrote:this is just me thinking out-loud...by October if there is no official announcement I'm done caring!

I'm with you 100%

drixlin · Post by **drixlin** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:50 am

sexagon hun wrote:this is just me thinking out-loud...by October if there is no official announcement I'm done caring!

Yup.

Album doesn't have to be out in October...just some OFFICIAL news by then would be nice...

d3v3l · Post by **d3v3l** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:44 am

Honestly I do not see an album coming out for at least another year.

Spine · Post by **Spine** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:36 am

d3v3l wrote:Honestly I do not see an album coming out for at least another year.

Well, I think it'll be a bit sooner, but I don't think it'll be this year at all.

On an unrelated note, I just got done talking to Daedelus and he said he'd be glad to listen to some of my tracks once I'm done

Really excited.

Archrival · Post by **Archrival** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:52 am

What is this? 572 572 50 50 5 1 fade 8 8 2 left ...

Post by **Aesthetics** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:01 am

saurus wrote:
dono wrote:time keeps on tickin' tickin'...
Welcome back Dono

ditto.
Actually quite funny, the other day I read an old post by dono and wondered why I hadn't seen him much lately. I noticed the last post was from May... and he literally posted a few hours after I looked up his last post... scary!

time keeps on tickin' tickin' into the fuuuuture. right?

apriorion · Post by **apriorion** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:32 pm

Aesthetics wrote:
saurus wrote:
dono wrote:time keeps on tickin' tickin'...
Welcome back Dono
ditto.
Actually quite funny, the other day I read an old post by dono and wondered why I hadn't seen him much lately. I noticed the last post was from May... and he literally posted a few hours after I looked up his last post... scary!

time keeps on tickin' tickin' into the fuuuuture. right?

Isn't it time keeps on *slippin'*?

Back on topic: what the hell's taking them so long! Arg!

zeitgeist · Post by **zeitgeist** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:14 pm

drixlin wrote:
sexagon hun wrote:this is just me thinking out-loud...by October if there is no official announcement I'm done caring!
Yup.

Album doesn't have to be out in October...just some OFFICIAL news by then would be nice...

i have an idea!

let's give them an ultimatum!

Kamas009 · Post by **Kamas009** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:17 pm

zeitgeist wrote:
drixlin wrote:
sexagon hun wrote:this is just me thinking out-loud...by October if there is no official announcement I'm done caring!
Yup.

Album doesn't have to be out in October...just some OFFICIAL news by then would be nice...
i have an idea!

let's give them an ultimatum!

Hopefully you don't think that will work.

portiss · Post by **portiss** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:46 pm

Kamas009 wrote:
zeitgeist wrote:
drixlin wrote: Yup.

Album doesn't have to be out in October...just some OFFICIAL news by then would be nice...
i have an idea!

let's give them an ultimatum!
Hopefully you don't think that will work.

He was being sarcastic!