Favorite BoC quote.

[zander two]

"We wanted to record 'Leonardo di Caprio is a wanker' and put it in the advert music backwards."

Yeah, that's right.

[ExitEuXa]

"We wanted to record 'Leonardo di Caprio is a wanker' and put it in the advert music backwards."

Yeah, that's right.

Good one.

[Cupz]

"We wanted to record 'Leonardo di Caprio is a wanker' and put it in the advert music backwards."

Yeah, that's right.

Good one.

I ALWAY`S agree with BoC...well...almost alway`s....but this time for sure

[The Other]

"I dont think there is a coffee setting..."

[monochrome]

"I dont think there is a coffee setting..."

HAHA I love that quote

I remember laughing when I read that interview.

[The Other]

"I dont think there is a coffee setting..."

HAHA I love that quote

I remember laughing when I read that interview.

me too...they are so fuckin brilliant...

[ExitEuXa]

"I dont think there is a coffee setting..."

HAHA I love that quote

I remember laughing when I read that interview.

Did you?

[The Other]

"I dont think there is a coffee setting..."

HAHA I love that quote

I remember laughing when I read that interview.

Did you?

if you used the jedi mind trick he may second guess wether he really laughed or not?

[Cupz]

HAHA I love that quote

I remember laughing when I read that interview.

Did you?

if you used the jedi mind trick he may second guess wether he really laughed or not?

[d e n]

"If all goes according to plan, everything we've done so far will be just one stage in our development," Mike says, "Boards of Canada is the tip of the iceberg."

[aperture]

"I suppose we’re relying on people to be extremely analytical of the music, in order to get out of it all the work we’ve put in."

[purgruv]

quote://210933


What's that one d e n?

[nick47]

Link to the interview with the coffee quote?

[miklatov]

...in the analog realm these beautiful things just happen by themselves without your conscious effort. You could say the wobbles and flutters in our music are equivalent to something like weeds overgrowing an old building. Nobody puts the weeds there, but nature comes along and makes the scene very tragic and beautiful.

[Aerial Boundaries]

...in the analog realm these beautiful things just happen by themselves without your conscious effort. You could say the wobbles and flutters in our music are equivalent to something like weeds overgrowing an old building. Nobody puts the weeds there, but nature comes along and makes the scene very tragic and beautiful.

This is actually the best justification I've so far heard for why auditory decay can be so important for certain kinds of music.

[seanandcandy]

if your favourite quote isnt the "coffee setting" quote idk what to say to you

[thepastinsidepressant]

"we're off to the pub actually"

[mc10101]

"Of course, it's lovely to hear that people we've never met are really enjoying our music, because it feels as though we must have something in common, I mean psychologically, with those listeners. So it is satisfying, and fascinating." (interview with Rene Passet 1999)

This makes it feel good to be a fan. I wonder if they still feel that way now 14 years on
. . .?

[MindElevation]

Breakfast, hopefully.

[marzipanfish]

Marcus: Yeah for me it would be the track Gyroscope. I dreamed the sound of it, and although I've recreated dreamt songs before, I managed to do that one so quickly that the end result was 99% like my dream. It spooks me to listen to it now.

From this article.

Although I recall this quote being slightly different the first time I read it, it really stuck with me because I'm pretty sure I knew this already even before reading the article. I've had some pretty crazy sleep experiences, night terrors and a lot of vivid lucid dreams. When you're actually trying to achieve lucidity while dreaming, or in my case it just happened by accident at first, there's this thing that can happen in between the states of waking and sleep called sleep paralysis during which auditory and even visual hallucinations are quite common. This is usually accompanied by a general feeling of unease and vulnerability, but can escalate to full on terror depending on what kind of hallucinations you're having. Considering that while it's happening you are still mostly conscious but are barely able to move, if at all, it can be truly horrific experience for some people if you let your imagination run away with you.

What really got me is that the first time I listened to Geogaddi and heard Gyroscope, I was immediately reminded and similarly spooked. I'd never heard anything else even come close to an accurate reproduction of such auditory hallucinations. Then I read the quote, and was incredibly affected to find out that may have actually been what it was meant to sound like.

Gyroscope, along with other songs like Basefree and You Could Feel the Sky, have these very unusual and sometimes haunting beat tracks, and it makes me wonder if that is indeed where they derived the inspiration. I find it incredibly cool and interesting. The dreamt/hallucinated sounds I've experienced are usually very distinct, unsettling, arrhythmic noises. Things like rushing water, loud sharp cracks, strange distorted voices, my name being said in a loud whisper right next to my ear... you see how it can get creepy. It fits in just right with the tone and themes of Geogaddi, and it's my favourite album for that reason. I actually find it kind of morbidly comforting.

Sorry for the wall of text, but I just had to express how this was one of the things that happened back in the day that really made me realize how and why their work resonates with me so much. Even beyond the nostalgia it evokes, it's the first time I ever remember music being able to reach into my subconscious like that and strike a personal chord. It completely changed the way I thought about music.