upcoming warp press release regarding BOC

[novayshun]

another warp newsletter and still a lack of an announcement.

[Numanoid]

(WARP169CD)

1+69 = 70. Hmmmmmm

[novayshun]

(WARP169CD)

1+69 = 70. Hmmmmmm

2+2=5

[Moebius]

There's been a lot of pranksters muddying the water, but let me clear things up a little bit...

There is reason to believe there will ONE DAY be a Boards of Canada box set, and that is because of what Hexagon Sun posted to WATMM after the whole princemurat tale (when someone was selling original old tunes tapes on eBay):

OK The reason it was jumped on was this: Warp and BOC have been in talks for a long while about putting out a box set of old tracks from these tapes and others, with new packaging and art, to be released sometime after the forthcoming record. The tapes were private comps given out to close friends a few years ago, long before the band imagined there would be this kind of interest, and long before the likes of Soulseek etc existed.

The tracks are out there now, nothing can be done about that, they've been circulating for a while and fans have them, so the decision was taken to at least consider tidying them up and repackaging them with decent exclusive artwork & more rarities. BOC never wanted these tracks presented this way, mislabelled and as poor-quality MP3 files.

There's no 'hype', these comps were never listed on any old discogs as they were never intended for mass release in the first place.
Now the intention is still to get round to scheduling a release of these tunes and other rare comps, but unscrupulous people like 'prince murat' are obviously stealing the thunder of the proposed releases, whilst trying to make a tidy profit in the process (a starting price of $799 speaks volumes about 'prince murat's true intentions. who is trying to profit from hype here? if any money is going to be involved, surely the artist who wrote those tracks should be receiving the royalties, and not this person? there's no difference between this kind of profiteering and someone trying to sell a bootleg CDR of Beck's new album months prior to release.)

Anyway, now you know, we hope the intervention hasn't caused too much negative feeling, after all the concern that Warp and BOC have is that basically it's going to spoil the impact of a nice release that hopefully will be enjoyed by the fans.

-mark, hs

Unfortunately the WATMM forum database has been wiped since then (perhaps a few times), so you can no longer go back and view the thread, and it has expired from the Google cache, but that's what he said. I still have a copy on my HD.

[Derail]

There's been a lot of pranksters muddying the water, but let me clear things up a little bit...

There is reason to believe there will ONE DAY be a Boards of Canada box set, and that is because of what Hexagon Sun posted to WATMM after the whole princemurat tale (when someone was selling original old tunes tapes on eBay):

OK The reason it was jumped on was this: Warp and BOC have been in talks for a long while about putting out a box set of old tracks from these tapes and others, with new packaging and art, to be released sometime after the forthcoming record. The tapes were private comps given out to close friends a few years ago, long before the band imagined there would be this kind of interest, and long before the likes of Soulseek etc existed.

The tracks are out there now, nothing can be done about that, they've been circulating for a while and fans have them, so the decision was taken to at least consider tidying them up and repackaging them with decent exclusive artwork & more rarities. BOC never wanted these tracks presented this way, mislabelled and as poor-quality MP3 files.

There's no 'hype', these comps were never listed on any old discogs as they were never intended for mass release in the first place.
Now the intention is still to get round to scheduling a release of these tunes and other rare comps, but unscrupulous people like 'prince murat' are obviously stealing the thunder of the proposed releases, whilst trying to make a tidy profit in the process (a starting price of $799 speaks volumes about 'prince murat's true intentions. who is trying to profit from hype here? if any money is going to be involved, surely the artist who wrote those tracks should be receiving the royalties, and not this person? there's no difference between this kind of profiteering and someone trying to sell a bootleg CDR of Beck's new album months prior to release.)

Anyway, now you know, we hope the intervention hasn't caused too much negative feeling, after all the concern that Warp and BOC have is that basically it's going to spoil the impact of a nice release that hopefully will be enjoyed by the fans.

-mark, hs

Unfortunately the WATMM forum database has been wiped since then (perhaps a few times), so you can no longer go back and view the thread, and it has expired from the Google cache, but that's what he said. I still have a copy on my HD.

Yes, I remember reading that thread as it was developing back in my old watmm days. This is the only thing keeping my hopes alive at the moment. But then again, who's to say this Hex Sun member is even legit? I'm starting to lose interest in this whole thing...

[1969]

So, they said there is going to be a BoC box set. But they dont know anymore than we do, they are just relieing on that post and when it does come out, they can be all " told you so, respect me now plz" even though, they knew nothing more than us, they just made it look like that.

if you get my drift?

[Cupz]

(WARP169CD)

1+69 = 70. Hmmmmmm

2+2=5

Good point....