anyone ever look at boardsofcanada.com on wayback machine?

[mlwarner]

i'm sitting bored at work and decided to do this. I recommend you try it if you haven't, there's some cool weird stuff from way back then.

does anyone know what this is? http://web.archive.org/web/200103092153 ... ratio4.jpg

also some cool pictures:
http://web.archive.org/web/200103092201 ... agle11.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/200103092201 ... es/pb1.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/200103092138 ... _Girl6.jpg
then theres a contact page which just has this picture http://web.archive.org/web/200102050000 ... flute2.gif
this is all from the feb-march 2001 iteration of the site,

the furthest back is august 18th, 2000, and its just a broken embedded picture with the text "bring your fishing pole"
http://web.archive.org/web/200008180752 ... anada.com/

then theres the 2001 misc page http://web.archive.org/web/200102051558 ... /misc.html
where its a bunch of numbers and three links with broken picture embeds, one of the music70, one of them abeautifulplace, then a link to warp

and then finally on the contact page, at the bottom "if you are reading this you are spending too much time at your computer. go outside and get some fresh air."

cool stuff.

[Opothecary]

then theres the 2001 misc page http://web.archive.org/web/200102051558 ... /misc.html
where its a bunch of numbers and three links with broken picture embeds, one of the music70, one of them abeautifulplace, then a link to warp

and then finally on the contact page, at the bottom "if you are reading this you are spending too much time at your computer. go outside and get some fresh air."

cool stuff.

yeah, I miss the old iterations of the website, its a little too flashy post-Geogaddi. I think that pyramid of numbers is meant to describe Fibonacci sequences. I do like that they made some attempts to encourage people to get away from their PCs years ago back then, but it seems like the corporate hegemony has crushed their ability to treat their website as their own little corner of the world. If they ever break ties with Warp, I hope they go back to having a more minimalist/obscure type of website.

I was always a big fan of this version (and maybe some previous versions) that lays out their entire pre-Twoism discography:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010606220 ... cords.html

Newer fans don't get what a tease it was having that discography and RealMedia (remember that?) samples from those old releases sitting there!

[Zwei Kreise]

Interesting ...

http://web.archive.org/web/200106062207 ... ounds.html

Notice the different file names. Most of them are known, but there are three I don't think I've heard. Maybe it's just me ? dirtygreatmable, pinskeeling, surfaise... Don't remember these names.

[ZosoCon]

Interesting ...

http://web.archive.org/web/200106062207 ... ounds.html

Notice the different file names. Most of them are known, but there are three I don't think I've heard. Maybe it's just me ? dirtygreatmable, pinskeeling, surfaise... Don't remember these names.

those are remixes done by BoC. Surfaise is one of my favorite tracks actually

[thepastinsidepressant]

yea love those early remixes.

also if you listen to Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Marble (Boards of Canada Mix), 58 secs in that voice goes something like 'BOP' its so like Cold Earth, makes me think thats the track from their early days

[1991]

I never noticed that Hooper Bay is listed as having been pressed on vinyl. Interesting.

[Dudeman162]

Their website was cooler back then.

[koroviev]

Those numbers are a Pascal's triangle.

[JESUSANDHOES]

In the HTML for the old "Contact" page with the flute pic, the HTML <table> element's width parameter is set to 36%:

http://web.archive.org/web/200102050000 ... ntact.html

36 shows up elsewhere in their music.

1. Number of counts in "Aquarius" before the numbers become nonlinear
2. Number of digits in the Tomorrow's Harvest album code [XXXXXX-XXXXXX, etc]
3. The sum of the integers from 1 to 36 is 666 (Geogaddi is 66 minutes 6 seconds long)

36 is also equal to 8 factorial, i.e., 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 . And, of course, 8 notes comprise an octave in traditional major / minor scales.

Control over almost completely meaningless details like this really set BoC apart, IMO.

[pianoforte]

http://web.archive.org/web/200103092138 ... _Girl6.jpg

Looks like a VHS overscan line at the bottom. Interesting. maybe some sort of THS production shot on tape? or film transferred to tape?

[Jonse]

Yup. Interesting design they had. I wonder why they got rid of it.

[chronical]

I wonder if they made the website back then or if it was someone from the Hexagon Sun collective. It kinda bums me out that their website is only pointing at the vinyl represses and the TH release, it could have such a personal connection to their music like the old one had.

[Najlepsiejszy]

I wonder if they made the website back then or if it was someone from the Hexagon Sun collective. It kinda bums me out that their website is only pointing at the vinyl represses and the TH release, it could have such a personal connection to their music like the old one had.

It's not about the connection anymore, it's about Warp's moolah

[anecdote]

I wonder if they made the website back then or if it was someone from the Hexagon Sun collective. It kinda bums me out that their website is only pointing at the vinyl represses and the TH release, it could have such a personal connection to their music like the old one had.

http://web.archive.org/web/200102050454 ... edits.html

[nick47]

yea love those early remixes.

also if you listen to Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Marble (Boards of Canada Mix), 58 secs in that voice goes something like 'BOP' its so like Cold Earth, makes me think thats the track from their early days

you know.... I think you're onto something. Did we ever figure out what the voices are saying in cold earth?

[themopinggnome]

huh... just looking around on the way back machine, I found the "contact" page from 2006...

http://web.archive.org/web/200604180340 ... ntact.html

give this is a look...
"boards of canada, hexagon sun, po box 28607, edinburgh, scotland eh14 7ya, u.k.

thank you for all your letters/pictures/music etc.
all mail is read by boc, and is greatly appreciated.
due to the large volume of mail we cannot guarantee an immediate reply,
but you will receive something eventually."

has anyone ever written to BoC? have they ever received anything back in return? this is very interesting to me...

[Mexicola]

Yes that was removed a while back. Do a search and you should find old threads that discussed the old PO Box before as I recall