Echelon wrote:It sure was nice of Daft Punk to acknowledge their decade old classic from 2013 with a tenth anniversary deluxe release (with two unheard songs and some alternate takes of tracks from the album). I hope a certain pair of folk robots take that hint too
If not a deluxe edition of Tomorrow's Harvest, than maybe a follow-up!
Though I gotta admit, we probably won't get anything as blatant as what DP are doing now. They're definitely in cash grab mode. (Which I don't mind, a former elusive act throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the starving fans!)
Who knew that the robots now classed as de-activated would have such an extended warranty!
I was eight when RAM came out... Eight?! Feels like a lifetime ago.
I'll be interested to hear 'Infinity Repeating' and 'Prime'. I bet Bangalter and Homem-Christo will have tons of juicy analog synth takes from those sessions (an alternative version of Giorgio by Moroder would've been nice to see with all that Modular sequencing as stems.)
I can't wait to hear Prime and Infinity Repeating. It's the equivalent of getting to hear outtakes from the TH sessions. That album was such a ride like Tomorrow's Harvest, though in a different way.
Funny how the bots are more active now that they're retired. They must really need some cash now! I wouldn't be surprised if there's a reunion at some point too
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I strongly believe that not only will we not get a 10th anniversary edition of TH, but that BOC will never issue a deluxe edition of an album with more material, for the simple reason that they don't seem to put out an album unless it's exactly what they wanted it to be.
SamuraiDrifter wrote:I strongly believe that not only will we not get a 10th anniversary edition of TH, but that BOC will never issue a deluxe edition of an album with more material, for the simple reason that they don't seem to put out an album unless it's exactly what they wanted it to be.
They've said themselves that they're perfectionists
SamuraiDrifter wrote:I strongly believe that not only will we not get a 10th anniversary edition of TH, but that BOC will never issue a deluxe edition of an album with more material, for the simple reason that they don't seem to put out an album unless it's exactly what they wanted it to be.
No I agree and I said as such. It's just wishful thinking. There will be no millenium greatest hits collection of BOC.
That said, if they were to ever offer a special edition of TH I'd buy it haha
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Stated that Boards of Canada are not necessarily ambient - more related to the ageing process. They implant devices in their music to guard against the New Age traps of blissful immersion.
They resist getting drawn in to the urban circuit, which they assume will corrupt them.
They are painstaking in their process - he compared it to distilling whiskey, but more complex.
Talked of their influences: Meat Beat Manifesto, Delia Derbyshire, William Bazinski, John Carpenter. Even Clannad's soundtrack to Robin of Sherwood.
But what they make of this is idiosyncratic and new. They revive analog methods, which was fairly unique in the early 90s. They rely also on hundreds of acoustic instruments. Mentioned the anecdote about the roadtrip to get that synth that they used for 1 second on Cold Earth.
They are anti-iconic. They aren't as reclusive as Burial, but they resist the tropes of the industry.
He talked about their Canada / National Film Board of Canada influences - that gives their work an impressionistic blurriness.
A really interesting piece about the role of public information films of the 60s and 70s - conveying times that were at once better and worse - a benevolent state that was protecting their society from horrors. Gave an example of this video. Mentioned the influence of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Touched on Hauntology - but claimed they are less on the nose than The Focus Group.
Talked about Daphne Oram briefly. Didn't really catch that bit.
Mentioned the ghostlike surface energy of Wildlife Analysis, and how this was an inaugeral piece for them, announcing their aesthetic.
Mentioned the influence of incidental music - the high fluting synth tones. This was a really beautiful section of the talk and really conveyed their sound through words.
Talked about ageing - how children of a certain time only have faded corrupted artifacts of their own memories. Children and childhood was about mundane moments, waiting around in doctors waiting rooms, watching slow documentaries. These memories when recollected are warm and calming because they are memories of intermission and relief.
Talked about the dangers of nostalgia - the reactionary "it was better in my day" narrative. But countered that there was "mundane" violence everywhere - committed by teachers, neighbours, family members. So these more melifluous moments from Boards of Canada (mainly MHTRTC and BoC Maxima) exist in the spaces between an otherwise fairly violent and stressful world.
Mentioned how they differ greatly from Autechre, even though Sean Booth basically discovered them.
Then touched on the other side of BoC - the Geogaddi departure into uneasy and unnerving sounds. The more vicious sound. Mentioned how 1969 was when Charles Manson was plotting a race war, and how "In a Beautiful Place" explicitly references David Koresh. Mentioned the Wire article where Sandison talks about the superficial calm of that EP, but that underneath it all was the horror of reality.
The production process for BoC is about subtraction and removal.
Then the shift with Campfire Headphase - conveying how acid basically fucks with your perception. It's a trial by ordeal - a bad trip.
Compared them to Van Gogh - the torment that results in fiercely extatic beauty - texture playing a key role.
Described Tomorrow's Harvest as a warning to the future - visualising the prospect of complete environmental collapse.
Mentioned this post and quoted the whole thing as an example of people who can get fully lost in the depths of their music. BoC leave a lot for fans to find - palendromic structures etc. But this isn't something he does - it's too hard to do, and BoC's music just naturally collides with his mind in a way that doesn't need that sort of scrutiny.
Mentioned that they're agnostic - but you sense that they're rationalists who want to be wrong - they want to believe in the strange and out there.
Their legacy is abundent - Bibio, Tycho, Romance, and the whole back to analog movement. But the only traces recently have been remixes.
Played the Neverman remix - a potential direction they could build on, but their next album will be about something - shaped and coloured like nothing else. And it will burn bright!
"their next album will be about something - shaped and coloured like nothing else. And it will burn bright!" - are we to take this as prediction/projection?
"their next album will be about something - shaped and coloured like nothing else. And it will burn bright!" - are we to take this as prediction/projection?
He doesn't strike me as someone who would just make up some stories. https://davidstubbs.net
A History Of Warp Records in Eight Releases
David Stubbs, former editor of The Wire magazine and a self-confessed Warp fanatic, charts the history of Britain's bravest record label. DS
David Stubbs is a journalist and author. He has written for NME, The Wire, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Uncut, The Quietus He was formerly staff writer at Melody Maker. His books include Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany and Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music both published by FABER & FABER.
I like to assume that he is not going to just lie regarding his statement about the upcoming album. The statement also sounds logical, after a dark album like Tomorrow's Harvest, I do expect a bright album now. Hopeful. Let's hope his talk didn't just come out, maybe even endorsed by the band, and that he somehow has foreknowledge of what lies ahead.
"their next album will be about something - shaped and coloured like nothing else. And it will burn bright!" - are we to take this as prediction/projection?
"their next album will be about something - shaped and coloured like nothing else. And it will burn bright!" - are we to take this as prediction/projection?
This is a guess, right? Or is he actually in-the-know?
"their next album will be about something - shaped and coloured like nothing else. And it will burn bright!" - are we to take this as prediction/projection?
It's a star. gotta be.
It's a blackstar
Warning: This numerology post is not to be taken 2 seriously.
"their next album will be about something - shaped and coloured like nothing else. And it will burn bright!" - are we to take this as prediction/projection?
It's a star. gotta be.
It's a blackstar
Not a gangster. Not a filmstar. Not a white star. I'm a blackstar.
