A MHTRTC Social Experiment

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:31 am

I'm moving there.

P.S.

WATCH YOUR MOUTHS ABOUT SHPONGLE

Vordhosbn · Post by **Vordhosbn** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:25 pm

oyster wrote:I'm moving there.

P.S.

WATCH YOUR MOUTHS ABOUT SHPONGLE

I used to live in a larger city in Pennsylvania, and seriously, some of the people who liked underground hip-hop liked BoC when I played it for them!

CoBoC · Post by **CoBoC** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:46 pm

Ok, I tried Shpongle.
Comparing them to BoC is about as meaningful as comparing Shania Twain to BoC. Seriously.

Not to mention "Shpongle" is one of the worst band names out there.

infinite sevens · Post by **infinite sevens** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:46 pm

I used to live in a larger city in Pennsylvania, and seriously, some of the people who liked underground hip-hop liked BoC when I played it for them!

I could see twoism as an instrumental album to which people flow to. Except the flowing would not be about bitches and dro, but rather about plants and the hardships of life.
Like Nas said, "Life's a bitch and then you die, thats why we puff lye".
Somebody with talent should try that.

sacred_geometry · Post by **sacred_geometry** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 11:52 pm

Shpongle is fucking amazing. they are completely different than BoC and cannot be compared at all in that shpongle's music is an outgrowth of psytrance and world music while BoC's music is an outgrowth of IDM, Ambient techno, 8-bit NES music, found sound avant-garde and 70s movie soundtracks. What both have in common, though, is the ability to completely transport the listener...to erase the ego with a palpable but undefined "magic" that is certainly there in their music, and that exists in all the great music artists of our time.

oyster · Post by **oyster** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:25 am

Amen.

Cupz · Post by **Cupz** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:32 am

sacred_geometry wrote:Shpongle is fucking amazing. they are completely different than BoC and cannot be compared at all in that shpongle's music is an outgrowth of psytrance and world music while BoC's music is an outgrowth of IDM, Ambient techno, 8-bit NES music, found sound avant-garde and 70s movie soundtracks. What both have in common, though, is the ability to completely transport the listener...to erase the ego with a palpable but undefined "magic" that is certainly there in their music, and that exists in all the great music artists of our time.

Well said

I'm not that big of a fan, but I enjoy an album every once in a while.

bulletsoflove · Post by **bulletsoflove** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:26 pm

You know what's so great about this thread? It's that the same person who showed all these people the greatness of BoC is the same one who said -

Vordhosbn wrote:
isawdrones wrote:When you go on some lame ass kids blog and it says that he/shes been listening to boc? I just went on this chick i knows last fm and right next to "whos eating at chilis on tuesday?" there was an iLike application with a few boc tracks. I just hate consumerist ass kids listening to good music because its some new hip to them.
yeah, those bitches just hoard anything that will make them look sophisticated. Stupid ass pricks. I just hate those types of people!!!

It just doesn't add up if you ask me. If you don't like people liking 'your bands' then why would you play it for them? Whatev. And that's all I have to say about that.

Vordhosbn · Post by **Vordhosbn** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:07 am

bulletsoflove wrote:It just doesn't add up if you ask me. If you don't like people liking 'your bands' then why would you play it for them? Whatev. And that's all I have to say about that.

It's because theres a difference between liking a band, and listening to it to seem more sophisticated. I love when people 'like my band' but I don't when the music is only a tool for status among snobby quasi-intellectuals...

Sputnik · Post by **Sputnik** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:48 pm

The Telepathic Kid wrote:
yeah.thats.right.orange wrote:No one would have liked Boards of Canada if I brought one of their discs in class. I am shy when this is about sharing music tastes because everybody would obviously react negatively.
Same here.

Come on, it's not like BoC aren't a rather well-known and popular band. Plus everyone born before 1990 is bound to get some of the references. I'd say they're a band that grows on you.

And they make hip-hop beats better than quite a few hip-hop artists.

infinite sevens · Post by **infinite sevens** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:53 am

Sputnik wrote:
The Telepathic Kid wrote:
yeah.thats.right.orange wrote:No one would have liked Boards of Canada if I brought one of their discs in class. I am shy when this is about sharing music tastes because everybody would obviously react negatively.
Same here.
Come on, it's not like BoC aren't a rather well-known and popular band. Plus everyone born before 1990 is bound to get some of the references. I'd say they're a band that grows on you.

And they make hip-hop beats better than quite a few hip-hop artists.

I do not know anyone that likes BoC out of their own interest.
Which means I would like to meet someone who likes BoC of their own accord.

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:24 pm

Sputnik wrote:
The Telepathic Kid wrote:
yeah.thats.right.orange wrote:No one would have liked Boards of Canada if I brought one of their discs in class. I am shy when this is about sharing music tastes because everybody would obviously react negatively.
Same here.
Come on, it's not like BoC aren't a rather well-known and popular band. Plus everyone born before 1990 is bound to get some of the references. I'd say they're a band that grows on you.

And they make hip-hop beats better than quite a few hip-hop artists.

All my friends are born in '92/'93.
I'm 15.

thedisavowed · Post by **thedisavowed** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:20 pm

infinite sevens wrote: I do not know anyone that likes BoC out of their own interest.
Which means I would like to meet someone who likes BoC of their own accord.

Well, you run into a number of problems with BoC (and I would argue electronica in general):

1) I have known a lot of people in my life who simply cannot wrap their head around instrumental music. Whether it's Mozart or Mogwai or John Coltrane or Aphex Twin, they categorically don't understand/can't get into it.

Some people simply need that immediate human presence in their music- and that's OK.

2) A lot of people take comfort in Democracy. They figure that songs that make it to the top in MTV and the American Radio are there by power of numbers, and that therefore they are safe in saying that it is cool and meaningful.

Vis-à-vis a conversation I had with a kid from work about how I thought hip-hop last summer was unusually wank, even by hip hop's now very conservative standards. He got mad and said "Yeah, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE IT!!"

Apparently, I had violated his democratic sensibilities.

And unfortunately, electronic music in general is a niche market made up by nerds/deviants like us who mostly communicate about it online because we don't personally know a lot of people who get it in our 'real' lives.

But I wouldn't have it any other way, honestly. With one exception- I'd like a girl with a mind open to the idea- but other than that, I don't care what they think (or listen to, for that matter)

infinite sevens · Post by **infinite sevens** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:09 pm

You know disavowed, I would not have it any other way either. Alas, ONE person that gets them would be nice, haha. Here in the US, this sort of music just doesnt apply, if you get what Im saying. I believe that I have a better chance of meeting a BoC (or other) fan in El Salvador, my home country, than here. But it is nice in a way, this solitude with the music, sometimes.

With one exception- I'd like a girl with a mind open to the idea-

This is all I ask for

isawdrones · Post by **isawdrones** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:57 pm

Me and a friend were talking about music with words and how it forces an emotion on you through communication but with instrumental music you have to go into the music and kind of let your mind create its own.

infinite sevens · Post by **infinite sevens** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:15 pm

isawdrones wrote:Me and a friend were talking about music with words and how it forces an emotion on you through communication but with instrumental music you have to go into the music and kind of let your mind create its own.

That is exactly how I feel.
I feel that music with lyrics is like going to watch the movie, while music without is like reading the actual book.
That is why I dislike music with lyrics, you are being told what is happening, you are being told the emotions, the feelings, I mean, its still subjective and all, but music without lyrics is just your mind.
I guess some people just rather have that humanizing aspect.
Me, I want to go to other worlds, haha. (hungover).

zeitgeist · Post by **zeitgeist** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:37 am

i just introduced my girlfriend to boc tonight. it was hard to do to be real honest. what if she hated it? i guess i'm just not open to sharing my musical tastes to many people for fear of their misunderstanding...anyway, i played olson first followed by everything you do is a balloon and i'm not kidding, she had tears in her eyes. i like where this is going...

infinite sevens · Post by **infinite sevens** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:35 am

zeitgeist wrote:i just introduced my girlfriend to boc tonight. it was hard to do to be real honest. what if she hated it? i guess i'm just not open to sharing my musical tastes to many people for fear of their misunderstanding...anyway, i played olson first followed by everything you do is a balloon and i'm not kidding, she had tears in her eyes. i like where this is going...

play her some telephasic workshop followed by some AEIYM, top that off with the color of fire.

saturdayindex · Post by **saturdayindex** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:32 am

i played Boards of Canada's remix of Beck's Broken Drum for my journalism class. None of them reponded except a Vietnam vet (i'm at a huge state school) who was extremely enthusiastic. "Love those synthesizers in there" he said, and I wrote down "Boards of canada" on a sheet of paper and handed it to him.

ryetronics · Post by **ryetronics** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:17 pm

The only time I play BoC for my wife is when we're on a road trip, or at least a drive over an hour long. She loves it when I put them in b/c it helps her relax and eventually fall asleep. Normally that would be a bad thing, but when you're stuck in my little Mazda 3 for many hours, a nap is welcome. Campfire Headphase always works, and is great for me b/c that album is perfect when driving through rural areas where no one is around for miles (which we get a lot of in Texas).