When did you first get into Boards of Canada?

Joebot Kill · Post by **Joebot Kill** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:44 pm

i remember reading about them in highschool. geogaddi must have come out when i was a freshman or something. a substitute teacher told me about them! but i never really got into them until i got to my freshman year in college... 2005. campfire headphase came out and i remember really liking the cover. then a friend of mine gave me a burned copy MHTRTC. i immediately went out and bought a real copy of that and tri repetae. So i didnt really get into BoC until TCH was released. but the first music i heard by them was MHTRTC.

i wish i could say i was an original fan... but i was 11 in 1998. i was too busy listening to bad stuff. i cant believe how long ago that was. i got into electronic music pretty late too. its definitely not prominent in the culture in the US. well, not until Kid A came out at least.

now im catching up on everything ive missed out on. and it is truely doing a number on my wallet!!

doubleEntendre · Post by **doubleEntendre** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:45 pm

I got into them around 2004, I heard beach at redpoint on some random music channel at like 3 in the afternoon when i had the house to myself. it was a different experience.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:56 pm

itannexe wrote:When Radiohead's 'Kid A' came out, in late 2000, there was a lot of talking in the press about the influence of Warp artists -mostly Ae and BoC- on their musical reinvention. That was the first time i heard about Boards, and i had the curiosity, but it wasn't till the release of Geogaddi that i was in the proper mood to listen.

Yup - this.

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:58 am

hungry_manweaselbeast wrote:The Peel Session live on Radio 1 then MHTRTC (both 1998)

I was thinking about including the Peel Session, but I figured the people who bought it would already be pretty strong fans. I didn't think of the general wide audience of the Peel show itself, oops

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:01 am

itannexe wrote:When Radiohead's 'Kid A' came out, in late 2000, there was a lot of talking in the press about the influence of Warp artists -mostly Ae and BoC- on their musical reinvention. That was the first time i heard about Boards, and i had the curiosity, but it wasn't till the release of Geogaddi that i was in the proper mood to listen.

For me it was the opposite - the electronic elements of Kid A is what got me into Radiohead

I had heard them before (Creep, Paranoid Android), but never really got into it. Now I'm a big fan of their as well -- all of their stuff, not just Kid A.

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:05 am

hills west wrote:i cant vote here..and i think thats funnie...i heard them on a tape i got from a friend in anstruther in 1993..the songs were full band like material with acoustic stuff labeled boards of canada..he stated that it was old shit, check it out..anyway that tape ( and so many others) werent taken care of because i was a sloppie sophmore in high school..(and i didnt like the tape much at the time anyway) so its gone and i forgot about the band until music had the right came out..and i was like oh that band..well when i heard that album i was shocked to hear the difference in style...and even then it still took awhile for the music to sink in...now im finally over the fixation and back to normal fan level...

Seriously? I hope you still keep in touch with that guy...

I intentionally omitted Old Tunes, though, I was afraid people would use it as a joke/fake answer.

But that's awesome, if that's true.

Infinite E · Post by **Infinite E** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:48 am

Moebius wrote:
hills west wrote:i cant vote here..and i think thats funnie...i heard them on a tape i got from a friend in anstruther in 1993..the songs were full band like material with acoustic stuff labeled boards of canada..he stated that it was old shit, check it out..anyway that tape ( and so many others) werent taken care of because i was a sloppie sophmore in high school..(and i didnt like the tape much at the time anyway) so its gone and i forgot about the band until music had the right came out..and i was like oh that band..well when i heard that album i was shocked to hear the difference in style...and even then it still took awhile for the music to sink in...now im finally over the fixation and back to normal fan level...
Seriously? I hope you still keep in touch with that guy...

I intentionally omitted Old Tunes, though, I was afraid people would use it as a joke/fake answer.

But that's awesome, if that's true.

anstruther in fife?
or is there another one?

The Telepathic Kid · Post by **The Telepathic Kid** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:59 am

Around 2004,
I enjoyed the music that was in Salad Fingers, so I decided to find more about the artist
That pretty much started me on my liking of electronic music.

Shadowshocker · Post by **Shadowshocker** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:10 am

Sorry off topic, but I don't want to make a whole new topic for this...generally when people refer to the TCH album, does that usually mean The Campfire Headphase or Trans Canada Highway....?

As for me, I first heard Dawn Chorus from David Elsewheres Kollaboration video about two years ago, but the beginning of last year I finally decided to go and find out more about the song. Then I really got into them probably around Spring, last year.

turquoise70 · Post by **turquoise70** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:32 am

I figure they mean Campfire if they refer to it as an album. if it's TCH EP then it's Trans Canada.

The Friendly Stranger · Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:55 pm

Shadowshocker wrote:Sorry off topic, but I don't want to make a whole new topic for this...generally when people refer to the TCH album, does that usually mean The Campfire Headphase or Trans Canada Highway....?

I've been doing that for ages and didn't even realise hey were both TCH! When I do it I'm referring to The Campfire Headphase.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:31 pm

Geogaddi for me!

9 Vinyls and 8 cd's purchased later, can't and will not stop listening...

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:33 pm

hills west wrote:i cant vote here..and i think thats funnie...i heard them on a tape i got from a friend in anstruther in 1993..the songs were full band like material with acoustic stuff labeled boards of canada..he stated that it was old shit, check it out..anyway that tape ( and so many others) werent taken care of because i was a sloppie sophmore in high school..(and i didnt like the tape much at the time anyway) so its gone and i forgot about the band until music had the right came out..and i was like oh that band..well when i heard that album i was shocked to hear the difference in style...and even then it still took awhile for the music to sink in...now im finally over the fixation and back to normal fan level...

Hills how old are you?

Infinite E · Post by **Infinite E** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:44 pm

must've been about 2001-ish for me, first heard them in the fence collective's sadly defunct shop in st. andrews. I was about 12 and into massive attack, portishead, tricky, all that stuff. Thought it was pretty cool... didn't really click with me to the fullest until 3 or 4 years ago when I listened to IABPOITC after eating a bunch of liberty caps

Phasen · Post by **Phasen** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:37 pm

Sometime around 2003. I was 14 then, so I first heard whatever my friends burned for me on CDs or what was on Limewire, and then I manned up and paid for the releases.

polar sky · Post by **polar sky** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:55 pm

Phasen wrote:Sometime around 2003. I was 14 then, so I first heard whatever my friends burned for me on CDs or what was on Limewire, and then I manned up and paid for the releases.

what is your avatar? looks like a mutant turd.

747Music · Post by **747Music** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:22 pm

polar sky wrote:
Phasen wrote:Sometime around 2003. I was 14 then, so I first heard whatever my friends burned for me on CDs or what was on Limewire, and then I manned up and paid for the releases.
what is your avatar? looks like a mutant turd.

its a sea cucumber, am I right?

Phasen · Post by **Phasen** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:24 pm

747Music wrote:
polar sky wrote:
Phasen wrote:Sometime around 2003. I was 14 then, so I first heard whatever my friends burned for me on CDs or what was on Limewire, and then I manned up and paid for the releases.
what is your avatar? looks like a mutant turd.
its a sea cucumber, am I right?

ding ding ding.

aorta · Post by **aorta** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:54 pm

Anyone remember cdnow.com? I first heard BOC on their site right after MHTRTC came out on Matador in the US.

hills west · Post by **hills west** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:43 am

Infinite E wrote:
Moebius wrote:
hills west wrote:i cant vote here..and i think thats funnie...i heard them on a tape i got from a friend in anstruther in 1993..the songs were full band like material with acoustic stuff labeled boards of canada..he stated that it was old shit, check it out..anyway that tape ( and so many others) werent taken care of because i was a sloppie sophmore in high school..(and i didnt like the tape much at the time anyway) so its gone and i forgot about the band until music had the right came out..and i was like oh that band..well when i heard that album i was shocked to hear the difference in style...and even then it still took awhile for the music to sink in...now im finally over the fixation and back to normal fan level...
Seriously? I hope you still keep in touch with that guy...

I intentionally omitted Old Tunes, though, I was afraid people would use it as a joke/fake answer.

But that's awesome, if that's true.
anstruther in fife?
or is there another one?

enster!! a local? (i live in new york)