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Whoa, I had a wee look through some of the real early threads here and found this....

http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54

The name "DavidAC" totally rings a bell........i still cant remember who I chatted to, could very well have been David himself unless Fredd-e confirms otherwise.

Either way.....they were bloody nice to me. Always grateful to whoever it was.

J

Jinjur wrote:Whoa, I had a wee look through some of the real early threads here and found this....

http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54

The name "DavidAC" totally rings a bell........i still cant remember who I chatted to, could very well have been David himself unless Fredd-e confirms otherwise.

Either way.....they were bloody nice to me. Always grateful to whoever it was.

J

That's the fella!

I picked up MHTRTC in HMV in Sydney when it came out, alongside a handful of other contemporary 'chill-out' CDs.
It probably took about a month to get 'round to listening to it, & it slowly seeped into my brain as a backdrop as I worked illustrating pictures.

It soundtracked a very memorable part of my life, along with Arkology by Lee Perry which is arguably equally noteworthy.

Well, I'm now 22 so I discovered them relatively recently, I think it was 2008.

The first music I seriously began listening to was Chemical Brothers, and I liked them a lot so I searched on the internet for some related music (I think it was then that I discovered last.fm). One day I googled "best electronic music albums" and one of the results was a great page on listology by user darktremor: http://www.listology.com/darktremor/lis ... goa-avante

It comprehends a great range of music, not only "strictly" electronic. I should thank him because I owe him a great part of my early music knowledge. From time to time I went to that page and used it as an inspiration to explore new music. I could find there as diverse bands as My Bloody Valentine, Kraftwerk, Biosphere and Massive Attack...

One day I was impressed by the fascinating album title "Geogaddi", and after listening to it I instantly fell in love with that sound...later I met others BoC releases and now they're among my favourite acts

A friend lent me MHTRTC in my second year of high school, I think I had just turned 13 years old. I spent the following summer discovering BoC and buying all the records I could get my hands on, and the following winter playing Tony Hawks 2 with in game music turned down and BoC full blast on my stereo. A lot of people say BoC reminds them of childhood, but for me BoC IS my childhood!

When I listen to Aquarius I am 14 again, playing as Andrew Reynolds on the School level of tony hawks, sat in my bedroom, watching the snow fall outside my window and reflecting back on the tiny television. every detail is exact, I think the memories are embedded in my experience of BoC!

gjieck wrote:The first music I seriously began listening to was Chemical Brothers

I remember the bad timing of Geogaddi coming out and the Chemical Brother's "Come With Us", both albums sitting on the shelves in HMV looking rather similar to each other (cover-art wise). I remember hoping at the time that a few Chem Brothers fans picked up Geogaddi by accident

Jinjur wrote:Whoa, I had a wee look through some of the real early threads here and found this....

http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54

Woooooooow it's funny to see my old posts again. Such a long time ago! Still going strong!

My dad drives a lorry and does shifts so I agreed to go with him on one of his night shifts. While listening to Radio 1 driving near Lake Vyrnwy this lovely song comes on. I thought they were called campfire head phase and tried to find everything by this band off limewire. Then realised my mistake and become obsessed ever since

kelp wrote:

gjieck wrote:The first music I seriously began listening to was Chemical Brothers

I remember the bad timing of Geogaddi coming out and the Chemical Brother's "Come With Us", both albums sitting on the shelves in HMV looking rather similar to each other (cover-art wise). I remember hoping at the time that a few Chem Brothers fans picked up Geogaddi by accident

That would have been another great way to disc-cover BoC

i've never listened to boards of canada.

I'm not sure where I first heard of them. I'd been catching wind of their unusual name along with statements like game changing etc and decided to look them up sometime around 2001. Late 2000 is when I got a good enough computer to finally get on the internet and really begin downloading tons of stuff via napster and audiogalaxy that I had missed during the 90's.

I first heard Everything You Do Is a Balloon and immediately loved it however the rest of what I gave a cursory listen to didn't grab me then. I think my ear just wasn't attuned to it and sometimes with music I have to have my ear adapt a bit though typically I like most things I'm going to really like right off. Bibio was much the same way for me, I had to give him several listens before it really took hold and now he is also one of my very favorite artists.

Anyway fast forward to 2009, I'm living in Ohio, which has awful crap weather, and I've got this long commute 2 days a week. I basically got all of BOC and Aphex Twin and finally gave them the listen that they deserved on those long 120 mile commutes in that awful ugly weather and BAMB BOC hit me like a ton of bricks finally. I'm sorry to have jumped on the bandwagon so late but at the same time I'm not sure it would have meant the same thing to me in sunny southern california. The gloom and darkness of those days where perfectly accented by that music.

I've decided Scottish Gloom is far better than Domestic gloom btw.

YouTube, when I was listening to Aphex Twin. August, 2012.

Like a lot of people, my first listen to a track I knew was by Boards of Canada was the YouTube video for Everything You Do Is A Balloon, seeing it in the recommendations when watching Aphex Twin videos. Having seen it, I downloaded Boc Maxima (I looked on Wikipedia to look for the album EYDIAB was from) and loved it, proceeding to download the rest of their stuff and listen to the shit out of it.
The first time I ever heard BoC, however, was Rue The Whirl in Spaced.

Jinjur wrote:Whoa, I had a wee look through some of the real early threads here and found this....

http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54

The name "DavidAC" totally rings a bell........i still cant remember who I chatted to, could very well have been David himself unless Fredd-e confirms otherwise.

Either way.....they were bloody nice to me. Always grateful to whoever it was.

J

Yeah DavidAC was the guy with whom I had email conversations with before the BoC pages started. He had collected all these emails from various folks on the Hyperreal IDM list at the time and decided to start compiling everything on a site. Super cool guy!

I first heard heard Boards of Canada in May 1999 after I driven out to Portland OR and had just moved back to the states from London. My friend worked at a record store and had turned me on to all kinds of stuff including Amon Tobin, Luke Vibert, Squarepusher, etc. I was staying at his house and he came home with MHTRTC on vinyl and was totally fascinated with the album art. This had to be good. We adjusted our altitude and put it on and it was love at first listen. I could not get that stuff out of my head and still can't. Soon I was looking up words like "trepanation" and getting caught up in the BoC mystique and they've been an obsession ever since.