____twoism

Derail wrote:I had doubts but this is worded very good. It's a long shot, but you might get a reply.

Techboy wrote:

Derail wrote:I had doubts but this is worded very good. It's a long shot, but you might get a reply.

you mean worded very well.

;>

(I had better point out this is a joke. I've seen some people get upset by such before. )

Yeah I'm going to handwrite this out.

zander two wrote:Best of luck. Maybe you should write "URGENT: MUST READ IMMEDIATELY" all over the outside of the package.

Dear Sirs.

I'm sending this letter on behalf of a Boards of Canada fan forum. There are nearly 500 people around the world signed up to the forum and each is a great fan of your work; so before anything else is said, I think you must be thanked, wholeheartedly, for your music.

A recent project, infact, which some 30 or more members of the forum contributed to was a compilation CD of Boards of Canada-inspired music, which, as you will probably already have seen, is also enclosed.

Onwards again - This is possibly the more awkward part of our message to you, because we understand that you might hear these same questions often - new people, indeed, are always asking us these same questions to which we cannot provide an answer. However, there are many questions which many of us would like an answer to, the bulk of those about all those old tunes out on the internet.

• Firstly, we would like to ask, are they all yours', all genuine tracks? And if so, how did they really get on the net, all of a sudden?
• Was it just the two of you making them or was Chris Horne helping too, or was there a group of you adding bits to each track?
• There have been rumours you may be planning to release a boxed set including your old hard-to-find releases and Maxima; are there any truths in these rumours?
• Also, is there any chance that some of the outtakes from your other albums may see the light of day?

Moving on from questions about old material, some other questions that have been asked:

• What's happening with that film you guys were talking about a few years back?
• Back in October, there was a flashing picture of a eye with a code on your website. We thought they were coordinates, so a couple of guys from our forum stayed over at Earlyburn Observatory (some even from the US.)
  What was the real meaning of the so-called "code," and was there really a red-moon party going on somewhere?
• How many songs have you ever written? Since it was quoted in an interview (possibly a figure exaggerated, but still) that you had 400 songs written during the recording of Geogaddi, it is assumed that there are a lot of songs nobody has heard stored away there.

Thank you for taking the time to take a read through these questions, everybody here would be much obliged if you would reply.

Good luck in the future.

Signed,
[...] on behalf of the __twoism forum.

BunnyRabbit wrote: A poster called Xerox reported going here and being redirected to a nearby beach and he described the whole night in detail. For some reason most people seemed to ignore this.

Fredd-E wrote:

BunnyRabbit wrote: A poster called Xerox reported going here and being redirected to a nearby beach and he described the whole night in detail. For some reason most people seemed to ignore this.

URL to this specific post?

thanks

Xerox wrote:as promised here's my report: the three of us came through from glasgow at 8-ish, stopped at edinburgh for food, and then on out the A1. (for anyone who was struggling with the code thing, there was a triangle on the map if you put the backwards coordinates into google earth, you got a centre point over a forest beside a place called Whitekirk). we'd already been told anyway this is where to go so we thought the party was happening here, but when we got there we were wandering around, no sign of anyone, getting a bit fed up for a few minutes. then we were sneaked up on by a skinny bloke and a girl with a walkie talkie who gave us directions to a beach you can park by. we parked up the road and wandered up a lane through soem trees - this is where it got cool - the talking trees! there was gibberish coming from the trees, they'd rigged up a few of them with a little speaker so as you passed it you could hear a voice blethering, like re-arranged words. it was simple but funny. by tthe time we got there it was closing on 10.30 but still pretty light (but no red moon unfortunately). then past the trees we could hear where we were going, two bonfires up in front of us in a sort of basin off the beach in between the trees. the first thing we saw was a pair of projection screens lit up from behind. i completely understand how this was done so hush-hush because there is no way there was permission for it. it was small. i was kind of expecting a few hundred people but it was way less, likely about 60 people if that. but nonetheless it was a cool party - mostly just sitting about getting stoned or talking. there was a regular dj playing jerky instrumental stuff when we arrived. there was a fucking brilliant guy with an affro who did an amazing set on just a guitar with backing. he was playing tapes of backwards music (and i swear one of the backwards songs was 'Baker Street' :/ but he was soloing over it, jazz-style, and keeping it all together with the backwards version. does anyone know who that is?) i could swear i saw the guitarist from franz ferdinand, and another little group -who looked like a band, were keeping mostly to themselves on the beach. so we just hung about and smoked and spoke to whoever was about. i think a lot of the crowd seemed to know each other but it was really friendly (apart from one small group of ned-alikes or at least dodgy looking, who, fuck knows what they were doing there but probably just looking for something they could steal - thats my only complaint of the night because otherwise it was all nice people) further out at the screen that was furthest away from the crowd there was string music, sort of mellow film music, and the screen had looped bits of film just repeating, like criss-cross diagonal patterns animated with pictures of random stuff inbetween for a second, i remember a negative of a can of coke reversed to say 'ekoc', a smiling blond with a red tooth like mick hucknall's, a dildo, some indian-looking buildings, woodlice, random numbers, random stuff like that. i got to speak to mike from boc, he was totally down-to-earth sort of bloke and we spent a while talking about trashy eighties sci-fi films like Robot Jox! they didn't play but i spotted them all night just sitting about speaking to people. there was no live band but for a half hour or so a guy did a synthy set on what appeared to be a teak drinks cabinet, it was more like one long song just really spaced-out drones and swoops, so we wandered up the beach a bit, had a drink, listened to the spacey sounds over the waves. it was a very lush moment because the moon was up and okay it wasnt red but it was very yellow. i'm forgetting half of what was going on but it was a very nice night, and we topped it off by putting geogaddi on in the drive home.

Infinite E wrote:No, I think BunnyRabbit was refferring to this:

Xerox wrote:as promised here's my report: the three of us came through from glasgow at 8-ish, stopped at edinburgh for food, and then on out the A1. (for anyone who was struggling with the code thing, there was a triangle on the map if you put the backwards coordinates into google earth, you got a centre point over a forest beside a place called Whitekirk). we'd already been told anyway this is where to go so we thought the party was happening here, but when we got there we were wandering around, no sign of anyone, getting a bit fed up for a few minutes. then we were sneaked up on by a skinny bloke and a girl with a walkie talkie who gave us directions to a beach you can park by. we parked up the road and wandered up a lane through soem trees - this is where it got cool - the talking trees! there was gibberish coming from the trees, they'd rigged up a few of them with a little speaker so as you passed it you could hear a voice blethering, like re-arranged words. it was simple but funny. by tthe time we got there it was closing on 10.30 but still pretty light (but no red moon unfortunately). then past the trees we could hear where we were going, two bonfires up in front of us in a sort of basin off the beach in between the trees. the first thing we saw was a pair of projection screens lit up from behind. i completely understand how this was done so hush-hush because there is no way there was permission for it. it was small. i was kind of expecting a few hundred people but it was way less, likely about 60 people if that. but nonetheless it was a cool party - mostly just sitting about getting stoned or talking. there was a regular dj playing jerky instrumental stuff when we arrived. there was a fucking brilliant guy with an affro who did an amazing set on just a guitar with backing. he was playing tapes of backwards music (and i swear one of the backwards songs was 'Baker Street' :/ but he was soloing over it, jazz-style, and keeping it all together with the backwards version. does anyone know who that is?) i could swear i saw the guitarist from franz ferdinand, and another little group -who looked like a band, were keeping mostly to themselves on the beach. so we just hung about and smoked and spoke to whoever was about. i think a lot of the crowd seemed to know each other but it was really friendly (apart from one small group of ned-alikes or at least dodgy looking, who, fuck knows what they were doing there but probably just looking for something they could steal - thats my only complaint of the night because otherwise it was all nice people) further out at the screen that was furthest away from the crowd there was string music, sort of mellow film music, and the screen had looped bits of film just repeating, like criss-cross diagonal patterns animated with pictures of random stuff inbetween for a second, i remember a negative of a can of coke reversed to say 'ekoc', a smiling blond with a red tooth like mick hucknall's, a dildo, some indian-looking buildings, woodlice, random numbers, random stuff like that. i got to speak to mike from boc, he was totally down-to-earth sort of bloke and we spent a while talking about trashy eighties sci-fi films like Robot Jox! they didn't play but i spotted them all night just sitting about speaking to people. there was no live band but for a half hour or so a guy did a synthy set on what appeared to be a teak drinks cabinet, it was more like one long song just really spaced-out drones and swoops, so we wandered up the beach a bit, had a drink, listened to the spacey sounds over the waves. it was a very lush moment because the moon was up and okay it wasnt red but it was very yellow. i'm forgetting half of what was going on but it was a very nice night, and we topped it off by putting geogaddi on in the drive home.

boardsofdublin wrote:

Infinite E wrote:No, I think BunnyRabbit was refferring to this:

Xerox wrote:as promised here's my report:....... topped it off by putting geogaddi on in the drive home.

yeah i remember that two.
its sooo made up!

Techboy wrote:I'm hopeful I might get one as there are no long distance mail charges for me =P