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Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 4:12 pm
by viper.giorgos
I received this cassette back in mid 1997 (during Easter holidays, from what I remember) from a cousin of mine who studied back then in Edinburgh. It's a dubbed copy from the original tape owned by a colleague of his (maybe he was related to the duo, who knows).
The cassette has some harsh degradation due to the tape being played in heavy rotation back then in 1997-1998 because I had this habit of bringing the cassette with me on every road trip and listening again, again and again until mid 1998 after I found out about Daft Punk and Jay Z
So I found this forum to share with you guys what I have from 25 years ago.
And here is the actual tape, as I said earlier the tape has harsh degradation. Enjoy.
https://files.fm/u/4aapetbyx
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 5:27 pm
by luminousdusk
It sounds pretty good to me, Any chance someone could balance the left and right though? My left ear is happy but my right ear is sad
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 5:44 pm
by viper.giorgos
luminousdusk wrote:It sounds pretty good to me, Any chance someone could balance the left and right though? My left ear is happy but my right ear is sad
that was my stereo's fault, I didn't play the cassette part in a long time since I don't use it that much.
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 5:48 pm
by Michi-LFG
Do you have Old Tunes vol 2? Since all over the internet has a mp3 version with noise reduction and it's ruining the details of the songs and it's pretty impossible to find an unedited version of it due to many scams on the internet.
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 5:56 pm
by viper.giorgos
Michi-LFG wrote:Do you have Old Tunes vol 2? Since all over the internet has a mp3 version with noise reduction and it's ruining the details of the songs and it's pretty impossible to find an unedited version of it due to many scams on the internet.
No. I just received only A Few Old Tunes (or how my copy of the tape says Old Tunes Vol. 1 on it's cover)
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:02 pm
by niski
fake, pixelated as hell, digitally altered
good effort tho at least you took the time to record it to a real tape
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:08 pm
by TheStatPow
The end of Paul Russel's piece is missing and still noice reduced. Theres an obvious cut in King of Carnival. You're a fucking tool.
Never come back.
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:13 pm
by Orbited insanitarium
This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.
Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better.

Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:15 pm
by luminousdusk
"noice reduced"
Noice!
I think it sounds good regardless of what's been done to it
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:16 pm
by Moz
Orbited insanitarium wrote:This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.
Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better.

How about the guy is an obvious liar? Does he deserve a prize?
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:20 pm
by April
viper.giorgos wrote:I received this cassette back in mid 1997 (during Easter holidays, from what I remember) from a cousin of mine who studied back then in Edinburgh. It's a dubbed copy from the original tape owned by a colleague of his (maybe he was related to the duo, who knows).
The cassette has some harsh degradation due to the tape being played in heavy rotation back then in 1997-1998 because I had this habit of bringing the cassette with me on every road trip and listening again, again and again until mid 1998 after I found out about Daft Punk and Jay Z
So I found this forum to share with you guys what I have from 25 years ago.
And here is the actual tape, as I said earlier the tape has harsh degradation. Enjoy.
https://files.fm/u/4aapetbyx
From the metadata of the photo, they've been setting this up since 2018 lol
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:21 pm
by Orbited insanitarium
Moz wrote:Orbited insanitarium wrote:This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.
Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better.

How about the guy is an obvious liar? Does he deserve a prize?
Could quite care less about someone's disposition to lie. It's an already countlessly ripped and widely known mixtape for a couple of years now, I don't think if I was a budding rare BoC sharer hoping to garner some excitement, that's the first release I would go for.
It's also nothing to get het up about in my opinion because of that.
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:23 pm
by niski
Orbited insanitarium wrote:Moz wrote:Orbited insanitarium wrote:This is why I'm disheartened by this community very occasionally, the brass of such discordian language used here.
Notice: I distance myself from that servers obvious satanic belief. Stat particularly, you can be better.

How about the guy is an obvious liar? Does he deserve a prize?
Could quite care less about someone's disposition to lie. It's an already countlessly ripped and widely known mixtape for a couple of years now, I don't think if I was a budding rare BoC sharer hoping to garner some excitement, that's the first release I would go for.
It's also nothing to get het up about in my opinion because of that.
that's exactly why it's the easiest of the tapes to fake
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:24 pm
by luminousdusk
I was going to suggest carbon dating the paper and ink of the J card but yeah metadata works
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:25 pm
by jnekina
do u have the full copy of on the hills wheeltower cassette pls
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:33 pm
by viper.giorgos
You got me
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:36 pm
by viper.giorgos
I tried to do an innocent troll just to see how many people know if it's a troll or not, like a social experiment for example. Still remember when BoC Discord got fooled with that Old Tunes vol. 2 tape that was on Discogs.
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:38 pm
by jnekina
viper.giorgos wrote:I tried to do an innocent troll just to see how many people know if it's a troll or not, like a social experiment for example. Still remember when BoC Discord got fooled with that Old Tunes vol. 2 tape that was on Discogs.
so u dont have wheeltower on the hills casate rip pls. ok
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:40 pm
by bizcastl
0/10 didn't even eat it
Re: Boards of Canada cassette A Few Old Tunes.
Posted: Sat May 20, 2023 6:40 pm
by viper.giorgos
jnekina wrote:viper.giorgos wrote:I tried to do an innocent troll just to see how many people know if it's a troll or not, like a social experiment for example. Still remember when BoC Discord got fooled with that Old Tunes vol. 2 tape that was on Discogs.
so u dont have wheeltower on the hills casate rip pls. ok
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