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I was sent the following message by e-mail:

i've got this boards of canada song called 'flash site,' it came in a torrent (i don't remember which)

i uploaded it here http://www.mediafire.com/?qhyzjjdyx3z

so i like it a whole lot and was wondering if you knew anything about it? i can't find any reference to a song called flash site by them anywhere, my guess would be it's a song they made for their site at one point?

I've never heard this. And this is most likely fake as it contains some obvious boc samples from their tracks, e.g. the seagulls from happy cycling.

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DEBUNKED: This track is by Hills West. He made it for a 747 remix competition held by Archrival several years ago.

Fredd-E wrote:I was sent the following message by e-mail:

i've got this boards of canada song called 'flash site,' it came in a torrent (i don't remember which)

i uploaded it here http://www.mediafire.com/?qhyzjjdyx3z

so i like it a whole lot and was wondering if you knew anything about it? i can't find any reference to a song called flash site by them anywhere, my guess would be it's a song they made for their site at one point?

I've never heard this. And this is most likely fake as it contains some obvious boc samples from their tracks, e.g. the seagulls from happy cycling.

this is either a good boards track or an excellent fake.

mdg please come to the rescue.

hey yeah that was me that emailed

i just went back and found it in the unofficial discography torrent on the pirate bay, in the folder 'www.boardsofcanada.com' and called 'boards of canada flash mix.mp3'

Crypt wrote:hey yeah that was me that emailed

welcome to our board

Another person sent me the following info by mail:

To me it seems most likley someone just ripped samples of trails and 747 from http://www.atomless.com/projects/boc/site/ (hence the song name flash site) and added the happy cycling samples.

To me it seems most likley someone just ripped samples of trails and 747 from http://www.atomless.com/projects/boc/site/ (hence the song name flash site) and added the happy cycling samples.

But the sounds on that site where in bad quality and this track here is in very good quality. So it could be the source of the atomless site loop or it's indeed a very good fake.

IMO - it's simply a mashup of the tunes from BoC's flash site. Done well, yes, but very easily user created.

The fidelity is not that great either...

That said, it's pretty dang good- but unless there was some secret place you could discover on the flash site that combined all of the elements, it's not BoC- again, IMO.

A quick breakdown (using the naming convention usually attributed to these tracks on Slsk):

747 (slightly manipulated, 0:00)
Trails ( 0:28 )
Unidentified sample, or possible user creation (1:21)
Time Apple (around 1:35)
Seagull (possibly from Happy Cycling)
Flutes (a possibly manipulated portion, towards the very end of the track)

I must say this is very slick! If its fake, the faker sure did a fucking great job.

fake

novayshun wrote:mdg please come to the rescue.

He even can't as you don't know if he knows all of bocs music.

sounds like Wisp could've done this. Very fluent and relaxed like his others.

the sample at 1:21 is also in a track called "trails (from 2002 website)" which I downloaded long ago from df2k1's music directory.

I remember someone making all the samples from the old flash site available in a .zip file a few years back. this might be a mix that someone did using those. very well done, if so.

The flutes at the end appear to be from the beginning of the Old Tunes (Vol. 1 Side A) track, "Audiotrack 6". They have been sped up and raised in pitch slightly as far as I can tell.

zeitgeist wrote:The flutes at the end appear to be from the beginning of the Old Tunes (Vol. 1 Side A) track, "Audiotrack 6". They have been sped up and raised in pitch slightly as far as I can tell.

true! - such a beautiful song whilst on the topic.

Fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But good old mix.

WTF?!?! i made this a long time ago when archrival had a 747 remix competition...dont remember where..but i released a different version not this one..wait a minute..soulseek folder probably..who sent you this?

^i did

Mystery solved then eh? Shall we tag it Hills West?

shit! you did an awesome job on this, hills west! Cheers! I'd like to hear that other version you speak of...