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..and that's why I love Boards of Canada.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:54 pm
by lurkingrecords
So I'm listening to 'An Eagle In Your Mind' again, nothing apprently unusual this time...just enjoying the track, and all of a sudden at the very end when the instruments stop and the drum break continues I hear the most peculiar thing I've never heard in the mass amount of times listening to it. On beats 3, the + of 3 and the + of 4 there's an almost inaudible tape noise sample! That's it....just a sample of subtle tape noise. Mind blown. I desperately tried to hear a sample of, say, a drum or anything on those beats, but no.....just noise...and that's (one of the reasons) why I love Boards of Canada.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:24 pm
by Mexicola
Where's the 'like' button?

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:36 pm
by noby
I love how on Sixtyniner there are three very distinct melodies that all seem very separate from one another. But that feel, when you notice them playing all at once, that moment is just beautiful.
I like how you can hear from the digital compression artifacts on the background field recording on Under The Coke Sign that it was recorded on a cell phone or other device that can do lofi digital recording.
I also love that 50hz electric current sound that can be heard for half a second in the beginning of Ready Lets Go.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:50 pm
by nick47
I cant get over the change-up at 4:13 in An Eagle in your mind
Its beautiful.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:53 pm
by noby
nick47 wrote:I cant get over the change-up at 4:13 in An Eagle in your mind
Its beautiful.
Word. I love those sine-bells. I also love that reverby flute sample that comes slightly after.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:57 pm
by nick47
Boc really has great songs to pick-apart.
Ive been listening to them a lot more with my NICE headphones, and I LOVE that moment when you hear a new sound in the background. Its like an entirely different listening experience

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:57 am
by polar sky
Yeah, there are always those little parts/gems. Like 5:05 in Kid For Today... That little synth line is so beautiful. That's not really a faint noise like you're talking about but still..
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:28 am
by Twoism-ist
noby wrote:I like how you can hear from the digital compression artifacts on the background field recording on Under The Coke Sign that it was recorded on a cell phone or other device that can do lofi digital recording.
yeah, digital compression is so underlooked!
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:22 am
by nick47
I will say when it comes down to tiny tiny little sounds, Odd Nosdam takes the motherfuckin cake. His version of dayvan brings me close to tears every time. So beautiful. I also ge tacid flashbacks

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:03 am
by ultrablue123
I love that little doodley doo melody going on in the background of Seqouia (first instance starts at around :47). It's so subtle, yet so awesome.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:05 am
by Twoist
Mexicola wrote:Where's the 'like' button?

Same place as the 'Retweet' button

Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:32 am
by Elephant Face
nick47 wrote:I will say when it comes down to tiny tiny little sounds, Odd Nosdam takes the motherfuckin cake. His version of dayvan brings me close to tears every time. So beautiful. I also ge tacid flashbacks

Odd Nosdam is amazing. So extremely underrated.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:56 pm
by Jonse
I love the subtle voices in Opening The Mouth and the scream in You Could Feel The Sky.
Oh yeah, also, slow Chinook down by about 200 percent and listen to the ending sequence. Sounds like broken machinery at a factory.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:13 pm
by noby
Twoism-ist wrote:noby wrote:I like how you can hear from the digital compression artifacts on the background field recording on Under The Coke Sign that it was recorded on a cell phone or other device that can do lofi digital recording.
yeah, digital compression is so underlooked!
It can sound good, if it's properly used. But that's beside my point, which was that it's just interesting that it's just a random recording they probably did out on a whim.
Odd Nosdam is amazing. So extremely underrated.
I've been listening to his first two albums quite much recently, really great stuff. I don't like his remix at all though.
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:51 pm
by Patryk Ludamage
Begining of the Red Moss (Official logo theme) and begining of Twoism...that's why i love BoC

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:53 am
by Shut That Bird Up
Charlie Parker
Miles Davis
thelonious monk
John Coltrane
Joni Mitchell
Bill Evans
Joni Mitchell
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zep
The Who
Crosby, Sills ,Nash and Young
Joni Mitchell
My Bloody Valentine
BOARDS OF CANADA
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:55 am
by Shut That Bird Up
Stills xx
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:03 am
by Shut That Bird Up
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:13 am
by 747Music
Patryk Ludamage wrote:Begining of the Red Moss (Official logo theme) and begining of Twoism...that's why i love BoC

I have the beginning of Red Moss (Official logo theme) as my ringtone.
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:42 am
by ArbitersGround
The musicians I like the most make music that speaks to me at a very personal level. Only three musician's music have "spoken" to me at that personal level.
Claude Debussy's music, for instance, is almost like a compilation of all the chord progressions and musical harmonies that I love. The feelings it evokes from me are solitude and remark.
Now, BoC is sort of the same, but sort of different. As a kid, all kids think about philosophy. I'd think about things like the universe, death, the idea of infinity, determinism, etc. all the time as a kid, especially while I was trying to go to sleep or just daydreaming. Often times I'd get sort of a dark feeling in my head. Listening to BoC, especially tracks like Orange Romeda, Tears From The Compound Eye or Chromakey Dreamcoat, bring all those feelings from childhood out. All those times I'd ponder things like religion, afterlife, infinity, nihilism, etc.