Boards Of Canada

I am to tired to post my menu, my successes, my Thanksgiving feast. I'm wishing all a good night (or good morn, depending on the time zone.) Here is a little Boards just to ease things along...Be Well!

I haven't posted a Saturday track in a while, so here's one of my favorite Boards of Canada tracks, "Dawn Chorus" from Geogaddi. I think it's just brilliant. I love all the different sounds from the synths to the bells, strange vocals, and that little burst of bass.... MORE

Have a listen to the mp3 while you read. The song is “She’s All States” from the K.I.A. CD “Sonorous Susurrus” (at iTunes HERE ) Vocals are by Eugene Spanier and Patrick Duffy. FYI, the lyrics lift a line from John Donne's poem The Sun Rising: “She’s all states/and all princes I”) You can, apparently, tell a musician by the size of his corpus collosum. Now I know that for some of you-- the oversexed ones-- that phrase might seem like a euphemism for some... MORE

Out of all the music to hear on a show on ABC Family, I never expected to hear something by Boards Of Canada. But that's exactly what I heard on yesterday's episode of Kyle XY. A scene in Monday's episode featured the track “Dayvan Cowboy” from BOC's recent album, The Campfire Headphase (and the more recent Trans-Canada Highway EP). The very brief use of the track was entirely appropriate (Kyle was trying to explore his mind) and I couldn't help but smile when I re... MORE

The Hi-Scores 12" was a big deal to me. I had this font on my harddrive called OCR-something that was a dead ringer for the text on the cover and one of the best shirts I ever made in high school was ironing a homemade logo onto a shirt I found in a pretty close shade of blue to that of the cover-- shit looked legit, I imagine if anybody other than Nat and Geoff cared about sick beats they may have thought I had an official Boards tee, which I was pretty sure at the time did... MORE

So I made the mistake of mentioning the idea for a song to Sinead O'Connor, and Kate Bush ended up stealing it. Really. Well, maybe. A few years ago (when I was writing for the music mag, see other posts below) I was interviewing Sinead O'Connor, and we were talking about how songs originate, and I mentioned that I'd had a dream where a person was singing the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard... the song was perfect, it was mysterious, and it was endless. It ... MORE

Don't you love it when you accidentally get into a band? I watched those creepy flash animations, Salad Fingers, and loved the sort of haunting twisted sound that haunts his landscape. It's pretty rad stuff, and it led me to the Boards Of Canada. Everything about them is cool: they didn't admit they were brothers for years, and apparently some folks don't listen because they're convinced that the music is subliminal messaging. Whatever. The only message I get out of it is t... MORE

Today, the pink circle is Boards of Canada, the cyan circle is My Bloody Valentine, and the magical dark blue bit is... what? Me? My dubous taste in music? I had to really think about this one. There is a Definite Something that links these two bands, and I'm not talking about a producer or film or relative - at least, not one that I know of! I'll call the magical dark blue bit "uncertainty of pitch". Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine has played Jazzmaster / Jagu... MORE

I've been obsessed with Aphex Twin, Autechre, Einsturzende Neubauten, FSOL, Squarepusher, Underworld, Plaid, etc. for years and years. But aside from Aphex Twin, no electronic music had the effect on me that Music Has the Right to Children did. Boards of Canada are amazing on every album, but this one is like a perfect complement to Aphex Twin. It is to me the sound of nostalgia.... MORE

I really dig this video from Boards of Canada.

UPDATE: I was hoaxed. The track lengths were right on, but I was the victim of wishful thinking. On another listen, the tracks of this album are faded out in order to conform to the time length signatures for Hooper Bay songs (still very much obscure). I'll keep the text below in this archive of blog posts as a record of my credulity! I'll reveal a secret to all y'alls. The best place to get your filez on is on USENET. That's where I just collected Hooper Bay, Boards ... MORE