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Here's another BoC question: Where do I get the 7"?

I enjoy hearing their ethereal melodies backed by incongruous hip hop beats. I haven't heard such lovely and listenable sounds from the idm stable in a long time. Their work has a lovely, warm, lo-fi analogue feel. I love to hear elements of hip hop and funk minus the samples that plague the 'trip' hop genre. I couldn't explain in academic terms what their appeal is, and I agree with you that they're certainly overhyped. However, I know two things: I really like the way their songs sound, and I haven't heard anything else that sounds like them. At 8:39 PM -0400 4/23/98, Tsog5000 wrote:

quoted 16 lines Here's a *real* Boards of Canada question:

>Here's a *real* Boards of Canada question: >What's the big deal? >I mean, their good, I own all their skam releases, but their music isn't >really pushing the bounderies that other, perviously worshipped artists like >Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, journey.... (oops... heh heh heh, can't get past my >last post) > >will some one please explain to me the hype? > >thanks >t.S.o.G. > >np: Journey:Frontiers (what the fuck am I doing?) > >e.x.p. issue "A" >is on it's way

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quoted 15 lines I enjoy hearing their ethereal melodies backed by incongruous hip hop

> > > I enjoy hearing their ethereal melodies backed by incongruous hip hop > beats. I haven't heard such lovely and listenable sounds from the idm > stable in a long time. Their work has a lovely, warm, lo-fi analogue feel. > I love to hear elements of hip hop and funk minus the samples that plague > the 'trip' hop genre. > > I couldn't explain in academic terms what their appeal is, and I agree with > you that they're certainly overhyped. > > However, I know two things: > > I really like the way their songs sound, and I haven't heard anything else > that sounds like them.

I dunno yo. I'm not like a total Skamophile, and the stuff I've heard is the stuff on CD, i.e. Skampler, 0161, and Music has the right the children. I don't find their stuff that unique. Other stuff on those compilations get's me much more excited, like Jega, Bola, Lego Feet and the oh so Mild Man Jan. Oh include Bola's Forcasa 3 off the Skampler as one of those tunes to bawl my blood-shot eyes too. But anyway, I picked the Music Has the Right to Children disc, on sheer hype alone without listening to it. I mean it's far from the greatest thing I've ever heard. It's above average, however so is most of the stuff I buy. I dunno I guess it in no way sounds that unique to me. Maybe it's a bit more ambient then i like these days. I just think it's ground covered before by Spacetime Continuum, Autechre(of whom i not a big fan of). And meanders aimlessly a bit much for my taste. it's a good albumn, not great. Other more recent purchases have been getting much more play-time like Morgan Geist, RAC, and Eddie Flashin Fowlkes' Black Technosoul (thanks Raul, I love it). freshie <-- loves the aquarius tune however freshie Paranoia: The choice of a Tech Generation http://silly.com/~tang

quoted 1 line "Tsog5000" == Tsog5000 <Tsog5000@aol.com> writes:

>>>>> "Tsog5000" == Tsog5000 <Tsog5000@aol.com> writes:

Tsog5000> will some one please explain to me the hype? We'll, I'm not going to analyse this too much, but I'd just like to point out that they make *great* music. Sure, I could sit back and start examining their influences and perhaps conclude that they are not the most original thing to have hit the scene, but that's just confusing the issue. Listening to BOC gives me that familiar pleasure that is probably the root of my addiction to music. I'd imagine that this is the answer for most people. If your looking for an explanation of why it gives me this buzz, I'm not going to be any help. -hjw

quoted 3 lines I enjoy hearing their ethereal melodies backed by incongruous hip hop

>I enjoy hearing their ethereal melodies backed by incongruous hip hop >beats. I haven't heard such lovely and listenable sounds from the idm >stable in a long time. Their work has a lovely, warm, lo-fi analogue

feel.

quoted 2 lines I love to hear elements of hip hop and funk minus the samples that

>I love to hear elements of hip hop and funk minus the samples that >>Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, journey....

Maybe you don't quite understand where they are coming from. For me, I can appreciate their music because their influences probably stretch from here to pluto. Yes indeed, RDJ was an influence on BoC, but the beautiful thing about it is that they don't sound like RDJ. ...and I am glad that BoC didn't travel down the same path as most artist might have but blazed their own trail. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I've read the responses, and don't take this in the wrong way, but your explanations sound like an apple jacks commercial "sure, it doesn't taste like apples, but we like it anyways" not that theirs anything wrong, but I was really hoping for a more substantial reasons. oh well. hype will prevail. -t.S.o.G. e.x.p. issue "A" is on its way

In a message dated 4/23/98 8:40:42 PM, you wrote:

quoted 7 lines What's the big deal?

>What's the big deal? >I mean, their good, I own all their skam releases, but their music isn't >really pushing the bounderies that other, perviously worshipped artists like >Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, journey.... (oops... heh heh heh, can't get past my >last post) > >will some one please explain to me the hype?

Hype? Well I guess people just really like their music. Rather simplistic, I know, but there really isn't any other reason for it on this list. Any hype that appears is a result of people liking the music. I just got their album, and from what I've heard of it the first time through, I quite like it. For myself, I like their use of melodic elements. Plus the nice vocal samples. Lots of kids saying things. And the track 'roygbiv' is simply exquisite. It's a very laid-back album, quite dreamy and introspective. Boards of Canada have a unique sound, and if you like their tracks on Skam, you'll really like the album. And I'm not easily influenced by hype. When I heard the Boards of Canada on the Skam comp, I liked them straight off, and I hadn't even heard of them before. This thread does seem to turn up a lot on this list. Every time a couple of people post about how they like an artist or group somebody else posts a message that reads something like: "They're not that great, what's all the hype about?". And this has happened many times even with such 'boundary pushing' artists as Aphex Twin. You may think he's boundary pushing, but, trust me, there are many people who do not share that opinion (I like him). There's no way of telling why a particular artist becomes popular. And, hey, who knows where Boards of Canada might go in the future? Brian Eno started out as a glam rocker. -DTC