At 10:10 AM 12/12/2000 +0200, you wrote:
quoted 17 lines On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, noah wrote:>On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, noah wrote:
>
> > Hi-Scores by BOC .. I know this was re-released on cd by skam relatively
> > recently.. I was wondering, was it released on vinyl also? if so, how
> > does one tell the difference between the original 12" release and the
> > re-release (if a re-release exists..)?
> >
> It was originally released on vinyl only, the second pressing had CD
>copies as well (probably to reach a larger audience).
>
> There is at least one difference between the vinyl versions - the labels
>are of different colour (at least between the copies I was able to
>check). The first pressing has lighter text on a blue background, the
>second pressing has darker text on a blue background. I think the first
>pressing looks a bit nicer :). There could be other differences as well,
>but as I have just two copies of the first pressing I can't do a proper
>comparison. The tracks are the same.
I believe that both the Hi Scores EP and Gescom's Keynell were re-created
from low-quality .jpegs. it's quite evident on Keynell (esp. cos they
inverted the colors), but although I've never seen an original, i imagine
that yes, it would look nicer on close inspection. but it's a toughy on
first glance :D
quoted 8 lines As for the new BoC EP, I'm still digesting. The title track is just> As for the new BoC EP, I'm still digesting. The title track is just
>fantastic (I have a newly found love of vocoders and twisted speech
>samples), though grows a bit weary towards the end. ``Zoetrope'' is
>absolutely fabulous. ``Kid For Today'' and ``Amo Bishop Roden'' are still
>in limbo, but as with all much-anticipated releases, I will probably start
>to like the EP more and more as I listen to it. Maybe it's because I've
>been too much into electro, techno and really weird stuff lately - I might
>be temporarily melodically challenged.
It sounds to me like "Kid for today" is the token old BOC track on this
EP. it sounds more dated than the other two, and sounds as if it were from
a pre-Hi Scores era (it has some of the same qualities as "smokes
quantity", from twoism and music has the right to children). personally,
the only song i think is "ok" is "amo bishop roden", which is good, but
hasn't quite sunk in yet.
but hey, it's Boards of Canada, their stuff never has a "bam! this is
good!" quality :D to me it's always been a "hey, i wanna listen to that
album again.. and again.. and again"
cheers,
derek
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