https://soundcloud.com/curtisstearn/launch-sequence-hypnosis

My first song in over 10 years. Let's hope BOC follow suit.

I released an album this week that I wanted to share.

Boards of Canada has always been one of my favorite bands.

It would mean a lot if anyone took the time to check it out, and if you like it, share with like minded friends. Let me know if you love it or hate it as well. Appreciate you all very much.

Spotify Link:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AgHypQObPcL7zI4HnMrJ4?si=yJ0ERgAYT0GKXAN0Q6k2zQ

Youtube link:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l4IKlZlVU6-2h2SAJ1A-eIy1j60Wyb8UY&si=feWh_tYn_gsLk2lb

I was scrolling through YouTube to find some songs to hear and this album came to me https://youtu.be/ktTfV6VEATk, what do you guys think about it? I found it to be so awesome, maybe smth that boc would've tried to make.

Which are your favorite spooky tracks? Mine is Telepath 📡

one of my all time fav album covers :)

This was the first track I ever heard by BoC. When the ep was released, it showed up at the record store where I was working at the time. We put it on the day before release date, just out of curiosity. All these years later, it still gives me chills. For me, it’s the perfect BoC track. I grew up (and still live) in Calgary, and spent many hours as a kid in the library, borrowing all of the National Film Board of Canada videos I could find. It just resonates. Now, at 55, I find myself making and releasing my own music, and it’s all making sense.

In my opinion, this album is separated into 3 distinct sections, kinda like a book. The beginning feels very much like a warning, and extends from the start to Opening the Mouth. You can hear phrases like "be careful" in Music is Math, plus the song literarally called beware the friendly stranger. All of it feels like a warning to stray away from evil, and as we all know, Geogaddi is packed with Satanic symbolism in the samples. Opening the mouth is where I feel the listener (you) begins to let The Devil in. "Opening the Mouth" could refer to the listener opening their mind and letting a demon in. The title "I saw drones" Makes me think that the listener begins hallucinating as their mind is taken. "The Devil is in the Details" is, in my opinion, the moment Satan takes you. The narrator being the Devil. It invites you to open your mind and let yourself be transformed, meaning possessed. A is to B as B is to C following this feels like the last of your humanity and innocence leaving your body, as childlike synths wrestle with unnearving voices. Dawn chorus's childlike melody makes me think that it symbolizes rebirth, and this is backed up by the meaning of Julie and Candy. The moaning could also symbolize lust, one of the circles of Hell. You could feel the sky is the climax of the album. The devil has taken you, and it makes you kill for it. You can hear a man screaming, which is the man you are forced to kill. At the end of the song "take my hand" is not the devil speaking, but you, inviting the victim to go through the process you went through over the course of the album. The album ends with the moarnful corsair, a word that means pirate, which could be depicting the devil as a sort of pirate, hijacking your soul. The sad drone symbolizes your soul being taken, and the your victim beginning their journey to the same fate as you.

Here's a short list of songs that prominently feature the flute (or flute-like samples/patches):

Julie and Candy

An Eagle in Your Mind

The Broken Drum remix

The cLOUDEAD remix

The Nevermen remix

Kaini Industries

Sixtyniner

Pete Standing Alone

Rue the Whirl

Wildlife Analysis

Orange Romeda

The interlude in Sixtyniner is one of my favorite things they've ever recorded. The flute in "An Eagle in Your Mind" is my favorite part of that of that track too, as is the flute in "Pete Standing Alone". I wish BoC would release this track - it's kind of a variation on the Sixtyniner theme, but lusher, and less pornographic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fd652KmLsE

And the flutes convey the nostalgia in their music every bit as powerfully as the children's voices or detuned oscillators. It gives the music a lot of its earthiness and connection to nature.

If they released anything I'd take a day off work to listen to it. But if it turned out that it was Boards of Canada doing a flute album I wouldn't complain one bit.

Before I go, and just to hammer home what a slut I am for the flute, here's a record I've always assumed influenced the brothers (and especially the Campfire Headphase/Trans Canada era):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB0_-w_-eh8

Bonus flute track if that didn't sate you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MY5mD3ndE

Merely want to call attention to how unorthodox the duos drum sounds are. I would describe them as being akin to an impressionistic painting of what drums sound like. Listening to Turquoise Hexagon Sun, Forest Moon, Gyroscope and Hi Scores back to back will really make you realize just how distinctive and unique their approach to rhythm actually is. You can hardly identify where the sound of one drum ends and another begins, yet it portrays just enough for your mind to fill in the blanks and recognize what the sounds are trying to be. Standing in stark contrast to almost the entirety of other electronic and/or hip hop beat driven music, you won't find a single stock preset drum sound or overtly robotically quantized rhythm in their entire discography. I think it's easy to overlook just how one of a kind their rhythm sections truly are, but if you pay enough attention you'll realize that on most BOC tracks the drums are even more alien sounding than the synthesizers.

I just finished geogaddi, amazing album but I Saw Drones stood out to my the most, are there any longer songs by them that sound like it?

I love the sinister movie, and I love it even more because that’s how I found out about these amazing musicians. Even though I watched salad fingers before, I didn’t give much thought to Beware the Friendly Stranger, so it was kind of just there for me, but Gyroscope hit me like a truck, and it is genuinely one of the scariest songs I’ve ever heard. I know not the meaning of the song, but it chills me to the very core and I’m grateful it did the first time I listened to it in sinister because it wouldn’t have given me the curiosity to search more about BOC

Does anybody have any information or speculations regarding the Red Moon Nights? Beyond what’s on bocpages I can’t find anything and I’m incredibly intrigued by it.

I want to start acquiring physical copies of the Boards of Canada discography; right now I only have old iTunes purchases or streaming to listen to them. One of my goals is to be able to listen to them in as high of quality as possible, and I'm wondering if anyone has ever compared the CD releases to the vinyl releases. I generally only buy vinyl when the record was recorded/mixed/mastered analog, since it gives me the feeling that I'm listening to it the way it was intended to be heard (I know, that's probably just in my head, but vinyl is so much about the experience anyway). But, if the consensus is the BOC vinyl sounds great and is worth the expense, I would definitely consider it.

Well, who appreciates BoC's music certainly knows that much about the brothers is shrouded in mystery, since they barely give interviews, specially a recorded in video or even audio. For example: on YouTube, I have only found one video from a John Peel Session they gave in 1998 when one of them (Idk exactly which one) spoke briefly. There is no other video of them both speaking to an interviewer. But, those two definitely don’t need to give very much interviews, not even giving details about their private lives, since their music is so good that they need to do that in order to promote their material. However, I still get curious at least about their personalities and how is like to interact with them both. Does anyone here know them personally? How are they in person? Let your testimony in the comments below!

Since i got Twoism when i was in probably 4th-5th grade, ive always really loved this track. Even at that young of an age I found the music and title combo to be really beautiful and poignant and i still do. But I never really thought about the year in specific till now and i just realized that since twoism came out in 95, that title today would basically be the equivalent of putting out a track called "2015 Summer Fire" which seems a lot less cool to me haha.

coincidentally, 2015 would've probably been the year i got that album, which is interesting.

Hello. This is my very first and (probably) last post on Reddit. I had to join because I wanted to share this 1970's song from Soft Machine's Third (incredible blend of jazz and progressive electronic).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL7mq30nmF0

The song is Out-Bloody-Rageous, which starts at 56:06. Apparently, Mike Ratledge (the keyboardist) was very inspired by Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air. Though, weirdly, I find it very reminiscent of Boards of Canada. It sounds like Music Has the Right to Children!

I posted a similar post on ProgArchives, but they thought I meant Blue Öyster Cult... Hoping you guys will be more receptive.

i need guitar tabs for main lead in song. any idea guys?

Hey guys. I read a book published this summer and it perfectly matched Tomorrow's Harvest.

It is Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want To Run The World by Anne Applebaum. Enjoy!