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There’s life before Boards Of Canada and there’s life after Boards Of Canada, they are not the same!
This is real! I distinctly remember a sense that I was being changed and that if I continued listening to their music I could not come back. I am so glad I was brave enough to continue. No there’s no way back but I am glad for it.
Maybe they are altering our DNA via vibrational frequencies. Lolz. I started listening to them after 9-11 and it permanently changed how I listen to music.
Yes
After... I was asleep.
This is how it was for my 26 year old self that summer in 1998… I was never the same person again…
This album sounds like half-remembered childhood memories, those snapshots in your head that almost feel like dreams now.
All the complexities and simplicities, the joys and dread of childhood, all played at once. The older i get, the more I appreciate this album in particular.
Yes exactly. Also I can't imagine someone is actually producing these sounds - it's all found tapes.
quiet bison and lorn both do that too me too from time to time. boards of canada way more consistently though. lemon jelly is another but with a more oldies vibe
Imagine finding this in your childhood, like I did. Nostalgia upon nostalgia.
like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail...
I seriously can't think of a better intro to BoC than a cat being petted with a kaleidoscope in the background. Thanks for the vid :)
"The way they distort humanity... is very compelling." Perfect way to distill the essence of BoC.
distorted in that it reveals much honesty
Wildlife Analysis- 0:00
An Eagle in your mind - 2:32
The Color of the Fire- 5:32
Telephasic Workshop- 9:34
Triangles & Rhombuses- 13:19
Sixty ten- 16:39
Torquoise Hexagon Sun- 21:36
Kaini Industries-24:43
Bocuma-26:06
Roygbiv- 28:03
Rue The Whirl- 31:17
Aquarius-34:47
Olson- 38:39
Pete Standing Alone- 45:05
Smokes Quantity- 47:23
Open the Light- 49:29
One Very Important Thought - 53:03
Happy Cycling- 54:18
Love yall!
thank you so much! 🥰
Of course no need to ❤@@tuneboyz5634
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You asked about Pete Standing Alone - I'll just copy paste from the bocpages wiki:
Pete Standing Alone refers to an actual person, an Albertan First Nations man named Pete Standing Alone, who in the film, Circle of the Sun (1960) is our guide to his life as a typical young member of the Blood Tribe. He talks about his life and thoughts while he attends the traditional Sun Dance ritual, part of his people's struggle to keep their heritage alive. He appeared in 7 films made by the National Film Boards of Canada.
The music of BoC is very important to me, but I've played each of their albums beyond the point of intense familiarity. Seeing you react to this indescribably beautiful music for the first time, and really get it immediately, made me hear it afresh as well, and it made me cry unexpectedly, so thank you. Reading the comments from people around the world who feel the same emotions when listening to them also reminded me that true art transcends human difference and experience.
Boards of Canada comment sections are some of the nicest places on the internet
Nature itself is comforting and creepy and I think that's why it evokes being out in the wild
I truly believe that the brothers are one of the greatest music-creating entities of humanity’s all time.
Top 20, for sure… in my personal opinion, Top 3
(Mother Earth/God/‘What Is’ is #1 imo, and no one understands this better than Mike and Marcus…
I know ‘God’ isn’t human, but something greater than us is making signal in our time, and if you listen for it, you can hear it.)
Yes! When Olson hit, it broke me
@@ColdComp I felt like I haven't heard it for years.
I have nothing but love for Boards of Canada! Listen to Geogaddi next. Hearing that album for the first time is something I'll never forget.
Between the two I am not sure which I like better! But Geogaddi is definitely a different vibe.
Very interested in her take on Geogaddi.
Please don't skip the In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country EP! It's the best EP ever recorded imo!
Amo Bishop Roden is awesome.
Kid for Today is a banger.
@@some-fan kid for today is my entry level drug to others for BoC.
Trans canada highway is great too
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada is also up there for me, but yes, fantastic EP. Kid for Today is fantastic
getting closer to an Autechre reaction hehe!!
I think an Oversteps reaction would be perfect
She **needs** to listen to untilted.
Quaristice!!
untilted is my personal favourite and imo their best work
8 hour nts session lmao
I bought this album the week it was released back in 98 because I liked the cover, I got home played it and found it unlistenable (got to think of the musical landscape at the time), it sat for about six months unplayed, then one day I thought id give it another go, this time "Telephasic workshop" caught my ear, so listened again and again, before I knew it I was loving the album, today I think its the greatest electronic album ever made, the influence these guys have had on the electronic music producing community over the last 26 years is immeasurable, Artists trying to sound like them, countless forum threads "how to I sound like them" "what equipment do they use", synth manufacturer presets named after their back catalogue, hardware manufacturers making hardware to try to give you their niche sound, the BOC influence is everywhere and BOC just hide away, say nothing, their music does the talking for them.
I thought of your song Warm Heart Inside as I was listening to this! I can hear some influence. Crazy that this went from something you couldn't even get through to one of your favorites. But I think I get it. I've had these tracks in my head every day since making the video! They grow on you like a weird...growth. Ha!
@@iximusic its weird people mention the feeling of nostalgia, something from the past but then you look into the past and can't put your finger on it, "Amo Bishop Roden" is special and so is "Everything you do is a balloon" bliss call response synths.
I felt a little similar feelings with some of FFWD/Orb’s songs around 1994. I had to skip them during the first few listens. Eventually those distinctive songs became my favourites. I felt they share some of the uncanniness. By the time I encountered Boards of Canada I was already prepared and didn’t feel disgust. Still, some of the songs don’t cause emotions. This video made me appreciate them more.
@@canecreek00 nostalgia without the rose tinted glasses, maybe why it feels somehow "off" sometime
Boards sounds like if there was an experimental technology to record dreams in the early 70s, of which only sporadic audio archival material remains
I love these videos, there’s a lovely feedback loop where your reactions invite closer listening and creates a space
It's amazing the specific collection of things it captures, and how that translates to so many people.
What’s really interesting is; I’ve never felt creeped out, only comforted by this music… But watching you, be amused but slightly uncomfortable as you experience this, has actually opened my eyes to how kind of weird and offputting I suppose this could be, in a cool way LMAO, THANKS Ixi!
It's definitely uncanny, but I agree with you, I never felt creeper out by this album, it's more that it sounds spiritual and otherworldly.
Beware the Friendly Stranger is kind of creepy at least but that might be David Firth's fault. 😄
Never clicked on something faster. YEEEEESSSSSSSS!
SAMEEEEEEEE
same actually
Hahahah, same!
This album is like an aural hologram of the childhood of Gen X. Brought tears to my eyes to see someone discover this album. Please do more BoC !! 🍄🍄🍄
That electronic music era from 92-98 is just filled with greatness, I bet I have 1,500 albums from that time frame. Global Communication - 76:14, The Irresistible Force - Global Chillage, Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms, Pete Namlook - Air 1 & 2 and Biosphere - Substrata are just a handful of favorites. BOC’s Geogaddi is their masterpiece IMO.
I believe sunshine recorder is possibly their best. I was really disappointed with their follow up albums.
Am now checking out the albums you mentioned. Into global comm.. 30 seconds in and I think you might be on to something.
Agreed. A golden era. 76:14, Lifeforms and Substrata are legit masterpieces.
Lifeforms…oh man. Heavy rotation back in the day.
Do you have some more recommendations from that area ? Maybe some lesser known records? becouse I am so in love with this period of electronic music
_Music Has the Right to Children_ is an amazing record. _Geogaddi_ is even better in my opinion, but Boards of Canada are an amazing sibling duo who have majorly influenced the sound of electronic music in the past 10-15 years. Especially the lightly out-of-tune and slowly oscillating vibrato on chords. BoC were doing Chillwave and even vaporwave before those terms were given names.
You'll also find a lot of Sesame Street samples on this record. _The Colour of the Fire_ is basically an entire "I Love You" Sesame Street short I remember from my early childhood in the 80s.
Most people are NOT ready for Geogaddi. That record gets seriously dark and creepy.
@@WillyJunior well its not like its particularly hard to stomach
@@WillyJunior Really interesting hearing how other people perceive this stuff, I never felt that way about it at all.
@@rarelycomments Interesting. Beware the Friendly Stranger is a creepy highlight!
@@WillyJunior Honestly I feel Tomorrow's Harvest is even darker in almost every aspect (musically speaking)
There are no bad Boards of Canada albums. If you like one, you'll like them all (and there aren't many). Some of my favorite tracks were on the last two albums.
Often imitated, never replicated. They just have something special, and you nailed it right from the start. Simultaneously comforting and discomforting. Nostalgic and ahead of its time.
The Campfire Headphase is not bad per se, but I find it rather _meh._ Their latest effort, Tomorrow's Harvest (which is more than a decade old by now) also fails to grip me.
@@unduloidfor campfire they used acoustic instruments and made a more 'joyful' album to step away from any preconceived idea listeners had about them. Peacock Tail is one of their masterpiece and TH basically predicted the world we live in but I agree with you that those 2 are not their best album, not 'meh' tho.
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@@unduloidI found Campfire Headphase much less interesting than Geogaddi. But me and my friends have agreed that Geogaddi is pretty hard to top no matter what you do. I think they just tried to do something different with CH instead of improving. More like clearing the table.
@@unduloid I like it a lot. It actually is very complex, even if the beats are more simple but the sounds are so washed out and not in your face that they come off as more subtle soundscape. But it's actually really dense and wild. I love how psychedelic and swirling it is, like listen to Satellite Anthem Icarus. Seems kind of dull for a verse and then open ups and just gets more and more swirly and layered.
Thank you for covering BOC, one of my favorite bands ever, and got me through some really hard times, especially Olson, the extended hour long version of that is my go to version to relax to after work or a hard day, and I heard Olson described as "the song played at the end credits of reality" and I couldn't agree more.
What the hell, you just figure out the Super Mario theme with Telephasic Workshop! That was amazing, BoC definetly did that in mind. That resolves my sub to you.
Nice reaction!
Interesting you picked up on Boc having an underwater sound. They use alot artificial aging techniques in their production, with one big one having the original recorded sound being bounced multiple times through tape desks, given the result a warm sound. Or as they describe it, like looking in between two mirrors that gradually turns murky and green.
Drexciya also nailed the electronic underwater theme impo !!!
29:03 - Leaving a time stamp so I can listen to this chord progression over and over whenever I come back to this video
boards of canada is one of the best things ever. its just... amazing
The transition from bocuma into roygbiv is one of my favourite moments in music. A unique sense of euphoric doom
I LOVE BORADS OF CANADA, you GOTTA do Campfire Headphase
Borads of Canada - now there's a concept
constants are changing and tears from the compound eye off of that album are easily their most comforting songs
@@olseaweedbeardye8622 tears from the compound eye is literally my favorite song of all time, i covered it on the piano on my channel
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I myself prefer the Boreds of Nakeda.
Borats of canada 😂
Broads of Canada - surely that band exists!
Having a sleeping cat in the background to compliment the dreaminess is perfect. Thank you!
38:48 so beautiful. Made me cry. This sequence is like awakening from a nightmare to find that you are loved and wanted and safe.
i realized this several years ago. one voice plays major, happy, sunny chords, usually in the foreground. but there's almost always a second, more menacing component in there too. the actual melody is built from both voices.
This contrast is in nearly every track they do and it's very special
Brilliance brilliance brilliance. This album changed my life. And with Geogaddi I sold my soul.
BoC are the best!
Boc is my favorite band of all time and…Oh man… I needed this video in my life right now..thanks for this!
Wow. Your ability to pick out intervals is amazing. I didn't think anyone could break down a BOC piece.
You also inadvertently created the best fan-made video of Wildlife Analysis 🐈 🌈 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That was fire ! Great intro
your breakdowns are so amazing! there is nothing like it on youtube because you actually really care about what’s happening emotionally
Yea her channel is the perfect middle ground between the technical side and the emotional side of music. I can't stand most music channels that analyze the music theory behind songs because they usually just don't acknowledge the emotional or artistic qualities of it at all.
Or on the other side, channels that just go "that was sick" or "I don't like that track" and move on.
The reason the band is called Boards of Canada is because they were inspired by the soundtracks to the old school educational films you would watch in school. One of the organizations that produced those films was The National Film Boards of Canada. The out of tune elements and tape saturation are supposed to emulate the warble of the audio being played by a cheap projector or tape deck.
Good analysis. You made me realize I like BoC for the same reason I like certain Baroque composers: a kind of beauty which is part of a greater whole which contains darkness, comfort tempered by discomfort, or even familiarity mixed with an alienness-- which is more emotionally realistic than a kind of pure saccharine untainted beauty/comfort/familiarity.
I was expecting some angry diatribe. This is refreshing!!
0:45 what a wonderful surprise to find all of my favourite things in one moment in one place. I think I died.
so so cool to see them broken down by such a talented musician. i wish your private lesson tier wasn’t sold out! very impressed by your skill level.
Late 90s warp records was cool.
I wonder what she would think of PLAID
I enjoyed The Digging Remedy! Do Matter is my favorite, and Wen is also memorable.
Autechre is peak IDM.
51:44 I think that contrast is one of the things that most contributes to BOC's effectiveness. I think of their beats as being "All Business", so when they cut in over these dreamy intros it's a quiet-gangster, "not screwing around" feeling.
Telapahsic Workshop is my personal favourite.@09:40
Just to add...the original UK release ended with "One Very Important Thought'. Happy Cycling was released on an earlier Session EP recorded for John Peel Radio show and added to the US version of MHTRTC. Really loved your deconstruction of a classic.
The cat is definitely tripping...
Taking on BOC is not an easy task. The emotional/sensory descriptions were spot on and helped me understand their music even more.
Love your work on this and other videos.
Olson gives me full body chills every time I hear it. It's such a simple but beautiful tune.
Hearing musicians lose the beat in AEIYM, despite that initial loop never stopping until the down beat finally drops, is really fun. It's one of the things that eluded me for a long time when I first heard it in high school. It took a lot of concentration for me to hold it through the entire section with all of the off beats pulling you away. It's really a wonderful album and I'll always remember how special those days were when I learned that music could be like this.
It's so wonderful seeing someone else getting as genuinely excited about Happy Cycling and for the same reasons. I've never heard anyone else explain it just like that and I'm positively giddy about it.
What an extraordinary way to meet your youtube presence
This comment left me with a big smile, Chris! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll stay awhile. I found out about your plugins on Reddit and I just hope I'm smart enough to use them haha 😁
So cool to see someone analyzing this classic. This and other Warp Records stuff really changed the way I experienced music, and changed me permanently. I have fond memories of listening to this album in my old, dirty Chicago studio apartment bathtub with candles and cigarettes. Pure magic.
I like their lo fi cassette warmth that makes you feel wrapped in your chair. Voices of children creating more warmth. Crunchy Lofi drumbeats. There’s a real nostalgic feel to it all
My favorite album ever, soundtrack of my life.
I’ve never been so jealous. Experiencing this group for the first time again would be a dream.
must have listened to this album hundreds of times and even now, listening along with you, i have goosebumps. great vid, thankyou
olsen. my my, olsen. could listen to that on repeat forever.
Throughly enjoyed this video. Your knowledge is impeccable. You also fully understood and appreciated BOC. A long time fan here. Thank you
God I love BOC so much. Been a good few years since Olson had me blinking back some tears but for whatever reason it had me again here. One of my favourite pieces of music ever. Loved the vid, thanks.
so glad to see you listen to these guys
Subscribed. Your analysis is spot on. I am frankly surprised you hit this so many years after the music dropped. The composition is in fact brilliant, but I guess I never thought anyone would give the attention/musical analysis it deserves. Obviously I've been a fan forever. But I always felt like it was a parallel dimension that no one I know could access. I am impressed. Thank you.
Your analysis of the compositional artistry at work here makes me like one of my favorite albums even more! I really appreciate the way you break down the chord progressions and give me insight into the process that the two brothers used to make this beautiful and unique music.
I'm guessing that they have extensive musical knowledge, yet the end result makes it all seems so effortless. When I make music, I try to be a conduit between my emotions and whatever instrument I am using, and I get the sense that they do too, so I don't know if there is quite so much intellectual focus on the musical theory as you make it seem when you analyze it. It sounds so organic that I wonder if the melodies are kind of writing themselves, and then the theory follows, but when I hear how well you analyze everything, I think they must have studied extensively as well.
Its super special music, thanks for helping me to appreciate it more fully by giving me a deeper understanding of it!
I think of theory more as a tool for understanding - descriptive, not prescriptive. I don't think most musicians are thinking theoretically when they make music! It is usually more of an intuitive process.
The Books is another group that plays around with plunderphonics, recontextualising found sounds and adding electronic production, cello. Would recommend for sure
the first time I heard the books I had a massive panic attack. still no idea why, and that was years ago. love them
Love "The Books" 😉 and also love "Prefuse 73 Reads The Books"… 😄
The books Lost and Safe is still one of my favs. "I can't find the books, they must be in la hoya."
Ahhhh... the good ol BoC. It does change things. The nostalgia and feeling of "I've kind of heard this before... but did I???" is a mind-f**k. I grew up with kind of music. Future Sound of London was another one. Still go back to those sometimes.
Love BoC, interesting to hear your analysis and breakdown. I discovered BoC, Autechre, Squarepusher, all the Aphex Twin alieses, etc all about the same time. It was quite a rabbit hole!
Right there with you brother! I really got into electronic music starting with Daft Punk and then Aphex Twin, and that got me into all the other artists you named and more. So many fantastic musicians pushing their particular means of self-expression to their utmost abilities, that was really a special time in music. Gave me the itch for electronic music that I still can't quite scratch to this day, that's for sure!
Man if you’re loving those records. Do yourself a solid and check out Casino Versus Japan’s first albums Go Hawaii, whole numbers play the basics, the Frescha collaboration, and The Flow of no go. Highly underrated and unfairly maligned by Pitchfork at that the zenith of their ultra snarky reviews, this guy deserves more love. Great tone and atmosphere, less technically brilliant, but amazing timbres and tonality. Think you’ll enjoy it.
WARP really introduced me to all those geniuses at around high school for me. Forever grateful I found BOC, for that they are my favorite ever.
@@fadplastic Thanks for the tip; I'll check it out!
@@georgebraymusic Yes there is so much out there I'm always finding new things! I've actually found quite a few people on Instagram of all places. A lot of them will then have more content on YT.
Beautiful analysis. I have listened to this album many hundreds of times and you've highlighted so much I hadn't noticed before. Am always surprised when Happy Cycling appears. It def wasn't on the CD I bought at the end of the 90s.
Some of the BoC tracks are like friends. Best friends that always see me, always hear me and always understand me. I couldnt live without them. ❤ so much love for all of you fellow BoC lovers
Those Scots really do some great Canadian retro media inspired nostalgia-driven electronica. BOC!
I legit screamed when I saw this on my homepage we need more musicheads like yaself to react to this masterpiece of a band. Please don't stop here!
BoC was a complete musical paradigm shift for me, demonstrating that timbre and texture are just as important (if not MORE important) than what is evoked by the melody/harmony. They capture a playfulness in the uncanny which seems just endlessly intriguing to me
They were also unusual for their time in that they mostly focused on relatively complex melody when most electronic bands at the time were focused on complex rhythms and beats with melodies being mostly short and simple repeating riffs.
Next recs would obviously be Geogaddi, it's their creepiest album by quite a long shot due to the content, and then probably Autechre Amber. Both I think you would like a lot
I think the reason this music goes so well with the psychedelic experience is it is a way to understand the confusing and somewhat creepy sensations I am experiencing, and still see the beauty in them. A roadmap of sorts. And a photo album to look back on, too. ❤
i really like ur synesthetic descriptions of the songs and how you "pictured the sounds" lol
Have you listened to anything by Autechre? Their modern stuff can be very hard to find any melody or structure in and it’s very abstract. But some of their 90’s output have some gorgeous melodies hidden behind their beats. The tracks Piezo from Amber (94) and Cichli from Chiastic Slide (97) are two that comes to mind.
There is a lot of melody and structure in most of their work, they just require patience and being able to "find the anchor".
@@freddiemossberg7204 I'm a big Autechre fan myself. I first heard about them in late 1998 when Trent Reznor signed them to his Nothing Records label.
Vletrmx from the Garbage EP ('95) is an excellent display of how you can make an emotional song using just dynamics and one loop.
Drane from their first Peel session (recorded in 1995 but released in 1999) is one of the most intense feelings of acceleration while staying steady the whole time.
If you want a nice shorter haunting track which sounds like nothing you've ever heard, FOL3 from the Quaristice (2008) album is fascinating.
@@jack_rabbit Definitely, I really enjoy music that takes more than one listen to understand what's going on.
@@peterkyrouac vltrmx is one of my favourite pieces of music ever, electronic or otherwise. Im actually going to see Autechre live for the first time in a few days time. Been listening to them since the early 90’s when I discovered them on the MTV chill out zone so it’s kind of a big deal for me.
ixi if she reviews anything, proly should be Tri Repetae is my feeling. Autechre's library is so freaking extensive that if she were to really tey to dive into anything it should be something MAINLY melodic, right? and when we think and look at Ae's discography, there are really only a few that kind of pass the bar, Tri Repetae, Quaristice (which is looong) and Oversteps, or the first two, Incunabula and Amber, which, tonally, kind of aren't that interesting for youtube content. I guess my vote would be for Tri Repetae, or the two EP's, Garbage amd Anvil Vapre. Those rule as well and are melodic yet have these sounds that can captivate ixi enough to comment on. Does that make sense?
Listening to Boards of Canada is like experiencing a past you never lived through but you still feel a loss for. Nostalgia
Olson is basically bottled nostaliga. Something about the way our brain's interpret that mix of grainy audio, oscillating chords and a never-ending chord pattern. Fading in and fading out like a warm memory.
It's called Anemoia
Anemoia or vicarious nostalgia 👍
Love it.
This genre is also called hauntology
One hour felt like 10 minutes. Excellent video, breakdown, commentary.
Kinda jealous that you get to discover and listen to them for the first time just now... 😁
I love BoC so, so much... 🖤
felt the same the entire video.. Such a special record 🧡. @iximusic : great analysis, they have more albums..did you know? 😉
@@Knarfd50 haha hey, fancy meeting you here!
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@@CausaliDox haha, time to meet up and do a back2back BOC feestje 🙂
@@Knarfd50 Lijkt me heel leuk! = ) Laat maar weten wanneer het uitkomt!
My tabby is curled up with me watching you and your tabby.
Excited that you're exploring Boards.
Brilliant. I've loved this album for decades now, and you gave me (a nonmusician) a new perspective on how they possibly produce their music.I'm subscribing for more musical reverse engineering!
oh wow, thank you so much for doing this. I don't have the training or ear to figure out the chord progressions, but watching them on screen had me going "WTF? but it's beautiful!" more than once.
I just found your channel the other day, the depth of your analysis of two of my favorite bands (NIN and Radiohead) is unmatched. Now Boards of Canada! Amazing! Can't wait to see what you say about ROYGBIV and Olson! Morrrreee BoC! You have a great ear, it's great to hear the isolated harmony and intervals that make up the music we love so much!
This was incredible to watch! This has been my all time favourite album since my friend showed Roygbiv to me 15 years ago back when i was in middle school... Your analysis has added even more depth to this album that has refreshed it once again! Thank you so much :) Make sure you listen to Geogaddi too!!
Love to see the musical analysis reflecting the choices in the production and overall vibe as well. dissonance, implied chordings, jazzy feel. They are an extraordinary group and always doing their own thing.
Loved seeing your passionate reaction to it, I would definitely check out all their albums, but bear in mind they are very different! As someone who's been listening to them for over 25 years I'd describe them as:
Music has the right to children - 70s/80s nostalgia, comforting analogue vibes, yet a bit of cognitive dissonance like you have a memory you can't quite place, or feels like it happened to someone else.
A beautiful place out in the country (EP) - exploring the softer side musically and production-wise, but with more emphasis on the lyrical themes and the subliminal messages (they use those a lot!)
Geogaddi - a bad trip, you're hanging on but barely, but in a distant, "everything is slightly wrong" kind of way - extremely uncomfortable but manageable (I'd love to see your musical breakdown of some of those tracks)
The Campfire Headphase - a slow party with your friends around a campfire - sometimes all together, sometimes on your own reflecting, getting caught up between introversion and extroversion (they also use a lot more analogue/real instruments in this - or rather, they have always used analogue instruments, but they sometimes leave them, less processed/more obvious)
Tomorrow's Harvest - the end of the world. Or to be precise, the dawning realisation that the end is ahead of us and inevitable, and we have broken the cycle of stability with our own hubris, and can see it coming. Like a 70s/80s John Carpenter apocalypse movie vibe, but told in their mastery of electronics.
The Telephasic Workshop motif is so fucking nostalgic, it brings me back to my youth. It's similar to spinning plates by Radiohead.
Thanks so much for watching my boC reactionalysis! If you enjoyed it, could you do me a favor and follow me on Patreon (for free)? I'm trying to grow my community over there! www.patreon.com/iximusic **orange **
I clicked the second I saw you were doing BoC, but the cat was an unexpected bonus!
"yeah, that's right" :)
I was hoping for Aquarius on here when I clicked it, haha!
Just going to sneak this comment in here...if anyone is a particularly rabid fan and has $5, here's the (mostly) uncut version of this video with the full tracks and my reactions, plus probably a good hour more of my blathering: www.patreon.com/posts/2-1-2-hours-of-112698709
the scale and sound of the colour of fire sounds very much like 1/1 on Music for Airports by Brian Eno
9:37 absolutely related to the little moment of "Uh oh, it got upbeat, lemme make sure the cat is still okay" 😂
This is super fascinating!! Not familiar with your work and I'm super inexperienced with musical theory, but as a lover of this album, it's so cool to learn more about why it has such a fascinating allure.
The feelings evoked in some of the most serene, nostalgic and utterly blissful.
The creeped-out factor is from the feeling of sehnsucht, or the longing for something that never existed. If you grew up in the 60-70s, this is the soundtrack to childhood you never actually had. The context that I can't explain to Millenials/Gen Z is that I will swear that this was the soundtrack to the 8/16mm educational films I was shown in primary school from 1968-1978. Hence the name "(National Film) Board(s) of Canada"; the group that made about 60% of the documentaries we used to watch (Leslie Nielsen narrating about underwater lava flows on "Dandelion" from _Geogaddi_ absolutely delights me and takes me back to when I was 8 years old). But you could easily gaslight yourself that this music was there.
BoC, and this album in particular, have not left regular rotation for 25 years. _Music Has the Right_ and _Campfire Headphase_ are joyous and creepy. _Geogaddi_ and _Tomorrow's Harvest_ are creepy and creepy. But I love them all.
BoC have nailed the trick of sounding futuristic and nostalgic simultaneously- their use of warp plugins gives a lot of the uncanny quality to their work. I absolutely LOVE them!
This review is a masterclass in generosity and kindness.
The moment you begin to pull apart the track Olsen was absolutely next level stuff. Lots of musical empathy for the relationship between harmony and melody. Outstanding active listening on your part.
One of my all time favorite albums
I've listened to this album for 20 years, I've never stopped loving it. You've given it a new life for me. Thanks for your content.
I love how you keep getting caught off, and then absolutely absorbed by their groove. BoC did this to me too when I first heard their music.
I randomly discovered this on my birthday. Thank you for making this video, best birthday present ever! Watching you react to all those hauntingly beautiful melodies, unpredictable chord progressions, and all the little oddities that make me love this album to bits literally made me cry. Multiple times, not exactly sure why. Enjoyed every single minute of it.
This means a lot. Happy birthday!!
i love this, love how deeply u listen to the tracks.
I found Boards Of Canada about a year ago while listening to some lofi/chill on Pandora. They quickly became one of my favorites.
Their music reminds me of 70's after-school programs, science documentaries, and European thrillers that I would watch when I was a kid. I never realized how beautiful their music really was until I listened to you break it down on piano.
You're right. Their sound is like a warm blanket made of scratchy material and I absolutely love it. My personal favorites of theirs are Left Side Drive, Turquoise Hexagon Sun, Orson, Aquarius and Nothing Is Real. When Nothing Is Real comes up on my Pandora feed it makes me feel like I'm standing on a cliff staring into the abyss.
Thanks again for sharing your break down with us!
Came for the deep dive on why and how BoC manages to be both creepy and beautiful, uplifting and sad, nostalgic and futuristic - all at the same time... Stayed for the cute cat
Dayvan Cowboy - This one got me hooked on Boards of Canada. So freakin happy I found them when I did.
It BOC Maxima for me.
Tomorrow’s Harvest was my introduction to BoC. The next week I bought the back catalog. Timeless
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You are my new found favorite! Beautiful, genius, musical, and insightful you are ixi. I love BOC. Your breakdown was quite enjoyable.
Thank you for going through this. This album blew my mind in 1998. ❤
I’ve never seen your channel and despite over 25 years of deep electronic music fandom I never clicked with BoC
Your fun breakdown, exploration, and explanation may have thrown a stuck tumbler in my brain to unlock them for me, thanks
For me, they capture both the comforting nostalgia of childhood freedom, but also the slight edge of fear that we conveniently forget about having through a lot of it. Everything's bigger, faster, stronger, unknown and mysterious. For anyone old enough in the UK, they have a knowing nod to certain terryfingly weird kids TV shows and Public Information Broadcasts we had in the late 70s and early to mid 80s, with that BBC Radiophonic Workshop-ish quality they have running through it all. There's a record label called Ghost Box Records that seem to specialise in a similar unsettling nostalgia. Thanks for all the musical dissection - now I know why I gravitate to G Mix when I use those quantizers that pick scales by name rather than me picking the notes on synths!