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offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-05 17:17 [#00810578]
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I notice on discogs there are loads of old releases dating
even back to 1989. They look good I suppose they're going to
rerelease them in the future. Any ideas?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-08-05 17:20 [#00810581]
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no theyre not


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2003-08-05 17:20 [#00810583]
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I own Boards of Canada.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-08-05 17:22 [#00810587]
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you own nothing, mrs jailbait


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2003-08-05 17:25 [#00810590]
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I own you.


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-05 17:26 [#00810593]
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God I wonder what they sound like? I guess the early stuff
around 1987 must be crap.


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-05 17:28 [#00810594]
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I have to say that BOC definitely are the best at creating
kick arse melodies and tunes period. At there best they beat
Aphex, Mu-Ziq and any others hands down. What do the rest of
the board reckon?


 

offline spoonz from Edmonton, AB (Canada) on 2003-08-05 17:43 [#00810605]
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i reckon most artists (like sp, µ-ziq, aphex, etc) have
created at least a few killer melodies, that all beat most
of the other people's stuff.

you could be right, boc might be the best at consistantly
writing the best melodies. who knows? it's all opinion, and
what kind of style you like most, i s'pose.


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-05 17:52 [#00810623]
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True. I just think at there very best nobody does it better
than BOC. Think about it think about there very best tracks,
they just seem to have that edge. Still you're probably
right.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-08-05 17:59 [#00810635]
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that tape thing "a few godo songs" sounds miles beter than
the rather average geogaddi imo


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-05 18:04 [#00810651]
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They look almost good to eat don't they?


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-05 18:05 [#00810653]
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I wonder who the hell has a copy. I bet it'd be worth
serious money if it ever got onto ebay $2000 at least
surely.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-08-05 18:05 [#00810654]
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I agree, BoC write the best melodies IMO. Melissa Juice is
absolutely gorgeous.
Sadly I can't see them re-releasing Acid Memories, Hooper
Bay etc. or even BoC Maxima... I still dream of finding a
tape copy of Acid Memories for 30p at a car boot sale. I can
but dream.

That said, the rhythm of the melody (as opposed to
percussive elements) is seldom as tight as RDJ/[]pusher's in
tracks like girl/boy song or UFO over Leytonstow.


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-05 18:11 [#00810665]
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Ceri JC,

I agree rhythm is not there thing. But basically they aren't
really about beats they're general about atmosphere and
bastard good melodies. Those tape covers do look good don't
they. One of those early tapes was done is 1987. Wow that
blows my mind. Well they started in 1982 apparently.


 

offline J198 from Maastricht (Netherlands, The) on 2003-08-05 19:35 [#00810817]
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boc's best percussion moment imo is heard in 'everything you
do is a balloon'
first heard at: 3:28, being the subtle 'tssst' closed hi-hat
kind of sound.

on headphones, this is the sweetest detail ever. i love this
track to death

*goes on looking for other neat percussion bits*



 

offline KainiIndustries from over the roof floats billy on 2003-08-05 19:48 [#00810832]
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The drums on Gyroscope are amazing as well.


 

offline Spaced from Mars (United States) on 2003-08-06 08:46 [#00811663]
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Best BoC percussion moment:

Chinook.


 

offline Murray from Southend, Essex (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-06 08:56 [#00811686]
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I have some stuff of thiers made between 1995-1997. Very
varied in output. some of it sounding more like Hells
Interface releases to me.

they rule with melodies and drums in my view.


 

offline Spaced from Mars (United States) on 2003-08-06 08:57 [#00811689]
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Oh look I hit 200. Woo!

I know it's not much, but it's the small things that count.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2003-08-06 08:59 [#00811696]
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10,000 drops of water will fill the bucket


 

offline nlogax from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2003-08-06 09:02 [#00811706]
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Their first releases were only given away to family and
close friends. Don't think any of them will give'em up for
auction on ebay. (unless they want to be
pistolwhipped of course..)


 

offline Spaced from Mars (United States) on 2003-08-06 09:20 [#00811739]
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getting there.


 

offline Jaser from Castle Greyskull (United Kingdom) on 2003-08-06 09:27 [#00811756]
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if you work on pure number theory divide everything BOC has
done compaired to Aphex +Pusher by two being single member
artists.


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-08-06 12:30 [#00811967]
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Sorry don't get that.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2003-08-06 12:32 [#00811969]
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makes sense to me


 

offline Joyrex from watmm.com (United States) on 2003-08-06 13:11 [#00812013]
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There's always the possibility the pre-Twoism stuff could be
released, but they seem to be more interested in their
newer, fresher material than to revisit the past right now.

I think a BOC Box Set would be wonderful, or at least a
compilation of all the tracks they think were the best from
all those releases...

I'm sure the best is yet to come though!


 


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