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Monoid on 2001-11-28 00:52 [#00056274]



Dudes, can you name some of those "Film Boards of Canada"
Films that BOC might have been inspired by !? I know thats a
stupid Question....but....I am really intrested in this old
movies.....


 

Xanatos from NYC on 2001-11-28 01:48 [#00056283]



go to www.nfb.ca and type track names in. its ur best
bet


 

Xanatos from NYC on 2001-11-28 01:48 [#00056284]



go to www.nfb.ca and type track names in. its ur best
bet


 

Milk Man Dan on 2001-11-28 02:30 [#00056293]



You know you can't film "Excessive unneccesary," or
something, scenes of violence in Canada anymore because of
American Psycho....


 

Taxi on 2001-11-28 03:17 [#00056307]



That is an absolutely full bit of bullshit.


 

Milk Man Dan on 2001-11-28 03:22 [#00056311]



It's true, because of petitioners, crazy women or something,
because of the chainsaw scene, which was shot in Canada.


 

Taxi on 2001-11-28 06:14 [#00056324]



Well, at least we can still air soft core porn on regular
television.


 

One of those obscure little kids from Red Meat on 2001-11-28 06:18 [#00056326]



"I hate you milkman dan."


 

Aron? from Canada on 2001-11-28 06:54 [#00056330]



boc were prolly influenced by thoes short wildlife
commercials that are usually on late at night on chanell 3.
the music in the backround of thoes commercials are simmilar
to boc's.
crazy flute noises and sych.


 

Aron? from Canada on 2001-11-28 06:56 [#00056331]



oh yeah and thoes wildlife commercials are made by the
national film board of canada by the way (derrr)

and i mean such, not such in my last post.

bye


 

Aron? from Canada on 2001-11-28 06:56 [#00056332]



82ru3j!!!!
blah!


 

Herpes on 2001-11-28 07:12 [#00056333]



Soft core porn airs on commercial television where I am too,
in fact I think it airs everyone, it's no big deal.


 

aRCHRIVAL from wont tell ya, im scared. on 2001-11-28 07:50 [#00056339]



I think BOC started out making wildlife analysis short
movies.


 

aRCHRIVAL from wont tell ya, im scared. on 2001-11-28 07:51 [#00056340]



Boards of Canada originate around 1976 when Michael and
Marcus were children. Both learned to play various musical
instruments while moving and relocating between northern
Scotland, southern England and Alberta in Canada. Around
1980 on the north-east coast of Scotland the first version
of the band was formed, not yet including Marcus Eoin in the
line-up. For the next few years Mike and cohorts created
experimental music using borrowed synths, drums and tape
machines.

Around this time the band were starting to create home
movies with a Super-8 camera. Educational television
documentaries and film soundtracks were becoming a big
influence on the group and the crossover between their
musical creations and their film creations was becoming more
blurred. The documentaries of the National Film Board of
Canada were regular viewing for the young collective, and
they were later to name their band as a nod to this early
influence.

By Spring 1984 Mike had produced various multi-tracked works
at a professional recording studio by his home on the coast.
Mike, Marcus and other friends spent the early eighties
making music near the beaches of north-east Scotland. They
blended real instruments and voices with the sounds of home
computers and found sounds from radio and television.

In 1986 Marcus joined Mike's band, as a bassist. They were
the only live band in their area performing hard, minimal
electronic music; (showcase gigs in their rural hometown saw
them billed alongside an endless procession of glam-rock
covers bands who played New York Dolls and Poison). With
frequent line-up changes, by the end of the eighties Boards
of Canada eventually had comprised as many as fourteen
different members.

In the late eighties the band and their surrounding
collective were making longer films and extensive
photographic projects. The films were soundtracked by Boards
of Canada. The group's work utilised brooding imagery and
cryptic, psychedelic pictures and texts to achieve feelings
of nostalgia, confusion, and loss.

By 1989 Boards of Canada had embarked on the creation of
their own studio. The band began putting on occasional
outdoor happenings. They used projections, films, monitors,
and played tapes of bizarre recordings including television
themes with reversed vocal messages mixed over the music.

From 1992 to 1994 various small musical and visual projects
took place, whilst the band's collective Hexagon Sun began
regular Redmoon nights at a ruin near their own studio in
Scotland. Large bonfires were lit and guests found
themselves listening to, among other things, old children's
songs being mixed over steady electronic pulses. In the
summer of 1995 the band and their friends officially
christened their studio in the Pentland Hills Hexagon Sun,
and the collective have continued their work on recordings,
films and gatherings from this location. (Every year in the
spring and summer Hexagon Sun hosts various small rural
music gatherings, which attract many local heads.)

For some time Boards of Canada had been recording EP's and
"albums" by financing the manufacture themselves, on their
own label Music70, but the first of these to be released
outside the band's own circle of friends was Twoism, a
limited-edition collection of grainy, melancholy melodies
over slow, dry electronic rhythms.

In early 1996 a copy of Twoism reached the headquarters of
the electronic label Skam in Manchester, England, and within
a day Autechre's Sean Booth had contacted the duo. Mike &
Marcus recorded the Hi Scores EP for Skam Records. BOC
brought their full live show including Super-8 and video
visuals when they played alongside Autechre, Panasonic &
Cylob in London in July 1996.

Skam Records and Munich's Musik Aus Strom teamed up in 1997
to release a series of very limited compilation EP's under
the name MASK, the first of which included an exclusive
track by Boards of Canada. The second MASK instalment
contained a track by one of the band's alter-egos, "Hell
Interface." From now on Boards of Canada's music was being
licensed for appearances on compilation albums all over the
world.

At this time Boards of Canada gave a few performances around
the UK, notably including a performance at the Phoenix
Festival in July 1997, using onstage video visuals which cut
from Super-8 movies to "blipvert"-style subliminal
messaging. BOC once again supported labelmates Autechre in
Scotland, and Seefeel in London, as well as headlining for
Skam in Manchester. Meanwhile they released new music under
the pseudonym Hell Interface, and obliged with remixes for a
handful of artists.

In February 1998, much speculation preceded the announcement
that Boards of Canada had signed to Sheffield's Warp
Records.
In the spring of 1998, after a remix for Mira Calix on Warp
Records, and a limited edition 7" release of Aquarius on
Skam Records, the duo completed an album for a joint release
between Skam & Warp Records. Music Has the Right to Children
was released on 20th April 1998.

The BOC debut album received excellent reviews in many music
publications in the UK and Europe. "Album of the Issue" -
Jockey Slut, April/May 1998, "Album of the Month" - Wax
magazine, May 1998.

Boards of Canada recorded an exclusive session for the John
Peel Show on Radio One in June 1998, and performed live on
the John Peel Show, during the recording of the session.
Peel described it on air as an "excellent session."

In July 1998 BOC landed a licensing deal in the USA with New
York's Matador Records. Music Has the Right to Children was
set for a September 1998 US release. That summer BOC
commenced work on their second album for Warp Records, while
Music Has the Right to Children was released in the USA.
Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto approached the band, and
BOC remixed his single Prime Audio Soup.

In January 1999 the BOC album Music Has The Right To
Children became one of the most highly acclaimed albums of
1998 in magazine end-of-year polls; "No.16" - NME, "No.3" -
Jockey Slut, "No.5" - The Wire, "No.8" - DJ Magazine,
"No.19" - Muzik. In the same month Warp Records released a
single of the BOC Peel Session that had aired the previous
year on the UK's Radio 1.

Music Has The Right To Children returned to the UK
Independent Chart Top 20 in February 1999, and after staying
around for three weeks it peaked at number 7. Simultaneously
the Peel Session single hung around the Top 10 of the
Independent singles chart for several weeks.

In May 1999 NME included Boards of Canada in its "Top Ten
Nu-Psychedelic Bands," alongside Mercury Rev & The Beta
Band.

In the same issue, NME ranked Boards of Canada's debut album
'Music Has The Right To Children' in its Top 25 Psychedelic
Records of All Time:
".....
1 The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
2 The Byrds - Eight Miles High
3 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House
4 Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
5 Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
6 Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And
Body
7 The Beach Boys - Vegetables
8 Jimi Hendrix - The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s
Dice
9 Can - Mother Sky
10 Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People
11 The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
12 A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
13 The Butthole Surfers - Hurdy Gurdy Man
14 My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When
15 Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun
16 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
17 The Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
18 Mercury Rev - Racing The Tide
19 Spiritualised Electric Mainline - Electric Mainline
20 The Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel
21 Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk At Cubist Castle
22 Super Furry Animals - Radiator
23 The Beta Band - Three EPs
24 Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
25 The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
....."

From 1999 onward various tracks from the BOC back-catalogue
were being licensed for compilation albums, TV
synchronisation and film soundtracks all over the world.

Throughout the summer of 1999 Boards of Canada continued to
work on their second album, and in August 1999 they
contributed two tracks to Warp Records’ 10th Birthday
celebration albums, for release later in the year.

In November 1999 Boards of Canada performed live at Warp
Records’ 10th Birthday Party in London alongside Autechre,
Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and Mira Calix. The BOC live visual
show, produced by the band themselves along with
contributions from Hexagon Sun collaborators, was by now
incorporating more finely-honed experimentation with
subliminal text and imagery.

In October 2000 Boards of Canada performed live at The
Incredible Warp Lighthouse Party, an electronic showcase
event at a lighthouse on the River Thames in London,
alongside various luminaries of the electronic music world
including Autechre, Plaid, Aphex Twin, Skam artists,
Schematic artists from the USA, Prefuse 73, and various
others.

In November 2000 Boards of Canada released a four-track EP
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country.

In April 2001 BOC headlined at All Tomorrow’s Parties, a
festival on the south coast of England with an esoteric
line-up including Lambchop, Television, Yo La Tengo,
Tortoise, Broadcast, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many others.

A new full-length album will be released on Warp in 2002.



 

andreas.de from paris, france on 2001-11-28 12:44 [#00056415]



just found some boc-mp3 files on my harddisk i forgot about.
"in a beautiful place out in the country" is wonderful ;-)
go and buy the e.p.!!!

.as


 

Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2001-11-28 16:46 [#00056480]



Haha, Tomorrow Never Knows at #1, as it should be. Rest in
peace Johnny, you earned it, you beautiful bastard.


 

The_Funkmaster from Newfoundland, Canada on 2001-11-28 17:33 [#00056493]



not bad, 24 all time...


 


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