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sonofjenova
1. Dayvan Cowboy
2. Eagle in Your Mind
3. Julie and Candy
4. Twoism
5. Aquarius
Colin M
Aquarius
Turquoise Hexagon Sun
In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Oscar See Through Redeye
Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (BOC Remix)

Could change all the time, not even anything off Geogaddi there!
Colin M
By the way sonofjenova, I have ordered this which is out this week:

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=139707

Apparently the hands of BOC are on it, but I suspect it might not be that audible, I've not even listened to the clips yet. Have seen they are working on a new album too though smile.gif

Edit: Actually I just listened to the clips and I might regret buying it laugh.gif . Oh well, the curse of being a completist biggrin.gif
Judas
Off the top of my head...

Left Side Drive
Everything You Do Is A Balloon
The Beach At Redpoint
Pete Standing Alone
Seeya Later
pantene proV
1 - Chinook hear
2 - Pete Standing Alone hear
3 - To The Wind hear
4 - Iced Cooly Beatnik (couldn't find it on YouTube but it's the closest they've ever came to full-on trance)
5 - The Devil Is In The Detail (don't listen to it in the dark, feckin' scary stuff!) hear

To limit to a top 5 was hands down the most difficult thing EVER!
Judas
This is one I'd never heard until just now - sweet.
Macquarie Ridge
pantene proV
QUOTE (Judas @ Oct 23 2008, 22:52) *
This is one I'd never heard until just now - sweet.
Macquarie Ridge


*Nerd Alert* - it's on the Japanese version of Campfire Headphase

That accompanying video was strangely transfixing too
Colin M
I hope BOC go further down the psychedelia road, their remixes of cLOUDDEAD and Beck are fantastic. Don't really want to hear them do vocals but while I love everything they've done I like the way they started to use more non-electronic sounds on The Campfire Headphase and those remixes.

Actually they did a remix of Anticon artist Why? that I've never got around to hearing yet, anyone got that?
MattBairn
QUOTE (pantene proV @ Oct 23 2008, 20:58) *
1 - Chinook hear

I clicked on the link and had it in a background tab.

I forgot about it and I later went to check my washign machine in the kitchen.
It sounds like a stuck washing machine. laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif
pantene proV
QUOTE (MattBairn @ Oct 26 2008, 11:04) *
I clicked on the link and had it in a background tab.

I forgot about it and I later went to check my washign machine in the kitchen.
It sounds like a stuck washing machine. laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif


laugh.gif laugh.gif

It does go a bit mental towards the end of the track.

The thing is, I hear beauty in mechanical objects as much as fantastic guitar codas or poignant lyrics so putting a drum loop on a dodgy washing machine would probably sound great to me
DJP
As much as I like my Post Rock, BOC are just one band I never got into. I won The Campfire Headphases and played it quite a few times waiting for it to grow on me and just never did.
robosaintee
Over The Horizon Radar - a more beautiful minute of music you will not hear.
The Beach At Redpoint
Music Is Math
Devil Is In The Details
Pete Standing Alone
sonofjenova
QUOTE (DJP @ Oct 28 2008, 13:01) *
As much as I like my Post Rock, BOC are just one band I never got into. I won The Campfire Headphases and played it quite a few times waiting for it to grow on me and just never did.

Might be because Boards of Canada are quite dissimilar to post-rock music
Judas
I dunno, some of BOC's chord structures are quite similar to a lot of post-rock. Well I think they are anyway.
Colin M
I can see the link from BOC to post-rock but, well, they're a lot less "rock"! Mind you there's a definite link between them and stuff like MBV, Brian Eno, and latterly psychedelic folky stuff, but at times I think they sound like funk and hiphop, and the most obvious comparison is Aphex Twin at his most accessible.
sonofjenova
QUOTE (Colin M @ Oct 30 2008, 10:35) *
I can see the link from BOC to post-rock but, well, they're a lot less "rock"! Mind you there's a definite link between them and stuff like MBV, Brian Eno, and latterly psychedelic folky stuff, but at times I think they sound like funk and hiphop, and the most obvious comparison is Aphex Twin at his most accessible.

"Ambient" is the common denominator here.

What Eno would you recommend?
Colin M
QUOTE (sonofjenova @ Nov 8 2008, 22:08) *
"Ambient" is the common denominator here.

What Eno would you recommend?


I'm by no means an Eno expert but of his ambient type stuff I love Music For Films - some of those tracks are very similar to what BOC do, short weird synth interludes, you'll hear a clear influence. I also love his Apollo soundtracks thing and his collab with Harold Budd entitled The Pearl, which has Budd playing minimal piano over Eno "soundscapes".

My favourite Eno thing though is his collaboration with David Byrne called "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts". It's based on tape loops of funk that they created, along with a load of weird instrumentation from around the globe, and there are loads of samples of evangelists over the top. It's an amazing album.
washsacks
This band certainly put a banging donk on it.
sonofjenova
QUOTE (washsacks @ Nov 10 2008, 23:34) *
This band certainly put a banging donk on it.

What? laugh.gif
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