BOC and VOCALS

It's been a while since Trans Canada Highway released.

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house album

 

that'd be intresting

boc + vocals = poo

  six said:

I can't believe you guys are talking about a new album already

You know what they say: "If you build it, they will come". Or something like that.

boc + vocals = great!!! :grin:

 

I cant see how it could be bad...I mean Broken Drum got all the brilliant BOC elements..excellent intstrumental parts, beautiful reversed guitars and pianos..long instrumental parts and beautiful singing by beck that really fits BOCs music..the ending part (the last 2 min) of that track is pure audio orgasm..it builds and builds..

 

I would love to have vocals on the next one :)

Here is the interview everyone is asking about. They mention the next cd at the bottom:

 

"BOC OOR Interview:

rough translation:

human music is not unapproachable, not being correct pulse, but a

scrap in the throat, a light hasitation, a tear. We remind our

carefree youth, rather then that we dream of a life between robots.

 

We want to prove that we are ordinary blokes and no magician which

bring man sacrifices on a mount top

 

Mike: if you stay away from the media for a long time, people will

fill up automatically the breaches in your tale.

 

Mike : The biggest misunderstanding is our humor. A lot of people

don't see the irony of it. They take it to litteral. We are just

interessted (says almost with excusing there selfs) in old cultures

religious rattans, scientific questions, everything what deviates

from the standard. That's it!! don't seek anyting more about it.

 

Actualy we never wanted to make electronic music, in fact we aren't really

interested in dancemusic. We just took all kinds of instruments when

we were kids and made a lot of noise with it. We are no technokids.

 

About the campfire headphase:

 

the basis is a fantasy mind trip, sits itself somewhere in a camp in

the bunch, spaced out around the campfire. It is dark, you are

alone, you close your eyes and you fantasise concerning the america

of the 18th century. you lose you time notion. Hours become days,

weeks. There event strange solicits, unexplainable things, jumps in

the time, transformations, a little surrealistic without you

experience it as such.

 

Marcus: Complete chaos, a world without logic, that kind of idea. Do

you know the movie : Zabriskie point? For me this album is the same

environment, It is a lunatic movie. there happened of everything

what is not logical, you try discover a line, find a declaration,

but at the end of the movie you still don't know what now has in

fact happened.

 

Mike: The central question is: How much of these experiences are

real? have they really taken place? how much executed itself in a

hallucination? he who sometimes had a psyhedelic experience , knows

that you aren't able to tell litteral what has happened, it changes

every moment

 

At the end of a good trip = the campfire headphase, there will be a

downer, the last 3 tracks are going very deep. Marcus: as a result,

it continues longer (it will stay longer with you, (dont know how to

translate acurate)

 

Mike: I never could make anything that is complete optimistic.

 

Mike: Farewell fire is Marcus on keyboards, nothing more, he made it

in one night session.

They wont say for whom they made that track, though it could only be

for someone who past away .

 

The singing guitar in chromakey dreamcoat has been recorded on the

beach with the rottenest taperecorder marcus could find, he also has

digital recorders though he is using those seldom.

 

Never call their music nostalgic, Marcus hates it, also retro is

word he doesn't like.

Marcus : we referring to something from the past, something

tragically or something beautiful that has lost has gone. We try to

take that back, but we wont stop there, we try to bring it "further"

to imagine how it would become if it still existed. We don't copy

the past, we rewrite it. We go back to a certain moment in time and

place and take an alternative road. We say to each other : make it

1978 and then take it somewhere.

 

Mike admires jeroen bosch (1450-1516) a deeply religious painter,

in antagonism of contemporaries, the work of Bosch was about : fear,

abomination,calamity emergency. Mike: His work was about weird,

spooky elements, elements where no declarations for were it were

fantasy's, his work was surrealistic though surrealism didn't exist

at that time.

There are elements in his work that shouldn't be there,

inconsistencies. This elements make the work of bosch so strong and

seizing.

 

A parallel to music has the right to children, on what naieve child

voices clash with atonal sounds, chromocoloured beats and dissonant

melodies. Those voices from children don't belong there in such dark

music, they make you feel upset in away. You don't know why they are

there, but they just are around. They suggest innocence but also

danger. You just don't know but it just seize you.

 

Their life aim is the desire to their youth, the lost youth, the

time that life was still simple en luck was very ordinary. That's

what they are searching for, those warmth those innocence. The

feeling that every adolescent slowly looses.

 

Marcus: I have a long history of depressions, when im depressed I

always seek for consolation in my childhood. That sadness,

melancholy is always around In our music.

 

Marcus about geogaddi: It was a project, its its own thing, a

claustrophobic trip through a world full of paranoia and darkness. A

lot of people confuse this album with humanity, we are no

(cursethinkers..don't know of an accurate word, thinking about it)

 

Marcus continues: Don't forget that we were in the studio when 9/11

happened, the last 5 months of geogaddi were at the same time with

the aftermath of 9/11. It was a time of fear, feel liked we got back

to the cold war. Suddently I felt this fear again, the fear of the

nuclear bomb I had as a child. I think everyone of our generation

knows that feeling. We couldn't escape of that fear, it influenced

our conscience. The tone was getting more oppressed. The atmosphere

the samples everything has to do with it. Moreover I was having a

very difficult time for myself, it was a bad year

 

Now 4 years later:

Marcus takes over the conversation : The threat of 9/11 seems to be

permanent now, the world seems to be changed permanent, permanent

unsafe. More chaos en darkness and paranoia. When you experience

that day in day out, you will eventually ask yourself: How can we

escape from this? How can we forget reality?

 

Mike: Instead of going with this flow of psychosis, you can search

for an evasion. (Coincidence or not in this period mike listened a

lot to the first record of "the polyphonic spree") I thought I

wanted to make something hopeful, optimistic.

 

And so arised the idea for the campfire headphase : they would go

back to the time when there music was "simple" escapism, back to

twoism.

 

Twoism is probably our least political album we made. Its music to

dream with, even if your life isn't great and you hate your job,

when you listen to twoism and carry along with the melodies you will

forget your misery. We tried to create this again with TCH : an

airbubble where you can rise and fly away, away from everything.

 

TCH hasn't got a secret agenda, the only thing it is saying ; Fuck

all this stuff, turn of the news, get away from your shitty job, get

out of town and take some time to think back about your memories,

think about happier periods. Everyone has a great year in his mind,

the best summer of his life. That's our goal: We offer you a window

to the best summer in your life.

 

Marcus: see the album as an appliance, as a timemachine, a private

timemachine. Our music doesn't work in public spaces, she will speak

to one person at a time. Our music is music to listen alone, music

to crawl away, we offer you a safe place.

Mike: A place to go.

 

Mike: Music is for me an escape from gap, when im in a clothing

shop, I think very soon: fucking hell, I could possible strike

someone, I have to get as quick as I can get away from here, back to

my world of fantasy.

 

About orbital:

 

On all orbital records there was written: By hartnoll & hartnoll. We

didn't like that really, we wanted to go anonymous through life and

no stories about the musical family Sandison.

 

We have 2 brothers, they are also making music, one lives in

Australia and the other in London.

 

They have plans for soloprojects, they are negotiating about a

soundtrack of a big movie. They are already started a new BoC album.

They still have a contract for another 3 albums by Warp.

 

Mike: the next album will be for everyone a big shock, nobody is

expecting this from us.

 

There are even some plans for liveshows in spring, but this rumour

was 3 years earlier a fact.

  Archrival said:

boc + vocals = great!!! :grin:

 

I cant see how it could be bad...I mean Broken Drum got all the brilliant BOC elements..excellent intstrumental parts, beautiful reversed guitars and pianos..long instrumental parts and beautiful singing by beck that really fits BOCs music..the ending part (the last 2 min) of that track is pure audio orgasm..it builds and builds..

 

I would love to have vocals on the next one :)

if you like that shit just buy the latest zero 7 album

I dont like Zero 7 :/

  Archrival said:

I dont like Zero 7 :/

 

Zero 7 is great.

  Archrival said:

I dont like Zero 7 :/

then you won't like boc with vocals

Im sure I will like it :grin:

 

Zero 7 have made som decent tracks but I cant see the comparision with BOC at all...

 

All I can say is Borken drum

  Archrival said:

Im sure I will like it :grin:

 

Zero 7 have made som decent tracks but I cant see the comparision with BOC at all...

 

All I can say is Borken drum

what's a borken drum? :laughing:

A song from Boards of Canada with vocals would sound like Satellite Anthem Icarus with Mike's or Marcus' vocals. This would be more country than electronic.

boards of canada are going mainstream, they'll hire some pop princess to do their vocals and throw in more and more guitars

 

 

that's what boc's next album will be like

 

fucking sellouts

boc + vocals = dusty brown