Boards of Canada How you were first turned on to BOC and your first song

i think its a pretty good topic considering nobody just randomly hears a BOC song from the radio and its not exactly a band you turn your friends on to. BOC is a more of a band that blindsides you on some idled tuesday night at 3:00 AM.

I actually found them on wikipedia 'cause a friend was trying to explain to me how exactly the genre "electronic music" works. At first I was skeptical about the genre after hearing his lame explanation as a "Genre that has no boundaries".. i thought that was pretty retarded so I looked it up and read about the genre, and saw band recomendations. First band that caught my eye was boards of canada, clicked the link. Read about 'em alittle bit. And grabbed the song "Alpha and Omega".. after hearing that song I immediately fell in love with the genre as well as the band.

i randomly heard a boc song on the radio about 10 years ago

and then i turned my friends on to them

sorry

i found them in 1998, i saw the album in hmv, i thought to myself "thats an odd cover artwork". brought it home and thats how the love affair started really.

the way they wanted it to be. :grin:

winmx

Longtime forum patron Demain/Heir IM'ed me a MP3 of Orange Romeda in 1999, then sent me MHTRTC for Christmas. Never been the same since.

I downloaded the tune "Pete Standing Alone" back in 2000, during a late, unforgotten, night-time internet ramble. Subsequently, I listened to the tune nearly every day for the next few months, until I picked up my first copy of MHTRTC (from the Sam Goody in the Mall of America, which is the largest shopping mall in North America...not the most appropriate spot, but I remember the exact moment I picked it up, along with what I had for lunch that day, even).

After that, I played the album a few times but honestly didn't understand it at first, and ended up shelving it for almost three months. Fortunately, I came to my senses after a while and started warming to it, which inevitably lead to getting all of their albums and being a walking repository (almost wrote "suppository" by mistake...this would have changed the context significantly) of BoC trivia.

I pirated their entire discography one time by accident, then I was too lazy to delete all the files.

And now I'm here.

I heard Beware the Friendly Stranger in Salad Fingers, haha!

i think i found them through all music

guide though i do not remember who

theyd crossreferenced then i went and

bought mhtrtc so i think the first track

i heard by them was wildlife analysis.

yeah I randomly got "Everything you do is a balloon" and i fucking loved it, so I bought Geogaddi, and at first I didn't like Geogaddi, but then I listened again, and realized it was fucking brilliant, then i just started listening to the rest.

still not turned on to them, but the first i heard of them was their remix of Prime audio Soup back in 98

oirectine from my friends mix cd he gave me.

I had read a bunch of reviews of other albums which referred to BoC around the time MHtRtC came out. Eventually bought it. Didn't so much like it at first but it grew on me (it's still not my favorite release by them). Everything You Do Is A Balloon is the track that really sucked me in.

  skytree said:

largest shopping mall in North America...not the most appropriate spot, but I remember the exact moment I picked it up, along with what I had for lunch that day, even).

yeah . . . so . . . what did you have for lunch, then?

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warming to it, which inevitably lead to getting all of their albums and being a walking repository (almost wrote "suppository" by mistake...this would have changed the context significantly) of BoC trivia.

actually i suspect that albums by cher turn people into walking suppositories, but i don't have conclusive proof of that yet.

I got MHTRTC on allofmp3 during my electronic music-buying spree. I liked it. Then I got Geogaddi and got really bored with the sound. Then I got TCH and by then I was ready to not hear any BOC whatsoever anymore.

my friend mark got geogaddi about the time it came out and i heard it with him and was not really into it, i found it strange and disorienting at the time, but like a lot of people are saying came around to it somehow and now am a fan of their music.

I first heard Turquoise Hexagon Sun on a net radio station called MonkeyRadio (think it still exists?) and it really stuck out because (a) it didn't sound like the rest of the triphop on the station and (b) I found it to be both incredibly beautiful and sad at the same time. To this day it's still one of my favorite tracks.

online radiostations.. first track was probably june 9th or turqoise hexagon sun

Turned on? I got an erection after listening to roygbiv, and told myself "Wow so it works!"

  fox said:

  skytree said:

largest shopping mall in North America...not the most appropriate spot, but I remember the exact moment I picked it up, along with what I had for lunch that day, even).

yeah . . . so . . . what did you have for lunch, then?

Also, the salad came in a huge wooden bowl. It's important I mention that.

Growing up as a Radiohead fan when I was 11 (6 yrs ago), that's all i listened to.. sigur ros. air. dj shadow. brian eno.. other good music. Well... I had heard of BoC for years. Until one day (the beginning of this last summer, June) I purchased Left Side Drive. I purchased it b/c it was supposedly the most popular song on iTunes. I couldn't stop drumming to it on my drumset. I loved it. The beat is awesome. Then, (three months later after my trip to Oregon) I purchased Trans Canada Highway & The Campfire Headphase. I was literally blown away. I had been going through some tough adversities and drastic changes in my life this past year or so. Everything clicked, speechless from tears from the coumpound eye. But Dayvan Cowboy didn't click on first listen, which is interesting now that i think of it (it was hard, what they were doing, but it worked). Then IABPOITC. wow.

Then I got into a lot of other stuff. Poppy Seed on first listen, I will never forget that moment, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Music is Math means a lot. A while later Whitewater (who i thought was David Koresh speaking b/c i heard of him in their music n stuff, n the branch davidians, & i thought it was a taped recording of one of his speeches to his followers, at one instance i thought he was saying "whoever is proud should be killed." (which i personally believe, maybe, that thats what BoC intended to do, mix it so it sounded like that. But i found out later that its a sesame street clip/vignette with a kid who really says "...and there's a proud me too." ..different me's, different you's.

More recently MHTRTC. i cant stop listening to pete standing alone/an eagle in your mind. Just now Geogaddi, and i have some strong interest/personal stuff about this album. They're all great. i'm dying to buy IABPOITC, b/c its a perfect mix. Zoetrope makes life better, i realised yesterday...

I'm not trying to say this, to be the 'biggest' fan of boc, but i don't have anything (much) else to listen to right now... honestly, i don't find any interest w/ autechre or aphex twin. no need to offend.

lol

While in college a friend introduced me to both BoC and sweet sweet mary jane. One day he sat me down and put on a mixed cd which he said "would alter my life". On that cd was Kid For Today along with some Neotropic, LTJ Bukem, and Air. I never liked music that didnt have a guitar in it but that day I found a whole new world of music.

Kid For Today stuck out to me. It reminded me of my youth, of old commercials and lazy afternoons in the summer. I know that that statement is echoed quite a bit among BoC fans, but its true.

After that I went out and bought everything I could get my hands on.

And out of all the bands I enjoy, BoC is at the top, just a bit above Megadeth :) Go figure.

I had heard of Boards of Canada From David Firths Website on the Salad Fingers and Scribbler Cartoons.

I had heard some Aphex Twin and liked him a lot, so I set out to find more electronic music.

At a music store I saw The Campfire Headphase and Decided to buy it, along with Datach'i's WeAreAlwaysWellThankYou Album. Ever since then I've loved Electronic music and BOC.

when i was in high school i heard a couple of mix cds with tracks from maxima, it seemed to have a bigger impact on me then than it does now

i mean they are all great albums but its definitely not anytime music imo

man i haven't been to the subforums for a while ... who are these people? lol

first heard roygbiv on a mix cd in 1998 ... only vaguely impressed. then found iabpoitc in a record store in tampa, in 2001, for like $5 and so figured i'd buy it, since they were on the same label as autechre (who i'd just been getting heavily into); and so i was driving back to clearwater, in spring 2001, with the windows down, and then 'kid for today' started and i was hooked forever. i honestly still think about this day, fondly