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

  kaen said:

oirectine from my friends mix cd he gave me.

interview/article in the sadly departed 'dance' page of the NME circa mid 1998, back when guitars weren't a prerequisite for inclusion.

heard something on John Peel shortly afterward (maybe Roygbiv).

  The CIA said:

interview/article in the sadly departed 'dance' page of the NME circa mid 1998, back when guitars weren't a prerequisite for inclusion.

heard something on John Peel shortly afterward (maybe Roygbiv).

do you remember the issue with LFO on the cover smashing up electric guitars

when NME declared rock music dead forever?

  LUDD said:

  The CIA said:

interview/article in the sadly departed 'dance' page of the NME circa mid 1998, back when guitars weren't a prerequisite for inclusion.

heard something on John Peel shortly afterward (maybe Roygbiv).

 

do you remember the issue with LFO on the cover smashing up electric guitars

when NME declared rock music dead forever?

I would love to have seen that. Not that i think that rock music is dead. Just because i can throw it back in the NME's face... I fucking hate that magazine. Anyway...

I heard music has the right for the first time in 2002. Yadda, yadda, yadda... I love them still... Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Not much more to be said. apart from the fact that they are a great, great band.

  LUDD said:

  The CIA said:

interview/article in the sadly departed 'dance' page of the NME circa mid 1998, back when guitars weren't a prerequisite for inclusion.

heard something on John Peel shortly afterward (maybe Roygbiv).

 

do you remember the issue with LFO on the cover smashing up electric guitars

when NME declared rock music dead forever?

haha, no I guess that was a bit before my time.

Id like to see that BoC article again now though.

I saw them linked to AFX stuff in related searches, etc., then downloaded "Amo Bishop Roden". Listened, then got a min. wage job for 3 days and then bought the discography. :) Fun fun.

i downloaded twoism in 99, glad i did

I was turned on to BOC via a song on a mix tape I recieved in early 1998 from some fella named Todd in Ohio. (while trading through Art Of The Mix)

It was "Smokes Quantity". I carried the tape around that year and traveled around North Carolina constantly. I'd often be on some friend's couch at 3am, stoned, xanaxed-out, drunk and "Smokes Quanitity" was my consistently rewound soundtrack. It was...odd. It just fit.

I made no real attempt to hunt them down and later that year I picked up Matador Records "Everything is Nice" 10th anniversary 3CD comp for, like, 8 bucks. "Roygbiv" was featured on it and I didn't initially make the connection that it was the same band..once I had and realized both tracks really turned me on, I found "Music Has The Right To Children", posthaste.

And ever since...I'm one of you.

i bought music has the right to children at random when i was in high school. i guess the first song i heard was wildlife analysis, but the song that got me to really love boc was telephasic workshop.

  The CIA said:

  LUDD said:

  The CIA said:

interview/article in the sadly departed 'dance' page of the NME circa mid 1998, back when guitars weren't a prerequisite for inclusion.

heard something on John Peel shortly afterward (maybe Roygbiv).

 

do you remember the issue with LFO on the cover smashing up electric guitars

when NME declared rock music dead forever?

 

haha, no I guess that was a bit before my time.

Id like to see that BoC article again now though.

I fuckn hate that magazine too.

The only issue I bought was one back when hail to the thief by radiohead came out. It was an issue all about them. It sucked ass.

"...friend's couch at 3am, stoned, xanaxed-out, drunk..." - losingsoul

...sounds familiar...

  skytree said:

  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?

An excellent Ceasar salad, which I ate at a restaurant with my dad, girlfriend at the time and cousin (whom we'd just picked up from the airport). My girlfriend was wearing a Doors shirt.

 

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

Am i safe in assuming your girlfriend at the time and cousin are two different people? Also, this salad bowl you spoke of, did it come with a wooden fork, or, rather, one of metal or plastic (or bone, for that matter)?

Have you considered that large, wooden bowls might be some sort of harbinger of great change in your life?

  LUDD said:

do you remember the issue with LFO on the cover smashing up electric guitars

when NME declared rock music dead forever?

Yeah, I remember buying that issue. There was the odd thing vaguely worth reading in that load of old bollocks in those days. Hard to believe that it could get worse...

a friend of a friend of hexagon collective gave me tapes of their stuff, too bad i lost them 11 years ago :(

seems I'm one of <all> those who, in my case, got into electronic music at all, because of david firth's animations (salad fingers, also "milkman" - still most superb idmishish animationthingiee which (sadly? partly) is what i see before me when I listen to afx's milkyman)

"An igloo in your mynd" made me paint various strange pictures for several days yes

I've always wanted david firth to do a video on "funny little man" :]

A friend of mine online (in my Quake clan, heh) was the one to introduce me to electronic music, around late 1996. He would send me all sorts of MP3s from his collection. The first Boards of Canada I heard was Pete Standing Alone and Everything You Do Is a Balloon. From there I downloaded the Twoism EP and away I went...

On a CD that came with (I think) NME I bought for a Godspeed track. I was already a big Autechre fan. The Boc track was Roygbiv.

I think I read a review for MHTRTC in Alternative Press (which I don't even usually read - I think I was passing time in the library) and it was their pick of the month and it sounded pretty interesting, so I went and picked it up that day and instantly fell in love. It was definitely one of those life changing albums, there hasn't been anything like it since then. Like what is said about a certain well loved chemical by the brothers, this is a case where BoC found me, I didn't find them.

This guy I liked in one of my history classes had a BoC shirt that he wore on Fridays almost religiously. So, kinda stalkerish I know, I decided to check them out, so I got "In a Beuatiful Place" and absolutely fell in love with the music, and the guy even more! So from then on, I loaded up my CD folder with BoC just in case he ever randomly flipped through it one day. But as the years past and I forgot about the guy, I came to genuinely become a BoC freak. Not the coolest of ways, but it's my story anyway...

i got the promo cd of mhtrtc as a freebie from warpmart in early 98. the rest is history

  plisb said:

seems I'm one of <all> those who, in my case, got into electronic music at all, because of david firth's animations (salad fingers, also "milkman" - still most superb idmishish animationthingiee which (sadly? partly) is what i see before me when I listen to afx's milkyman)

"An igloo in your mynd" made me paint various strange pictures for several days yes

 

I've always wanted david firth to do a video on "funny little man" :]

I partially got into because of that, it sucks though because if i hear a song that he used in one of his animations i picture the animation.

Also, anyone like locust toybox?

  Mugsey said:

On a CD that came with (I think) NME I bought for a Godspeed track. I was already a big Autechre fan. The Boc track was Roygbiv.

I remember that CD too. It had a track on it by non other than WATMM's very own MDK!

first time i heard boards of canada was in salad fingers by david firth, i didn't like it, but i liked his claymations which had aphex twin in them. i got into aphex twin, downloaded about 300 of his tracks on kazaa, and then i started downloading other things like squarepusher, autechre, etc. and i got about 9 boards of canada tracks. i thought they were crap. then about two years later (all i listened to was moby and i wanted new music) so i searched on itunes and heard campfire headphase. so i bought all of their cds.

^_^

"Orange Romeda" off WAP100. 1998. Bought the CD in tower records in Fukuoka Japan. Went to my friends house to listen to the CD, went back to Korea the next day and bought MHTRTC (Matador release) the next week.

Wunderbar!!

Now what I really want from them is the Aquarius 7" and the early stuff on a BoC-set...;)

some time in 2005. bought geogaddi. got pretty much the rest of their stuff since then.

Hmm i don't remember which song I heard, maybe roygbiv on last.fm 2 years ago. This is my first post on this forum, people calls me erik, im from spain and boc are my gods xD

cya guys!