Fake Closes vol 1.

Hi there, I'm new here

about this fake Closes vol. 1, I know it's been told already but the track "Focus on the spiral" (1:39) really sounds like BoC to me. In fact, Before I knew it was fake, it was one of my favourite. Still is.

It was made by a fan apparently, but I don't remember the name. Really good work if it's the case anyway.

  SoylentNight said:

Hi there, I'm new here

about this fake Closes vol. 1, I know it's been told already but the track "Focus on the spiral" (1:39) really sounds like BoC to me. In fact, Before I knew it was fake, it was one of my favourite. Still is. It was made by a fan apparently, but I don't remember the name. Really good work if it's the case anyway.

There are a lot of very convincing fan made tracks out there. Quite often these get passed off as the real thing appearing as downloads apparently from the early releases. Clearly these people don't have much faith that the 'early releases' actually exist either. Otherwise why the hell (interface) would they attempt to delude people with dodgy imitations?! Some people even post tracks from other known Electronic artists & try to pass these off as genuine tracks from the early releases! Off course it's all just fueling our hunger for this stuff, which may or may not even exist. I'd like to think it does really I would. But unfortunately the evidence is to the contrary if you look at the facts.

Except that in the specific case of this fake "Focus on the spiral", I wouldn't call it delusion, cause it actually gave me what I wanted, this particular sound... pretty special situation.

  SoylentNight said:

Except that in the specific case of this fake "Focus on the spiral", I wouldn't call it delusion, cause it actually gave me what I wanted, this particular sound... pretty special situation.

Good for you. But what has this got to do with validity of BoC's early discography?

BoC are probably too wadded to need to (re)release old stuff that in all likelihood ranges in quality from naive to downright fucking awful. Then again, a good while back MDG (who by all accounts is to be trusted) did claim that they were in fact polishing a lot of older stuff. I'm past caring now though, I can live without BoC these days it seems, whether old or new. And Dogboy, unless I've misread your posts you seem to doubt the validity of the three samples posted by mcbpete? He knows what he's on about, and as he said, those samples were evidently up on their site before you (and I) were visiting it.

Anyway, fuck BoC, I'd sooner have the first two christ. albums.

lol

  Caretstik said:

BoC are probably too wadded to need to (re)release old stuff that in all likelihood ranges in quality from naive to downright fucking awful. And Dogboy, unless I've misread your posts you seem to doubt the validity of the three samples posted by mcbpete? He knows what he's on about, and as he said, those samples were evidently up on their site before you (and I) were visiting it.

So Mcbpete is happy those samples are authentic? Well that's cleared that up then By the way, who the hell (interface) is Mcbpete?! (no offence, mate). Don't tell me. Another member of the sacred hexagon network! Those samples sounded pretty good to me. Far from naive to awful. Classic BoC sounding if you ask me. Well, let's just hope I'm completely wrong & they are polishing those old tracks for some sort of re-release. Wadded or not we all want to hear this stuff, if it exists. It would be an important part of the picture as to where BoC came from.

maybe they havent released any because its shockingly bad. i just listened to the 'circles' sample and it sounded like a dying trout experimenting with high volume feedback on a peavey v.

  Caretstik said:

I'm past caring now though, I can live without BoC these days it seems, whether old or new.

Seems like this is an ongoing theme on WATMM. The slow, cold death of the electronic music classics.

  messiaen said:

maybe they havent released any because its shockingly bad. i just listened to the 'circles' sample and it sounded like a dying trout experimenting with high volume feedback on a peavey v.

Be that as it may it still doesn't explain why we've never seen a single copy of the original supposed 50-100+ pressings of the early 'releases'. Someone know different? Let's see the evidence instead of all this hearsay. I mean if it is real then what's the harm in showing it off? Sure it may generate mass hysteria & a near infinite number of requests for a re-press. But this is already happening & we don't even know for sure if they are real!!

Wow! I just played 'Magic Window' backwards & sped up by a factor of 12 & I heard the message - 'All you twats that think we released anything pre-twoism are fu***ng stupid'. Mystery solved. Hooray! :wink2: