Boards of Canada VHS HEAD [is NOT BoC]

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So no one really knows who VHS Head is. And as with these maybe/maybe-not "disguised" artists, half the fun of listening is trying to figure out whose giant green head is floating behind the curtain. We know VHS Head hails from Blackpool, his debut EP Video Club just dropped on the Manchester-based electronic label Skam, and that Club's "Rent Responsibly"-- an Art of Noise-inspired chunk of chop-and-splice funhouse funk-- is ostensibly more engaging than the discussion surrounding the identity of it's creator. Apparently using "video tape as the primary sound source" from a "vast amount of ex-rental videos" (says a blurb over at recordstore.co.uk), VHS Head is able to pick from a platter of archival noises and vocal samples that, on "Rent Responsibly", run in range from a sort of gooey familiarity (plush keyboard arpeggios, tubular bass noodling) to stuff that sounds dredged from some weird mechanical nightmare (industrial-hard plinks and plunks, creeped-out sci-fi synth tones). There's even a neat little narrative that appears, as the locked-in groove finally short-circuits under the weight of all that clanking and whirring, played like the final mad charge of a very paranoid android. It might be a little surprising to learn that current speculation revolves around VHS Head actually being a pseudonym-cloaked member of Boards of Canada, so a few more listens might be in order here. Please be kind, rewind.

via bocpages and http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11559-rent-responsibly/

I personally don't believe it

I don't believe that either. But it sure is one hell of a release!

the melodies sound so poor and soulless in comparison to boc

Never in a million years. I find Neil Scrivin more plausible. Besides, the Sandisons aren't the only musicians currently knocking about who were young in the 80s I'm sure, they don't have the monopoly on everything that's even vaguely nostalgic.

  On 10/14/2009 at 10:19 PM, o00o said:

the melodies sound so poor and soulless in comparison to boc

joke?

Probably not, but if it'll sell a few more copies on the back of this rumour (and it will) then good luck to the boys at Skams promotion department.

Very unlikely that this is BoC. Honestly, I really don't care who it is. The music is good and that's what matters.

anybody see read the pitchfork track review of it yet ? kind of funny to see it land on there. this album inspires me to go sampling on some of my old VHS tapes. I've been sampling stuff from DVDs on the computer but obviously i'm not getting that dithered high pitched whine effect that IS REQUIRED

i'd be shocked if it were BoC, doesn't really sound anything like them to me. Now, Team Doyobi i'd believe, but not BoC

  On 10/15/2009 at 1:20 AM, fox said:

i'd be shocked if it were BoC, doesn't really sound anything like them to me. Now, Team Doyobi i'd believe, but not BoC

same, hey everybody i'm posting in the BOC subforum!

lol, only reasons for people to think that are: SKAM + the term "VHS" lol.

fuck, as a joke but also as a factual statistic I'd say this is more likely Hudson Mohawke than BoC.

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http://www.recordstore.co.uk//productdetail.jsp?productPK=unittest-2GCAiWtLNBI3RR1jqN3IEb-1

Blackpool based artist VHS Head began making music in 1999.

So yeah, I doubt this is BoC somehow ....

  On 10/15/2009 at 12:55 PM, mcbpete said:

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http://www.recordstore.co.uk//productdetail.jsp?productPK=unittest-2GCAiWtLNBI3RR1jqN3IEb-1

Blackpool based artist VHS Head began making music in 1999.

So yeah, I doubt this is BoC somehow ....

haha thanks for ruining EVERYTHING

  On 10/15/2009 at 12:24 AM, Awepittance said:

anybody see read the pitchfork track review of it yet ? kind of funny to see it land on there. this album inspires me to go sampling on some of my old VHS tapes. I've been sampling stuff from DVDs on the computer but obviously i'm not getting that dithered high pitched whine effect that IS REQUIRED

lol

Is pitchfork any good these days anyway? they seem to suck big time recently

Totally false - someone else tried to imply this awhile back as well...

Are BoC doing the production or distribution? I'm not trying to be rude, I want a genuine answer.

As far as I know, BoC have no involvement in this...

  On 10/15/2009 at 12:24 AM, Awepittance said:

anybody see read the pitchfork track review of it yet ? kind of funny to see it land on there. this album inspires me to go sampling on some of my old VHS tapes. I've been sampling stuff from DVDs on the computer but obviously i'm not getting that dithered high pitched whine effect that IS REQUIRED

it's a cool sound, i also like the blank spaces,. makes it all disjointed and nonhorrorvacuiy

eh, i retract that last statement. this person definitely does have cenophobia in his music, but the spacing helps

I bet that rumor is just an internet skam.

  On 10/21/2009 at 5:50 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

I bet that rumor is just an internet skam.

lol

i kinda feel bad for whoever VHS head actually is. fucking retarded pitchfork. But yeah like the CIA said, it's sure to sell more copies now. I heard a rumor that it is actually Kris Blacow, who is his friend on myspace (lol). anyone have any info on this guy?