Boards of Canada Music like Boards of Canada

Hello, I am a newbie :D Be gentle on me please XD

Been reading the forum on and off for about a year, figured I should make a post. I love the sounds of Boards of Canada, I often find myself walking around my town and having a nostalgic moment and have some boc song segment looping in my head, despite not wearing any headphones.

So I was wondering what music you all might recommend that was like boc, in that it's ambient/electronic and kind of gives you that nostalgic awesome relaxed effect. I found this list on wiki that I am going through, otherwise I would be grateful for any recommendations any of you all might have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambient_artists

Edit: Meant to put a question mark in the title of my thread oops. If an op could add that that would be cool.

try this topic: http://forum.watmm.com/topic/20891-boc-clones-similar-artists/page__view__findpost__p__428559__fromsearch__1

definitely listen to Christ. his music is not only similar to boc, but at one point he also worked with them and actually WAS involved in the band at the very beginning. in my opinion his best albums are blue shift emissions, bike, and has a new one coming out very soon. also check out fieldtriqp for something similar

also try helios

helios radio ( http://www.last.fm/music/Helios/+similar?page=1 and http://www.last.fm/music/Helios/+similar?page=1 ) is also a good point to start as the last.fm boards of canada radio is playing mostly known artists

maybe philip jeck or william basinski for the nostalgic/decay feelings.

Wow, that's a long list. Good luck. Of a similar ilk i quite like Isan's Plans Drawn In Pencil, Howie B's Music For Babies and Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear but i think at the end of the day you gotta find your own shit.

What i like about BoC is that they sound like nothing else. They take elements of different genres (inc. electronica, ambient, shoegazer, krautrock),mix it in with a 70's nostalgia feel, and create their own hybrid music form.

They also have the ability to take a catchy pop rhythm and distort it to make it, on one hand uncommercial, but at the same time quite easy listening. In this respect i find they sound like Revolver era Beatles, early Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground and MBV. Genius's, the lot.

  On 10/19/2009 at 2:09 PM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 10/19/2009 at 1:39 PM, chax said:

definitely listen to Christ. his music is not only similar to boc, but at one point he also worked with them and actually WAS involved in the band at the very beginning. in my opinion his best albums are blue shift emissions, bike, and has a new one coming out very soon. also check out fieldtriqp for something similar

holy shit for some reason it never clicked with me that christ. was the extra guy credited in twoism.

This is from his album 'An Hour Brighter'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annPRaFW-Nw

I think good post-rock can have the same nostaligic familiar vibe to it (sigur ros, mogwai, mono, etc.) but like everyone else pointed out, BoC just has such a distinct sound of diverse influences.

There are a lot of BoC ripoffs, some tolerable but just annoying as hell in unorginality (sorry Tyhco).

Personally I'd recommend World's End Girlfriend, he dabbles in a lot and it's more glitchy, drill n' bass and even j-pop sounding, but heavy on layered, natural sound based on sampling and manipulation. If you like rock/alternative beyond post-rock old classic emo/slowcore stuff from the 90s is good. (Appleseed Cast for example).

Oh and there's Black Moth Super Rainbow of course. They sound is more like happy psych-acid-rock sampling 80s stuff instead of 70s. But that's the whole point, BoC has no equivalent sounding artist and that's how it should be.

You also might look into 60s and 70s underground psych and prog, with all of its distored guitars, synths and folksy influences. Some is great and other stuff was forgotton for a reason, but it's always interesting if not straight up wierd. I wouldn't jump on stuff like Mum or anything, I don't think it's dark enough to compare to BoC.

Lone.

I highly recommend Dupe's ep on Earstroke (it's free):

http://www.earstroke.com/EAR013.html

Ah this Christ guy is alright!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1WQuY3ALQ

  On 10/20/2009 at 10:07 AM, Otto Krat said:

Lone.

I hate them

also check out the advisory circle and belbury poly

Thank you people! Lots of great links all over, going to take me a while to listen to them all!

And yeah I do think part of the thing is that boc has this nostalgic sound that no one else can quite make. But that's their beauty :D

I would recommend you check out Secret Frequency Crew, Forest of the Echo Downs is an amazing album.

I've also taken a few recos from this thread and the one linked above, so thanks.

Can't go wrong with TYCHO, son.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD5MVMIRJ0

MORE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ep6YINlWcI

  On 10/19/2009 at 12:37 PM, CryoKeen said:

Hello, I am a newbie :D Be gentle on me please XD

 

Been reading the forum on and off for about a year, figured I should make a post. I love the sounds of Boards of Canada, I often find myself walking around my town and having a nostalgic moment and have some boc song segment looping in my head, despite not wearing any headphones.

 

So I was wondering what music you all might recommend that was like boc, in that it's ambient/electronic and kind of gives you that nostalgic awesome relaxed effect. I found this list on wiki that I am going through, otherwise I would be grateful for any recommendations any of you all might have.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambient_artists

 

Edit: Meant to put a question mark in the title of my thread oops. If an op could add that that would be cool.

beno?

  On 10/20/2009 at 1:32 PM, o00o said:

  On 10/20/2009 at 10:07 AM, Otto Krat said:

Lone.

 

 

I hate them

It's one guy and you are kidding correct? In regards to comparing his music to BoC: they do not sound alike I could see his first album maybe in some aspect but beyond that.......the fuck

lemurian is like a hiphop version of BoC. only crappier and annoying to listen to.

Christ.

Casino Vs. Japan

Freescha

Tycho

Lone

Keaver & Brause

the dandelion council

Luga

geskia

  On 10/22/2009 at 3:16 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

what the fuck? that tycho guy is like a direct rip-off

:angry:

LOL I wouldn't say he's a direct rip off. His stuff seems to be a bit more heavy on drum usage , and his tracks are A LOT faster .

He just got that classic BOC lo-fi synth sound

  On 10/20/2009 at 10:21 AM, verticalhold said:

Ah this Christ guy is alright!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1WQuY3ALQ

I'm loving Christ . I think I've heard of him before though .

Did he use to work with Boards Of Canada , or something????