Boards of Canada Music like Boards of Canada

bibio is good if you like boc i think.

marumari was an act that a friend of mine said was like boc, i didn't really like them much but maybe they will click for you like they did for him.

to me early autechre (amber especially) and then certain newer songs seemed to be very much like boc (maybe i'm crazy) and team doyobi makes me think of boc a lot. i find caribou and four tet have a similar "feel" to boc when i listen to them (well at least "in flames" by caribou).

i know these acts are a lot more well known so you might already like them and so if these suggestions are less than helpful or not really what you're looking for, i apologize.

these were in an attempt to mention ones not already listed in this post (i def. agree with the christ comparison for obvious reasons).

  On 10/22/2009 at 10:34 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  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????

he recorded with them on Twoism

(Chris Horne)

  On 10/22/2009 at 1:28 PM, verticalhold said:

  On 10/22/2009 at 10:34 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  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????

 

he recorded with them on Twoism

(Chris Horne)

Oooooh . Thank you , sir .

  On 10/22/2009 at 10:31 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  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

His album art and visual motifs are a little too similar to BoC. I wouldn't call him a complete rip-off either but I'd bet draws from them more than any other artist.

  On 10/22/2009 at 3:41 AM, camoqp said:

  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

His synths and melodies are BoC-esque at times, but the beats are more of that Flying Lotus, "post-dilla" vibe. It's a bit too clean as well. I like it, but I can understand an immense irrational hatred to Lone...much as I have everlasting hate for M.I.A. and Girl Talk.

  On 10/22/2009 at 11:21 PM, joshuatxuk said:

  On 10/22/2009 at 10:31 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  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

 

His album art and visual motifs are a little too similar to BoC. I wouldn't call him a complete rip-off either but I'd bet draws from them more than any other artist.

Eeeexactly .

  On 10/22/2009 at 3:41 AM, camoqp said:

  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

ok name or post a youtube of a really deep intense good lone song that makes me correct my position

maybe I was just hitting the wrong cd

This is rather nice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSQVYaJW6O8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM6blNm3QCM

  On 10/22/2009 at 5:38 AM, Retape said:

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

Lol no it's worst.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyDobcn1TDs

You might be interested in this

Oh my, well I guess it's my turn :D

I've heard all of these on what all of you should know about, the Dronezone. Dronezone is a legit commercial free user supported 24/7 internet radio station that among other things plays ambient music, where I believe I discovered Boards of Canada many years ago. They have many other radio stations that play interesting music that you don't always hear over the airwaves. The other 2 I listen to the most there that are ambient-like are Spacestation Soma, and Mission Control. Going to somafm's main page will allow you to choose to listen to any of the stream via winamp / windows media player or behind a proxy. You can also get your ambient mix over your cellphone, presumably having something with 3g or fast internet on your phone would help there, I havn't tried it yet but hope to when I get my new cellphone. I really think some people will like dronezone if you like ambient music. The best stuff (imho) thats deep chill awesomeness is usually around friday, saturday and sunday night American timezone.

These are some bands I caught listneing to dronezone/spacestation soma sometime and love their amazing relaxing beats. You may recognize the 2nd global communication track, as it was used as one of the song's in gta4's radio, and can be found on the gta4 audio cd if you got that with gta4.

And no ambient music thread would be complete without mentioning Gas - Microscopic.

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For some reason I can't edit my post's anymore...

As I was trying to say, I can't get embeded to work, so here the 3 url's.

Unfortunately 14:31 only have 9 minutes of song from what I can find on youtube, and starts 4 minutes into the song :/ still a great song, you will just have to find the rest includeing the begging on your own :/

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urUo1K5iIkY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTe1-a6Pdo

Principles Of Geometry is awesome !

  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

+1

  On 10/26/2009 at 7:52 PM, troon 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

 

 

 

+1

Try Sensiva's 'Giosun' Album. Sensiva has other things that are just ok, but G!osun will

blow your mind.

Yeah, nothing really does what boc does. there's something else there, besides the music....

Skywave (maybe the closest thing ive heard)

christ. (new album out now)

broken spindles

bibio

bmsr

zombi

kiln

simm

trs-80

early telefon tel aviv?

gerard mcmann

Early Telefon Tel Aviv is way too glitchy to be very boc-like.

  On 10/28/2009 at 1:35 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 10/23/2009 at 12:07 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  On 10/22/2009 at 11:21 PM, joshuatxuk said:

  On 10/22/2009 at 10:31 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  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

 

His album art and visual motifs are a little too similar to BoC. I wouldn't call him a complete rip-off either but I'd bet draws from them more than any other artist.

 

Eeeexactly .

and he has an album called Sunrise Projector lol.

Hahahaha!!! Ok...maybe that's a little too much .

If they only released new music people wouldn't have to resort to second rate rip-offs(though not all of the artist mentioned in here are).

this's a lastfm link, so some of these are nothing like boc which is why you need to...

pick the bones out of this

  On 10/24/2009 at 6:59 PM, CryoKeen said:

The best stuff (imho) thats deep chill awesomeness is usually around friday, saturday and sunday night American timezone.

there's an American time zone? well, alright!!

I can't be arsed to wade through the past 4 pages so I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned but the album Tides by Arovane is very close to the BoC sound and is just a pretty brilliant album overall. Listen to the track Eleventh!, fucking beautiful track, nostalgic and melancholy and all that fun stuff, check it below:

edit: Ignore the pic for this youtube vid lol it has no relation to the music whatsoever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lxsjfwkUks

here's the link to the album on discogs Arovane - Tides

Fibla