public service broadcasting - roygbiv

apologies if this is old news but i just heard this track on radio 6 music and had to look them up...

it's yet another Boc aesthetic rip-off and therefore imo not worthy of a thread in the Boc forum...

although the music is more like lemon-jelly or avalanches it's clear they've directly ripped all but the BoC sound. the name of the band, the name of their track, the imagery, look and feel of their video all come directly from Boc 'language'...

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i'm not particularly bothered... i just wonder why such blatant plagiarism? is it just lazyness? homage?

can anyone argue that this isn't plagiarism? tycho maybe? (jus' kidding)

ps. i actually quite like it.

i can't really say there's a bad tune among the stuff i've heard and obviously sonically nothing like boc...

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BoC certainly weren't the first band to tap into the nostalgia of the 70's and 80's... and this stuff sounds nothing like BoC. Not bad though.

but afaik they were the first to name themselves after a public service film board and have a track called roygbiv.

but like you (and i already) said they sound nothing like BoC and public service announcements have always been ripe for sampling... although a whole album of it could get boring.

Bump. NPR is doing a full-stream of their work. Don't hate it but man, you'd think this author (been at NPR since 1988) would of researched a bit more. The tone of the article makes it seem like this is really fresh and new style wise.

To me they just look and sound like the Disclosure equivalents of hauntology. I had to comment just to mention Ghost Box Music, because this just sounds like that general ethos and aesthetic watered down and made poppier. I usually don't get all cynical and pissy but I feel like this is one hell of a coincidence if they aren't aware of Ghost Box and their peers...

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/10/243758531/first-listen-public-service-broadcasting-inform-educate-entertain

Id hardly call it plagiarism. The track sounds nothing like BOC, and asaik boards are not they only ones that remember the 70s.

I think BOC plagiarized ROYGBIV, I believe the spectrum had it first.

  On 2/9/2012 at 5:35 PM, keltoi said:

but afaik they were the first to name themselves after a public service film board and have a track called roygbiv.

 

but like you (and i already) said they sound nothing like BoC and public service announcements have always been ripe for sampling... although a whole album of it could get boring.

im just gonna go ahead and say it, Who gives a shit? I mean, come the fuck on already. Everyone pulls this same goddamned card from Arovane to Freescha to Casino vs. Japan to Tycho to the end of fucking time. IT DOESNT MATTER. You even admitted, the sound of these guys is more like Lemon Jelly than BoC, so you are choosing to complain over a name? A name which, by the way, existed prior to Boards of Canada and their throwback pastiche electronica? Since when does BoC get a monopoly over all similar visual or audio techniques? Maybe whoever made John Carpenter soundtracks is posting thread after thread in some obscure corner of the internet bashing on Tomorrow's Harvest.

Im so tired of this crap. If you want to posture and tell people that like this stuff that BoC did it first, fine. But the reasoning for harping on their band name and using "roygbiv" while sounding absolutely nothing like BoC is utterly ridiculous.

Sorry if I sound nasty about it but this type of thing is really, really petty, and reminds me of those old farts from back in the punk days arguing over which Joy Division concert bootleg was superior.