is it still bad form to wonder aloud what the deal with boc is?

  On 12/22/2012 at 3:12 AM, Cryptowen said:

  On 12/22/2012 at 1:25 AM, sirch said:

  On 12/20/2012 at 12:11 AM, Cryptowen said:

 

funnily enough, I recently heard somebody saying that people were doing like all of these things before BoC came along..??

hahaha, I mean, I know..! idiots, right?

BoC invented all of these things. we knows this.

this guy

i never claimed they invented it, just that they're probably (partially) responsible for the current popularity of those things being used in a specific combination

lol. current popularity. specific combination. haha

also, I know you didn't. i'm just taking the piss you guy.

  On 12/22/2012 at 6:02 AM, ambermonk said:

  On 12/22/2012 at 5:54 AM, LOL Alzado said:

Kind of cool to think of a band that is so fucking dope that they release albums in glacial time. there's nothing more boc than the slow passage of time over eons.

 

That's pretty much what Seefeel did. They took 15 years to release their next album after CH-VOX.

Well Seefeel broke up in the 90s, then there were the Scala (with Seefeel members) records on Touch, then Seefeel reformed later with 2 new members on Warp while Boards of Canada are almost silent for years. Very different with AFX : since Drukqs, Richard James put out the Smojphace ep, Analord 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, the split ep with LFO, 2 Tuss records & he's DJing.

& i'm not even comparing with bands like Autechre or Emeralds (check out their outputs on Discogs).

Pretty weird what is happening to Boards of Canada...

k h o v is right about this: there's a relevant disanalogy between BoC and Seefeel here. The general understanding was the Seefeel was broken up. That was information that the fans had at the time. Their recent album was announced because two of the original members decided to use the name for their new project with two other people. That's hardly comparable to some trolls running a facebook page "liking" questions that fans post on the band's page, or a representative of the band frequently visiting an unaffiliated, unofficial message board (two of them, now that I think about it), reassuring everyone that the album will be out by the end of the year (two years ago). It's not like Seefeel had a website where five years into their silence, they post a black box, which the fans (justifiably, given past practices) interpreted as an upcoming release, but then the band said virtually nothing about it for an indefinite period of time.

  On 12/22/2012 at 6:06 PM, k h o v said:

  On 12/22/2012 at 6:02 AM, ambermonk said:

  On 12/22/2012 at 5:54 AM, LOL Alzado said:

Kind of cool to think of a band that is so fucking dope that they release albums in glacial time. there's nothing more boc than the slow passage of time over eons.

 

That's pretty much what Seefeel did. They took 15 years to release their next album after CH-VOX.

Well Seefeel broke up in the 90s, then there were the Scala (with Seefeel members) records on Touch, then Seefeel reformed later with 2 new members on Warp while Boards of Canada are almost silent for years. Very different with AFX : since Drukqs, Richard James put out the Smojphace ep, Analord 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, the split ep with LFO, 2 Tuss records & he's DJing.

& i'm not even comparing with bands like Autechre or Emeralds (check out their outputs on Discogs).

Pretty weird what is happening to Boards of Canada...

maybe they were never really that talented in the first place? I mean, maybe they're just a bit of a 'one trick pony', ?

maybe that really is it now and there'll be no more because they just don't have anything else to give and they're done... maybe.

just sayin.

who cares. it's gonna be chinese democracy by boc anyway...

BoC To Do List:

1. Shit.

2. Get off the pot.

... ... fart

Marcus: Hey, that's sounds great! Let me record that!

*fart*

aaaaand BoC goes brostep.

making quirky nostalgic dark trip hop inspired music doesn't seem like it would shape up to be a majorly fulfilling main focus in life. i am sure these guys operate a few taco del mar franchises or some other small business that affords them the luxery of extended travels to thailand where they can exercise their talents for bribing public officials and manipulating street hookers into complicated games of cat and mouse.

  On 12/23/2012 at 7:44 AM, RadarJammer said:

making quirky nostalgic dark trip hop inspired music doesn't seem like it would shape up to be a majorly fulfilling main focus in life. i am sure these guys operate a few taco del mar franchises or some other small business that affords them the luxery of extended travels to thailand where they can exercise their talents for bribing public officials and manipulating street hookers into complicated games of cat and mouse.

This made me jizz.

But yea If I could make quirky nostalgic dark trip-hop for a living, and not have to work my shitty ass job? Yea, I'd do that in a second. I think anyone would. The brothers have realized though that trying to support families and live off a music career is unstable. If you want to support a family- having to go out on tour and sell yourself to fans to bring home cheese is not something everyone could do and ultimately would destroy what you have built.

I like to get stoned and think about the passage of time over eons

  On 12/22/2012 at 1:16 AM, sirch said:

  On 12/20/2012 at 12:03 AM, Friendly Foil said:

I don't care anymore. It'll never live up to the hype anyways.

 

this.

 

they've left it too long. now they'll have to wait until next decade and until everybody, including LOL Alzado, is way passed caring and has completely forgotten who they are, and then suddenly out-of-the-blue suprise everybody. then there will be no expectation. innit.

Why do they have to follow your forced timeline of things and why do you think "everyone" will forget who they are? Their music, like all good music I enjoy, is timeless to me. I don't have any particular sense of the time it was released in, it doesn't matter. If BOC puts out an album in 2016, great, I will check it out, and I will care, because their earlier albums are special to me.

I just don't get this rushed feeling, as if every year something isn't released, there is a feeling lost or something fading. That kind of pressure sucks. At minimum it shouldn't affect the 'care' level or anticipation when new music comes out.

I don't see why we can't just have a simple official update, regardless of the news. I mean, they're not obligated to give us an update, but it would be courteous considering how many people have supported their music over the years. Same thing applies to RDJ. If they're done releasing new music, why can't they just say it?

Music Has the Right to Children - Morning

Geogaddi - Noon

The Campfire Headphase - Dusk

Black Box - Night

Does the Sun rise again?

ooh, color me intrigued Mr. Ansuulim

so if I understand you correctly, then the previous albums represent a single day with a rest period (night), which means we have approximately 49,275 BoC albums to look forward to!! (given that the Bros Sandison can conservatively expect to have at least 45 yrs of productive work left x 365 days per year x 3 albums per "day").

Fantastic news!!!

(also hai Marcus)

The reason why people cling to the belief that there will be a new album is that there was no closure from Warp and that blasted black box on their site

I mean, I bet there will eventually be a new album. Even people/bands that officially go on hiatus usually do something eventually. People who love making music that much generally don't stop.

I still wonder. I just don't bother coming on here to wonder out loud, as it's a total waste of fucking time.

You won't unearth anything new by doing so.

  On 12/20/2012 at 4:46 PM, Joyrex said:

Trans Canada Highway (2007). At least Boards last LP was 2004,

trans canada highway may 29 2006

campfire headphase oct 17 2005

first track from the blax bloc mixtape

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjldHWcWgLw&feature=player_detailpage

The more i think about it, the more it seems they're literally dead. Like they died in a car crash or something. Wouldn't Warp inform us tho?

  Joyrex said:

  oscillik said:

 

  Joyrex said:

Also, let this give a small, small, glimmer of hope for those thinking that this late in the year there couldn't be an announcement about a new BoC release...

The autechre album isn't being released until March.

 

an announcement of a BoC album now would mean a release sometime next year, not this year.

 

 

 

I think it's a safe assumption people would be overjoyed if WARP announced an album, even it it wasn't out until next... October?

not completely sure what this post meant but

FALL 2013

FAIL 2013 is more like it.

the holts as we know it sits close to sea

the fallen bolders old ruins and cliffs

all atop of the sanctus

high above the sea

a safe place on all counts

a great place (the sanctus duh)

it is a part of him

she leaves us to look if the animals are with him

the stones are evenly spaced

about five minutes of haha

consider yourself a fool to let her pass us by

all the appetites

i love you

did you did did you did you

  On 12/27/2012 at 10:39 PM, pattern recognition said:

  On 12/20/2012 at 4:46 PM, Joyrex said:

Trans Canada Highway (2007). At least Boards last LP was 2004,

trans canada highway may 29 2006

campfire headphase oct 17 2005

Whoops, sorry - you're right. Still!

maybe they lost their hearing

still tweaking