Best BOC fakes

Over the years, there have been almost universally horseshit fakes before the release of each album. Occasionally, however you run across some that are incredible. Dave from 2001 had a number of great fake boc tracks that were beautiful in their own right. There were a lot of people back then who wondered if he was somehow connected to BOC. He's not. Just a nice guy from Alaska.

For those of you who weren't around at the time, I give you the lovely work of Dave from 2001:

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I remember a few of these but the only ones I ever fell for were Plotkin70 and Robot Analysis.

I'd also heard Plotkin70 as 'Treeline'.

I'd also add 'Royal Observer Corps Among The Norfolk Dunes' by July Skies. This band don't really do electronica except for this one rather old and lovely piece (especially on headphones).

http://www.last.fm/music/July+Skies/_/Royal+Observer+Corps+Amoungst+The+Norfolk+Dunes

It used to crop up a lot on various file-serving services (circa 2001), obviously mislabelled as BOC.

I find the whole fake stuff fascinating. Over the years, there have been some real gems that really deserved proper recognition in their own right.

Yeah Plotkin70 was being passed around as the BOC track Treeline from Closes Vol. 1. So then it became known as "mistaken for Treeline". The real name is Plotkin70.

DronusbolonusMaximus is amazning.

the beatless noodles are somewhat convincingly BoCish but as soon as he tries beats i'm afraid he's exposed as a charlatan.

  On 5/24/2013 at 2:39 PM, LOL Alzado said:

bump because I picked the wrong day to post this

the wrong day/month/year!! fuck fake boc when we have the real deal.

  On 5/24/2013 at 3:30 PM, keltoi said:

the beatless noodles are somewhat convincingly BoCish but as soon as he tries beats i'm afraid he's exposed as a charlatan.

 

agreed. plotkin is the only one that is a dead ringer.

but aside from how convincing they might be, there are some pretty nice tracks there. they're full of detail.

aye they're definitely nice enough but i can only admire them so far.

Not a fake, but a song I once did that was inspired by BOC is here:

It was done in about as long as it took me to record it.

As much as I hate relegating him to BoCalike status, Ciaran Byrne's music is undeniably informed by their aesthetic...

I can hear a Pete Standing Alone vibe in this one in particular... The ending is fucking gorgeous.

A lot of the TCH fakes were actually Freescha tracks as I recall... They are fantastic and really doing their own thing with this style of downtempo as far as I'm concerned...

I'd be really pissed off if I were Freescha and people were passing around my stuff as fake BOC.

Freescha are an amazing band in their own right and a lot of their stuff is up there with BOC.

  On 5/27/2013 at 8:52 AM, fumi said:

Freescha are an amazing band in their own right and a lot of their stuff is up there with BOC.

yeah i'm gonna go ahead and so no to that

yeah, Freescha fine and all but not even close

has there been a proper release for the dave from 2001 tracks that can be bought/downloaded somewhere?

really like robotanalysis...

  On 5/27/2013 at 8:46 PM, joew said:

has there been a proper release for the dave from 2001 tracks that can be bought/downloaded somewhere?

really like robotanalysis...

No

Does anyone know who the fake point hope was by? I read it was supposed to be a mislabeled mum track, then I literally listened to every single mum track and i couldn't find it. So if it's not mum and its not BOC I would really like to know who it is because I love it. Track time is 7:15. It's not the Peter Serafinowicz track.

indeed, some fakes are stellar.

atanachroon is one example definitely.

great thread; think i alluded to this in a post a couple of weeks ago that new boc releases usually surface in some pretty rad fakes :)

there have been bugger all fakes for TH though, really

this release strategy wasn't really amenable to fakes. the old "make an announcement and then wait 3 months" release strategy was just begging for fakes.

Listening to the Dave from 2001 tracks above, I regret even calling them fakes. They're just great tracks with an obvious indebtedness to boc.

  On 5/27/2013 at 9:06 PM, MIXL2 said:

 

  On 5/27/2013 at 8:46 PM, joew said:

has there been a proper release for the dave from 2001 tracks that can be bought/downloaded somewhere?

really like robotanalysis...

 

  On 5/27/2013 at 9:40 PM, LOL Alzado said:

No

They are truly lovely tracks, same with the Ciaran Byrne one posted.

  On 5/25/2013 at 3:18 AM, heath said:

Not a fake, but a song I once did that was inspired by BOC is here:

 

http://heathfinnie.com/Music_files/mcd1.mp3

 

It was done in about as long as it took me to record it.

I liked the bit around 1/4 into the track a lot - the auto-tube baby thing cracked me up though

  On 5/25/2013 at 6:19 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

As much as I hate relegating him to BoCalike status, Ciaran Byrne's music is undeniably informed by their aesthetic...

 

I can hear a Pete Standing Alone vibe in this one in particular... The ending is fucking gorgeous.

 

Wow. That's really, really nice. As you say, the ending is just awesome.

If I heard that without knowing otherwise, I'd think it was Boards for sure.

http://redmorningchorus.bandcamp.com/track/how-to-build-an-igloo

http://youtu.be/nnbvDdY_dBw

This has been up for weeks as a fake but title changed at some point