Boards of Canada Old BoC bio

I was doing some archive diving yesterday and I came across this old Boards of Canada biography from Matador's old site, which I had never seen before. It's another Goderich-produced piece and it's the longest one I've seen, with a lot of information on the pre-pre-pre-Twoism days. Very interesting read.

Wow, great read. I could only imagine what all of that old stuff sounds like.

Very nice find. Damn I want them to release that box set!

Interesting that it mentions a full length Hexagon Sun collective film was in the works, I wonder if that's what these videos are leading up to.

awesome find ... we need more threads like this in the subforums!

also, lol:

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BOC's second album on Warp will be released in 1999.

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At another all-weekend gig Michael consumed a large amount of Pro-Plus and performed a six-hour drum solo onstage from 1am to 7am.

"a sinister story of a road journey into the patterns on a peacock's tail."

hello! sounds like the story of the campfire headphase has been around for 18 years!

thanks a lot, yeah its old and most of us have read that ages ago but anyway thanks :)

interesting :)

"The Hexagon Sun collective promises to deliver a large film project in 2-3 years."

  crazymonk said:

"a sinister story of a road journey into the patterns on a peacock's tail."

 

hello! sounds like the story of the campfire headphase has been around for 18 years!

Yeah, I noticed that too. There's also fodder for those like me who believe the upcoming Redmoon event in the Pentland hills will be the real deal:

"In the summer of 1995 the band and their friends christened their studio in the Pentland Hills "Hexagon Sun", and the collective have continued their work on recordings, films and gatherings from this location. (Every year in the spring and summer Hexagon Sun hosts various small rural music gatherings, which attract many local heads.)"

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At another all-weekend gig Michael consumed a large amount of Pro-Plus and performed a six-hour drum solo onstage from 1am to 7am.

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a sinister story of a road journey into the patterns on a peacock's tail.

cool

i forgot about The Cosmic Crofter. anyone have more info on him?

He was the guy who ran the old BoC EHX site before it went offically to music70.com/boardsofcanada.com. All the discog stuff there (the pre-Twoism stuff) was from his personal collection.

  Joyrex said:

He was the guy who ran the old BoC EHX site before it went offically to music70.com/boardsofcanada.com. All the discog stuff there (the pre-Twoism stuff) was from his personal collection.

Not exactly. Here's Crofter's original explanation above the pre-Twoism discography. It's not explicit but it sounds to me that he simply got the information from BoC and that even he has not heard them.

  LOL Alzado said:

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At another all-weekend gig Michael consumed a large amount of Pro-Plus and performed a six-hour drum solo onstage from 1am to 7am.

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Pro-plus, caffeine in a pill. Available from your local newsagents. Signs of overdose include heart palpitations, sweating, panic attacks, and six-hour drum solos

  lumpenGriff said:

Yeah, I noticed that too. There's also fodder for those like me who believe the upcoming Redmoon event in the Pentland hills will be the real deal:

 

"In the summer of 1995 the band and their friends christened their studio in the Pentland Hills "Hexagon Sun", and the collective have continued their work on recordings, films and gatherings from this location. (Every year in the spring and summer Hexagon Sun hosts various small rural music gatherings, which attract many local heads.)"

What's interesting is that even on their most recent official bio it maintains they still occur:

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These nights, which the band still occasionally organise to this day, became known as ‘Redmoon’ nights after an early event which was dramatically backdropped by a blood-red full moon.

That bio was updated just last summer.

  LOL Alzado said:

i forgot about The Cosmic Crofter. anyone have more info on him?

he's one of the guys at Benbecula

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he's one of the guys at Benbecula

Is he still there? From what I heard, he's moved on.

  Moebius said:

  ▓▓▓ said:

he's one of the guys at Benbecula

 

Is he still there? From what I heard, he's moved on.

the email i had from them two days ago was signed

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Regards

 

 

 

Phase 6, Beluga, and The Cosmic Crofter.

so i'm assuming he's still there

  ▓▓▓ said:

the email i had from them two days ago was signed

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Regards

 

Phase 6, Beluga, and The Cosmic Crofter.

so i'm assuming he's still there

Hmm, interesting, guess so. Looks like he also wrote Benbecula's obits for John Peel and Ivor Cutler.

  ▓▓▓ said:

  Moebius said:

  ▓▓▓ said:

he's one of the guys at Benbecula

 

Is he still there? From what I heard, he's moved on.

the email i had from them two days ago was signed

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Regards

 

 

 

Phase 6, Beluga, and The Cosmic Crofter.

so i'm assuming he's still there

Steven McConnell = label owner

So is Beluga Steven McConnell? and what is Phase6s name?

from milkfactory interview with Steven..

"Do you have any links to Boards Of Canada?

Not a great deal other than Marcus [Eoin] probably gets the same bus into town as me."

"Do you get tired with questions about and comparisons with Boards Of Canada?

Yeah shut up! I guess people see the word electronic and Scotland and just make a juvenile connection."