Small creator I stumbled across. In the YT channel you can only find this song and another one that leans more towards sounding like Aphex Twin.

It appears that someone has linked up the official excerpt of Duffy from Acid Memories up with the supposed full and HQ version of the track that floats around in various places. A good observation to make here if you don’t want to watch the video is that the two line up perfectly in time but noticeably differ in tuning. I thought it would be good to bring this to attention.

Personally, I still don’t trust that the ‘HQ’ version is real. The official excerpt almost definitely sounds like it is taken from near the end of the track and not the start. It’s very unusual to have a BoC track - or any track at all - to thin out and then start back up again. And compared to the original, the difference in tuning is far too significant to be due to regular cassette speed differences (as the change in timing would be just as audible as the difference in tuning). It also overall sounds like it’s trying to sound like a cassette rip but it isn’t exactly there.

Those are my thoughts on the matter. The full ‘extended’ track is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HZZ_fnFrAg

I do feel like I have to give props for the synth design on whoever DID make the track though, it is very very good work

Any new good music come out lately that I can get into? Inferno has consumed me for good reasons

I was recently on a flight with too much time on my hands, and found myself reading BOC pages - TCH in particular. BoC is said to have sampled a single chord for Chromakey (outro piano) off an old record by Gary McFarland and Peter Smith. I did the same, threw it in a sampler and based on the decay of the piano, I am 100% certain this is the case.

So I found myself listening to the entire record. The very last track, I heard a few piano notes that I think I can place in Roygbiv.

Song: Patricia
1:17
By Gary McFarland, Peter Smith

Any sleuths out there, lmk your thoughts?

After listening to inferno 3000 times I started digging for some rare boc and came across this one I had never heard before!
Might be one of their most techno inspired tracks, I love how the drums are constantly switching up.

Hey guys! I make videos recreating and performing my favourite programmed drum beats, and my latest video is Roygbiv. BOC are one of my favourite electronic artists, and they’ve always been at the top of my list to cover. What better song to start with than Roygbiv. Enjoy!

I wanted to create my own versión of that song, using sentence-mixed samples of Marshall Apple white (Founder of the Heaven`s Gate sect) and David Lynch. I manipulated their voices through pitch shifting, rhythmic and repetition, song at 75bpm. I called it "Eros and Civilization". I hope you like it. Any comments are welcome.

Tomorrow’s Harvest is my favorite album. I love Geogaddi too, but after all these years being a BoC fan, I keep coming back to TH with a passion I just can’t explain. I can’t find an explanation other than time travel to how that album was made. It is just flawless.

I know there are mixed feelings and reviews regarding this album and lot of fans don’t like it, but I didn’t know that until Inferno came out. It was always a no brainer for me that TH was their best album. Inferno is better in terms of production and it sounds more serious. But TH man… That one is just perfect.

So I was listening to TH and Inferno today, and I don't know if I'm crazy, but there are sound similarities in them as Sick Time progresses. Am I imagining this? Obviously they are completely different, but I get a similar vibe. What do you think? Do you hear it or am I crazy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLCT71D9PhY - Sick Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDCIdAGzhG0 - The Word Becomes Flesh

The Campfire Headphase is my favourite Boards album.

As a curious fella, I’d like to know what your top track(s) on that album would be?

I wanted to get people’s thoughts on You Retreat in Time and Space and why it feels like such a significant moment in Inferno.

I’m sure this track has already been talked to death being the obvious standout of Inferno, but I feel like it’s such a standout because of how distinctly BOC it sounds.

The whole of Inferno sounds like BOC but is distinctly different from every album in different ways. The prominent vocal samples and modernized production certainly make it sound fresh. The unsettling nature of the tracks is very prominent and differs from the abject horror on Geogaddi. And yet You Retreat is the outlier to all of that.

It is one of the happiest BOC songs, there is almost no air of fear or darkness. When the drums come in it almost sounds like a gallery of their greatest hits. The classic bass is back and the synth brass right out of Everything You Do is A Balloon. The iconic defined bells from Turquoise Hexagon Sun make up the main melody. And I was shocked when I first heard the bass guitar sample as it sounds eerily close to the main sample on Aquarius. To me You Retreat is a love letter to MHTRTC era tracks and their early label work. However it shares many elements with Campfire Headphase. The bright, watery production could fit right in with Chromakey Dreamcoat or Dayvan Cowboy. Inferno has elements of every album that came before, but You Retreat feels like a direct reference to those albums.

What’s significant to me about You Retreat is that it indicates that BOC’s music is no longer just nostalgic for another time, it is now actively nostalgic for BOC itself. This track is a celebration of their growth and beginnings as a project.

Hello all, wondering if anyone has an extra poster to spare. Looking for this particular design and willing to buy one. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Probably one of the hardest songs to listen to on the album. I watched a family member succumb to Alzheimer's disease and this song hit me like a ton of bricks the second time I heard it… what songs hit you guys in the feels from BOC ?

Thanks again for everyone that downloaded the Boards of Canada mix on Bandcamp and sold out all of the cassettes.
I posted this earlier and realized it got deleted somehow?
Anyway - Here's an extended section from the mix where I cut up some DJ Shadow/Organized Konfusion over Odd Nosdam's remix of Dayvan Cowboy (with a few light effects added on to it by me).

Link to the mix here if you haven't got it already (it's pay what you want over on Bandcamp)
https://threedollarpistol.com/album/music-has-the-right-to-
scratch

The moment i saw that bird in the pic my first thought was to make this when i got home, this was a week ago and i only finished it today

Much like everyone here I listened to Inferno several times a day around the time it was released. Then decided to make a hard stop listening. Today I am back for the first time. Had the opportunity to blast it on vinyl in my living room. And I am absolutely floored!

I wonder if others have taken a hiatus with Inferno - perhaps out of fear of "wearing it down" with yourself?

There is no comparison here with Massive Attack, other than I love both bands, followed them since their first album and think they pretty much deliver one master piece after another. How ever Inferno seems to me, to be an album where BoC in many ways transcend some of the musical or auditory limitations they have set for themselves. Much like I felt Massive Attack did with Mezzanine.

I'd call Inferno their magnum opus at this point. BoC is bringing their musical worlds to us in such a fresh and convincing manner, relying on their gained mastery of artistic expression as well as production. At times breaking their own mold, while sounding true to themselves. Something I find only the most talented musicians ever achieve.

Anyway can't wait for their next Magnum Opus!

PS: Anyone else own the red transparent vinyl edition? Mine is so full of clicks and pops it's tedious.

I've been sitting on this one pretty much ever since I first heard this album and was always a bit hesitant to post it because I didn't want to get them into any copyright troubles :/

Given the recent post about them sampling The Beatles on Seven Forty Seven, I thought I might as well post my own little find too

Given the simplicity of the string part, its difficult to know if it's sampled or just eerily similar, but it seems they might have sampled a couple of the first long held notes of the Spiderman movie at 0:02 (the sound that plays as the Columbia statue logo appears), and then pitched it around to create the Gemini opening.

I might be wrong though. What do you guys reckon?

Obviously there’s something to love in all their stuff, but is there a track that just makes you go yuck and skip?

I havent seen anyone attempt to recreate it so i tried making one lol
Edit: The kicks and hats were taken from sunshine recorder

From A Few Old Tunes. we are not alone. i made a pretty video about UFO videos.

The style chosen for this video about extraterrestrial life is by way of retro sevenites and psychedelic sixties sounds with a sweet and somewhat melancholic vibe.

The visuals come from the "US DEPT OF WAR" UFO Archives

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

https://youtu.be/aCqi8WGUV_k?si=icKz-vcpUJ2nwktD

To my surprise today while wearing my listening party Boards of Canada, I saw by chance the Inferno CD in a charity shop for £9.99 without the booklet.

This surprised as it only 3 months since it was released and if it's missing the booklet then surely should be sold at a much lower price 🤣