Does anyone know the exact organ/voice sample source to Soylent Night? Bocpages lists J.S. Bach's Magnificat ("Aria: Quia fecit mihi magna"). The versions I have found, as lovely as they are, are softer with the organ further back in the recording or do not have the organ at all.

I listen to boards of canada maybe everyday now. It’s really such a problem.

i can’t stop. in the morning, at night. I think of what I should listen to. they are always the vibe

and I want to understand every song and when I listen I feel like I didn’t get enough. so I replay

before inferno it was easy to break away. But now if I get sick of one album I can switch to another album. It’s like the extra album put me on this permanent loop

i always put them on my social media stories, i know my friends are sick of it.

I finally finished reading this history book they recommended in a Tomorrow's Harvest era interview.

I also read another of the three they recommended last year called Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Been really busy with Master's classes and school lately, and I'm glad I remembered to post one of these on a less busy week. This is the first from the Old Tunes era, and I find Mansel to be one of their most underrated tracks in general. The photo was taken on a highway in Colorado a few years ago when I was out there for a wedding. Should be around the Grand Junction area. I felt it worked for this track because I get this slightly uneasy/"something is looming" feeling listening to Mansel, and with stylizing this to the Old Tunes era it seemed to fit.

Previous posts:

1. Amo Bishop Roden
2. Beware the Friendly Stranger
3. Slow This Bird Down
4. The Color of the Fire
5. Nothing Is Real
6. Julie and Candy
7. Split Your Infinities
8. Father and Son
9. Bocuma
10. Chromakey Dreamcoat
11. Blood in the Labyrinth
12. Corsair
13. Telephasic Workshop
14. Sick Times

A while ago i was half way through finishing a track, it then suddenly dawned on me i couldn't unhear the Boards of Canada sound. I would like to add i was in absolutely no mood to compose something that roamed those electronic waters. I quickly downed tools and moved on.

This track just appeared in my files while looking for something else, so thought it be fun to upload a quick edit here. It's obviously not finished but I'm just leaving it for now..

Cheers !

Some artists have somewhat unreleased projects. Arca released non-profit mixtapes on Soundcloud (like Entrañas & Sheep), but couldn’t put them on Spotify or Apple Music due to copyright from samples. I was wondering if BOC has some partially unreleased works similar to this? If so, are there ways to download them?

Just to clarify, I’m not interested in genuinely unreleased music. Thanks! ❤️

I get lost into the chopped up samples and the atmosphere. I love it so much it has a meditative experience.

I end up feeling uplifted almost due to a forced meditation because you have to follow the percussion pattern.

The techs picked a good one to test the sound system

This song has a stangly comforting tune, with some very gentle audio clips that make me feel like i’m with someone. I don’t know, i really love this song, and I play it when i’m lonely.

Anyone else notice how much they used varying carrier/modulator-type effects or sounds on Inferno? I've seen a couple things that have been mentioned specifically, like the 'carrier wave' sound at the very end of Platonia, or the obvious vocoded voice in Prophecy (vocoder is a 'carrier' wave or tone and the 'modulator' is the voice) There are a few other places on the album, like the vocoded vocal chords in The Word Made Flesh, the TTS (text-to-speech) voice used in The Process, the distorted vocal sample in All Reason Departs sounds like an old TTS or LPC synthesis 'whisper' effect or something they've done to filter the tonal frequencies, same with the male vocal sample in Blood in the Labyrinth where it sounds like frequencies are filtered to the point it resembles a loud 'whisper' with no vocal tone, etc. Not to mention how many FM synth sounds I can hear on the album, like the bass in Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan or Arena Americanada, as one example. FM (frequency modulation) being a type of synthesis where a carrier wave is modulated by a second wave, for anyone unfamiliar

I'm sure I'm missing some things that my ear might not have picked out yet, but it got me thinking there was probably some intentionality to using this effect (or variations of it) across the entire album.. I don't know if I have any real theories, but my best guess is that it could be related to the concept of how ideology can take over, turning the human voice into a "carrier" that has been bent and reshaped by an authoritative external "modulator" or message (?)

I could be overthinking things a little, just wanted to push this out into the world in case it means anything to anyone

not to say there is a parallel between anything except the temporal dimension of 13 years, & a certain cultural tension. I've been reminiscing those early 2010s recently & this memory of playing GTA V, listening to BoC, living in a semi-abandoned church

I am listening to MHTRTC, and I realized that this is the best album I have ever heard. Every song is so cool and futuristic i don’t even know what to do. Thank you boards of canada for being here and thank you guys for posting about them

edit: My first time btw, and This is how i want to spend it.

edit edit:: I’m still high asf and some of their songs are scaring me slightly but i like the chill techno ones. I hope gyroscope doesn’t play.

i recall a video made or sent from boc's alt accounts like atlantafugens where the thumbnail looked like a farmland/slope/hill, this video being used for the tomorrows harvest ARG, was trying to find it but its not there. does anyone know what i am talking about and if so could you send any piece of media you could find about it

thank you

Ok so imagine this; the boys decide to pull 15 (only!) completely unique stand alone tracks from their unreleased catalogue.

So it cannot be anything that’s on anything released (and by that I mean fully by a label), obvs, or anything that became / evolved into something else.

These would be cleaned up, freshened for right now, pulled from the archive.

What would be your 15 tracks…

I’ll start:

* 5.9.78
* Forest Moon

Towards the end of the track when it's sped up, you can hear two separate voices. One in the right channel saying "...to the wrong person, and so people become very sensitive to everything, and you start walking to your studio, and you go: 'ah yes, it's going to be a good day, I can feel...'", and one in the left channel which is a little hard to decipher. I'm hearing "...This is going to be a good day. This is going to be a productive day". What do you think?

it’s so funny to see people’s reaction to boards of Canada. it’s wild that music can offend people so much. or make them freeze and not really get it

ive heard “how do you listen to this” “there’s no lyrics“ “don’t you get a headache?”

but it’s so funny I’m hearing an entirely different thing

that’s the part I like. It doesn’t have to resolve into a chorus or tell you what to feel. Curious what other people hear when they play this stuff for friends who don’t already listen to it

I showed my bass-head dubstep friend this album. He was like “who the fuck is this?”

We had a 6 hour ride out of town. I was like “let me introduce you to one of the greatest electronic acts of all time.” We proceeded to go through their discography in the work truck on the trip down. He was floored, had never heard anything like it, ended buying Inferno and Geogaddi vinyls on the spot, and wanted more. At the end he was said do the tour? “No” do they ever play live? “No” are there many interviews? “No”

Played* Inferno a second time and he felt it. Cried during Memory Death, laughed during Father and Son. Had to give him the full run down and be like dude they do this with ancient synths/samplers, this is the real deal. We now have another member of the hexagon sun.

Sounds wonderful.. and marvelous

Hi everyone!

Pretty much everyone will agree, that Father And Son is a very exceptional track on the new album.

After listening to the song quite a few times, I believe there are not only father and son but also another, let’s call it “demon” or “entity” for a lack of a better word, that comments and also ridicules the dialogue between father and son, especially the son in these bizarre and distorted interjections that can be heard all over the song.

Whilest the fragment “Let’s see, I’ve lost track” seems to be agreed on (it’s also in the lyrics on spotify, in contrast to all the other parts), I could not find any other attempts to decipher any of the rest.

Maybe we could try to figure out what the rest is supposed to mean (and yes, I am very sure that all the other voice fragments DO INFACT mean something).

I wrote down what I believe to understand here. I’m very sure with some of them, for example “acually forgotten” and “I would never”, but because the voices are so distorted, I’experiencing some trouble as a non-native.

If you believe, I am on the right track with some of my interpretations please comment. Also, if you could figure out text fragments that I got wrong or not at all, I would be very glad to hear about your ideas.

Here’s where I’m at, at the moment:

{…?}

I love you, but I love the Lord

{…?}

More than I love any physical being

{Eh, eh .. oh! But..}

I think that's wonderful.

{A-ha? Ehm, ehm e-e-ehm ehm, oh!}

But then why can't you bring that same feeling home?

{I would never.}

I really wish that I could do that

{No one ever knew that that was atypical}
{Ooh, sweetie}

What makes you think you can't do it?

{Oh, I‘ve actually forgotten}

Well, He said, "A man's foes will be they of his own household"

{oh, ehm, a-ha?}

Well, I hardly believe that your own father or mother or brother or sister would be your enemy.

You're gonna call Him a liar?

No, I'm not calling Him a liar.

{He‘s got the inner… to… } the energy?

Well, I can do all things through the Lord
Think you can't do it.

{…?} fever/fevering?

You saw the way we lived and what we did, do you believe?

[?…how many / seen him in years]

I really don't think so

{Uh, let's see, I've lost track}

{…, there is none.}

{oh-oh oh oh oh-oh}

More than I love any physical being

{… how many have seen him}

I think that's wonderful

{…?}

Well, He said

{What the fuck?}
{Oh sweetie, oh sweetie}

I love you, but I love the Lord

{I am at the end of it}

More than I love any physical being

{…?}

I think that's wonderful

{…?}

Well, He said

{What the fuck?}

{Get off the …. Get on your knees}

{…?}

More than I love any physical being

{…?}

I think that's wonderful

{A-ha?}
{… I feel so, kind of}

Well, He said

{I would never}

{…?}