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Boards of Canada

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Obras de Boards of Canada

Geogaddi (2002) 18 cópias
The Campfire Headphase (2005) 12 cópias
Twoism (2002) 7 cópias
Tomorrow's Harvest (2013) 7 cópias
Trans Canada Highway Ep (2006) 4 cópias
Peel Session Tx 21-07-98 (1999) 3 cópias
Hi Scores (2014) 2 cópias
Aquarius EP 1 exemplar(es)
Campfire Headphase (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Peel Session 1 exemplar(es)

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* Audio CD (March 23, 2004)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Warp Records
* ASIN: B0001RVTWA
* Average Customer Review: based on 16 reviews. (Write a review.)
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Track Listings
1. Wildlife Analysis
2. Eagle in Your Mind
3. Color of the Fire
4. Telephasic Workshop
5. Triangles & Rhombuses
6. Sixtyten
7. Turquoise Hexagon Sun
8. Kaini Industries
9. Bocuma
10. Roygbiv
11. Rue the Whirl
12. Aquarius
13. Olson
14. Pete Standing Alone
15. Smokes Quantity
16. Open the Light
17. One Very Important Thought
18. Happy Cycling
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
Beautiful, strange, mysterious music (reissued), July 22, 2004
Reviewer: Pen Name "crashy88" (Level 2) - See all my reviews
This is the album that introduced most of us to Boards of Canada's unique sound back in 1998, now back in a slick digipak reissue from Warp. "Music has the right to children" is probably the best introduction to Boards of Canada's distinctive music. For me, it's still their best overall, and one of my all-time favorite albums: a moody, shifting analogue synth-sample-and-beat fest, by turns funky and melancholy, full of rare beauty. The unusual samples and frequent use of "backwards" elements (and the cryptic packaging) give great touches of mystery and humor to the proceedings, although have also given rise to all kinds of strange ideas about Boards of Canada. Ignore the timid, small-minded conspiracy theorists and paranoids who fret about these things, and enjoy the music!

It's hard to pick a favorite track, but the one that always makes me stop and repeat it is "Rue the Whirl": swirling synths and a decent beat, quite simple in some ways, but it's that repeated organ stab used as a rhythmic device that really gets me. "Telephasic Workshop" is another standout (more rhythmic use of non-percussion sounds), the transition between "Bocuma" and "Roygbiv" still gives me goosebumps, "Aquarius" very fine, but it's all good, it's all great. The original US release added a "bonus track" called "Happy Cycling" from BOC's "Peel Sessions" EP, and it is again included on this reissue for the whole world to hear. This track is fine, but better in its original context on "Peel Sessions"; as a whole, I think the album makes more sense ending as it did originally with "One very important thought" (a track sadly even more relevant now in 2004 than when it first came out). "Happy Cycling" or no, "Music has the right to children" is a great album: BUY IT!
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* Audio CD (February 19, 2002)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Warp Records
* ASIN: B00005Y0Q3
* Other Editions: Audio CD | LP Record
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Geogaddi, like Boards of Canada's 1998 debut album, Music Has the Right to Children, drifts its way into consciousness, rolling a fog of dark-hued psychedelia over slow-burning, lullaby melodies. Having led a reclusive existence in their Hexagon Sun studio, shunning interviews and live shows in an effort to escape the shrill, loud praise that accompanied Children's release, the enigmatic Scottish duo has stayed focused, creating another tour de force in the process. Geogaddi opens with no fanfare, with the bare hum of "Ready Lets Go" blossoming into the soporific, hypnotic chimes of "Music Is Math". But for the next 65 minutes, it's clear that while BOC move slow, they do so with the power of shifting glaciers. All their old influences--the noise-as-melody drone of My Bloody Valentine, the brave futuristic synths of Neu!--remain, but more than anything, Geogaddi is about the vivid sense of warm melancholy that lingers when the music fades out. It's another slow-burner, but Geogaddi is as utterly essential as its predecessor. --Louis Pattison

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Special edition CD with hardbound cover and 12 page booklet. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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62 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
Unsettling album ultimately lacks inspiration, February 22, 2002
Reviewer: Daniel Staton (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Like another reviewer here, I was somewhat surprised to find myself--at 28 yrs of age--waiting outside the local music shop on the morning of Tuesday Feb 19, Geodaddi's stateside release date. If BoC's music can inspire such excitement in a guy who likes to think of himself as relatively level-headed, it's no wonder that anticipation for this album has been running at a fever pitch among the BoC faithful. Such is the nature of their music: it connects with people on a very visceral, intimate level, as all great music should. Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison's reclusiveness, and rumors that they are part of a Turquoise Hexagon cult, have only added fuel to the fire of the BoC mythos. Unfortunately, after repeated listens to Geogaddi, I've come to the conclusion that BoC have given in to their messianic popular image, rather than rising above it.

It seems BoC set out to make a serious album--maybe too serious, since I can't find any of the playfulness that leavened the overall melancholy, eerie feel of MHTRTC. There's no Roygbiv or Aquarius here. Nothing really tender or silly. The tone is lush, psychadelic, and unnerving. It doesn't remind me of my childhood so much as an acid trip. Where on MHTRTC "One Final Thought" encourages/admonishes the listener to fight for freedom of speech, Geogaddi seems like a brochure for some weird "groupthink" commune. The total running time is 66:06, as in "666," there are 23 tracks (a number apparently important to numerologists and conspiracy theorists), and supposedly portions of tracks can be played backwards to hear hidden messages. On one track a distorted voice drones "Let my voice flow into your mind...Open yourself up to greater wonder and understanding...You are being transformed in a positive and healthy way..." Not only does this creepy new-agey obsession hold absolutely zero interest for me, but it stands quite independent from the musical merit of the tracks themselves.

Quite apart from the message, the music itself falls far short of the sonic explorations on MHTRTC. Aside from some tabla samples, more reverb, and some pan pipes, it's surprising how many careworn tricks are on display here. Children counting? Check. Reference to "A Beautiful Place"? Check. A random color dropping into the mix? In this case it's yellow, not orange. Though there are some sweeping, epic cascades of melody on a few tracks, they don't go anywhere, and they don't mesh as seamlessly with the percussion as the tracks on MHTRTC.

It seems to me that the peril inherent in locking oneself away in a studio with a bunch of electronic gagetry is that you start to lose touch with the real world, and play tricks to amuse yourself, or to toy with your audience (which amounts to the same thing). Aphex Twin, Autechre, Orbital: each seminal electronic artists, and each in their own way becoming more self-referential, quirky, outlandish, dissonant, or weird for weird's sake. Sometimes the results are brilliant, but often they amount to wanking about. BoC seem to have substituted trippy cultism for inspiration, and the result is an absorbing but ultimately claustrophobic work. As anyone who's used a filesharing program to obtain "Twoism" or "Maxima" (two of BoC's earlier, commercially unavailable albums) can attest, many of the tracks on MHTRTC were part of BoC's repertoire for a long time, and had been polished to near perfection. Maybe the tracks here should have undergone a similar time-tested evolution...though they did have four years(!) Maybe they were too busy getting their palms read and consulting star charts...
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Product Details

* Audio CD (November 26, 2002)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: EP, Original recording reissued
* Label: Warp Records
* ASIN: B00006NSQ9
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Originally issued in 1995, Boards of Canada's Twoism EP makes it clear the Scottish duo of Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin were on to something from the start. As their first recorded work, scarce, vinyl-only copies of Twoism have been lustily sought after by rabid fans since the 1998 release of BoC's amazing, impossibly original Music Has The Right To Children and the quieter, but equally devastating Geogaddi. While not as adventuresome as those records, this EP is still Boards Of Canada all the way, as ample chunks of the band's unsettling and deeply involving style are easily found in songs like "Smokes Quantity" and the title track. Other songs such as the almost danceable "Seeya Later" show a more straightforward ambient/techno side that, while presented more nakedly here, is still quite apparent in their later work. While some might be disappointed after spending God knows what on a copy of Twoism only to find it suddenly available anywhere, others looking for more of BoC's melancholy, spellbinding compositions should take fast advantage. --Matthew Cooke

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Remastered re-release of an early, limited Boards Of Canada release, this nine track mini album is available on CD for the first time, seven years after its original vinyl only release. Track nine '1986 Summer Fire' is unlisted on artwork. Includes Boards Of Canada sticker. Digipak. Warp. 2002.

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
The legacy of Twoism, November 30, 2002
Reviewer: Thomas Aikin (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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Board of Canada's discography is a source of consternation for their fans. Several of their releases only quasi-exist- no one has heard them. Twoism for many years has only been around in the form of low quality mp3s. The poor fidelity of the sound only served to augment the listening experience. A seminal, obscure album of broken sounds further degraded by poor reproduction that still took resourcefullness to track down.

Hearing the proper release has been a bit of a revelation. For the most part I knew what to expect. (some of the songs here have been been recycled on subsequent BoC releases) However, there are new levels of detail present in the sound. That being said nothing about Twoism is overly polished. The synthesizers used sound as if they are drawing their last breath. The melodies are distant and suffocated.

Boards of Canada at this point in their career were even more minmalist then they are now. The signature Boc formula was already perfected on these tracks. Vintage synthesizers spitting out chilhood melodies over slow breakbeats. The melodies are happy, but they evoke a fake, drug-induced happiness that enhances the distance and detachment.

Probably the two most interesting tracks on Twoism are "Oirectine" and "Basefree". They sound unlike anything else Boards of Canada ever released. There's a definite industrial influence, interpreted as only the boys could. "Basefree" sounds like it should have been on Autechre's "Tri Repetae", but I think "Basefree" is actually predates that album. "Oirectine" features a severaly damaged, overly sinister, melody. "Twoism" and "Sixtyniner" are the prototype early Boards of Canada tracks.

Twoism is essential for any Boards of Canada fan and any fan of electronic music. Twoism was ostensibly a demo which got them noticed by Skam records. The rest is history.
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pantufla | Jan 25, 2006 |
boards of canada 2001-4-8 sussex, uk lineage: aud->?->?gen cd-r->eac->wav->sound forge 4.5 [recompile/remove sector boundary errors/normalize]->cd wave [splits]->flac, low compression min:sec - 59:59 filesize: 343 mb notes: received in cd-r trade, 2004. sounds like a slightly overdriven minidisc recording through one of those ecm mics. manually corrected sector boundary errors in soundforge, as well as penciling out a couple pops. great set, served well by the recording. scant source info, unfortunately. solid 8 out of 10. tracks: 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. enjoy.… (mais)
 
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Obras
13
Membros
79
Popularidade
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Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
4

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