Airport

1 year ago (15 notes)

#music has the right to children
#boards of canada
#album
#new album
#double album
#peter serafinowicz
#hip hop
#hip-hop
#idm
#warp
#experimental
#electronica

240 plays

An Eagle In Your Mind - Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998, Warp)

Although they’ve never been the quickest to release new material at the best of times, six years with no word on anything seems quite long, even for Boards of Canada. The last time the famously elusive duo released anything was in 2006, with their Trans-Canada Highway EP.

But if claims from BBC6’s new presenter Peter Serafinowicz turn out true, Boards of Canada may well be readying a new release:

I’m gonna play some Board of Canada now. I’m a bit of a Boards of Canada evangelist. They’re my favorite band, I think. Maybe them and The Beatles. But, they are a band, again, a bit like The Fall. It’s like once you get into them, or rather, once something clicks you just wanna hear everything they’ve released… They’ve got a new album coming out soon and I think it’s gonna be a double album and I’m so excited, I really am-to hear their new one.

Even though that seems a pretty definitive statement, it’s probably best to take this one with a grain of salt (despite how much I desperately hope that it’s true, being at least as big a fan of the band as Serafinowicz is).

In the mean time, check out An Eagle In Your Mind, from the duo’s indispensable first album Music Has The Right To Children. True story: all of the percussion for the track was created solely using cut up samples of band member Michael Sanderson’s girlfriend talking.

2 years ago (3 notes)

#assignment
#theory
#boards of canada
#caribou
#Zero T
#music has the right to children
#swim
#fabric

Three awesome albums helping me through my incredibly difficult and tedious music theory assignment today:

Also, if anyone out there is a pro with modal mixture or modulation to foreign keys, feel free to drop me a line…

2 years ago (1 note)

#aquarius
#boards of canada
#electronica
#experimental
#idm
#music has the right to children
#orange
#sesame street
#warp
#sample

30 plays

Aquarius - Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998, Warp)

And the counting still trips me out every time.

2 years ago

#boards of canada
#music has the right to children
#electronic
#electronica
#alternative
#idm
#ambient
#constitution
#censorship
#rights
#one very important thought

"
Now that the show is over, and we have jointly exercised our constitutional rights, we would like to leave you with one very important thought: Some time in the future, you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so-called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program.

If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think.

Defend your constitutionally protected rights - no one else will do it for you. Thank you.
"

One Very Important Thought - Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998 / 2004, Warp)

2 years ago (3 notes)

#boards of canada
#live
#atp
#all tomorrow's parties
#music has the right to children
#warp
#sixtyten
#2001
#idm
#electronica
#electronic

40 plays

Sixtyten - Boards of Canada - Live @ ATP (2001)

I’ve been getting back into Boards of Canada in a big way recently, and a few days ago I came across unofficial recording of their set from All Tomorrow’s Parties in 2001. Even though they aren’t a band best suited to a live performance, I really wish I could have seen them once. Despite the myriad of loops, samples and effects they use to construct their music, they pull off a live performance very well. This track, Sixtyten, is one of the highlights of the set. Originally from their seminal debut Music Has The Right To Children, here they present a deliciously atmospheric live version of the studio original.