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Boards of Canada
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United Kingdom (1986 – present)
Boards of Canada is an electronic music duo from Scotland, composed of brothers Michael Sandison (b. 10 June 1969) and Marcus Eoin Sandison (b. 21 September 1970). They have released a number of works, most notably Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, with little advertising and few interviews - like many of their label-mates on the pioneering electronic music label Warp.
Boards of Canada have had an enormous influence on the ambient and idm scenes. They have frequently made reference to the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970’s television. Indeed, the Sandison brothers admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which they take their name. The duo have recorded a few minor works under the name Hell Interface. Boards of Canada’s music has been used in several CSI episodes and on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim interlude shorts; small bits of their music have been used on the BBC program Top Gear for transitional music.
Early Boards of Canada (1970s-1995)
Growing up in a musical family, brothers Michael and Marcus Eoin began playing instruments at a young age. They experimented with recording techniques at around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. In their teens they participated in a number of amateur bands, however, it wasn’t until 1986 when Marcus was invited to Michael’s band that Boards of Canada was born.
Boards of Canada have had an enormous influence on the ambient and idm scenes. They have frequently made reference to the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970’s television. Indeed, the Sandison brothers admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which they take their name. The duo have recorded a few minor works under the name Hell Interface. Boards of Canada’s music has been used in several CSI episodes and on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim interlude shorts; small bits of their music have been used on the BBC program Top Gear for transitional music.
Early Boards of Canada (1970s-1995)
Growing up in a musical family, brothers Michael and Marcus Eoin began playing instruments at a young age. They experimented with recording techniques at around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. In their teens they participated in a number of amateur bands, however, it wasn’t until 1986 when Marcus was invited to Michael’s band that Boards of Canada was born.
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Boards of Canada - Close4
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Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)
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Boards of Canada: Heard from Telegraph Lines
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Boards of Canada Left Side Drive
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mechanicalsteer wrote:
Mechanical Steering new album "10:10pm"! http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Mechanical+Steering
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project_dominic wrote:
I remember one time I was playing "Music Has The Right To Children", when my mother came to visit me, and she liked it, too. None of their songs completely take me away, but it's nice and relaxing.
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TMMPjkt wrote:
Hello everyone, come on over this way and check out The Morbid Maddox Projekt; http://www.last.fm/music/The+Morbid+Maddox+Projekt for something different, very different, more different sounds and noises to come.
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L4ncaster wrote:
@skeptic_ It would be hard for two brothers to break up...
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FootToFace wrote:
charmander states the obvious. -1
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DotsDisconnect wrote:
this music puts me in an amphetamine trance.
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comlag225 wrote:
Michael and Marcus have mentioned the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which the group's name is derived, as a source of inspiration.
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tricheboars wrote:
Fucking amazing. I am obsessed. Music has the Right to Children melts my face. But what the fuck is up with a scottish group calling themselves boards of canada? Do they really like canada or something?
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ziggyblue wrote:
Love tripp'n balls to BoC.Not even my type of music but they are an exception.
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L4ncaster wrote:
Warm...
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HiroJudgement wrote:
Orange! Orange? Yeah! That's right!
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The_Arowana wrote:
I could never sleep to BoC. It sucks me completely inside. Strangely enough, the best music to fall asleep to for me is loud metal. The dark, satanic, Scandinavian kind. The buzzing of the guitars and kickdrums put rocks me to sleep like white noise. I told some metalheads about this and they said they recognized, silly ey? (I'm not from Canada). But I do have BoC playing for more than an hour on end. I've got this Electronics playlist with stuff like BoC, Arovane, Flying Lotus, Capitol K and I play it all the time around the house, even though when I listen focused, I listen to much more (hard) rock and jazzy stuff. That's what get's my scrobblecount so high.
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veal wrote:
it's relaxing.. i wouldn't mind playing it in the background while falling/being asleep :) not desperate enough to do that on mute though :p
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andisk wrote:
you definitely got a point! but i'd also "never" do that!
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jakeandlola wrote:
Love BoC, but I can't help but wonder how many scrobbles can be attributed to people leaving their players on overnight while sleeping ... :) Not that I would *ever* do that ...
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Narki wrote:
Aquarius from the EP is the best one
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Space_prophet wrote:
Thanks for creating such beautiful imagery in my mind .
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enderby12 wrote:
Especially the Peel Session version
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The_Night_Head wrote:
There should be more love for Aquarius :D
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forestt wrote:
YES PLEASE
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