Re: Boards of Canada - Teaser tracks Introit/Prophecy at 1420hz
David Newman <[email protected]> Fri, 8 May 2026 08:49:23 +0100
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--Apple-Mail=_72DEAE2F-01CA-40EA-B197-0E23F79F0BF2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ha! I think its great nods to the best of Depeche Mode and the Orb in there - so building on = other major artists but bringing that whimsical BOC Best wishes David Newman www.audiobulb.com <http://www.audiobulb.com/> : exploratory music www.audiomoves.com <http://www.audiomoves.com/> : ambient music sync = specialist www.volume-objects.com <http://www.volume-objects.com/> : abstract = ambience :: broken space On 8 May 2026, at 08:21, Zombiefly <[email protected]> wrote: given the amount of output over the years, i'd remove everything you = wrote and replace it with: "2 guys who aren't really into it anymore decided to compile a list of = tracks they've been noodling with on a sunday afternoon"... warp did the = rest. On Fri, 8 May 2026 at 01:09, kent williams <[email protected] = <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > https://youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo?si=3Dzl43p1J6eRmmKPHG (Entroit) > https://youtu.be/oVLbPMFr1cE?si=3DfRrrxNe8Cla_wJeI (just Prophecy) > Boards Of Canada are nothing if not consistent. The video is 4/3 and > it looks like it was either dubbed to VHS and re-digitzed. >=20 > They return to their theme of apocalyptic religion with a Vocoded > essay on the subject of nothingness and transcendence. >=20 > I don't know if they wrote it or if it's from something. >=20 > The music is a pastiche of sounds from the pass, in this case there's > a real frisson of 1980s industrial music, like Caberet Voltaire. And > that doomy chorus guitar sounds like they borrowed it from Cocteau > Twins. >=20 > It's more straightforward than many of their old tracks. There isn't > as much subliminal masking. But every drum hit, guitar line and synth > part bristles with conscious intention. Everything is placed in > perfect relation to everything else. >=20 > About 2:18 in "Prophecy" there short interlude of drums, string synth > and guitar (or synth? Hard to tel) plays a spare funk pattern, like > Nile Rodgers riffing, but it's atonal, dissonant relative to the key > of the drone bass. They take something familiar and making it strange. >=20 > I have a theory about musical intention: The person making music has > ideas they're implementing. They may be complicated ideas, not > directly audible in the music, but there's a system and intention > behind the raw audio hitting your ears. Listeners intuitively > recognize the system in the music, even if it's not as plain as 12 bar > blues. A hidden structure still feels like structure, giving the > music a visceral meaning. >=20 > So with BOC, they may have started out messing around with machines > and seeing what comes out, but everything they do now is > hyper-detailed, hyper-intentional. Every surprising sound, every > unidentifiable echoey sound that only happens once, was put there for > a purpose. >=20 > What they do is fun for them, and fun as fan service. I'm interested > in what people not so enmeshed with this music think of it. I think > it's quality - everything they do is quality - but sometimes the > attention that goes into every last, wobbly detail turns into > overthinking. >=20 > In the end what I'm trying to say is that I wish they fooled around > and tried goofy shit more. They've got the taste to pick out just the > good parts. But sometimes the feeling like they're arranging a > diorama of "The Garden of Early Delights" on a ping pong table in > their attic, moving little bits about obsessively. -- ---------------------------------------- not sent from an iDevice ---------------------------------------- --Apple-Mail=_72DEAE2F-01CA-40EA-B197-0E23F79F0BF2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html aria-label=3D"message body"><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" = content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body = style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = line-break: after-white-space;">Ha!<div><br></div><div>I think its = great</div><div><br></div><div>nods to the best of Depeche Mode and the = Orb in there - so building on other major artists but bringing that = whimsical BOC<br id=3D"lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div> <meta charset=3D"UTF-8"><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: = after-white-space;"><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, = 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: = after-white-space;"><div><p class=3D"MsoNormal">Best wishes</p><p = class=3D"MsoNormal">David Newman</p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Light", = sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 118, 160);"><a = href=3D"http://www.audiobulb.com/"><span style=3D"color: rgb(11, 118, = 160);">www.audiobulb.com</span></a> : </span><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Light", = sans-serif;">exploratory music</span><span style=3D"font-size: = 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Light", = sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 118, 160);"><a = href=3D"http://www.audiomoves.com/"><span style=3D"color: rgb(11, 118, = 160);">www.audiomoves.com</span></a></span><span style=3D"font-size: = 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Light", sans-serif;"> : = ambient music sync specialist</span><span style=3D"font-size: = 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Light", = sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 118, 160);"><a = href=3D"http://www.volume-objects.com/"><span style=3D"color: rgb(11, = 118, 160);">www.volume-objects.com</span></a></span><span = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Light", = sans-serif;"> : abstract ambience :: broken = space</span></p></div></div></div> </div> <div><br><div>On 8 May 2026, at 08:21, Zombiefly = <[email protected]> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><span = aria-invalid=3D"grammar" class=3D"Lm ng" = style=3D"border-style:none;background:none">given</span> the amount of = output over the years, <span aria-invalid=3D"grammar" class=3D"Lm ng" = style=3D"border-style:none;background:none">i'd</span> remove everything = you wrote and replace it with:<br>"2 guys who aren't really into it = anymore decided to compile a list of tracks they've been noodling with = on a sunday afternoon"... warp did the = rest.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote = gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 = May 2026 at 01:09, kent williams <<a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> = wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px = 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid = rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a = href=3D"https://youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo?si=3Dzl43p1J6eRmmKPHG" = rel=3D"noreferrer" = target=3D"_blank">https://youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo?si=3Dzl43p1J6eRmmKPHG</a> = (Entroit)<br> <a href=3D"https://youtu.be/oVLbPMFr1cE?si=3DfRrrxNe8Cla_wJeI" = rel=3D"noreferrer" = target=3D"_blank">https://youtu.be/oVLbPMFr1cE?si=3DfRrrxNe8Cla_wJeI</a> = (just Prophecy)<br> Boards Of Canada are nothing if not consistent. The video is 4/3 and<br> it looks like it was either dubbed to VHS and re-digitzed.<br> <br> They return to their theme of apocalyptic religion with a Vocoded<br> essay on the subject of nothingness and transcendence.<br> <br> I don't know if they wrote it or if it's from something.<br> <br> The music is a pastiche of sounds from the pass, in this case = there's<br> a real frisson of 1980s industrial music, like Caberet Voltaire. And<br> that doomy chorus guitar sounds like they borrowed it from Cocteau<br> Twins.<br> <br> It's more straightforward than many of their old tracks. There isn't<br> as much subliminal masking. But every drum hit, guitar line and = synth<br> part bristles with conscious intention. Everything is placed = in<br> perfect relation to everything else.<br> <br> About 2:18 in "Prophecy" there short interlude of drums, string = synth<br> and guitar (or synth? Hard to tel) plays a spare funk pattern, like<br> Nile Rodgers riffing, but it's atonal, dissonant relative to the key<br> of the drone bass. They take something familiar and making it = strange.<br> <br> I have a theory about musical intention: The person making music has<br> ideas they're implementing. They may be complicated ideas, not<br> directly audible in the music, but there's a system and intention<br> behind the raw audio hitting your ears. Listeners intuitively<br> recognize the system in the music, even if it's not as plain as 12 = bar<br> blues. A hidden structure still feels like structure, giving = the<br> music a visceral meaning.<br> <br> So with BOC, they may have started out messing around with machines<br> and seeing what comes out, but everything they do now is<br> hyper-detailed, hyper-intentional. Every surprising sound, every<br> unidentifiable echoey sound that only happens once, was put there = for<br> a purpose.<br> <br> What they do is fun for them, and fun as fan service. I'm interested<br> in what people not so enmeshed with this music think of it. I = think<br> it's quality - everything they do is quality - but sometimes the<br> attention that goes into every last, wobbly detail turns into<br> overthinking.<br> <br> In the end what I'm trying to say is that I wish they fooled around<br> and tried goofy shit more. They've got the taste to pick out just = the<br> good parts. But sometimes the feeling like they're arranging a<br> diorama of "The Garden of Early Delights" on a ping pong table in<br> their attic, moving little bits about obsessively.<br> </blockquote></div><div><br clear=3D"all"></div><div><br></div><span = class=3D"gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir=3D"ltr" = class=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><font face=3D"tahoma, = sans-serif">----------------------------------------</font><div><font = face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif"> not sent from an = iDevice</font></div><div><span style=3D"font-size:12.8px"><font = face=3D"tahoma, = sans-serif">----------------------------------------</font></span><br></di= v></div></div> </div></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_72DEAE2F-01CA-40EA-B197-0E23F79F0BF2--