Re: Boards of Canada - Teaser tracks Introit/Prophecy at 1420hz
Laurent Knauth <[email protected]> Fri, 8 May 2026 21:50:57 +0200
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--000000000000e2f4b8065153b78a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | *=C2=AB nods to the best of Depeche Mode and the Orb in there - so buildi= ng on other major artists but bringing that whimsical BOC =C2=BB* When i read Kent's message, i thought it could have been a Violator review. =F0=9F=98=8A On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 9:49=E2=80=AFAM David Newman <[email protected]> = wrote: > 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 : exploratory music > > www.audiomoves.com : ambient music sync specialist > > 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]> 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. >> >> They return to their theme of apocalyptic religion with a Vocoded >> essay on the subject of nothingness and transcendence. >> >> I don't know if they wrote it or if it's from something. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 > ---------------------------------------- > > --000000000000e2f4b8065153b78a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">| <i>=C2=AB nods to the best of Depeche M= ode and the Orb in there - so building on other major artists but bringing = that whimsical BOC =C2=BB</i></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><div>When i r= ead Kent's message, i thought it could have been a Violator review.=C2= =A0=F0=9F=98=8A</div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><= div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 9:49=E2=80=AFAM= David Newman <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]= .uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"marg= in:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1e= x"><div>Ha!<div><br></div><div>I think its great</div><div><br></div><div>n= ods 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"m_70293419708038416= 52lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div> <div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-alig= n:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing= :0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);lett= er-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;whit= e-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div><p class=3D"MsoN= ormal">Best wishes</p><p class=3D"MsoNormal">David Newman</p><p class=3D"Ms= oNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Light&qu= ot;,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,118,160)"><a href=3D"http://www.audiobulb.com/"= target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"color:rgb(11,118,160)">www.audiobulb.com<= /span></a>=C2=A0:=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:&qu= ot;Helvetica Light",sans-serif">exploratory music</span><span style=3D= "font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span styl= e=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Light",sans-serif;colo= r:rgb(11,118,160)"><a href=3D"http://www.audiomoves.com/" target=3D"_blank"= ><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">=C2=A0: ambient music sync=C2=A0specialist</span><span style=3D"font= -size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></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/" target=3D"_blank">= <span style=3D"color:rgb(11,118,160)">www.volume-objects.com</span></a></sp= an><span style=3D"font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Light",sa= ns-serif">=C2=A0: abstract ambience :: broken space</span></p></div></div><= /div> </div> <div><br><div>On 8 May 2026, at 08:21, Zombiefly <<a href=3D"mailto:zomb= [email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div>= <br><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><span style=3D"border-style:none;background:none"= >given</span> the amount of output over the years, <span style=3D"border-st= yle:none;background:none">i'd</span> remove everything you wrote and re= place it with:<br>"2 guys who aren't really into it anymore decide= d to compile a list of tracks they've been noodling with on a sunday af= ternoon"... warp did the rest.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br>= <div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 = May 2026 at 01:09, kent williams <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]= om" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br></div><block= quote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1= px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href=3D"https://youtu.be/74N= luS3jzTo?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"noref= errer" 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<b= r> 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.=C2=A0 Everything is placed in<br> perfect relation to everything else.<br> <br> About 2:18 in "Prophecy" there short interlude of drums, string s= ynth<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.=C2=A0 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.=C2=A0 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.=C2=A0 I think<b= r> 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<b= r> good parts.=C2=A0 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_s= ignature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><font face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">--------------= --------------------------</font><div><font face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0not sent from an iDevice</font></div><div><span style=3D"f= ont-size:12.8px"><font face=3D"tahoma, sans-serif">------------------------= ----------------</font></span><br></div></div></div> </div></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div> --000000000000e2f4b8065153b78a--