First BoC song you EVER heard

RedMarauder · Friendly Stranger Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

Hi-Scores off the Skam records Skampler compilation, which also has Everything You Do Is A Balloon on it, in 1997. Was blown away by those two tracks. Soon after that MHTRTC came out which reinforced my fanboy love of the Sandison brothers.

Synthetrix · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:41 am Post subject: Re: First BoC song you EVER heard

cmx · Eagle Minded Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 466

i reckon it was roygbiv Smile

88marquis · Sherbet Head Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Posts: 830

Ready Lets Go

Found Geogaddi while researching Canada for a school project back in middle school, nothing has been the same since.

cebit · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject:

'98 or '99. I was downloading music and stumbled upon a release by Boards of Canada. I remember it as chill out trip-hop. I was a student at that time. I didn't pay much attention to it as I was constantly downloading stuff and listening to new music.

Later at around 2001 I was living in Scotland. I met some friends who were experimenting with several samplers and chopped beats through filters and delays with an ancient Macintosh. One day someone came up with the idea to listen to some cool stuff they get inspired from. It was BoCs "MHTRTC". Then I remembered the atmosphere of the album I had listened to back in '99. It was "Twoism".
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Scories · Friendly Stranger Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 39

An Eagle in your Mind. What a great track! What a wonderful track!!

Tomisnever · Boqurant Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 52

Happy Cycling, my dad used to put it on and watch the Tour de France.

kidfortoday70 · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:34 pm Post subject:

i first hear the Black Drum remix they did for Beck and proceeded to buy In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country....so i guess Kid for Today was the 1st Wink

infinite sevens · Posts Quantity Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 170

tomisnever, that is so cool if thats true, haha.
I was gonna say how I was reading up on "electronic" music, found a review on boc, became intrigued, downloaded aquarius and said meh, interesting, lets try one more, downloaded sixtyten and said WOW this is crazy awesome.

but really, it was actually two years prior to that, at a friends house, he showed me a clip of Salad fingers, which featured "beware the friendly stranger". Weird.
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Opothecary · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:30 am Post subject:

Wildlife Analysis in May of 1998 along with the other 17 tracks of MHTRTC. Hate to be pretentious but it changed how I listed to music forever.
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powershoes · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:01 am Post subject:

one day in the spring of 2003, a friend of mine was on slsk and played, "ready let's go," as geogaddi finished downloading. i remember feeling surprise and intrigue. it was like nothing else i'd heard before.

i asked for the cd, took it home and cranked my baby advent ii's. that was great.

towards the end of autumn that same year, i visited atomic records and spied some boards of canada albums in the corner of the shop, mixed up with all the other electronic vinyl. picked up geogaddi and a beautiful place. never hearing a beautiful place before, i was skeptical. however, something inside me said that i had to.

that's when the rest is history...

Syni · Friendly Stranger Joined: 31 Mar 2010 Posts: 37

It was Turquoise Hexagon Sun.

Basically, I saw the trippy album cover to MHTRTC and thought "I guess I'll listen to that." It happened really casually, and basically I just picked a song from the album to listen to first to get a "feel" for the band. I thought THS had a kickass name, so I listened to that first.