How did you first hear about Boards of Canada?

[aorta]

cdnow.com recommendation for music has the right to children back in the early days of the world wide web

[The Friendly Stranger]

yes, I was pretty shocked when she reminded me that BoC were her relatives. they're blood relatives and she's actually in the geogaddi sleeve, as well as her brother. those are all family pictures. pretty cool, I think.

anyway, small world. I ask her from time to time what the guys are up to and she mostly has the scoop on the more family-related stuff more than the new album stuff, understandably.

the tapes she's made me copies of are stuff that has all leaked. if any of it hadn't, there's no way I'd betray her and leak it myself.

I'm not really keen on trying to convince anyone here, but if you look, I've mentioned this before.

a.

dude, she should put those tapes on Ebay. Imagine how much money she could make.

If you are serious, you sir are a cock.

[the letter p]

"C'est fini la comédie"

[Moebius]

I first heard of them when Marcus called me to play bass for an old pre Hexsun band at the time called The Lutes of the Knoll. That was around 1985. But I was already playing bass for the K-Mart Shoppers, a little punk/reggae band. And my loyalty was to this band at the time.

Ah, I get it, that's the letter p, as in taking the piss...

[ReadyLetsGo]

It was probably 2001 or 2002 (Yes, I got into the Warp following pretty late in the game, I know. I'm still young :p) and I was over at our local Bargain World, some thrift store I always went to and bought cassette tapes and coloring books and old computer equipment at as a kid... got my first 4-channel mixer and turntable there Anyway, yeah, I was looking through all the CDs and found a copy of Music Has The Right To Children, and it was the coolest album cover I'd ever seen so I picked it up just to see what it was. I listened to Roygbiv a lot but otherwise the CD collected dust until I ended up getting into Aphex Twin in probably 2005, where I thereafter grabbed my BoC CD and became pretty much addicted.

Suffice to say that I was too young and too impatient with my music to listen to these guys when I first heard about them, but hey. I was in grade school

[turquoise70]

when i was in gradeschool i was listening to the beastie boys, rammstein, the soundtrack to Godzilla (1996) and videogame music

[the letter p]

"C'est fini la comédie"

[-Phil-]

I was listening at the time to Kid loco's DJ-Kicks, and one of the tracks was Happy Cycling. I noticed this one particularly, but didn't go further. Then some years later I heard Sixtyniner on Nova, a french radio, I loved it and checked the artist on the radio website. I recalled the name when I saw it, then I checked their other stuff and loved it all, for months, until I realized it became my favorite band.

[barbeque08]

From the standout remix they did for Meat Beat Manifesto's Prime Audio Soup CD single back in 98. "Who are these guys???"

[Aserine]

Hmm... one boring Sunday I was looking at this list and saw Boards of Canada towards the end of the 1990's period. I'd heard a lot of my friends from the chipmusic scene mention them before so I checked out MHTRTC. It was like a style of electronic music that I'd always wanted to listen to but could never find before. Since then I've been engrossed in BoC

[Aimo]

Heard about them through a friend of mine, who played 'Roygbiv' from MHTRTC in summer '98. It was one of those incredible 'who the hell is that??!!' moments. A few of my friends had been getting into electronic music in a big way from the mid 90's on-wards, but I stayed clear, as I had this misconception that alot of it was unmelodic & soulless. BoC changed all that, it was the first electronically based music I had heard that was dripping with melody & emotion. And they've been giving me that ever since.

[88marquis]

Sometime in middleschool I think late 2002 early 2003, 7th grade or so I was working on a geography project focused on canada - I was doing some reasearch and came across geogaddi and I've been listening since with absolutaly no signs of stopping.

[dave_from_2001]

1998 after buying Orblivion and Daft punk I was looking into Euro electronica for real, heard them on Amazon.com sound-samples, Colour of the Fire sold me and was instantly amazed by the PBS sound because it was real deal. Bought Pole1, MHTRTC, EP7, and APHEX AMB1 all together. Was a good intro!

[mechanismj]

I used my ears.

[the letter p]

"C'est fini la comédie"

[Chuck Beckles]

I listened to Music Has the Right to Children a few years ago but only liked roygbiv. Then I slowly acquired the rest of their stuff and realized they are religion.

[mono]

Initially I saw Music Has the Right to Children on recommendation lists but couldn't really get into them, besides a pair of tracks (I remember Wildlife Analysis and Kaini Industries in particular).

Then I asked, on a forum dealing with TV adverts, about the music on a Burn commercial. Turns out it was specifically made for the commercial, but copying the style of a track called "1969". Some time after that I bought Geogaddi, and I remember listening to it for the first time while studying for an exam back at high school so that must have been like maybe 10 years ago, at least 8 years ago.

EDIT: here is said Burn commercial

[IronMark]

This seems to be as good a thread as any for my first post.

I had just finished watching something on Youtube and in the related videos, a still from the EYDIAB video caught my attention so I put it on and my jaw hit the floor. The only bad part was when I went to get some more BOC stuff, it was really hard to find Boc Maxima or Hi Scores so I had to get them from Ebay and listened to the three studio albums constantly while waiting for them. Only about 3 or 4 bands in my life have had this much of an effect on me and BoC are the first band in the last 10 years to captivate me this much - it's so cool to see among the BoC fan community online that pretty much everyone has this really deep connection to them.

[thepastinsidepressant]

sometime around 1999 at college. i recall a friend telling me about this cover (MHTRTC) with strange blocked out faces on it, weeks later it was at his desk so i got a copy then. hmm liked it but wasn't mad on it first. took a while, i'm not a fan of hip-hop anyway so its beat style was the first hurdle for me. then Geogaddi came along and that did it for me. dunno why i never bought it on vinyl, had 2 chances, first and then the repress. even Campfire i didnt buy the vinyl as it didnt hit me greatly, had same effect as MHTRTC. kind of sorry now, have Geogaddi and all their eps on vinyl though. Campfire is a treasure of an album now that i hear it but i'm a Geogaddi person. today, the hip-hop thing i don't hear anymore, its Boards of Canada, its their sound now, it's just their thing.

[GH]

I was a bit of a late comer as far as BoC are concerned.

Years ago when I was making minimalist beatless music influenced by Basinski, SotL, Fennesz etc. people kept telling me my stuff sounded like BoC. I didn't pay much heed.

Later, when I started making music with beats in my current guise, I kept getting told my stuff was very "boardsy", and eventually when I figured out what the hell they were talking about, I decided it was time to check them out, and I'm very glad I did.