Introduce Yourself

[lankydoom]

Excellent.

I checked, there was one, but I was disappointed with how it was not taken seriously like a beard thread should.

So I will make a new one for all beards on the forum to hang out in photographic form. Hints and tips and whatnot on beard care. Hahahaha.

[skam]

this thread smells of dust, i'm quite afraid of introducing myself in it.

[Crystalspike]

My name is Jason, I'm 21 and I live in Oklahoma, USA. Ever since I was a child, i always had an ear for unique music that steps outside the norm. In school, I often disagreed with most people's musical tastes, as most people in Oklahoma, or so I've seen, are normally only into what is pushed in their faces by the media, like rap that only talks about the same three things every song, accompanied by horribly generic and annoying beats. Others were into screamo and satanic music, which I do not like either. I often dumped girls for listening to a band called blood on the dance floor (and brokencyde) who have disgusting lyrics, treating girls like meat, also with horrible beats and thuggy sytnhs. I think the first band I ever got hooked on was Gorillaz, back in 2005. From then on, i often searched for music that had variety and an alt. hip hop feel to it. I was later introduced for more of that kind of thing by a show called Samurai Champloo, which has an amazing hip-hop flavored soundtrack. I later found Flying Lotus in 2007 who had many of his songs appear in bumps on Adult Swim. Flylo ended up becoming my hero after I listened to Reset EP and Los Angeles, and then there was Lukid with his album Foma, which sculpted my mind into loving albums and songs that create a sort of movie in my head, and provide a different experience with each listen, discovering new details each time. I also found more unique producers such as Take, Martyn, 2562, Burial, Matthew Dear, Tycho and a BUNCH of people from Ghostly International, which i discovered through an Adult Swim freebie compilation on their site, called Ghostly Swim (http://www.adultswim.com/music/ghostlyswim/). I used to play CDs from a bunch of the artists I mentioned in music class in the 8th grade, and there was always some bitch who would push the off button, followed by a couple people asking why I like that crap. I then started to realize how different I was from most people, not just musically, but personality wise as well. I hate sports, I'm more attracted to girl's facial features and personality more than tits and ass like most guys, and I play games like the Rayman Series, DKC games, Tomb Raider, pinball, and arcade type stuff, while most of the other guys were always about war and realistic fighting. Anyway, Boards of Canada didn't come into my life until late 2011, when i was 18. On Youtube alot my favorite artists often had comments that compared them to BoC, and I blew it off for I awhile, for whatever reason. This is when destiny kicked in. I downloaded the Warp 20 compilation to hear an exclusive Flying Lotus track, and then I ran into my first BoC track, Seven Forty Seven. For whatever reason I didn't really think much of it, and then I started seeing BoC thumbnails in the recommendation section on youtube. Blew it off again, and then later I downloaded a mix from Lone, which contained the first Boc track to completely blow my fucking mind: Red Moss! I couldn't stop listening to it, and then I decided to cut the crap and check out that video I kept seeing in my recommendations, Everything You Do Is A Balloon. You know the video, the one with the bike race with the people with monkey faces. Whatever piece left of my brain that exploded from Red Moss, exploded. I then downloaded their entire discography from reddit (I was poor then), and started with the Hi Scores EP. Let me tell you about my first experience with Boc's music. Familiar. There was something oddly familiar about their music that made me feel as if I'd been listening to them my entire life. Maybe it had something to do with alot of the samples and synths that remind of the old documentaries that always played on PBS before I found Cartoon Network. Red Moss, Roygbiv, Tele Workshop, M9, Skimming Stones, Energy Warning, 87' Pontiac Dream, and ETYDIABalloon are the ones i can think of right off the bat that have that retro after school special vibe, that makes me think of crackly VHS tapes showing scientific equipment, space rockets, spinning clocks, and old industrial factories. Turns out I'm not the only one who got that vibe, as there is a shitload of unofficial music videos of BoC that feature all of those things. Every song they have takes me to a different part of my mind I forgot existed, and that's the beauty of Boards Of Canada. Music Has The Right has bright colored music that captures the essence of childhood innocence, and Geogaddi has dark colored music that captures the essence of childhood innocence trying to find it's way through the sad and sinister things that come with growing up in this world. This band makes me feel alive in ways I never felt before. The one good thing about finding BoC so late though, is the fact that I didn't have to wait as long as everyone else for the new album. heehee

[louise]

Most awsome intro ive seen on here by a mile ^

Welcome!

[Mexicola]

Agreed. Welcome Crystalspike.
You're going to enjoy it around here I reckon

[Crystalspike]

thanks guys

[fujee]

Perhaps we should re-sticky this again? Seen a few New Seeds popping about, should give em a chance to say hello?

[Mexicola]

Perhaps we should re-sticky this again? Seen a few New Seeds popping about, should give em a chance to say hello?

We aim to please

[Anesthyl]

I'm 17 and have been lurking this board sporadically since about 2009 and only recently decided to register. I'm someone who has always been in a search for transcendental music and Boards of Canada are one of the only groups whose music has had such an effect on me. The standard "nostalgic" descriptor often attributed to the group is itself a vast oversimplification of the atmosphere created by their works.
Late 2008 was when I began to enter the wide world of experimental electronic music and of course discovered BoC in the process and I undoubtedly have the same response to it now as I did in that initial era of musical discovery.

[Cupz]

Welcome Anesthyl, and you are right, its so much more then just nostalgia.

And cool avatar!

[FortonServices]

Hello. I'm mainly here to read nerdy over-analysis of BoC music. Which I've done for a while as a lurker, but I figured I should join up and contribute. I miss internet messageboards after they were largely killed off by Facebook.

I work in a recording studio in a beautiful place in the country. I record a lot of voiceovers. if you live in the UK, I'm probably partially responsible for recording some of the TV ads that annoy the hell out of you, and company training videos that send you to sleep. I also record bands/musicians etc. Although none of them are as well known as the TV ads.

I make a lot of my own music, in various styles. I have a home studio and I'm not afraid to use it. To the point of being obsessive and anti-social.

I sleep a lot on public transport. I also have a daughter who is almost 13 weeks old and her favourite BoC song is Roygbiv. She prefers their earlier, more whimsical stuff. She's far too young to appreciate the immersive darkness of Tomorrow's Harvest or Geogaddi. She thinks The Campfire Headphase is a bit dull, and for that matter so do I.

[Mexicola]

Welcome all! Pull up a comfy chair, the kettles on and get something tasty from the biscuit barrel.

[RVeldhuis]

Hello there! I've been on this forum for quite some time now, andI've been on posting a bit more recently, and still haven't properly introduced myself! So I figured it was time to do so!

I'm 20, first got into contact with BoC in 2007/2008 I think. My brother had listened to them before, and that's how I heard. I started to listen to them myself, The Campfire Headphase was the album that was most accesable for me, cause at that time I listened to alot of downtempo like Air/Zero 7/Royksopp.

I must say it took me a while to get into MHTRFC and Geogaddi, it took a couple of full listens, but I have been in love with them ever since I first started to listen to them. There is something in their sound that moves me and I never get bored of.

At this point in life I'm just trying to figure everything out, and figure out what I wanna do, I'm currently working so I can get enough money to go back to school again, I have been fucking around quite a bit to be honest.

I came across Twoism cause of my brother aswell(hi portiss!) and have lurked ever since to be honest, with little periods of no activity, you know how it goes! Just feel like this is such a "warm" community, and I would love to be a part of it!

See y'all soon! (:

[Cupz]

It feels like you have been here forever, but welcome all the same! Your brother is awesome too.

[portiss]

It feels like you have been here forever, but welcome all the same! Your brother is awesome too.

Why thank you, you are awesome as well my friend!

Edit: We still need to get another Dutchies Twoism meeting, I'd love to drop by.

[RVeldhuis]

It feels like you have been here forever, but welcome all the same! Your brother is awesome too.

Honestly I just barely post anything, and I have had periods where I barely check this forum, but I always seem to come back! (:

[Cupz]

We still need to get another Dutchies Twoism meeting, I'd love to drop by.

I'm all up for it, but I really suck at making things like that happen. I know AFX.NL would totally be there.

[Mexicola]

As I recall, back when I arranged to first one in Dorset, AE briefly looked into arranging a listening party in Holland.

Just saying...

[RVeldhuis]

We still need to get another Dutchies Twoism meeting, I'd love to drop by.

I'm all up for it, but I really suck at making things like that happen. I know AFX.NL would totally be there.

I would totally be there too. I'll bring weed!

[Cupz]

We'll all bring weed xD