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[Jonse]

I say in five years, we should all get together and actually have a festival where us musicians on the forum will get together and have tribute concert for BoC, and we'd invite the Sandisons and MDG. How's that sound?
And we'll make sure there's a high quality capture of the whole thing to put on CD.

Maybe I had a premonition, then.



"One on Twoism: Live"



Problem is, I think there's a lot of us, no offense, who do their musical creation on a digital end.

I have a handful of friends, musicians as well, that could not play a modular instrument worth shit, but can manipulate ableton live to produce literally angelic tones.

I've always wanted to be able to do my own live set some day, but I'd really have to brush up on my instrument skills. I'm too used to working almost exclusively with drum machines.

[Yellow Records]

"One On Twoism: Live"

That'd be pretty amazing. I'm hoping to contribute to the OOT collections some day.

[Seeya_Later]

Problem is, I think there's a lot of us, no offense, who do their musical creation on a digital end.

I have a handful of friends, musicians as well, that could not play a modular instrument worth shit, but can manipulate ableton live to produce literally angelic tones.

I've always wanted to be able to do my own live set some day, but I'd really have to brush up on my instrument skills. I'm too used to working almost exclusively with drum machines.

I'm a hardware guy so...
I'd use a large eurorack modular. The Elektron trinity (Monomachine, Machinedrum, Octatrack). Some dave smith synths... and perhaps a CV/Gate sequencer (for the bits I wouldn't play live). I don't have any of that, but I'd acquire it.
I do stuff in the digital end sure, but that doesn't mean I couldn't do a hardware-only performance.
I speak subtractive synthesis fluently, and would be extremely comfortable in front of a real analog modular. I speak FM synthesis too.

[Jonse]

Problem is, I think there's a lot of us, no offense, who do their musical creation on a digital end.

I have a handful of friends, musicians as well, that could not play a modular instrument worth shit, but can manipulate ableton live to produce literally angelic tones.

I've always wanted to be able to do my own live set some day, but I'd really have to brush up on my instrument skills. I'm too used to working almost exclusively with drum machines.

I'm a hardware guy so...
I'd use a large eurorack modular. The Elektron trinity (Monomachine, Machinedrum, Octatrack). Some dave smith synths... and perhaps a CV/Gate sequencer (for the bits I wouldn't play live). I don't have any of that, but I'd acquire it.
I do stuff in the digital end sure, but that doesn't mean I couldn't do a hardware-only performance.
I speak subtractive synthesis fluently, and would be extremely comfortable in front of a real analog modular. I speak FM synthesis too.

Then you're probably many steps ahead of some of us in that department.

[Seeya_Later]

I wasn't trying to brag if that's what it sounded like.

[Saakki]

Noice idea! Im in.

[OverTheHorizonRadar]

I once had a dream that I somehow found a magical keyboard that Rick Wright of Pink Floyd used, and it contained a whole set of patches that were all used on Geogaddi. As little sense as that makes, it was such an awesome dream!

[Saakki]

I once had a dream that I somehow found a magical keyboard that Rick Wright of Pink Floyd used, and it contained a whole set of patches that were all used on Geogaddi. As little sense as that makes, it was such an awesome dream!

Can a dream get more epic than that..nope! Dude..

[Waterbagel]

I once had a dream that I somehow found a magical keyboard that Rick Wright of Pink Floyd used, and it contained a whole set of patches that were all used on Geogaddi. As little sense as that makes, it was such an awesome dream!

what a beautiful dream :')

[Mexicola]

BOCfest! Actually, scrap that - it's an awful name.

[sexagon hun]

if we get zero news in August I'm gonna.....well, I guess get sad and keep waiting.
cryptic hints are fine, BTW, mdg

[Techboy]

since consulting with some contemporaries of mine, i have decided the reason that boc keep such an unnecessary distance, is probably due to the fact they are art students from edinburgh uni. yup.

mhmm.

[Yellow Records]

BoC keep a distance, because that's how they are. They're a throwback (in some sense) to "the older, better days." In "those" days, nobody had twitter to give them all of the information about every band they like. No facebook or myspace to pass pictures of themselves around. The reason why people fell deeply in love with some bands, is because nobody ever knew shit about them.

In the 70s, you had to subscribe to magazines or listen to the radio to know when a new album for a band was coming out. No twitter sending tweets to your phone every 20 seconds reminding you that the new single is releasing for international shipping in 2 days.

There wasn't a wikipedia page that told you about every hair on a music artist's head. Mike and Marcus could be serial killers or headers of underground corporations or fucking aliens for all we know! But that's why we love them like family. Because they reach us on a mystical level. They form bonds with the listener through their music, not advertisement. And these bonds are strong. And that's exactly how pretty much every artist used to be 40 years ago.

Yeah I do agree that they are a bit TOO quiet, but so what? The silence is DEAFENING, and BoC understand that more than anyone.




PS: If anyone starts to argue with me for some bullshit reason, don't think i'll be paying any attention. Go outside and get some fresh air. It's better for you than wasting your time "yelling" at a person you'll never meet.

[ArbitersGround]

I just had this thought in my head.

[Mexicola]

Dreamed last night that the website had a complete overhaul and a countdown timer was placed up front and centre. Days .... Hours...... Seconds.

Typical of BOC though, the timer didn't countdown in the normal manner, but seemed to count forward, back, skip numbers, etc. People started looking for a pattern in the random sequence and then some started having silly dreams....about.......it.

Yeah, I'll stop now

[nick47]

Dreamed last night that the website had a complete overhaul and a countdown timer was placed up front and centre. Days .... Hours...... Seconds.

Typical of BOC though, the timer didn't countdown in the normal manner, but seemed to count forward, back, skip numbers, etc. People started looking for a pattern in the random sequence and then some started having silly dreams....about.......it.

Yeah, I'll stop now

Oh my fucking god that would be AWESOME

It would drive us fucking nuts, but THAT would be something to check on every day

[Saakki]

Dreamed last night that the website had a complete overhaul and a countdown timer was placed up front and centre. Days .... Hours...... Seconds.

Typical of BOC though, the timer didn't countdown in the normal manner, but seemed to count forward, back, skip numbers, etc. People started looking for a pattern in the random sequence and then some started having silly dreams....about.......it.

Yeah, I'll stop now

Sounds immense! Hopefully they come up with something as interesting

[Mexicola]

If any Warp marketing bods are watching - this idea is available for a very reasonable rate. A signed copy of Hooper Bay would be a start and we can go from there

[Saakki]

If and Warp marketing bods are watching - this idea is available for a very reasonable rate. A signed copy of Hooper Bay would be a start and we can go from there

[IanRedpoint]

Given BoC's silence/absence I'm amazed that nobody has thought to form a BoC tribute band.

I'm utterly torn between thinking it's a brilliant idea and absolutely horrific.