GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC

[cubistking1906]

I'm digging on 5d right about meow.

[lyst]

5d always trips me the fuck out. Recently redownloaded "random 35 track tape" and its got some jammers on it.

[fujee]

I'm digging on 5d right about meow.

Yes

[Ender]

Why does everyone keep saying it's 5d? No one knows what its name is.

[mechanismj]

Why does everyone keep saying it's 5d? No one knows what its name is.

Wait a minute wait a minute...

This is the official Boards of Canada Youtube channel, right? Is this song actually called 5d then? MDG?

[Ender]

Why does everyone keep saying it's 5d? No one knows what its name is.

Wait a minute wait a minute...

This is the official Boards of Canada Youtube channel, right? Is this song actually called 5d then? MDG?

The channel favoriting it just means they liked the video. They could like it and it still have the wrong title. That's what I figured, anyway.

[SonicDimension]

I was just reading the 'Wide Use of Guitars' interview on bocpages and noticed this comment by Marcus:

We're really into that kind of thing where you're listening to something and you're not able to conceive of an intelligent author behind it. It gives you a real sense of detachment from the origin of the music, because it's less transparent, it's easy to imagine there was no human involvement at all.

That strikes me as a weird way to think about music. Why would you want music (or any art for that matter) to be so detached from its origins in human culture? It seems especially strange because of the intensely personal nature of BoC's sound. If they want to make 'detached' music that you can easily imagine being created with no human involvement, they should just make crappy commercial dance music instead of deliberately laboring over every single minute detail in every track they make.

[parasömn]

I was just reading the 'Wide Use of Guitars' interview on bocpages and noticed this comment by Marcus:

We're really into that kind of thing where you're listening to something and you're not able to conceive of an intelligent author behind it. It gives you a real sense of detachment from the origin of the music, because it's less transparent, it's easy to imagine there was no human involvement at all.

That strikes me as a weird way to think about music. Why would you want music (or any art for that matter) to be so detached from its origins in human culture? It seems especially strange because of the intensely personal nature of BoC's sound. If they want to make 'detached' music that you can easily imagine being created with no human involvement, they should just make crappy commercial dance music instead of deliberately laboring over every single minute detail in every track they make.

I think he means that people care way too much about who made the music and what gear they used to make it. I think he's just simply stating that it's the music itself that counts, not where/how it was made.

[TaoTapeTao]

I just interpreted it as they like to make music that's not easily identifiable or is abstracted from its origin. Like heavily processed or altered samples/sounds. I do that a ton and then later on when I go back and listen to what I made half the time I can't for the life of me remember its source or what I did to transform any sound in such a way.. lol.

[SonicDimension]

I was just thinking about that comment in the context of this long period of silence. I can understand the desire to create electronic music that is less tied down to the technology and musical gimmicks of a specific place or time. But I think they take the 'detachment' thing too seriously when it comes to how they relate to their audience. They have almost zero interaction with the media or fans for many years, they don't perform their music in public; they just hide in a hole somewhere.

The funny thing is that their secrecy does not draw less attention to their personal involvement in the music-- in fact, it has the opposite effect. In my desire to know about this enigmatic band, I have read every single interview I can find, followed lots of discussions here on twoism, listened to every recording of their music available online, etc. If they just went about their business in a more 'normal' manner, I probably would pay less attention to the people, technology, and culture that influenced their music.

[m.oreilly]

because it is organic, like it's already part of the rhythms of the cosmos. i love the feeling like i've tuned onto a frequency that connects everything, when hearing boc. it makes perfect sense to me having read that passage. everything is already i the mix, vibrating outward and inward

[cubistking1906]

Whether its really 5d or not, it's definitely legit since it has the intro melody from Seven Forty Seven. This fact also adds a little more credibility to the 35 track tape in general, which is really cool.

[TaoTapeTao]

because it is organic, like it's already part of the rhythms of the cosmos. i love the feeling like i've tuned onto a frequency that connects everything, when hearing boc. it makes perfect sense to me having read that passage. everything is already i the mix, vibrating outward and inward

well all music is inherently the rhythm of the cosmos since we are birthed from the cosmos. But I know exactly what you mean, boc just seems to come from a natural and un-abstracted source, the melodies and everything are immediately understood and communicated with no thought or further understanding. Their music is responsible for me understanding nature as mathematical and that in fact math is nature and math is organic and not some unnatural strange set or rules or laws we came up with one day. Maybe psychedelics helped in this understanding too.. lol. Well both of those combined I guess.

[theoktitus]

yep.............

[TaoTapeTao]

is there really anything better to do in this thread than ramble off on sorta-philosophical tangents?

[fujee]

Welcome to the Speculation thread

[Waterbagel]

Welcome to the Speculation thread

[Kamas009]

Welcome to the Speculation thread

[cpt.falcon]

hey,
i dont know if you guys are fans of aphex twin too, but he recently did an interesting interview:
http://ryan.ameba.ca/images/afxanothermanoct10pg01.jpg
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3040/afxanothermanoct10pg02.jpg

anyway, in the very first sentence richard d james mentions 'chilling with some mates in scotland'... there are two of them. I know it sounds crazy, but i thought since this is purely a speculation topic, why not post a wild speculation?
So how great would it be if afx and boc were buddies?

[Ender]

hey,
i dont know if you guys are fans of aphex twin too, but he recently did an interesting interview:
http://ryan.ameba.ca/images/afxanothermanoct10pg01.jpg
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3040/afxanothermanoct10pg02.jpg

anyway, in the very first sentence richard d james mentions 'chilling with some mates in scotland'... there are two of them. I know it sounds crazy, but i thought since this is purely a speculation topic, why not post a wild speculation?
So how great would it be if afx and boc were buddies?

Bahaha, that last question.