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[mr3]

From: Bleep <info@bleep.com>
Subject: Weekly Roundup: Okzharp and Manthe Ribane, Boards of Canada, µ-Ziq, RP Boo, WEN and more 

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Electronic and Electronica / 1990s

The second EP from everyone’s favourite bunker-dwelling brothers was - unbelievably - an even tighter mix than their first, with the title track adding a sizzling digital beat...

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[Opothecary]

Yeah, it's too early to hear something relevant from Bleep about these cats doing something new, believe me

[Flory]

Yeah, it's too early to hear something relevant from Bleep about these cats doing something new, believe me

Then again it was 5 years apart from mhtrtc to geogaddi.

[Josh]

I've decided that whenever a new album comes out, it will be a major shift in style -- totally unlike anything they've done thus far -- to the point people will question if it's even them. It will make the transition from Geoggadi to TCH seem like a minor deviation in comparison.

I base this prediction on absolutely nothing, but I want it on record in the event I'm right and I can tell you all I knew it all along.

[Gazebo4]

I've decided that whenever a new album comes out, it will be a major shift in style -- totally unlike anything they've done thus far -- to the point people will question if it's even them. It will make the transition from Geoggadi to TCH seem like a minor deviation in comparison.

I base this prediction on absolutely nothing, but I want it on record in the event I'm right and I can tell you all I knew it all along.

I really doubt you wouldn't be able to hear it's them, their sound signature is far too distinctive/special.

[Josh]

I've decided that whenever a new album comes out, it will be a major shift in style -- totally unlike anything they've done thus far -- to the point people will question if it's even them. It will make the transition from Geoggadi to TCH seem like a minor deviation in comparison.

I base this prediction on absolutely nothing, but I want it on record in the event I'm right and I can tell you all I knew it all along.

I really doubt you wouldn't be able to hear it's them, their sound signature is far too distinctive/special.

I'm suggesting that they could be at a point where they deliberately abandon their signature sound and reinvent their sound completely. (Yes, I realize this sounds totally absurd and I wouldn't bet more than a few bucks on it, but what the hell? It's during these periods of inactivity from them that I'm prone to absurd posts. Indulge me?)

[Soul_Slip]

Not to be a downer, but, I personally would be satisfied with Tomorrow's Harvest being their last major public release... although I doubt it considering they are more popular now it seems. Some are getting impatient, I am not because they are still releasing new material, albeit remixes, but still more now than in between TCH and TH, and I personally love their newest iteration of themselves, love Mr. Mistake (instrumental)

[mr3]

I actually thought that Bleep announce might be a remix (instead, Warp just acting like a big label). I'm kinda "eh" on a lot of their remixes anyway. Don't know why, they're so well crafted. Good point here, I'm asking myself how I'd feel at this point if there wasn't anything more from them. It's just hard to imagine. When people are expressive in as many forms as they've been, they tend to stay creative their entire lives. And there's so much incredible experimental stuff out there now that I could see myself surviving at least if they stopped.

[Opothecary]

https://twitter.com/boctransmission/sta ... 8252137472

See you in 96 days, maybe

[15Dreams]

Not to be a downer, but, I personally would be satisfied with Tomorrow's Harvest being their last major public release... although I doubt it considering they are more popular now it seems. Some are getting impatient, I am not because they are still releasing new material, albeit remixes, but still more now than in between TCH and TH, and I personally love their newest iteration of themselves, love Mr. Mistake (instrumental)

Quite agree. If they were to do another album, some chill songs in the style of the Poppy Seed remix or the Mr. Mistake/Sometimes vein would be quite nice. It's clear that they've matured musically since TCH so another iteration of their more mellow sound would be fun. Plus Tomorrow's Harvest is pretty depressing, at least musically.

[Geogandhi]

I've decided that whenever a new album comes out, it will be a major shift in style -- totally unlike anything they've done thus far -- to the point people will question if it's even them. It will make the transition from Geoggadi to TCH seem like a minor deviation in comparison.

I base this prediction on absolutely nothing, but I want it on record in the event I'm right and I can tell you all I knew it all along.

Style, maybe... but you will always know it's them. With limited chops they always play similar lines and motifs making their melodies instantly theirs which is a great thing in my book. Unless they have really gone to school or going full on sequencing for this next one (if there is one?) I think you will always know it'd BoC. But I agree, it will be a pretty big shift in theme again.

[Opothecary]

Old dead deleted video 27 has been pulled from the video playlist, I'm glad because it had some bad implications behind it

[Valotonin]

Old dead deleted video 27 has been pulled from the video playlist, I'm glad because it had some bad implications behind it

Which one was that and, more interestingly, what were said implications?

[Opothecary]

Old dead deleted video 27 has been pulled from the video playlist, I'm glad because it had some bad implications behind it

Which one was that and, more interestingly, what were said implications?

Let's not dig too deep into my problems with 27, let's say that it ties into my previous commentary on the subject:



Videos 12 (3+9) and 27 (3×9) have both been dead videos on their playlist, marked as private or deleted or whatever. 12 was Olson at some point, as per the general sequencing you see there of MHTRTC. 27 was deleted in the past day or two (today if my reasoning behind it is correct) bumping everything after it up by 1 spot.

[Opothecary]

And when I say "deleted" I mean completely removed from the playlist, rather than left dangling as a dead entry in there, if that makes sense.

[Valotonin]

And when I say "deleted" I mean completely removed from the playlist, rather than left dangling as a dead entry in there, if that makes sense.

It just looks like a '60s film about the safety of school buses to me, I get that the Native American thing might be be deemed a little offensive, but I went to a summer camp in Canada actually owned/operated by a Native family for generations and dressing up in headdresses and archery were quite a large part of it as they felt that they were teaching others about their culture and it was a form of embracing it. I think it is the kind of thing that non-native Americans care about and the actual Native Americans don't, I think they care more about oil pipelines and the fear of their reserves being interfered with than a few people dressing up as cowboys and indians for fun.

Or did I miss the point. Was there something that went completely over my head about it that was problematic?

[Opothecary]

It just looks like a '60s film about the safety of school buses to me, I get that the Native American thing might be be deemed a little offensive, but I went to a summer camp in Canada actually owned/operated by a Native family for generations and dressing up in headdresses and archery were quite a large part of it as they felt that they were teaching others about their culture and it was a form of embracing it. I think it is the kind of thing that non-native Americans care about and the actual Native Americans don't, I think they care more about oil pipelines and the fear of their reserves being interfered with than a few people dressing up as cowboys and indians for fun.

Or did I miss the point. Was there something that went completely over my head about it that was problematic?

I have no problem with the content of the film (I'm not some sort of pearl clutching PC policeman despite the fact that I think our president is a scumsucking piece of shit) - but its the combination of Kid for Today/Special Delivery and a separate tangentially related 3rd piece of data that is not to be found in that tweet, that I'm not going disclose either, maybe that's selfish of me, but probably for the best. I probably wouldn't have even brought it up in the first place if I didn't notice it when I got home last night in the condition that I was in. No edit or take backsies now, I suppose.

In any case, I'm glad that the old Video entry 27 is gone, hopefully 12 is next to go.

[Valotonin]

I'm not some sort of pearl clutching PC policeman despite the fact that I think our president is a scumsucking piece of shit)

I agree and I am sorry if it came across as my insinuating that. People are too quick to group together opinions at the moment and say "You believe X therefore you are just like these people who believe X, Y and Z" as I am someone that often falls prey to that, being called a conspiracy theorist for one very well researched point of view that many others who are genuinely tinfoil hatters latch onto despite not understanding it in the slightest.

Plenty of valid reasons to dislike Trump outside of being oversensitive and PC and I respect that.

[Geogandhi]

I don't want to offend you Opothecary but... Are you high, deluded, far gone, tin foil hatted etc etc?
You don't make any sense, especially the last post, I know you make sense to you but not to me. I'm not sure about anyone else?
You talk like you know something but keep it close to your chest and play this game with numbers which sounds exciting on first glance but actually seems very clutching at straws and making the rules up to fit your theory. Very loose.
Again, I don't want to offend and I have nothing against you at all, you're a decent, interesting voice on here and keep this place alive, but I want to know your deal. of course, it's none of my business so feel free to tell me to f**k off.

[Opothecary]

I appreciate your concern Geogandhi, but I can assure you that I'm quite fine, of sound mind and body. I like a good beer or three or a dab here and there just like most people, but I'm not some hermit cowering in a basement with a whiteboard or whatever, slowly losing their mind,

I feel like I used to be pretty overt and specific about explaining what I felt they were up to each step of the way with this thing (just look back at this thread over the past 100 odd pages), but as time has gone I've intentionally taken my analysis of that in a more abstract direction, that's partly I think due to lack of interest/understanding by others and maybe the realization that it's more fun that way anyways.

Yes, I am holding some undisclosed extra information close to my chest that I strongly feel is authenticated but is likely to be ultimately ephemeral in the scheme of things, data that is sort of like the equivalent to the NCD website in the runup to TH, I don't think it's a hugely relevant to anyones' interest anyways.

The "why" of this thing has always been interesting to me. I think my love of Boards has always come more from some of their implied aesthetics and interests intersecting with my own. Aside from that charming woozy 70s nostalgia I've always found things like mind control, numerology, and cults really interesting to me. Big Lovecraft fan too - I remember Stephen King doing some short story years ago that felt like a nod to Lovecraft/OCD that seems a lot like this and it was great. Call me a willing mind control subject that's giving you a wink and a nod at the same time.

I often think about these two guys that you have to pass by to get into the local hockey games here, I believe that they live in a homeless shelter or something, but they will stand on the street and loudly read bible passages and try to rain down fire and brimstone on the people walking into the game. They are largely ignored by all the passerby, but that doesn't deter them at all, year in and year out.

I respect the fact that it's all very real to those guys, and it if helps you understand where I'm coming from, this is kind of my own nod to that type of devotion, but as I said, tongue in cheek all the way just in case you were worried.