lumpenprol Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 it'll be quite funny when they are still playing this hard-to-get tease game in 10 yrs to their 50 remaining fans TH made me not give a hoot what BoC do.Unless it's bring good new music. I'll assume they are washed up until they prove otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 why do people like live shows so much? Why have sex when you can just jack off to porn? Maybe this is why i don't go to shows any more. hahaha. exactly. Also, I throw the best dance parties by myself at home DJing whatever the fuck I want. For different variation of the same music, the artist should just release it as remix. Live recording always have abysmal crowd noise, fuck all the cheering and bullshit. The only thing I see going for live show is bigger audio system and sex, if you are into that kind of stuff. heheh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 it'll be quite funny when they are still playing this hard-to-get tease game in 10 yrs to their 50 remaining fans TH made me not give a hoot what BoC do.Unless it's bring good new music. I'll assume they are washed up until they prove otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 it'll be quite funny when they are still playing this hard-to-get tease game in 10 yrs to their 50 remaining fans TH made me not give a hoot what BoC do.Unless it's bring good new music. I'll assume they are washed up until they prove otherwise. Even though I like the album, I'd agree with 'hard-to-get tease game' bullshit they peddle. I've vented my spleen over that many times over the years. Does my fucking head in. I'm English (with a bit Irish) and by the laws of nature I'm generally very cynical, so it doesn't really wash with me. For a time it was cool, I guess the release of Geogaddi suited all that. I must admit, at this moment in time I'm left a bit deflated by the return of BoC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I'm baffled that some think it's an high point in their career, but i'm not very accepting of the ultra minimalist one idea tracks. For some though, it's the ultra pollinator bee's knees, good for them, suckling on that premium honey. As for being mysterious, it works pretty well at keeping people away, for lack of knowledge as to who they are and where to find them, including the nuts that would obsess over the package that they have strived to create, this BoC thing. That would be a positive. It is the antithesis of the normally understood role of the musician as a communicator not only of his magic through music but being open about his thoughts on all the this and thats of the world of music and beyond. There have been a few exceptions, this genre seems to reflect that more than most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyramidpanes Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 it'll be quite funny when they are still playing this hard-to-get tease game in 10 yrs to their 50 remaining fans TH made me not give a hoot what BoC do.Unless it's bring good new music. I'll assume they are washed up until they prove otherwise. I'm not sure i think they have the largest fan base the've ever had at the moment, would even say larger than ae, aphex etc, as their sound is more accessible & their still goin. massive fanbase examples- guy on fox news saying their amazing, endless u tube comments saying their amazing, their facebook page, just google boc lol..... i don't like it lol & think they must be having trouble dealing with this exposure, i found the build up of TH tedious after a while but love the album & just wish they released it without telling anyone, like with geogaddi etc. beyonce's new album release was more mysterious lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 I have to be careful, I'm pretty wacked on Guinness so I don't wanna start blabbing bollocks. Last few posts on this are good. Mmm, let me say I think Boards of Canada are trading on past glories at the moment. That new dose of BOC did me well, but I''m starting to see the critics side of things. Ahhh, fuck it I'm bailing. I promised myself not to do drunk posts anymore. I just love my music dudes (as do you) End of story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 yeah, drunk posts can be a bit self immolating. I know this from harsh experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 it'll be quite funny when they are still playing this hard-to-get tease game in 10 yrs to their 50 remaining fans TH made me not give a hoot what BoC do.Unless it's bring good new music. I'll assume they are washed up until they prove otherwise. Even though I like the album, I'd agree with 'hard-to-get tease game' bullshit they peddle. I've vented my spleen over that many times over the years. Does my fucking head in. I'm English (with a bit Irish) and by the laws of nature I'm generally very cynical, so it doesn't really wash with me. For a time it was cool, I guess the release of Geogaddi suited all that. I must admit, at this moment in time I'm left a bit deflated by the return of BoC. I'm on board with this. i mean i am as psyched as the next guy for box, but that overblown campaign left a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth. even when they announce the next ep, i think i am just going to be ilke "ok, an ep in 3 months. great. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyst Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I don't see them ever doing live shows in the future. They are too busy searching out rare distorted bleeps and blorps in recordings from abandoned bunkers in Russia, which add .5 seconds of a song, a song which when complete is somewhat boring and overall uninspired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 it'll be quite funny when they are still playing this hard-to-get tease game in 10 yrs to their 50 remaining fans TH made me not give a hoot what BoC do.Unless it's bring good new music. I'll assume they are washed up until they prove otherwise. Even though I like the album, I'd agree with 'hard-to-get tease game' bullshit they peddle. I've vented my spleen over that many times over the years. Does my fucking head in. I'm English (with a bit Irish) and by the laws of nature I'm generally very cynical, so it doesn't really wash with me. For a time it was cool, I guess the release of Geogaddi suited all that. I must admit, at this moment in time I'm left a bit deflated by the return of BoC. I'm on board with this. i mean i am as psyched as the next guy for box, but that overblown campaign left a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth. even when they announce the next ep, i think i am just going to be ilke "ok, an ep in 3 months. great. " same. I think my dislike for their promotion machine and general approach to PR was well-documented in the TH release thread. also fuck, you guys, don't be losernerds, live shows are where it's at. maybe live electronic music is a lot more unpredictable in terms of enjoyment than conventional music, but remember, music was a live thing before it ever became a recorded thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Not sure if it's a phase that may pass but the Warp head honcho's who have been the glue for my recent music obsessions of the past decade (even though I have been listening a lot longer the obsession kicked into overdrive about 12 years ago) may be coming to an end. I'm fatigued with the endless cat and mouse games of Aphex, the BOC hype balloon was a bit ridiculous (in hindsight) and I'm a bit bored with all that, Autechre just depress me and aren't much fun at all and Squarepusher....well he seems alright, the Ufabulum live show was fucking insane, so he's okay for the time being. I spent last weekend discovering and listening to Sun Ra, and something was telling me that this will be my new squiddly-diddley. I'll always love all the Warp stuff, but coming on here and reading the latest posts in the Aphex Twin New Release Speculation Thread? Or worrying about when the new BOC release will be? Nahhh. Fuck that. Sun Raaaaaaa!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Autechre just depress me and aren't much fun at all what does that even mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzkinz Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Autechre just depress me and aren't much fun at all what does that even mean? Yea nothing about that makes any sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pafr Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Autechre just depress me and aren't much fun at all what does that even mean? Yea nothing about that makes any sense to me. Me neither. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I just got a friend request from facebook user "Tomorrow's Harvest" aka facebook.com/boctransmission ... what the hell is this? I am friends with that guy/girl as well as are a bunch of other WATMMers/Twoismites. They post lots of fetishistic pictures of BoC records in unexpected locales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YangYing Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 I just got a friend request from facebook user "Tomorrow's Harvest" aka facebook.com/boctransmission ... what the hell is this? I am friends with that guy/girl as well as are a bunch of other WATMMers/Twoismites. They post lots of fetishistic pictures of BoC records in unexpected locales. He's just another fanboy, I have talked to him (in fb). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Gonna offset the stalwart naysayers by reiterating (months later mind you) that TH is still my favorite BoC album by a fair degree. I wouldn't have envied them having to follow up the previous catalog, and with such a gap of time swelling expectations many people were bound to be disappointed with the result. Listening to TH, and bearing in mind the narrative (both affixed through the interviews and literally inferred through the music/track-titles), one can tell the creation of this album was likely an agonizing balancing act: showing musical progression/maturation without alienating the established fan-base: conveying a relevant theme without too much transparency, maintaining a stylistic individualism in the wake of countless contemporaries: I believe that BoC pulled off all of the above, and more, with aplomb. TH is their most wholly realized artistic statement yet and I'm more excited than ever to hear what's next from them, if anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Autechre just depress me and aren't much fun at all what does that even mean? Yea nothing about that makes any sense to me. Me neither. Just havin' a good old fashioned Beerwolf rant, they rarely make sense!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 maintaining a stylistic individualism in the wake of countless contemporaries I didn't get this at all. In interviews when they said they avoided all contemporary music while they are in a cabin IABPOITC, it all made sense to me. It's like they have no idea that so many other people pay homage to them with their sound so they didn't really step up their game or distinguish themselves. To me, lots of other musicians are making great sandwiches with some BoC bread while Tomorrow's Harvest is like plain toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Gonna offset the stalwart naysayers by reiterating (months later mind you) that TH is still my favorite BoC album by a fair degree. I wouldn't have envied them having to follow up the previous catalog, and with such a gap of time swelling expectations many people were bound to be disappointed with the result. Listening to TH, and bearing in mind the narrative (both affixed through the interviews and literally inferred through the music/track-titles), one can tell the creation of this album was likely an agonizing balancing act: showing musical progression/maturation without alienating the established fan-base: conveying a relevant theme without too much transparency, maintaining a stylistic individualism in the wake of countless contemporaries: I believe that BoC pulled off all of the above, and more, with aplomb. TH is their most wholly realized artistic statement yet and I'm more excited than ever to hear what's next from them, if anything. Glad you like the album, but have to say I don't understand this whole thing about them facing some kind of arduous balancing act. I mean c'mon, get over yourselves and make some music. I think it's safe to say I would have welcomed something shocking this time out. "True fans" are, I think, willing to follow in some pretty extreme directions, provided they sense there's some logic and passion behind it, not just randomness. Not that I needed a game changer. I was very happy with Campfire after letting it settle for a bit, and it wasn't all that different from their previous efforts. I don't necessarily need novelty. But TH just doesn't draw me in or keep me engaged, there's not enough warmth or feeling I guess. Plus it has some arguably distasteful elements - to me at least it feels like it's trying too hard to be epic, some of it feels derivative, etc. Not trying to get you to change your mind. Just that when I assess an album, I don't give much thought as to how difficult it was to create, just whether it pleased my eardrums. For all I know, Tomorrow's Harvest is the best album ever made using electricity generated solely by bicycle power. Those Sandisons were pedaling like mad just to get the synth parts down. Still doesn't make it that good, tho. lyst said it best above: They are too busy searching out rare distorted bleeps and blorps in recordings from abandoned bunkers in Russia, which add .5 seconds of a song, a song which when complete is somewhat boring and overall uninspired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lumakey Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 the more fans like these that they lose, the better. people who need to keep telling the world over and over that they've written them off. sad. I don't want them to play live because trolls will probably show up there too. the fact that they've lost so many people on this is proof that they're onto something good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 LOL @ people who think BOC are losing fans - if anything, TH has probably increased their fanbase. I highly doubt "what will the fans think" had any factor in how TH turned out (for better or worse) - BOC set out to make the album they wanted to make - they've said so in interviews - why would anyone believe anything different? Oh, I dread the day (if) Richard ever releases anything under Aphex Twin again - if anything, the whole TH event proves that the longer fan expectations grow, the more unrealistic they'll become. Then again, like BOC, Richard won't give two shits whether "the fans" approve of it or not - he'll have made the album (or whatever) he wanted to release, and will be laughing all the way to the bank. I think the biggest mistake any artist can make is to make something for their fanbase and not something they themselves are wanting to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khov Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I think the biggest mistake any artist can make is to make something for their fanbase and not something they themselves are wanting to make. i dunno, that's what george lucas did and we got the phantom menace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 the more fans like these that they lose, the better. people who need to keep telling the world over and over that they've written them off. sad. I don't want them to play live because trolls will probably show up there too. the fact that they've lost so many people on this is proof that they're onto something good. you completely missed the point, but cool story bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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