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Yeah, I'm a big Eno fan, too, though I prefer his purely ambient stuff. Also, his collaborations with Harold Budd, which are incredible, such as Ambient 2 - Plateaux of Mirror

 

have you heard Apollo? fuck "An Ending" is just the most gorgeous track...

Damn straight.

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I've heard many songs from the artists posted in this thread and not one of the songs sound BOC. They may hint at it, but none of them can compare. BOC is just ahead of all these people in so many levels. Some I heard were pretty good but far from BOC.

 

This is why the BOC forum has a bad name. Can you stop sucking BOCs dicks for 2 seconds and contribute.

 

Why do you constantly need to belittle everything with similar sounds to BOC. We all know theyre good.

 

Your post made me angry, for fuck sake.

 

I have to agree with Ziggy here. I don't know what the rest of you want or are hearing in music but besides a few bedside moments with the twinkling sampling in Lone--in his twirlier BRIEFER moments, and pre-danceallnightTSR80 Wilkinson, and the exception of the Cluster clip, there is a complete absence of the spirit. BOC, are basically sound, and have depth, and are nothing like any of these suggestions. Are there similarities or a big white projection surface? What shows is your consideration. Its not cock-sucking, its doing it wrong.

 

Sound-alike Boards of Canada, like sound-alike Beatles, is a sad coast. Look for moments in music from the 60's and 70's and 80's. The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, The Hissing of Summer Lawns--a rap record, a synthesizer soundtrack--anything. And its gross behavior posting your own damn tracks in here.

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I think its just me but the Forest Swords Daggers Path reminds me of BoC. Don't ask me why, it just does. Perhaps because of the dark, wickerman atmospherics lurking behind the guitars.

 

Thanks for this. Certainly not the same musical style, but a similar 'vibe'.

I found the archive.org video someone added to glory gongs quite appropriate and good:

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I've come across a lot of artists who incorporate elements which remind me of BoC to a certain degree, in parts.

 

I agree that some of the artists listed here come under that scope, such as Casino Versus Japan, Bibio, Four Tet, but there are often as many differences as there are similarities, and I think that's a good thing.

 

There's was an album mentioned on the other forum by Imploded View which I downloaded recently, and it's good, but again does not recreate BoC exactly although it has a very similar vibe to TCH in places.

 

From reading some of Saturday Lo-Fi's posts elsewhere, it seems his "Take My Bike.." album was made to intentionally sound like BoC, which seems a little weird to me, but it's still a pretty good album in it's own right.

 

Somebody here mentioned William Basinski. I think that was purely based on BoC mentioning in an interview his Disintegration Loops albums. However they were just pointing out that they respected him, and they had some tapes in similar condition to the ones he used for those albums. I don't think any of Basinski's works sound anything like BoC.

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^^^Yeah it was mentioned in an interview, they are more similar in concept there. Although, while BOC seems to intentionally strive and work for that nostalgic, deteriorated, transitory sound, Basinski rather discovered it in that album

 

anyway listening to Stephen Farris and some is definitely boc influenced

 

http://soundcloud.com/stephenfarris/take-it-there

http://soundcloud.com/stephenfarris/rocksandrain

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Ciaran Byrne and Tycho are probably the two artists that consistently come closest to the BoC aesthetic. The first two Telefon Tel Aviv albums also kind of give of the tranquility of many BoC tracks. Odd Nosdam also deserves mention (hell, he even remixed for them)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj5P28rHvoo

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Ciaran Byrne and Tycho are probably the two artists that consistently come closest to the BoC aesthetic. The first two Telefon Tel Aviv albums also kind of give of the tranquility of many BoC tracks. Odd Nosdam also deserves mention (hell, he even remixed for them)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj5P28rHvoo

 

I agree and that opening was very BOCY

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Casino vs. Japan isn't comparable, and if I were Casino vs. Japan I would be annoyed having been referred to as such for the same reason, because Casino vs. Japan never cared to be.

 

Nor Tycho nor Ciaran Byrne; who lack imagination and essentiality respectively. Bibio, who lacks Boards of Canada's intellect, has come the most near with a few tracks off of Ovals and Emeralds and has sold his soul for it, replacing units of his DNA with theirs. For his obsession he now stumbles across the inde landscape like a kind of Faustian Frankenstein.

 

This has sprayed cat urine all over the Hexagon Sun oeuvre. AFX and AE suffer the same amount of hogwash.

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I'd say The Beatles are one. Obviously not their early stuff like "All My Loving" or anything like that, but their album Magical Mystery Tour mainly. The actual musical compositions themselves don't sound like Boards Of Canada, but the approach to arranging the tracks reminds me a lot of BoC. Listen to "I Am The Walrus" and they use effects to make certain sections sound much older than they are, and then there's audio samples that you most likely can't identify just from hearing it. You'll hear people conversating and all kinds of little easter eggs here and there. The use of the Mellotron and the ending to "Strawberry Fields Forever" has also reminded me of BoC tracks like "Rue The Whirl."

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I'd say The Beatles are one. Obviously not their early stuff like "All My Loving" or anything like that, but their album Magical Mystery Tour mainly. The actual musical compositions themselves don't sound like Boards Of Canada, but the approach to arranging the tracks reminds me a lot of BoC. Listen to "I Am The Walrus" and they use effects to make certain sections sound much older than they are, and then there's audio samples that you most likely can't identify just from hearing it. You'll hear people conversating and all kinds of little easter eggs here and there. The use of the Mellotron and the ending to "Strawberry Fields Forever" has also reminded me of BoC tracks like "Rue The Whirl."

 

I agree. Boards deliver on concepts 10 feet deep.

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Casino vs. Japan isn't comparable, and if I were Casino vs. Japan I would be annoyed having been referred to as such for the same reason, because Casino vs. Japan never cared to be.

 

Nor Tycho nor Ciaran Byrne; who lack imagination and essentiality respectively. Bibio, who lacks Boards of Canada's intellect, has come the most near with a few tracks off of Ovals and Emeralds and has sold his soul for it, replacing units of his DNA with theirs. For his obsession he now stumbles across the inde landscape like a kind of Faustian Frankenstein.

 

This has sprayed cat urine all over the Hexagon Sun oeuvre. AFX and AE suffer the same amount of hogwash.

 

ya huh

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