Maybe some of you know what I'm going through, via BOC or some other band.
I began listening to them about 2 months ago and I have never been so consistently impressed with an established band's discography. Usually you like a song or two, and then you go into the back catalogue of some artist only to find that it's all underwhelming. But I ended up buying 4 of their 12"s, probably more to come.
But the thing that is making me so crazy is the enigma surrounding the whole thing. So, they have a few very solid albums, nice, whatever. But there are these unreleased / limited release / rare albums that apparently no one has heard outside friends or family -- but there are track listings, durations, and album artworks. It's truly maddening. Whats worse is that there are a few live recordings floating around of some shows they did with amazing tracks that no one can identify, which people speculate are from some of the unreleased stuff. So, I've been lurking on forums from 2007, digging through discogs sellers, reaching page 26 of google, etc looking for this stuff. Can't sleep at night haha.
Does anyone else feel the same way I do?
This is awesome. It's great that stuff like this still goes on. bfv -- there are still undergrounds! At least one!
Yeah -- I was on one of those forums, where they were discussing this album (warning creepy baby) http://bocpages.org/wiki/Play_by_Numbers . So, this one guy recalls frequently coming across this album with a picture of a baby every week in the early 90s when he would finger through the new promos that arrived that week. Then, a few weeks later, another user on the forum correctly identifies the town and record store, and also remembers seeing the legendary cd. The tldr of the post was something along the lines of "Hello, my name is Jim, I'm the guy who didn't buy Play by Numbers". Guys were kicking themselves.
Boards of Canada are entertaining. I own a lot of their stuff, have for quite some time. But I got 6 gigs of Future Sound of London. fsol.disenchanted.com was the shit. See, FSOL never did concerts. They did shows from their home studios to different radio stations via ISDN - they'd just hook up their pro tools rigs to the fast data lines of radio stations, do interviews, play instruments, etc. And Boards of Canada don't exist without FSOL. Then they went really crazy. Supposedly the last interview they did for six years ended abruptly when the duo stuffed pencils up their noses and walked out rather than answer questions. The Isness is a shit album -- sounds a lot like the stuff Syd Barrett did after Pink Floyd kicked him out for being too schizophrenic. Lately they've gone back to some of the more archetypal stuff but it isn't quite the same. For a while, though, about '91 to about '98 They were sublime. Imagine a jam band that does nothing but aetherial IDM, without repeats, all over the world. I can literally listen to three and a half days of virtually unrepeating headspace music. And I didn't download all of disenchanted before it went down, just most of it. I played the EP above for a friend. He went from ripping off Ted Nugent with his music to ripping off Orbital. I've got a Skinny Puppy sticker in my car. Have since 2002. I've got a Skinny Puppy mural on the back of my leather. Have since '92. But I have no FSOL stickers anywhere because FSOL never bought into merchandising. But holy fuck, I feel ya, dawg.
My first experience with FSOL was when they did a track for, I think, Wipeout Fusion (We have explosive). Great 'choon'. Maybe I'll dive into this next. Thanks klein, you probably stole 2 more months of my productivity haha.
Yeah fosho. I'm so mad they closed Studio Liverpool, there has been a wipeout game for every single ps device launch up until the ps4, devastating man. Wipeout pure really inspired me, that was my first.
Amen, brotha. Hey, if nothing else, we get Grim Fandango back.
Maaan. Boards of Canada played a huge role in my life. I was obsessed with them in high school. They are what really got me started listening to electronic music. Although BoC was still widely and unabashedly called IDM then. I downloaded this mixtape that had ยต ziq - hasty boom alert and a Boards of Canada song or two on it. I wish I could find it, in all of it's (assumed) 128kbps glory. Prior to this mixtape, I primarily listened to metal to wallow in pubescent angst. I credit Boards of Canada for creating a huge shift in, for lack of a better word, my spirit. I became obsessed in much the same way you did. I rigged my pillow with headphones so I could fall asleep to them at night. I wouldn't feel right if I didn't listen to them in the morning before doing anything. I listened to them directly after school. I listened to them while doing homework. I sought out as much information as I could about them, but there was very little to be found at that time. I really think BoC, as musicians, managed to channel something deep and that a lot of musicians struggle to do the same. The fact that they could do it without lyrics, or to my mind, without screaming, completely changed the way I viewed music and the human connection to it.