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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCXT-JBGxg"]Triple Six Mafia - Fuckin Wit Dis Click - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mMiWM13a_g"]What I Got-Sublime - YouTube


Because... in the mood for some sublime.

 

I picked up a few records last night, some of which I haven't listened to yet. I got the Record Store Day reissue of Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós ‎(the store somehow got a hold of 10 additional copies, of only 1000 pressed), Escape From Noise by Negativland, Helter Stupid by Negativland, Illmatic by Nas, and the new Boards of Canada album Tomorrow's Harvest, which I think is just great.

Rest in peace, Jerome's niece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjd7EbUUds8"]Nas -- One Love - YouTube

 

I was kind of let down by the new BoC album. It's got a darker sound than their previous works, but they're not really doing anything new. I found the album as a whole to be rather boring and samey. Then again, it will be hard for them to ever live up to their debut. The vibe I get from the new album pertains to the future and its bleakness. It sort of looks ahead whereas the other ones hark back to a more retro, washed out sound.

 

By the way, I love all of the disappointed fans reaction to the new Boards of Canada album. The reason I love them is because people, like always, are critically predictable and notorious for completely failing to comprehend a work of art that unfolds in ways unpredictable to the obsessed. I've not memorized their entire discography and they are not particularly among my very favorite artists, but this album is incredible and wherever there is no drums, there is brilliance. I'm not entirely against the rhythmic and percussive elements but truly those dudes shine when it comes to buried melody beneath a wall of ambient wash. The first three songs are magnificent and the 5 second seventies cartoon production company logo intro sounding 'intro' is as awesome as anything Eno captured in under 10 for Microsoft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8ZBT-VHrA"]Boards of Canada - Gemini - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTg-q6Drt0"]Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead (from Tomorrow's Harvest) - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCf8Dr5mmwg"]Nurses - "Fever Dreams" Dead Oceans - YouTube

 

And to think I was typing my second post out at the same time, lol.

 

By the way Matt, I thought you'd take interest in this, possibly. Did you watch Anthony's review of Tomorrow's Harvest on Youtube? Did you notice the part when he puts up "Progressive Electronic recommendations"? Radio-Activity and Irrlicht, and I won't even mention the other two. This is how critical the lack of awareness of seventies prog electro truly is; people have watched Blade Runner, heard Kraftwerk, and might own a Tangerine Dream album their parents somehow accidentally left behind. Suggesting people go listen to Irrlicht as not only a representation of Klaus Schulze but as a representation of the style of music Boards of Canada is lifting (i.e. Berlin School) is a gross misrepresenation; Irrlicht was Schulze's first album and not only was it not 'electronic' (in the sense we take it to mean) but it didn't even contain a single synth: Irrlicht is 'krautrock' and noise and that's it, Klaus Schulze took a broken Hammond organ and ran it through a modified amp and played it over a backdrop of a recording of a choir singing played in reverse, that's it, there is not a single other instrument on the album. Not only that but it would be another 3 years and 3 albums later before he incorporated his first synth (a Synthi-A) and helped to lay the groundwork for what became Berlin School. I like Anthony and everything but damn how he is in the dark.. as are most people. If Jarre, Schulze, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream constitute the extent of your awareness of prog electro, then you should bite your tongue. Boards of Canada are not biting Klaus Schulze and nature documentaries on this record, they are biting the likes of Zed's Visions of Dune, Harald Grosskopf's Synthesis, and most specifically, Richard Pinhas. Go listen to his solo record Iceland, and then listen to Heldon 6, and tell me you don't see the connection. Iceland in particular sounds like a precursor to this record.

 

I am a big Boards of Canada fan.I have all their albums,and a few more obscure eps.My fave has to be "The Campfire Headphase".I don't have the new one yet but hope to go into town on monday and get it.You have me excited.People always want more of the same,but I think it's good when artists change direction.

 

I only hope your not especially let down by my enthusiasm!
I don't think they've changed direction in a very big way here, except that as Matt mentioned it is overall their darkest work and therefore I assume he means the bleakest, the most desolate. I agree with this but what I see apparently most others voicing an opinion don't, or perhaps rather that they lack the education of from where this music derives. Overall it reminds me very much so of Richard Pinhas' 1979 album 'Iceland'; however it evokes the analog arpeggio work of the Berlin School period. The retro that this album is encapsulated by is definitely not new either but I believe it to be more specific at taking aim. A lot of people are remarking that the target is documentary soundtracks and in a sense this a true, but again if you are familiar with Iceland you will see what I mean. It's definitely progressive electronic in most ways, with downtempo throughout (and by downtempo I don't mean the later eighties / nineties like Funk Porcini, but the downtempo of the Robert Schroeder in his incarnation as Double Fantasy's 'Universal Ave'). For reference, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Urmv0g5bw"]Double Fantasy - Children Of The Universe - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZRuhRwnWVc"]Richard Pinhas - Indicatif Radio - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUMP1W140s"]Richard Pinhas - Iceland - YouTube

 

Ok, so I've listened to Tomorrow's Harvest four times now, three of those were the entire double album without interruption. My opinion is that this record is astonishingly gorgeous and among the best I've heard in a very, very long time. While I thought their earlier work was good (but not great), this one has entirely changed my opinion of them for the -much- better. I am certainly shocked to find people who wouldn't hesitate to praise Brian Eno's Ambient series considering this album as boring; or rather, again my love held is proven perennial for people who criticize a genuine work of art. How we can exist in this most horrifying time period for art, among the worst known to man outside of the dark ages, and expect to get anywhere while turning our noses up at moments of absolute clarity in aesthetic perfection is beyond me, but most definitely the division is clear. Matt, I don't mean to degrade your opinion (especially considering how often we disagree in our tastes, which otherwise are very similar) but I do wonder at how much the opinions of critics has persuaded you not to open up and give this more of an in-depth listening, I mean I really can't understand how people could hold Boards of Canada up as gods of refinement in establishing a genre and claim disappointment at this effort. Differing opinions are one thing, but I saw it's critical opinion like tentacles spread out across the internal landscapes of the electronic sensorium as "the internet's busiest music nerd" actually said that the effortlessness (lol what?) on certain songs here are "borderline offensive", as if an artist owes anything to the self-deluded, lumbering, glacial mass. But I suppose that in a land, during a time, when absurdism reigns supreme, we should expect nothing less in our intellectual online symposium where only those who love themselves so much that gazing into the mirror just isn't enough anymore gain control of the microphone. The rest of us take edited selfies and post anonymously. I do agree that this album, if indeed it is to be interpreted as nervously turning around to peek over it's shoulder and leer forward, is very dark, as any true art stands ultimately as a reflection of the zeitgeist during it's moment of conception. I often wonder at how much beauty we miss out on for these very reasons..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftqkP3n2qLU"]Boards of Canada - Nothing is Real - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8ZBT-VHrA"]Boards of Canada - Gemini - YouTube

 

Have a great week everyone Peace and lots of love dudes xx


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JvkaUvB-ec"]Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (Audio) - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmUhYSr-e4"]Otis Redding-Sitting on the dock of the bay - YouTube

 

for it is the doors riders on the storm great song very moody and dark just the way i like it

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkKndHzsYtM"]Guns N' Roses - Double Talkin Jive (Tokyo 92') - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUxMlud0Xg"]TUESDAY AFTERNOON - MOODY BLUES 1967.wmv - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_TbovyVOzs"]The Moody Blues - Legend of a mind - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vtILjo26ew"]The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Live OFFICIAL - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwp4_FwZOu4"]Krayzie Bone - Heated Heavy - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGzywStUTW0"]The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin - YouTube