"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather." Wonderful quote, Mr Hicks.
The fact this was uploaded in 2006 (12 years ago) makes this even more nostalgic EDIT 10/29/18: I wanted to mention the breathy atmosphere reminds me of fall/autumn when the wind is blowing, leaves are falling, it's chilly out and having a coffee or tea looking out the window to see the bustling city streets outside.
an amazing video to go with an amazing song. this was the first boc song i had ever heard and it changed my life forever. (as you can tell) i was never into electronic music whatsoever, pure metalhead, but in college a friend made a compilation called "bedtime with buddha" and this song just launched me back to my youth. i must have listened to it on loop for weeks on end and to this day ive never got bored of it. boc's music takes us back to a more innocent time and for that im grateful
this "clatter" sample that's the base of the rhythm, sounds like analog camera shutter, with extended exposure (like 50ms), that's replayed 10 times slower.
as my name implies, this song is my all time fave boc tune and perhaps my all time fave song ever. the melody, the slide projector sample, the slight tape wobble, hiss and pops just take me back to my youth. i know everyone says this but its true. boc have tapped into our nostalgia gene in our brain and cracked it right open. god i love boc
Close my eyes... In the school bus in the middle 70s. Sitting near a girl I had the biggest crush on in junior high. I can smell the diesel fumes while watching the town roll by outside the windows that were slid down. I felt present with the world while listening to the AM hits piped through the speakers.
Wow! I can‘t believe that this modern smooth quiet and Deep Great Track is at least 17 years old. Mysic catching melody, a Hard But winning Journey. When I See those Impressions of the Video to this Track it reminds me of synethisia imaginations and visionalized impressions, quantum mechanics, fractal Images, far behind from human expieriences…fascinating… Maybe for a Spirit from up above as a kid for a day ✨
Every time I listen and watch this video, I really wish I could find out things about it. When was it taken? Where is this amusement park? Who was the man in the doorway? Little things that take me back to my childhood... much happier times than the crazy world we have today.
interesting little detail about this track (boards of canada's music is all about the details imo) around the 3:00 mark, the drum loop samples the unique tambourine sound used as part of a drum fill in Strawberry Fields Forever. of course they processed it a bit, but it's there.
a perfect example of the chill yet eerie atmosphere they create in their music @ 4:50 and 5:03. this stuff is the sound of memories, especially this song, you can just put it on repeat and let your mind wander. beautiful.
I read on some upload of this song (might be this one and I just can't find the comment again) that someone listened to this song on the last day they were 17, the last day they were still legally a kid, so I'd like to report I'm here doing that very thing now. It's 9:35 pm, I almost forgot but I'm glad I didn't. Of course I knew about this song for a while before this, it's amazing. Just wanted to say thanks for the idea.
Bought this in record store,CD card said "frosty drum n bass." Bought it,got buzzed,cold snowy windy Fri night,at my former apartment. Sounds silly but,it'll be 20 yrs ago,this November. Cool memory. Miss living alone so badly.
dood there songs always do something to me. Put me at a ease of mind and makes me forget my worries. It's like indescribable....it's amazing. BoC is a orgasm for the ear and mind. great video too mann. :)
I think I might be responsible for about 400 of those views. Damn replay button. Also, the main percussion sample sounds like the ticking of a grandfather clock.
Can someone tell me where i can get this song from ?? i cant find it on bearshare or Ares.. if someone could send this file on mp3.. that would be great :)
fukn ace video mate. u can see u have tried to capture the ideas of the melody in the images of the video. they complement each other perfectly. BoC woulda digged it !!
if filburt sing his voice tom Kenny singing voice can turn back doug Lawrence that's filburt singing except tom kenny heffer cow yes guys i hope I hear filburt voice for
haha, i think BoC is very good, but I don't enjoy them that much. I do listen to Aphex Twin religiously and I know exactly what you mean...very difficult introducing them to certain types of people.
Why are you offended by the fact that some people just prefer to listen to this under the influence? He didn't even say he needed to be under the influence in order to enjoy this. He simply stated it was sublime? Why are you exactly provoked? Anti drugs?
TheWinterShadow *High five* It's such an awesome fan-base too. I've had many awesome conversations about their music and different arbitrary things. It's all kinds of spectacular.
TheWinterShadow It's fantastic; they utilize music as a mode of carrying emotion and they've managed to convey a multitude of different emotions ranging from happiness to the other end of the spectrum. It would surprised me if this dialog wasn't opened by BOC because their music has an amazing ability to catalyze spectacular reactions. It's probably more subjective than anything but I've managed to connect with BOC emotionally and reflectively than I have with any other artist. Bonobo has been another good one but BOC has the ability to produce nostalgia inducing sounds that trump most other attempts at recreating this (that I've heard thus far.) Perhaps it's because this music contains no ego that people feel inclined to submit their own conversations amidst the atmosphere birthed by the sounds of BOC. It's almost like the tracks themselves are canvases and are thus filled by our conversation. It's fascinating to say the least.
"this music contains no ego". Well said! In this music no one is putting down another to self elevate or to self proclaim. One can apply the sound, according to their own interpretation. BoC as you mentioned, offer the canvases.
This might be my all-time favorite BoC song, which is a lot to say. It's interesting how it both renders everything around you insignificant and, at the same time, connects you to the world on a higher plane of existence. It's like the world doesn't matter anymore, but at the same time it matters all the more. To me, mundane preoccupations cease to exist, yet the little things, those vestiges of what the world was like when I was a kid (a far simpler, more pristine place), suddenly pop up. You don't listen to this and think about the World Cup or the midterm elections or the next iPhone: you think about the more timeless features of our planet, those that you were curious about when you were a child. That's what this song does to me anyway, not that anybody else should care. Something that makes it even more awesome (to me, anyway) is that, apparently, one of the drum loops in this song was taken from Strawberry Fields Forever, my favorite Beatles song, which aptly enough also touches on connecting with existence on different planes ("I mean it must be high or low...").[/tl;dr]
Boards Of Canada and Aphex Twin, the purest music I've ever heard (and I've listened to a lot of music) in my life.. no one comes close to them (even on the IDM genre). They changed my life with their music; there are no words to describe how their music makes me feel, thank you Sandison Brothers & Mr. Richard James. My deepest admiration and respect to them.
Why does their music take me back to 1978? I swear, it's like it resonnates with a part of my childhood; when life seemed to be both still... full of hope and a possibility that we were all part of something more.
I feel exactly the same. Their music helps a little bit to feel unconcerned for a moment, to remember those winter days with blue sky and sun above when I was a child. This song was in my head all day long when I was at Mont Blanc (Chamonix). It remembers me how it was good to be ignorant of all I know today.
Eric Forcier You mean, the days before the artificial construct we live in today took hold? Something is out of sorts these days, as if everything has become a mere facsimile of what was and somehow, in someway, an overlay was inserted into the mix with new patterns which lack something organic. I remember those winter days of sky and sun you speak of. Back then, the cold air was crisp, tears were salty and blood smelled like copper. The sound of crunching snow with each footstep, wood burning in the distance and a clarity where time felt like a progressive linear movement towards a better tomorrow.
So funny to see that you feel this way too. When I first heard the music of BoC I felt like I was immedeately re-living the late 70's, my very early childhood. Indeed there was another and much more 'real', playful, hopeful, and alive energy present in society and in the collective human mind back then. An energy that has since faded away along with the bloom of electronics, artificial entertainment, disconnection from nature and isolation from our community. People are depressed and lonely now, like never before, and the musical creativity of the 60's, 70's and 80's is long gone.
I was born in 1972, so yes, that would be the same for myself. I think our generation literally landed here at a very pivotal time in human evolution, that is, a bridging if you will between the analog and digital age, a singularity of the duality and with it, yes... We understand the warmth of vinyl records, the smell of rubber erasers, lead pencils, carbon paper tests, the Sun being yellow (not white) and skies blue (not filled with chemtrails). The collective human mind was infiltrated and sadly, it was because there were so many who thought that the 60's were about freedom and conscious awareness, never realizing that the revolution wasn't being televised, but instead, propagandized and subverted by the next best thing... the digital age; replete with all of the materialism, corporatism and eventually, fascism, so that the future (now?) would become a synthetic facsimile, with plastic food and goods and services with such a short shelf life and even shorter planned obsolescence. No, if I could only go back in time, just for a week, I think I would take it back to 1977 or 78. Where music like this was something that was a background mood setter to programming on PBS, shows like Nova or In Search Of; and when music like Jarre's Oxygene IV was activating similar changes in our molecular level. The crying Indian wasn't regarded enough, Kaufman was way too complex and people were being divided socioeconomically more than ever as failed programs were implemented (by design) to create the greater imbalances we have today. Aspartame, derrivatives, price fixing, deflationary rates... yeah, 1978 is probably where the timestream was screwed up, but you could still buy an analog synthesizer like Wendy Carlos used to do the Tron soundtrack, could be had... along with Moog/Theremin devices and even making your own music with parts from the local Radio Shack. So thank you Boards of Canada, you made me a Kid for Today! :)
Johnathan M. Wow, I was born in the early-mid 90's but wow, this commenting just tapped into my conscious like nothing else, thank you, really...thank you.
At the pool today with my kids and their little friend, this song reminded of my own childhood fun days as I watched them enjoy a freeze frame of theirs. This music from BoC is magical.
Whenever I'm withdrawling from heroin I always come back to BOC videos. You'd think I would have gotten it 5 years ago :/. But here I sit, in the throws of the hell that is addiction. Hope I get it this time.
This is all so beautiful... all the nostalgia and loss of childhood innocence comes rushing back in the eerie, sad and amazingly beautiful way. If you could translate longing and yearning for something good of the past, these would be the sounds translated from that part of the cortex. Your video is also amazing, dredd1971. I enjoyed every part of it and it seemed to flow effortlessly. Great job on your interpretation of this, truly enjoyable to watch.
That. That's a fucking image thingie machine, the one where you use little photographic transparencies to display them on the wall. Forgot the name, but i know that fucking sound.
I think it's a slide projector - www.google.co.uk/search?q=slide+projector&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1152&bih=615&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=f01ZVLOaJ43oapbqgugK&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg
This gem got introduced to me by a dear friend I used to have. One day he just went silent, never returned any calls. Since then this masterpiece been kept rolling through out many smoking sessions. RIP friendship!
Thumbnail at 5:05 if anyone is interested. This man, whoever it is , haunts my recommended list in the algorithm with his thumbnail playfully scary stance. I'm revisiting this one of my favourite songs from BoC so he doesn't haunt me for a bit. Lovely video that captures the essence of the song, jokes aside. Also , would like to know who is the blonde dancing throughout the video (sample at 3:45).
I believe, this is BOC's most nostalgia Provoking track. I won't even be sad and I hear this track, and I will get nostalgic or melancholic. Thoughts of my childhood, good times with ex's, or my not so close family. One time i was on a trip on a bus and all I could see was grey skies & grass for miles and then nothing but continuous smokestacks..made me think of boc and how they are so into nature and how I hate pollution..but shit what u gone do?
Who was the beautiful red haired man that picked me up in his car, to see DJ Shadow at the Brighton Concorde and we came back to my house in Brighton to listen to this EP? jesusgoddamnchrist- missed opportunities, still haunted by that night. And his smile. BOC does visceral memory material, don't they??
