This April marked a staggering 25 years since ”Music Has the Right to Children” hit the shelves! How would you describe this analogue masterpiece? Comment below 👇
This video randomly came on my timeline, despite not having listened to anything related to BoC. Needless to say, I went down a deep rabbit hole after watching and discovered that BoC are my favorite music act ever. Their music will always remain relevant as the years pass by because it's made with a real sense of humanity and raw beauty. Thank you for this wonderful work.
BoC sample from previous cultural era's that believed in a future that we now know isn't coming. So when you listen to BoC you're not just feeling nostalgic but also experiencing the death of the future. Their music can be classed under hauntology - which is our past coming back to haunt us.
Spot on. It's work by musicians like BOC and genres like Vaporwave, not to mention writings by Derrida and Mark Fisher, that remind us that the future we were promised is now just a fantasy, which makes us not only nostalgic for the past, but also for a future that never came to pass, thanks, in large part to global capitalism.
@@eweseloh Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Casino vs Japan - Go Hawaii The Advisory Circle - Other Channels The Focus Group - The Elektrik Karousel The Field - From Here We Go Sublime Bowery Electric - Beat Concretism - Town Planning Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Games Seefeel - Quique ....
Although it’s a shame to find out that the Old Tunes tapes were leaked - rather than released - I still am grateful for it happening. Both volumes contain some of my favourite tracks of all time. Trapped is one of the most daunting, but powerful pieces of music I’ve ever listened to and Boqurant/5.9.78 are the two songs that I want played at my funeral.
Likewise! Too bad for the band of course, but I don't think any of us fans are complaining :) Great picks, 5.9.78 is heavenly! Gorgeous, deeply moving sound that only BoC can pull off.
Buckie High is my favorite, followed closely by Trapped. But to be honest, anyone can make a valid case for any of the songs on the two tapes being a favorite. Which is what is so special about BOC music. You can literally say any of their songs is your favorite, and others will have to concede that it's a good choice. There's not a lot of other bands out there that have that same distinction.
During those days of the “old tunes saga” on the Twoism board, we had a user by the name of MDG who was the bands photographer and member of the HS collective. He claimed at that time that there was talks to release all of the old material officially however since it’s been, oh about 20 years since that statement was made, I feel it was just a line to try and stop the leak from spreading further. One day I pray we will see that “BoC set”
Yes, there's always a rumor about another possible release from BOC. I agree that if nothing from the brothers comes to fruition, we should all be grateful for the treasures they've given us over the decades. I certainly am.
On an evening 24 year's ago, Myself and my now wife, took Acid and E's at the parents home. We listened to Boards all night, lit candles on an antique family heirloom sideboard in the dining room and watched the shadows flickering on the walls and ceiling, until, things going a bit weird and we repaired to the living room at 4am watching the magic roundabout on BBC 2. I got up to get a glass of water, and when I opened the door of the living room, the dining room was full of smoke and glowing orange. The candles had burned right down and set the sideboard on fire 🔥 and flames were licking up the white wall now black and charred. It's amazing how fast you can short circuit a trip when imminent danger is upon you. That was an interesting come down to sit with and ponder whilst painting over the charcoal. Lucky.
that ending "the past inside the present" really struck me as music i math was the very first BOC song I listened to and made me enamored with their music. i might have teared up a little
@@AlbumAffairs I feel any song from Music has the Right to children could totally captivate me with that eerie nostalgic vibe. I also just remembered that when I discovered BOC for me I was actually working at the school I used to go as a child so the impact of that nostalgic feel was definitely strengthened by that. Also makes it so special to me too since now I always associate BOC with that time working at my old school - something that was directly linked to my childhood, as well as just the delightful interactions I had with the kids I looked after there
@@Waldbraut That's beautiful, thanks for sharing. Yeah BoC sure knows how to walk the line between eerily creepy and warm, beautiful and fuzzy nostalgia. I also had a recent nostalgic experience. This summer me and the wife stayed a few months with my father, who still lives in the same house and neighborhood where I grew up. Walking the same routes I walked everyday as a child, past the old elementary school, reflecting on what's changed and what's not, was really moving for me. In my adolescence, I discovered BoC and walked those streets while listening to their music on my iPod. And now in my thirties, I'm back, listening to the same tunes, flooded with memories. Nostalgia's a tricky feeling to put to words but it felt like the circle had come to a close. Good times :)
@@AlbumAffairs that sounds really beautiful and touching. I had this habit of intentionally revisiting some of my cildhood spots just to see how things have changed (which is kinda easy since i never left my home town) and its always moving me deeply. it's really nice to have that kind of experience
I became curious about BoC from a blog mentioning their name. So I bought "Music Has The Right To Children," and became an instant fan. And without anyone telling me of the nostalgia of their sound, it immediately sounded like dwelling on the good memories of the past, after an apocalypse; beautiful and sad at the same time. And to be able to invoke that image with sound alone, without the use of lyrics is absolutely genius.
Their music reminds me of when me and my family would take camping trips and watch the sunset, and we would camp near pine trees and there was wildlife like birds, squirrels, bugs, rabbits, etc. Such a nostalgic time to me
Beautiful! I explore some of their nature themes in my latest video if you're interested. Also, I thought this quote ties in pretty well with your experience, and might provide some insight. "We have a main studio that is literally on a farm surrounded by deer and rabbits. We definitely prefer working away from the city because there's a timeless thing in our environment. In an urban setting you can't really escape being reminded of the current year, and music fashions and so on." -Marcus Eoin, The Guardian, 2013
Uh, no one thought that. When I first ordered Twoism from SKAM’s website circa 1998 it was made clear that the band hailed from Scotland. What we didn’t know for the longest time was that they were actually brothers.
@@kidfortodaywhy wouldn't people think that? a band named "boards of Canada" with frequent North American samples and an EP called "trans Canada highway." grow some empathy, old man
yesterday i was listening to heard from the telegraph lines and i could see the moon through my apartment window and i just gazed at it it really brought back this nostalgia this memory from when i was a little boy looking outside my bedroom window at the moon... it brought back so many memories i used to have this stuffed blue moon in that room this memory was almost forgotten i was about 3 years old at that time
Subscribed. Thanks for taking a moment to celebrate BoC. I wish more people knew about the incredible magical worlds they made… but something tells me that BoC made their music to be obscure. ❤
Thank you, yes their discography is indeed flawless. If they do release another LP, I have no doubt it'll be nothing short of amazing. Thanks for watching!
kul att snubbla över en så välgjord video om boards of canada!! de har varit mina favoriter länge, men har aldrig tagit reda på något om deras historia, mycket fin video! :)
One trend in the 90s was clean, digital recording, but another trend was strong in hiphop, sampled vinyl, lofi sampling machines were also common such as the 12 bit EMU SP1200, Akai MPC 60/60 II, Akai S900/950. Punk and Indie and a lot of amateur hobbyists/home recordists were still using 4 or 8 track cassette recorders, and this was often dubbed to 2 track stereo cassettes. Sampling from VHS tape was also common back then- because it was the technology of the time. All these ingredients helped make the BOC sound IMO.
I think campfire headphase is the most organic and nostalgic of them all . Geogaddi and Music Has the Right to Children have dark undertones to it . Either way it’s great synth psychedelia bound to transport you to another realm .
Love Campfire Headphase as well. It's underrated and for sure the most blissful and comforting of the major releases. Though I guess that's also the very reason people maybe found it a bit underwhelming. Those dark undertones you speak of (present on MHTRTC, Geogaddi and Tomorrow's Harvest) are a major factor why BoC are so revered in the first place. Like no other, BoC are able to take you on a journey from dark to eerie, beautiful and nostalgic. Maybe Campfire, in the end, just didn't have the same dynamic range. Thanks for watching!
@@AlbumAffairs I see where you're coming at. It conveys a wide spectrum of emotions for sure. I just ordered CHF, but i plan on getting Geogaddi and MHTRTC. I havent listened to it yet on vinyl. Excited. Great review. Another great group that coveys nostalgia to me is Album Leaf and Autechre
@@Ozrictentacles87 Love Autechre, the early albums especially: Incunabula, Amber, Tri Repetae... all amazing! I'll have to check out more of Album Leaf's stuff, I listened to his collaboration with Sun Kil Moon which I enjoyed very much!
I think saying BOC is only nostalgia is reductive, and ignores the other emotions that come up when listening to their music. They're tapped into something that, I feel, is broader than just nostalgia.
Thanks! I guess at the time you're just going to see music that you like. Now they've become so big its strange to think back to that experience. I can barely remember it! lol @@AlbumAffairs
I accidentally stumbled across this. There is so much muck that is consistently thrown at you by algorithms. It gets tiring to sift through and feels like a waste of time. It's so fucking refreshing to find amazing work by accident. Keep doing what you're doing. This musical exploration is so warm and enjoyable. Subbed.
I went to a listening party where music has the right to children was played on vinyl on a nightclub I went to as a teenager and closed directly after this party. My father died that week and I went to stay at his house after flying 1000km to the city where this happened. Almost beats the spliff I smoked to BOC back in the day.
I remember picking up the CD in 1999 on a recommendation of a salesperson at a record store in Seattle. At first I was like "what is this?" It turned into a favorite shortly after a couple of listens. Great video bro.
Excellent video, I really, really enjoyed your take and style of video on this album that I can hear be talked about over and over again and still want to hear more of. Would really love to see a video of yours on Geogaddi, as I think it is as much of a quintessential work as this one. Regardless, great watch!
Thanks for the kind words, I'm happy you enjoyed it! There'll certainly be more BoC content coming as they're one of my favourite bands, just a question of when really :) I'd love to do Geogaddi. Thanks again!
Thank you very much for this mini doc. It just place words on what I feel about Boc and why they're just a special band for me since music has the rights to children. My surrounding often doesn't understand why I'm stuck with board of Canada... But you found the words
This is an amazing video, statements and production alike. The imagery you used was perfect to compare with the music that these guys have made. Idk why but theres just something about that space-age 60/70’s aesthetic with technology that is just so cool to me. I think that’s why I like their music so much because it conveys that feeling so well just in music, it’s so impressive. Again, super good video man!
That depends which release you have. On the original Warp release it's "One Very...", but it looks like "Happy Cycling" is the closer on the US release. Thanks for watching!
One last thing. If you want my guess as to what's up with the cover to their first album, I personally believe it all comes back to where they sourced their vintage samples for _Roygbiv_ ("Lake" among others). This came from an episode of _Sesame Street._ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9j4kXWTJXLE.html The same short film borrowed for those sounds featured footage of a family by a lakeside. The family is shot from a distance and the overall low detail of the footage, the color scheme, etc. all solidly look like a prototype of BoC's cover image. Even the inscrutability of their faces. I'd bet a hundred bucks that this left an impression on them that they casually ported over to their album cover along with the samples from the same episode. I can imagine they had the episode recorded from TV onto a VHS tape since it aired in 1991.
I was already into dance music/electronic music by the late 90s but it took me awhile longer to find this band. It’s honestly one of my few life regrets.
Incidentally, who did that recording of Arabesque no. 1? I can scarcely name another piece of music that is more specifically nostalgic in nature to me than Tomita's 1974 cover of same, not just because it's thoroughly vintage but also because it was used as the theme tune for a short form program from my childhood that dealt with contemporaneous space phenomena (Jack Horkheimer Star Gazer). I'm always on board for another cover that seems to achieve much the same effect.
It may be useful to point out that throughout history nostalgia has been seen as a form of sickness, hence the algia suffix as in neuralgia. They might see us as indulging in sentimentality.
Sure thing, 02:53 My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said 03:35 Boards of Canada - Spectrum 03:42 Boards of Canada - Mukinabaht 04:02 Boards of Canada - Everything You Do is a Balloon 04:44 Squarepusher - Vic Acid 05:46 Boards of Canada - Aquarius 07:32 Boards of Canada - An Eagle in Your Mind 08:27 NASA Theme (1976) 08:34 Boards of Canada - Bocuma 09:34 "A Brief Affair" Sample (1982)
(7:08) Hmmmm.... "TK"... I wonder if that influenced a certain George (Lucas)? It's less than a decade before he made his college film that started with those two letters... Who can say? 😉
A couple of things: How do you arrive at the conclusion that “COVID lockdowns” are threatening “our freedoms”? Temporary, public health measures meant to slow the spread of a deadly pandemic *so that life can get back to normal SOONER* goes into the same bag as censorship? That’s just silly. Second, is this sense of nostalgia limited to a certain age cohort? It seems that way insofar as every example this doc cites that references the past comes from the 1970s and early ‘80s. This is when the BoC duo would have been between 8-12 years old (today putting them in their early 50s like me). So their references resonate with me, but do they do the same for younger folks from another era who never knew about, say, Polaroids in the first place? Would my son react in the same way I do? It’s an interesting question (the answer, I believe, is no). All this to say every age generates its own touch points for nostalgia, so it wouldn’t surprise me if BoC’s appeal is ultimately more or less limited to Gen X.
I'm a huge fan of BOC but I don't really get a nostalgia vibe from them per say. They use nostalgia as a tool to create something that is ultimately uncanny and kind of otherworldly. Familiar but unfamiliar
Whose nostalgia though? You had to have the same background and upbringing experience to have this nostalgia feeling to enjoy it? That's a load of bullshit. I don't have any of those experiences or lifestyle or national or ethnic background or history, but I LOVE this band and their music because of the quality of their sounds and soundscapes and mixes. They didn't hack anything with me, I just enjoy the music, as I enjoy all kinds of music from all over the world. You're being conceited and self-centred, egotistical and emotional trying to relate it to yourself, but this nostalgic sense isn't the case for many others, so your analysis is bogus and inaccurate and not appropriate, best kept to yourself, because that's all it is, just a personal experience, and nobody needs to know. Sheesh what is it with these millennials, always only thinking it's about them!!!!!!
Probably gonna get stick for this... Music Has The Right to Children hasn't aged very well IMO. It fits perfectly in the '90s but there's no transcendence for me... Possibly because I produce myself IDK. a lot of the synth patches/rhythms they employed now seem a bit gimmicky. I prefer just about every other album BOC released.. FSOL on the other hand, they have a truly transcendent back catalogue. Nice vid thanks!
Could it be that it seems gimmicky because the sound of MHTRTC was so heavily copied in the years to come? Asking purely as a music fan and not a producer of electronic music. Thanks for watching!
My perception of Boards of Canada as someone who has listened to them almost every night for the last 20 years couldn’t be further from the video makers. Idolisation of nostalgia is so wrong. They aren’t that. So supercritical.
At 10:42, ""I think we have to be grateful for what we've got through the years"". Only an extremely sincere BoC fan would've said those words. BoC fans are the most beautiful people on earth because they are the most appreciative of what they have experienced with this music. ...and then, there's everybody else.
@@CamelliaFlingert An endless stream of BOC wont fix anything. It's more meaningful when it's limited, it makes you appreciate what you have more than what you want.
When I was in college, we had to write an essay on a piece of influential art in my English class. It was supposed to be 7-10 pages, but I wrote a 13 page paper on Music has the Right to Children. When my teacher saw the length of the fought draft of my paper she said that we had to chop it down. But after she read it, she was sparked by curiosity and she listened to the album; after, she actually helped me add two more pages. That was my sophomore year, I was part of a five year program, and on my fifth year I received an email from her thanking me for introducing me to the group and that she still reads my paper and enjoys my perspective on the album so much that she uses it as part of her lesson now.
In primary school in the UK back in the 80's, they used to play educational TV programmes in class and there was a clock that counted down to the program. The music that played during that count down, in my mind, was Boards of Canada.
what an absolutely incredible mini documentary on BoC! Seriously underrated with lots of insight and I could simply feel the passion throughout the video. I love Boards of Canada so much and this a perfect way to learn more about them. Whenever they might return to release more music, I'll be there to listen to it.
I really don’t think there’s a need to go very deep on the face thing lmao. I’m pretty sure they just didn’t want their family members faces to be recognised on the cover, simple as that
Had a really really bad childhood if you could call it that - so BOC gives me a window into what it would be like to have had a good one. Not asking for any sympathy - just trying to show appreciation for something that gives me perspective on what could have been.
