BoC in RE:UP
Blatant self-promotion alert! In the interests of Boards of Canada and tastefully designed print magazine fans, I draw your attention not to myself but to my favorite collection of collated and bound pages, RE:UP. The new issue, which is being placed on shelves as I type, features a cover story and interview with Boards of Canada that I was lucky enough to do while on a recent trip to Scotland. It is the only interview with the brothers you will find in an American magazine this year, granted exclusively to RE:UP with great assistance from our friends Brock over at Moutermouth Media and Stephen at Warp. It was a humbling experience to say the least, having been a fan for nearly a decade, and rather than recount the meeting or summarize the piece -- which is FILLED to the brim with insightful quotes on a wide variety of topics -- I'll just recommend that you pick it up. Check the link below for more info. Who wants to read the opinions of some fanboy anyway, so I focused the majority of the feature around the boys themselves and what they, after years of calculated media silence, wanted the world to know about them. I think it's a great supplement to recent articles in UK's The Wire and the German magazine Groove. Trying to be as objective as I can, I really think fans will come away from the interview with a more well-rounded idea of what these two electronic wizards are like. As a teaser, I posted a really old, cassette-only track from the BoC archives. Mike and Marcus hinted that there are thousands of unreleased songs that will possibly be released in coming years, either as BoC or under a pseudonym, but on this particular topic they were intentionally vague. "Sequoia" is one of my favorite early BoC tracks -- heavy on the rolling synth and static electric atmosphere -- and is a good starting point to their nearly 20 years of musical evolution. Enjoy. Resources
Boards of Canada :: "Sequoia" (from A Few Old Tunes volume 2 unreleased cassette)
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