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| − | [[Boards of Canada]] fans have had a hard time getting hold of all the records released by Scotsmen [[Michael Sandison]] and [[Marcus Eoin]] up until now. The first EP, [[Twoism (Release)|Twoism]], was self-published in an edition of 100, a large portion of the edition of a 7″ on [[SKAM]] intended as a Christmas single is currently rotting in a living room in Manchester - difficulties with various distributors - and the best BoC track is hiding on MASK 1, a 12″ compilation also limited to 100 copies. This music deserves more attention. Because: it's about melodies between science fiction and "kitsch", and because that's often the same, somehow about earlier. Crazy catchy, engaging and ... haunting. Melodies that make you feel good in your stomach, are probably called memory chords in Detroit and remind you of the really important things: summer vacations, blinking into the sun. Consequently, [[Warp Records|Warp]], home of the pale English, has now bought [[Boards of Canada]] and with ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' presents a mixture of out-of-print and new material. [[Michael Sandison]] calls me on Good Friday, somewhere on the way on a highway near Cologne. | + | [[Boards of Canada]] fans have had a hard time getting hold of all the records released by Scotsmen [[Michael Sandison]] and [[Marcus Eoin]]. The first EP, [[Twoism (Release)|Twoism]], was self-published in an edition of 100, a large portion of the edition of a 7″ on [[SKAM]] intended as a Christmas single is currently rotting in a living room in Manchester - difficulties with various distributors - and the best BoC track is hiding on MASK 1, a 12″ compilation also limited to 100 copies. This music deserves more attention. Because: it's about melodies between science fiction and "kitsch", and because that's often the same, somehow about earlier. Crazy catchy, engaging and ... haunting. Melodies that make you feel good in your stomach, are probably called memory chords in Detroit and remind you of the really important things: summer vacations, blinking into the sun. Consequently, [[Warp Records|Warp]], home of the pale English, has now bought [[Boards of Canada]] and with ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' presents a mixture of out-of-print and new material. [[Michael Sandison]] calls me on Good Friday, somewhere on the way on a highway near Cologne. |
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Revision as of 15:03, 8 March 2021
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Nice Melodies from Nice People
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Thaddeus Hermann
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De:Bug
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1998/05
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"Nice Melodies from Nice People" is an interview (in German) by Thaddeus Hermann originally published in De:Bug magazine. [1]
Original text
This is an original text copied verbatim from the original source. Do not edit this text to correct errors or misspellings. Aside from added wikilinks, this text is exactly as it originally appeared.
Nette Melodien von netten Menschen
Boards Of Canada, das neueste Pferd im Warp-Stall.
Thaddeus Herrmann
[email protected]
Boards of Canada Fans hatten es bisher schwer, alle von den Schotten Michael Sandison und Marcus Eoin veröffentlichten Platten zu ergattern. Die erste EP, Twoism, erschien im Eigenverlag in einer Auflage von 100 Stück, ein großer Teil der Auflage einer als Weihnachtssingle gedachten 7″ auf SKAM vergammeln derzeit in einem Wohnzimmer in Manchester – Schwierigkeiten mit diversen Vertrieben – und das beste BoC Stück versteckt sich auf MASK 1, einer ebenfalls auf 100 Stück limitierten Compilation 12″. Dabei hat diese Musik mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient. Denn: Es geht um Melodien zwischen Science Fiction und Kitsch, und weil das oft dasselbe ist, irgendwie um früher. Irre catchy, vereinnehmend und … haunting. Melodien, die ein wohliges Gefühl in der Magengegend machen, in Detroit wohl Memory Chords genannt werden und die einem die wirklich wichtigen Dinge in Erinnerung rufen: Sommerferien, in die Sonne blinzeln. Folgerichtig hat Warp, Heimat der blassen Engländer, Boards of Canada jetzt eingekauft und mit Music Has the Right to Children eine Mischung aus vergriffenem und neuem Material vorlegt. Michael Sandison meldet sich am Karfreitag per Funktelefon bei mir, irgendwo unterwegs auf einer Autobahn bei Köln.
de:bug: Karfreitag auf Promotour? Muß das denn sein?
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Michael Sandison: Wir waren gestern noch in Paris und haben dort unzählige Interviews gegeben, das war reichlich anstrengend. Heute sind wir nur in der Kölner Gegend rumgefahren und haben uns die Landschaft angesehen, alles sehr entspannt. Gerade haben wir Schloß besichtigt. Ich finde es toll hier! Die Landschaft erinnert mich an Schottland und der Regen im Moment erst recht!"
de:bug: Ihr werdet ja zur Zeit ganz hübsch rumgereicht. Wie fühlt sich das an?
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Michael Sandison: Es ist merkwürdig, aber natürlich auch schön, daß sich eine Menge Leute in Europa für unserer Musik interessieren, gerade wenn man wie wir aus einem kleinen schottischen Dorf kommt, wo einfach nichts passiert. Noch fühlen wir uns richtig wohl!"
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Michael Sandison: Der Titel kommt von einem Lehrbuch für den schulischen Musikunterricht aus den 70er Jahren. Es heißt: Children Have The Right To Music. Wenn man die beiden Begriffe Children und Music vertauscht bekommt der Satz eine völlig andere, sehr bedrohliche Konnotation."
de:bug: Bedrohlich ist Eure Musik aber nicht!
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Michael Sandison: Also, die netten Melodien benutzen wir, weil wir nette Leute sind! (lacht) But we like to fuck with people a little bit as well…Natürlich steckt in unserer Musik viel Gefühl, sie wird oft mit Schlafliedern für Kinder verglichen. Wir benutzen die Melodien aber sehr überlegt , so daß längst nicht alles so harmlos ist, wie es auf den ersten Blick scheinen mag. Auf diese Weise verstecken wir Dinge in unserer Musik, die mehr was für Erwachsene sind.
Das merkt man auch dem Material an, an dem wir zur Zeit arbeiten.
Warp möchte noch in diesem Jahr ein weiteres Album von uns veröffentlichen. Die Melodiearrangements der neuen Tracks sind noch darker geworden, auf diese Weise entsteht eine herrlich bittersüße Stimmung. Definitiv extremer werden die Rhythmen, schneller und rougher. Aber bevor wir so ein Album veröffentlichen können, wollten wir einer breiteren Hörerschaft mit
Music Has the Right to Children klarmachen, worum es bei den
Boards of Canada geht: DIY…Do It Yourself…rougher Sound. Das sind unsere Wurzeln. Jetzt, wo das klar ist, können wir uns an neue Projekte machen."
de:bug: Erlaubt euch der Deal mit Warp denn überhaupt noch Material auf anderen Labels zu veröffentlichen?
"Martin Sandison:
Boards of Canada sind exclusiv bei
Warp. Wir haben aber ein Abkommen, daß wir weiterhin Material auf anderen Labels veröffentlichen können, allerdings nicht unter diesem Namen. Es wird also auch wieder eine Platte auf
SKAM geben. Da ist dann detektivischer Spürsinn gefragt!
Music Has the Right to Children (Warp / Rough Trade) ist jetzt erhältlich. ZITAT: Melodien die wirklich wichtige Dinge in Erinnerung rufen: Sommerferien, in die Sonne blinzeln."
Translated text
- Note: Translated using DeepL Translator[2].
"Nice Melodies from Nice People"
Boards Of Canada, the newest horse in the Warp stable.
Boards of Canada fans have had a hard time getting hold of all the records released by Scotsmen Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin. The first EP, Twoism, was self-published in an edition of 100, a large portion of the edition of a 7″ on SKAM intended as a Christmas single is currently rotting in a living room in Manchester - difficulties with various distributors - and the best BoC track is hiding on MASK 1, a 12″ compilation also limited to 100 copies. This music deserves more attention. Because: it's about melodies between science fiction and "kitsch", and because that's often the same, somehow about earlier. Crazy catchy, engaging and ... haunting. Melodies that make you feel good in your stomach, are probably called memory chords in Detroit and remind you of the really important things: summer vacations, blinking into the sun. Consequently, Warp, home of the pale English, has now bought Boards of Canada and with Music Has the Right to Children presents a mixture of out-of-print and new material. Michael Sandison calls me on Good Friday, somewhere on the way on a highway near Cologne.
de:bug: Good Friday on a promotional tour? Does it have to be like that?
Michael Sandison: We were in Paris yesterday and gave countless interviews there, that was really exhausting. Today we just drove around the Cologne area and looked at the landscape, everything very relaxed. We just visited Schloß. I think it's great here! The landscape reminds me of Scotland and the rain at the moment even more so!
de:bug: You are being passed around quite nicely at the moment. How does that feel?
Michael Sandison: It's strange, but of course also nice that a lot of people in Europe are interested in our music, especially if you come from a small Scottish village like us, where just nothing happens. We still feel really comfortable!
Michael Sandison: The title comes from a textbook for school music lessons from the 70s. It's called Children Have The Right To Music. If you swap the two terms Children and Music, the phrase gets a completely different, very threatening connotation.
de:bug: But your music is not threatening!
Michael Sandison: Well, we use the nice melodies because we are nice people! (laughs) But we like to fuck with people a little bit as well...Of course there's a lot of feeling in our music, it's often compared to lullabies for children. But we use the melodies very carefully, so that not everything is as harmless as it might seem at first sight. In this way we hide things in our music that are more for adults. You can see that in the material we are working on at the moment.
Warp wants to release another album from us this year. The melodic arrangements of the new tracks have become even darker, creating a wonderfully bittersweet mood. The rythms are definitely more extreme, faster and rougher. But before we can release an album like this, we wanted to make it clear to a wider audience with
Music Has the Right to Children what
Boards of Canada is all about: DIY...Do It Yourself...rougher sound. That's what our roots are all about. Now that that's clear, we can move on to new projects.
de:bug: Does the deal with Warp allow you to release material on other labels at all?
Martin Sandison:
Boards of Canada are exclusive to
Warp. But we have an agreement that we can continue to release material on other labels, but not under that name. So there will be another record on
SKAM.
Music Has the Right to Children (
Warp / Rough Trade) is available now. QUOTE: "Melodies that remind you of really important things: summer vacations, blinking into the sun."
Highlights and Notes
- Mike reveals that the title of MHTRTC was inspired by a 70's school music lesson textbook with the phrase "children have the right to music".
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References
- ↑ http://de-bug.de/mag/boards-of-canada/
- ↑ https://www.deepl.com/
