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Sunshine Recorder

2022-01-26T03:18:31Z

Dreamland Shay.:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Sunshine Recorder
| runtime=6:13
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

== Comments ==
* The Campbell-Stokes <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090301025924/http://www.gov.im/airport/virtual/meteor/met/sunrecorder.xml</ref> consists of a glass globe which focuses sunlight onto a card behind, leaving a record (in burnmarks) of sunshine throughout the day. [DC]

== Trivia ==
*The synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into this track (& throughout) is the same synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into the track [[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]] from [[Boc Maxima]], [[Hi Scores]], and [[Music Has The Right To Children]].

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* 3:12 onward - ''"A beautiful place''", sampled from a [[Sesame Street]] vintage on canyons in Arizona. <ref>{{#ev:youtube|KRD1dgLXu04|480||||start=132|false}}</ref>
* 4:03 onward - A timestretched sample of a child's voice, ''"an ea-gle in your mi-nd"'' or ''"a beau-ti-ful pl-a-ce"'' or ""can you please call 9-1-1""
* 5:57 - ''"bye bye, bye bye bye"''. from the same [[Sesame Street]] vintage used in "[[Whitewater]]". <ref>{{#ev:youtube|QZyRR-18EVU|480|||||false}}</ref>
* 2:49, 4:49 - Chopped up vocal samples

== Videos ==
{{#ev:youtube|vfOjYRV7X80}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]

Sunshine Recorder

2022-01-26T03:06:45Z

Dreamland Shay.: /* Trivia */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Sunshine Recorder
| runtime=6:13
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

== Comments ==
* The Campbell-Stokes <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090301025924/http://www.gov.im/airport/virtual/meteor/met/sunrecorder.xml</ref> consists of a glass globe which focuses sunlight onto a card behind, leaving a record (in burnmarks) of sunshine throughout the day. [DC]

== Trivia ==
*The synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into this track is the same synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into the track [[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]] from [[Boc Maxima]], [[Hi Scores]], and [[Music Has The Right To Children]].

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* 3:12 onward - ''"A beautiful place''", sampled from a [[Sesame Street]] vintage on canyons in Arizona. <ref>{{#ev:youtube|KRD1dgLXu04|480||||start=132|false}}</ref>
* 4:03 onward - A timestretched sample of a child's voice, ''"an ea-gle in your mi-nd"'' or ''"a beau-ti-ful pl-a-ce"'' or ""can you please call 9-1-1""
* 5:57 - ''"bye bye, bye bye bye"''. from the same [[Sesame Street]] vintage used in "[[Whitewater]]". <ref>{{#ev:youtube|QZyRR-18EVU|480|||||false}}</ref>
* 2:49, 4:49 - Chopped up vocal samples

== Videos ==
{{#ev:youtube|vfOjYRV7X80}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

2022-01-26T03:05:05Z

Dreamland Shay.: /* Trivia */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Turquoise Hexagon Sun
| runtime=5:07
| appearson=[[BoC Maxima]] [[Hi Scores]] [[MHTRTC]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
* [Evan Snyder] gave me this interesting link - http://jonathanclark.com/diary/flare/ - on the subject on lens flares. The number of blades making up the aperture of the lens influences the shape of the lens flare produced, so that a six-bladed aperture, for example, would produce a hexagonal sun flare effect. Evan suggests the possibility that the name was inspired by a documentary, or even one of Hexagon Sun's own films, with special meaning to [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], featuring a prominent turquoise hexagonal sun flare. An intriguing possibility, and a very interesting link. (You can also find photos fitting this description at [[Warp Records|WarpRecords]] - go to Artists, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], and look at the Gallery photos).
* Not specifically in relation to this track, but in a wider sense (Hexagon Sun, the kaleidoscopic images on Geogaddi, etc), here are comments from the [[Interviews#2002-02-23:_NME|NME Interview]]:
<blockquote>
"What's the significance of hexagons to you?" 
"[[Marcus]]: "The hexagon theme represents that whole idea of being able to see reality for what it is, the raw maths or patterns that make everything. We've always been interested in science and maths. Sometimes music or art or drugs can pull back the curtain for you and reveal the Wizard of Oz, so to speak, busy pushing the levers and pressing buttons. That's what maths is, the wizard. It sounds like nonsense but I'm sure a lot of people know what I'm talking about."
</blockquote>

* Saturn. Saturday. Saturn-day. Sun. Some speculate that Saturn used to be our sun. Or that it’s some sort of supercomputer projecting our reality via its rings, maybe with the signal bounced off the moon? Saturn = Satan? There is a turquoise hexagon at one of the poles of Saturn. Maybe this is what they are referencing? https://www.businessinsider.com/saturn-hexagon-storm-images-2017-5

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Shares a drum sample almost completely with [[Orange_Hexagon_Sun|'Orange Hexagon Sun']]
* Various bits of speech, repeated elsewhere in the track. It's hard to make out much, but here's [DC]'s guess at some of it:
<blockquote>
"there's been a [release/leak]"? [female voice near start] - 0:36, 1:58 
"Oh, ... I know" [Scottish girl] - 1:14, 2:35 
"Just slightly" [different Scottish girl] - 4:29 
"... just [come in at the] end, right?" [English man] - 4:19 
"fan - tastic" [same man?] - at about 4:38. 
</blockquote>
* The girl speaking at about 1:22 and 2:44 sounds (to me) like the same one who speaks all the way through all 3 live recordings of BoC at ATP, Lighthouse, and Warp - which adds to suspicions that these are recordings of people talking at the the Hexagon Sun studio, as the title of the track would suggest.
* Amongst the sounds of people talking discussed above, it sounds like someone is playing the N64 game Mario Party 2, as the ‘back’ noise is heard several times (for example, at 1:25) within the other voices. The sound can be heard in game at 1:48 in this video: https://youtu.be/ZwdDOlvfLBc. Alternatively this could be one of the girls exclaiming "what?!".

== Trivia ==
*The synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into this track is the same synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into the track [[Sunshine Recorder]] from [[Geogaddi]].
*The percussion that appears in this song is virtually identical to that of the percussion in [[Orange Hexagon Sun]] from [[Old Tunes Vol. 2]].
*'Hexagon Sun' refers to the studio of [[Boards of Canada]] in East Scotland, but also to the collective of musicians and friends of [[Michael_Sandison|Michael]] and [[Marcus_Eoin|Marcus]].
*This song has been speculated to contain samples from inside the Hexagon Sun studios. These samples have also been said to match up to voices in the recordings of some live shows backing up the claim that they are from the inside.
* [[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]] might be a reference to the [[Hexagon Sun]] "collective" of musicians and artists who work at [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s Hexagon Sun Studio in the east of [[wikipedia:Scotland|Scotland]].

== Videos ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id=mAkgUeJDgQ8|250}}

== External links==

== References ==

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Boc Maxima tracks]]
[[Category:Hi Scores tracks]]
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]]

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

2022-01-26T03:03:26Z

Dreamland Shay.:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Turquoise Hexagon Sun
| runtime=5:07
| appearson=[[BoC Maxima]] [[Hi Scores]] [[MHTRTC]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
* [Evan Snyder] gave me this interesting link - http://jonathanclark.com/diary/flare/ - on the subject on lens flares. The number of blades making up the aperture of the lens influences the shape of the lens flare produced, so that a six-bladed aperture, for example, would produce a hexagonal sun flare effect. Evan suggests the possibility that the name was inspired by a documentary, or even one of Hexagon Sun's own films, with special meaning to [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], featuring a prominent turquoise hexagonal sun flare. An intriguing possibility, and a very interesting link. (You can also find photos fitting this description at [[Warp Records|WarpRecords]] - go to Artists, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], and look at the Gallery photos).
* Not specifically in relation to this track, but in a wider sense (Hexagon Sun, the kaleidoscopic images on Geogaddi, etc), here are comments from the [[Interviews#2002-02-23:_NME|NME Interview]]:
<blockquote>
"What's the significance of hexagons to you?" 
"[[Marcus]]: "The hexagon theme represents that whole idea of being able to see reality for what it is, the raw maths or patterns that make everything. We've always been interested in science and maths. Sometimes music or art or drugs can pull back the curtain for you and reveal the Wizard of Oz, so to speak, busy pushing the levers and pressing buttons. That's what maths is, the wizard. It sounds like nonsense but I'm sure a lot of people know what I'm talking about."
</blockquote>

* Saturn. Saturday. Saturn-day. Sun. Some speculate that Saturn used to be our sun. Or that it’s some sort of supercomputer projecting our reality via its rings, maybe with the signal bounced off the moon? Saturn = Satan? There is a turquoise hexagon at one of the poles of Saturn. Maybe this is what they are referencing? https://www.businessinsider.com/saturn-hexagon-storm-images-2017-5

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Shares a drum sample almost completely with [[Orange_Hexagon_Sun|'Orange Hexagon Sun']]
* Various bits of speech, repeated elsewhere in the track. It's hard to make out much, but here's [DC]'s guess at some of it:
<blockquote>
"there's been a [release/leak]"? [female voice near start] - 0:36, 1:58 
"Oh, ... I know" [Scottish girl] - 1:14, 2:35 
"Just slightly" [different Scottish girl] - 4:29 
"... just [come in at the] end, right?" [English man] - 4:19 
"fan - tastic" [same man?] - at about 4:38. 
</blockquote>
* The girl speaking at about 1:22 and 2:44 sounds (to me) like the same one who speaks all the way through all 3 live recordings of BoC at ATP, Lighthouse, and Warp - which adds to suspicions that these are recordings of people talking at the the Hexagon Sun studio, as the title of the track would suggest.
* Amongst the sounds of people talking discussed above, it sounds like someone is playing the N64 game Mario Party 2, as the ‘back’ noise is heard several times (for example, at 1:25) within the other voices. The sound can be heard in game at 1:48 in this video: https://youtu.be/ZwdDOlvfLBc. Alternatively this could be one of the girls exclaiming "what?!".

== Trivia ==
*The synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into this track is the same synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into the track [[Sunshine Recorder]].
*The percussion that appears in this song is virtually identical to that of the percussion in [[Orange Hexagon Sun]] from [[Old Tunes Vol. 2]].
*'Hexagon Sun' refers to the studio of [[Boards of Canada]] in East Scotland, but also to the collective of musicians and friends of [[Michael_Sandison|Michael]] and [[Marcus_Eoin|Marcus]].
*This song has been speculated to contain samples from inside the Hexagon Sun studios. These samples have also been said to match up to voices in the recordings of some live shows backing up the claim that they are from the inside.
* [[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]] might be a reference to the [[Hexagon Sun]] "collective" of musicians and artists who work at [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s Hexagon Sun Studio in the east of [[wikipedia:Scotland|Scotland]].

== Videos ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id=mAkgUeJDgQ8|250}}

== External links==

== References ==

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Boc Maxima tracks]]
[[Category:Hi Scores tracks]]
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]]

Orange Hexagon Sun

2022-01-26T03:02:16Z

Dreamland Shay.: Comments updated slightly and renamed to 'Trivia'

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Orange Hexagon Sun
| runtime=2:22
| appearson=[[Old Tunes Vol. 2]]}}

== Trivia ==
The percussion that appears in this song is virtually identical to that of the percussion in [[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]], implying either that the two tracks were likely produced at around the same time, or that the beat was recycled from one track to the next.

== Video ==
{{#ev:youtube|v=D8xRoJF3QQg|200}}

{{stub}}

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

2022-01-26T02:58:50Z

Dreamland Shay.: added to trivia

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Turquoise Hexagon Sun
| runtime=5:07
| appearson=[[BoC Maxima]] [[Hi Scores]] [[MHTRTC]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
* [Evan Snyder] gave me this interesting link - http://jonathanclark.com/diary/flare/ - on the subject on lens flares. The number of blades making up the aperture of the lens influences the shape of the lens flare produced, so that a six-bladed aperture, for example, would produce a hexagonal sun flare effect. Evan suggests the possibility that the name was inspired by a documentary, or even one of Hexagon Sun's own films, with special meaning to [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], featuring a prominent turquoise hexagonal sun flare. An intriguing possibility, and a very interesting link. (You can also find photos fitting this description at [[Warp Records|WarpRecords]] - go to Artists, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], and look at the Gallery photos).
* Not specifically in relation to this track, but in a wider sense (Hexagon Sun, the kaleidoscopic images on Geogaddi, etc), here are comments from the [[Interviews#2002-02-23:_NME|NME Interview]]:
<blockquote>
"What's the significance of hexagons to you?" 
"[[Marcus]]: "The hexagon theme represents that whole idea of being able to see reality for what it is, the raw maths or patterns that make everything. We've always been interested in science and maths. Sometimes music or art or drugs can pull back the curtain for you and reveal the Wizard of Oz, so to speak, busy pushing the levers and pressing buttons. That's what maths is, the wizard. It sounds like nonsense but I'm sure a lot of people know what I'm talking about."
</blockquote>

* Saturn. Saturday. Saturn-day. Sun. Some speculate that Saturn used to be our sun. Or that it’s some sort of supercomputer projecting our reality via its rings, maybe with the signal bounced off the moon? Saturn = Satan? There is a turquoise hexagon at one of the poles of Saturn. Maybe this is what they are referencing? https://www.businessinsider.com/saturn-hexagon-storm-images-2017-5

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Shares a drum sample almost completely with [[Orange_Hexagon_Sun|'Orange Hexagon Sun']]
* Various bits of speech, repeated elsewhere in the track. It's hard to make out much, but here's [DC]'s guess at some of it:
<blockquote>
"there's been a [release/leak]"? [female voice near start] - 0:36, 1:58 
"Oh, ... I know" [Scottish girl] - 1:14, 2:35 
"Just slightly" [different Scottish girl] - 4:29 
"... just [come in at the] end, right?" [English man] - 4:19 
"fan - tastic" [same man?] - at about 4:38. 
</blockquote>
* The girl speaking at about 1:22 and 2:44 sounds (to me) like the same one who speaks all the way through all 3 live recordings of BoC at ATP, Lighthouse, and Warp - which adds to suspicions that these are recordings of people talking at the the Hexagon Sun studio, as the title of the track would suggest.
* Amongst the sounds of people talking discussed above, it sounds like someone is playing the N64 game Mario Party 2, as the ‘back’ noise is heard several times (for example, at 1:25) within the other voices. The sound can be heard in game at 1:48 in this video: https://youtu.be/ZwdDOlvfLBc. Alternatively this could be one of the girls exclaiming "what?!".

== Trivia ==
*The synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into this track is the same synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into the track [[Sunshine Recorder]].
*The percussion that appears in this song is virtually identical to that of the percussion in [[Orange Hexagon Sun]].
*'Hexagon Sun' refers to the studio of [[Boards of Canada]] in East Scotland, but also to the collective of musicians and friends of [[Michael_Sandison|Michael]] and [[Marcus_Eoin|Marcus]].
*This song has been speculated to contain samples from inside the Hexagon Sun studios. These samples have also been said to match up to voices in the recordings of some live shows backing up the claim that they are from the inside.
* [[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]] might be a reference to the [[Hexagon Sun]] "collective" of musicians and artists who work at [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s Hexagon Sun Studio in the east of [[wikipedia:Scotland|Scotland]].

== Videos ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id=mAkgUeJDgQ8|250}}

== External links==

== References ==

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Boc Maxima tracks]]
[[Category:Hi Scores tracks]]
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]]

Sunshine Recorder

2022-01-26T02:55:51Z

Dreamland Shay.: added hyperlink to trivia text

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Sunshine Recorder
| runtime=6:13
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

== Comments ==
* The Campbell-Stokes <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090301025924/http://www.gov.im/airport/virtual/meteor/met/sunrecorder.xml</ref> consists of a glass globe which focuses sunlight onto a card behind, leaving a record (in burnmarks) of sunshine throughout the day. [DC]

== Trivia ==
*The synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into this track is the same synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into the track [[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]].

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* 3:12 onward - ''"A beautiful place''", sampled from a [[Sesame Street]] vintage on canyons in Arizona. <ref>{{#ev:youtube|KRD1dgLXu04|480||||start=132|false}}</ref>
* 4:03 onward - A timestretched sample of a child's voice, ''"an ea-gle in your mi-nd"'' or ''"a beau-ti-ful pl-a-ce"'' or ""can you please call 9-1-1""
* 5:57 - ''"bye bye, bye bye bye"''. from the same [[Sesame Street]] vintage used in "[[Whitewater]]". <ref>{{#ev:youtube|QZyRR-18EVU|480|||||false}}</ref>
* 2:49, 4:49 - Chopped up vocal samples

== Videos ==
{{#ev:youtube|vfOjYRV7X80}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]

Sunshine Recorder

2022-01-26T02:54:15Z

Dreamland Shay.:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Sunshine Recorder
| runtime=6:13
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

== Comments ==
* The Campbell-Stokes <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090301025924/http://www.gov.im/airport/virtual/meteor/met/sunrecorder.xml</ref> consists of a glass globe which focuses sunlight onto a card behind, leaving a record (in burnmarks) of sunshine throughout the day. [DC]

== Trivia ==
*The synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into this track is the same synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into the track 'Turquoise Hexagon Sun'.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* 3:12 onward - ''"A beautiful place''", sampled from a [[Sesame Street]] vintage on canyons in Arizona. <ref>{{#ev:youtube|KRD1dgLXu04|480||||start=132|false}}</ref>
* 4:03 onward - A timestretched sample of a child's voice, ''"an ea-gle in your mi-nd"'' or ''"a beau-ti-ful pl-a-ce"'' or ""can you please call 9-1-1""
* 5:57 - ''"bye bye, bye bye bye"''. from the same [[Sesame Street]] vintage used in "[[Whitewater]]". <ref>{{#ev:youtube|QZyRR-18EVU|480|||||false}}</ref>
* 2:49, 4:49 - Chopped up vocal samples

== Videos ==
{{#ev:youtube|vfOjYRV7X80}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]

Under The Coke Sign

2022-01-26T02:42:36Z

Dreamland Shay.: /* Trivia */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Under The Coke Sign
| runtime=1:31
| appearson=[[Trans Canada Highway]]}}

== Trivia ==
* The main chord progression of this track is virtually identical to that of [[Olson]] from [[Music Has the Right to Children]], albeit in the key of 'G' rather than 'F'.
* Coke is a reference to the Coca-Cola soft drink but can also refer to cocaine. Many of BoC tracks often contain drug references.
* The [[Societas x Tape|Societas x Tape]] features a vintage photograph of a band playing at the Tomorrowland Terrace in Disneyland, California, dated from the 1970s. The band is seen playing under a Coke sign.

[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Trans Canada Highway tracks]]

{{stub}}

Kid For Today

2022-01-01T19:10:00Z

Dreamland Shay.:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Kid for Today
| runtime=6:23
| appearson=[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country EP]]}}

==Samples/Lyrics==
* It has been suggested that the percussive clicking noise heard throughout ''Kid For Today'' is the sound of a slide projector. [DC]
* The drums starting from 3:00 may be sampled from "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPW3YRn_uAI Fragment]" by "[https://www.discogs.com/artist/384682-Bleach-3 Bleach]" from their 1992 album "[https://www.discogs.com/Bleach-Hard/master/262407 Hard]"<ref>https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12845</ref>. The drum loop is the same as the one used in "[[Sequoia]]".
** "Strawberry Fields Forever" by [[wikipedia:The Beatles|The Beatles]] includes a similar drum fill featuring a distinctive tambourine at 0:57; this may have been a source of inspiration for Bleach. <ref>http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=7266 WATMM post on the "Strawberry Fields Forever" sample with audio clips illustrating the similarity</ref> Coincidentally, the line followed by the drum loop in Strawberry Fields Forever is 'Nothing is Real'.

==Notes==
It appears this track was originally intended for an LP on Skam. An unfinished (and at that time, untitled) version of this track appeared as a bonus track on a one-off BoC Maxima cassette given as a present to the girl who appears on the Geogaddi cover. <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=95486#95486 BoC Maxima tape</ref> Also the '''[[EHX]]''' website had an audio clip titled "Kid For Today (1997) (unreleased)" which corroborates with the possibility of it having an early origin. <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20000301021317/http://www.ednet.co.uk/~ehx/boc/sounds.html</ref><ref>https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14090&start=20</ref>

==Trivia==
This track contains the same chord progression as that of 'Olson (Version 3)', albeit 6 semitones (half-steps) higher in scale.

== Videos ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id=baBQFIVagvE}}

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:In a Beautiful Place out in the Country tracks]]
[[Category:In_a_Beautiful_Place_out_in_the_Country_tracks]]

Olson (Version 3)

2022-01-01T19:05:49Z

Dreamland Shay.: /* Trivia */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Olson (Version 3)
| runtime=2:31
| appearson=[[Peel Session]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* Beginning at 0:17, contains the same vocal sample as in the [[Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Mable]] remix.
* At 00:30 a sample of a kid counting fishes can be heard, this comes from the "Alaskan Ice Fishing" [[Sesame Street]] segment at 02:17. <ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=LVLffsRX6LE|200}}</ref>

== Trivia ==

This track contains the same chord progression as that of 'Kid For Today', albeit 6 semitones (half-steps) lower in scale.

== Videos ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id=K7mhUuVGfKI}}

== External links==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Peel Session tracks]]