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User:Iheartgeogaddi

2009-05-10T18:05:50Z

Iheartgeogaddi:

Hello. I'm Iheartgeogaddi. I like [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] and their [[Geogaddi]] album very much.

No. I'm not a lurker…I just keep forgetting my password!

Music Has the Right to Children

2008-08-15T14:34:43Z

Iheartgeogaddi:

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Music Has the Right to Children
| cover=Music Has the Right to Children.jpg
| release_date=20 April 1998 (Europe) 20 August 1998 (United States)
| format=Gatefold 2xLP CD Promo CD
| label=Skam Records Warp Records
| catno=skalp1/warplp55 skald1/warpcd55 skald1/pwarpcd55
| runtime=62:58 (Original release) 70:42 (2004 re-release)
}}

'''Music Has the Right to Children''' was the first commercially released album by [[Boards of Canada]] and probably their most well-known one. It has been called one of the greatest pieces of electronic music of its age and has introduced many to [[Boards of Canada]]. It was released 20 April 1998 in the United Kingdom and 20 August 1998 in the United States. It was later re-pressed in 2004.

==Tracks==

# "[[Wildlife Analysis]]" – 1:17
# "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]]" – 6:23
# "[[The Color of the Fire]]" – 1:45
# "[[Telephasic Workshop (song)|Telephasic Workshop]]" – 6:35
# "[[Triangles and Rhombuses]]" – 1:50
# "[[Sixtyten]]" – 5:48
# "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]" – 5:07
# "[[Kaini Industries]]" – 0:59
# "[[Bocuma]]" – 1:35
# "[[Roygbiv]]" – 2:31
# "[[Rue the Whirl]]" – 6:39
# "[[Aquarius (song)|Aquarius]]" – 5:58
# "[[Olson]]" – 1:31
# "[[Pete Standing Alone]]" – 6:07
# "[[Smokes Quantity]]" – 3:07
# "[[Open the Light]]" – 4:25
# "[[One Very Important Thought]]" – 1:14
# "[[Happy Cycling]]" – 7:51 (included only on [[1998]] US [[Matador Records|Matador]] release and [[2004]] [[Warp Records|Warp]] re-release)

==Trivia==
* According to [[WATMM]], the cover image was taken at Banff Springs in Alberta, Canada.

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Opening The Mouth

2008-08-07T22:01:37Z

Iheartgeogaddi: New page: {{Infobox Song| | name=Opening The Mouth | runtime=1:11 | appearson=Geogaddi}} == Samples/Lyrics == If you listen very carefully, you can hear the word 'us' repeated throughout the t...

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Opening The Mouth
| runtime=1:11
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

== Samples/Lyrics ==

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the word 'us' repeated throughout the track.

== References ==

*[http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/lyrics/]

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

Aquarius (song)

2008-07-27T21:44:56Z

Iheartgeogaddi:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Aquarius
| runtime=5:58 ([[Aquarius]], [[MHTRTC]]) 6:24 ([[Peel Session]]) 7:43 ([[Warp10]])
| appearson=[[Aquarius]] [[Music has the Right to Children]] [[Peel Session]] [[Live @ Warp10]]}}

[[image:Orange.jpg|thumb|left|Screen capture from "Orange" Sesame Street vignette]]

==Samples/Lyrics==
*Aquarius contains a sample from the song of the same name on [http://www.discogs.com/release/702474 Galt MacDermot's 1979 soundtrack] for the film "[[wikipedia:Hair (movie)|Hair]]" (the slap bass riff that's present throughout the Boards of Canada version).
*Contains a sample from a sketch in a vintage [[wikipedia:Sesame Street|Sesame Street]] episode (''Orange'').
*Contains samples from yet another vintage [[wikipedia:Sesame Street|Sesame Street]] episode (children's laughter and the "yeah, that's right" sample).
*At 2:40, "Aquarius (Version 3)" from the ''[[Peel Session]]'' contains a sample from "[[Audiotrack 12]]" from ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 1]]'' side A.<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4227</ref>
*A sequence of numbers is read by a professional-sounding woman's voice that strongly resembles the voice-over in "[[One Very Important Thought]]," except that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesizer domain-specific speech synthesis] is used, giving the numbers a robotic quality. The sequence varies:
**On ''Music Has the Right to Children'': "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44, 68, 27, 35, 42, 58, 47, 63, 85, 74, 67, 66, 51, 79, 42, 24, 45, sixty-ten, 6, 7, 56, 65, 44, 53, 44, 17, 13, 23"
**In Version 3, the sequence ends with "...42, 24, 45, sixty-ten, 64, 47, 52, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23"
*The same voice that recites the number sequence says "Orange".
*A chorused male voice sings "I'm listening" (Version 3 only)
*At 4:40, a synthesized male voice says "sixtyten new aquarius" (Version 3 only)<ref>http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/lyrics/#peel</ref>
*A girl's voice saying what is believed to be the phrase "for Sandisons." <ref>http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/lyrics/#mhtrtc</ref>

==Cultural References==

*One number heard throughout the sequence is sixtyten, a reference to the song of the same name on this album but also the brother's own label, Music70.
*23, another number heard in the sequence (especially in Version 3), is a prominent theme in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminatus_trilogy Illuminatus! Trilogy] by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. "23" occurrs five times at the end of the sequence in Version 3; another major theme in the same book is the "law of fives". The band has cited Robert Anton Wilson as an influence on their work<ref>http://www.solesides.com/winblad/boards%20of%20canada/bocehx.html</ref>, and their music has appeared on the sountrack of ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398191/ Maybe Logic: The Lives And Ideas Of Robert Anton Wilson]''.<ref>http://www.discogs.com/release/645609</ref>

==Versions==

*Has appeared in several forms, notably on the [[Aquarius_(release)|Aquarius 7" Single]] and also on the [[Peel Session]] recordings. This track also appears on [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5r65mpck9ffo Hexstatic's 2003 "Solid Steel" mix] for the electronic label [[wikipedia:Ninja Tune|Ninja Tune]].

==References==
<references />

==External Links==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhbxI5eVnM4 The original ''Aquarius'', from the movie "Hair"]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAtrnbu8ts The Sesame Street vignette which contains the ''Orange'' sample]
*[http://youtube.com/watch?v=DylT5LQvVPg&mode=related&search= The Sesame Street vignette with the children's laughter and the "yeah, that's right" vocal heard in Aquarius (heard at roughly 10 seconds into the video)]

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Nlogax

2008-07-16T00:56:46Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Nlogax
| runtime=5:12 [[BoC Maxima]] 6:53 [[Hi Scores]]
| appearson=Boc Maxima Hi Scores}}

The word '''Nlogax''' is thought to have been derived from the common mathematical expression n·logax = logaxn

==Production==

Forcefield Magazine, April 1998

:*"We sometimes make a tune metamorphose as it plays. An example is "Nlogax" from the "Hi Scores" EP on Skam, which begins like an old electro or disco track but halfway through it suddenly becomes something nightmarish, like your brain is starting to malfunction in the middle of the tune. Psychedelics make music sound entirely different. Tiny details become massive, a five-minute track can feel like it's five hours long on psychedelics. You know when you're on a ride at a fairground, the pitch of the music rises and falls because of the Doppler-Effect? That's another thing we love to do in our tracks, and it's a fairly psychedelic-sounding effect too."

==Samples/Lyrics==
* Contains a sample of [[wikipedia:Indeep|Indeep]]'s 1983 hit "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life."

[[Category:BoC Maxima tracks]]
[[Category:Hi Scores tracks]]

Nlogax

2008-07-16T00:56:34Z

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Nlogax

2008-07-16T00:56:13Z

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Turquoise Hexagon Sun

2008-07-14T21:33:04Z

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

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:BoC Maxima tracks]]
[[Category:Hi Scores tracks]]
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]]
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Turquoise Hexagon Sun

2008-07-14T21:32:36Z

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

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Hi Scores tracks]]
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]]
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Nova Scotia Robots

2008-07-14T21:22:42Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Nova Scotia Robots
| runtime=1:47 [[A Few Old Tunes]] 1:21 [[BoC Maxima]]
| appearson=A Few Old Tunes BoC Maxima}}

==Samples/Lyrics==
*From the end of the track, gradually slowing down: "... and so you could become ''very'' sensitive to everything, you start walking through the studio, you go: 'ah yes, it's going to be a good day, I can feel -'"<ref>http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/lyrics/#bocmaxima</ref>

==References==
<references />

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From One Source All Things Depend

2008-07-13T18:17:08Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=From One Source All Things Depend
| runtime=2:10
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

==Samples/Lyrics==

*Beginning at :02, children's voices can be heard, praying to and describing the nature of God:

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, he maketh me to lie down in green pastures ..."
"... glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost ... "
[In Hebrew] " ... Baruch atta Adonai Eloheynu melech ha-olam asher kid-shanu ..."
[praised are you, Lord our God, whose presence fills the universe, who has sanctified our lives ...]
"... Hail Mary, full of Grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women ..."
"... now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I die before I wake ..."
"... our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,
give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from evil ..."
"... God bless my mother, my father, by brother, Eloise(?), all my aunts, all my uncles ..."
"Who is God? Well, it's an invisible person, and he lives up in heaven, up there."
"God is somebody who rules the world. He's sort of like a spirit, I guess, up in outer space. He kind of started all the
plants growing, and he started people, and well I guess he's kind of big and fat."
"He can see us whatever we do, whatever we do, he has such powerful eyes, he has to have millions and thousands and billions, and
he can still see us when we're bad."
"He could be sitting on the table right now, but you can't see him."
"If he was a bad man, he would make everything bad, and we wouldn't have electricity, he wouldn't make people, that's what
would happen if God wasn't nice."
"... he's not though, what - a lot of people think he's just a feeling - but I think he's a real person."
"Well, I think that God isn't a person, but he's up in the heavens, and he's watching over us right now."

From One Source All Things Depend

2008-07-13T18:16:47Z

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Magic Window

2008-06-25T15:35:44Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Magic Window
| runtime=1:46
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

'''Magic Window''' is is track number 23 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. The song is one minute and forty-six seconds of pure silence.

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Magic Window

2008-06-25T15:35:31Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Magic Window
| runtime=1:46
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

'''Magic Window''' is is track number 23 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. The song is one minute and fourty-six seconds of pure silence.

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Amo Bishop Roden

2008-05-31T00:29:00Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Amo Bishop Roden
| runtime=6:12
| appearson=[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country EP]]}}

== The Track ==

'''Amo Bishop Roden''' is track number 2 on the EP, [[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]. The title of the song comes from the name of a supposed Branch Davidian member. Roden has also been mentioned in the song "[[1969]]", the 'Poppy Seed Remix.' and the song [[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (song)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]], a quote from Roden, found on the EP of the same name.

== The Person ==

Amo Paul Bishop Roden is the former wife of George Roden, a rival of David Koresh for leadership of the Branch Davidians. After the 1993 fire, she attracted notice by beginning a one-woman reoccupation of the sect's Mount Carmel property. At one point in her reoccupation, when another ex-husband, Tom Drake, rejoined her, she was also known as Amo Paul Bishop Roden Drake or Amo Roden Drake.

Amo and George Roden married in October 1987, shortly after meeting. (Since George's divorce from his wife Carmen would not be finalized until February 28, 1998, her detractors question the legitimacy of their common law arrangement.) George, son of Branch Davidian founders Benjamin and Lois Roden, claimed leadership of the sect, but faced challengers, including David Koresh (then named Vernon Howell). Just weeks later, Koresh led a band of followers onto Mt. Carmel, ending up in a shootout with George. The next year, Koresh's supporters reclaimed Mt. Carmel and expelled Amo. Her brief time with George left her pregnant with their daughter.

The standoff with the government five years later decimated Koresh's group, giving Amo the opportunity to move onto the Mt. Carmel grounds. In November 1994, she had an armed standoff with a group that included future militia figure Ron Cole. The legal case between her and surviving Koresh loyalists is still being fought in the courts, but has taken a twist following the recent takeover of the site by Charles Pace, another Branch Davidian leader.

Amo Roden also drew attention in 2001, when she drove to the Oklahoma City bombing memorial site in her pickup truck with Branch Davidian slogans, creating a brief bomb scare.

She has written many tracts and pamphlets explaining her version of events and her religious ideas. Major tracts include Cracking the Coverup, The Second Standoff, Babylon Is Fallen: The Legacy of David Koresh, and Scrapbook of a Protest.

Academic James Faubion has also written a book about her, The Shadows and Lights of Waco.

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Geogaddi (test pressing)

2008-05-26T23:50:36Z

Iheartgeogaddi: /* Tracks */

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Geogaddi (Test Pressing)
| release_date=Feb 2002
| format=12"
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP101
| runtime=13.10
}}

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3186/geogadditestpressingrm4.jpg

The '''''Geogaddi test pressing''''' was a 12" vinyl disc containing sides E and F of the album [[Geogaddi]] by [[Boards of Canada]]. It was pressed on blue vinyl and was pressed the skant amount of 10 times. Just as in ''Geogaddi'', side F was grooveless and had the nuclear family pictogram etched into it.

== Tracks ==
'''Side A:'''
# "[[Dawn Chorus]]" – 3:46
# "[[Diving Station]]" – 1:25
# "[[You Could Feel the Sky]]" – 5:15
# "[[Corsair]]" – 2:48

'''Side B:'''
:Etching of a nuclear family.

== See Also ==
*[[Geogaddi]]
*[[Geogaddi (promo)]]

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Geogaddi (promo lp)

2008-05-24T17:28:20Z

Iheartgeogaddi: Fixed link

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Geogaddi (Promo)
| release_date=21 Jan 2001
| format=12"
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP101P
| runtime=7:28
}}

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/8528/geogaddipromoog8.jpg

The '''''Geogaddi promo''''' was a one-sided 12" vinyl disc advertising [[Boards of Canada]]'s album, [[Geogaddi]]. The center label is in the shape of a turquoise hexagon and all two of the tracks are uncredited. The second song, ''Beware The Friendly Stranger'' contains a locked groove.

==Tracks==
'''Side A:'''
# "[[Alpha And Omega]]" – 6:58
# "[[Beware The Friendly Stranger]]" – 0:30

'''Side B:'''
# "[[Magic Window]]"

==Trivia==
*Copies of the promo were distributed at the [[Other live sets#Promotional events|Geogaddi listening parties]].

==See Also==
*[[Geogaddi]]
*[[Geogaddi (test pressing)]]

[[Category:Promotional Releases]]
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User:Iheartgeogaddi

2008-05-24T16:48:32Z

Iheartgeogaddi: New page: Hello. I'm Iheartgeogaddi. I like BoC and their Geogaddi album very much. No. I'm not a lurker.

Hello. I'm Iheartgeogaddi. I like BoC and their [[Geogaddi]] album very much.

No. I'm not a lurker.

Category:Released Tracks

2008-05-24T00:55:47Z

Iheartgeogaddi: New page: Tracks released by Boards of Canada.

Tracks released by Boards of Canada.

Magic Window

2008-05-23T01:08:41Z

Iheartgeogaddi: New page: {{Infobox Song| | name=Magic Window | runtime=1:46 | appearson=Geogaddi}} '''Magic Window''' is is track number 23 on the Geogaddi album. The song is one minute and forty-six sec...

Over The Horizon Radar

2008-05-23T01:06:15Z

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{{Infobox Song|
| name=Over The Horizon Radar
| runtime=1:08
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

'''Over The Horizon Radar''' is is track number 18 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. The title refers to a design concept for radar systems to allow them to detect targets at very long ranges, typically up to thousands of kilometers.

It has also been used as the theme music for David Firth's short online flash cartoon "Scribbler".

== References ==

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar Wikipedia article on the Over-the-horizon_radar concept.]

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Alpha And Omega

2008-05-23T01:05:13Z

Iheartgeogaddi: I have the album. It's 7:02

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Alpha And Omega
| runtime=7:02
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

'''Alpha And Omega''' is track number 14 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. As well as constituting the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and omega is also an appellation of God in the book of Revelation.

==Samples/Lyrics==

* A voice is thought to be saying "Alpha and Omega" over a loudspeaker at the beginning and end of the track. (0:07)

* A woman's voice is heard saying "Yellow!" (4:17)

* A man's back masked voice saying "I'm a God-darned Satanist, and, if I wanted, I'd be in this business too." (6:30)