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Chromakey Dreamcoat

2013-07-09T02:58:52Z

Ryetronics: /* Samples/Lyrics */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Chromakey Dreamcoat
| runtime=5:47
| appearson=[[The Campfire Headphase]]}}

==Comments==
== Samples/Lyrics ==
* There appears to be a sample of a seagulls call at around 2:40 and again at 3:10. However these sound different from those sampled on "[[Happy Cycling]]".
* There are also voices in the coda of this track. Between 5:16 and 5:35 is a recording of a woman talking and laughing. She laughs (5:20), says what sounds like "You know, this won't last..." (5:22-5:24), "I didn't like ... that before (?) ... times(?)" (5:28-5:30), laughs (5:32). It sounds like a sentence of some sort but a lot of words drop out. These voices are sampled from [http://www.archive.org/details/social_seminar_tom an early 1970's anti-drug social hygiene film]. [http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=65400]
** The full quote is as follows (beginning at 5:16):
{{quote|"Woman: ...two weeks ago for the Christmas formal. [laughs] 
Man: For the Christmas formal?! That's a fuckin' sacrament! 
Woman: Just so, you know, 'cause the Christmas formal last year was so funny. I thought well, maybe... I didn't like mescaline before but I had such a good time. [laughs] It was just so funny. [laughs]"| [http://www.archive.org/details/social_seminar_tom Social Seminar: Tom]|10:00}}
* There appears to be a sample of a whispery, male voice saying what sounds like "Seven" throughout the song, first appearing at 32seconds and 42seconds. It's significance is unknown.

==Trivia==
* "Chroma key" (or color key) is a technique used in video production to swap in a separate signal source over a particular chrominance range across the source video, e.g. in bluescreen cinema effects. <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key Chroma key</ref>
* The title could also be a reference to a musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber called "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_and_the_Amazing_Technicolor_Dreamcoat Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat</ref>

==Videos==

== External Links ==

==References==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: The Campfire Headphase tracks]]

Sick Times

2013-06-10T02:10:36Z

Ryetronics: /* Samples / Lyrics */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Sick Times
| runtime=4:16
| appearson=[[Tomorrow's Harvest|Tomorrow's Harvest]]}}

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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Tomorrow's Harvest tracks]]

== Comments ==
* [http://thequietus.com/users/10546 Joe Clay]: "An imposing chord sequence and whooshing synths announce the arrival of the dopest beat yet – a seriously funky, chopped-up hip-hop break. There are trace elements of looped vocals and gorgeously woozy melodies. This is like a souped-up "[[Telephasic Workshop]]". There's a long fade with rumbling bass that makes the speakers tremble." <ref>http://thequietus.com/articles/12364-boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest-review</ref>

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*Around 1:46 a voice appears to say 'thank you'. further unintelligible vocal samples continue throughout the track.
*At 2:15, 2:24, 2:33, & 2:42 a modulated voice appears in the left channel saying something like "You'll believe anything" or "You keep leaving."

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==

== External links==

== References ==
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Sixtyten

2009-07-07T11:19:10Z

Ryetronics: /* Samples/Lyrics */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Sixtyten
| runtime=5:48
| appearson=[[Music_Has_the_Right_to_Children|MHTRTC]]}}

== Samples/Lyrics ==

*Forwards: At about 2:27, and elsewhere: "David Addison" (name of character played by [http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=bruce+willis&x=0&y=0 Bruce Willis] in the show ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088571/ Moonlighting]''). Alternatively,
**[Derek] suggests that this is merely "What's happening?" and
**[John M] is pretty certain it's "They're after me";
**[DC] thinks it's David Addison, so readers will have to decide from themselves.
*Throughout the song is the voice sample saying what appears to be "Watch it", followed by "It's alright".

*Backwards: "There are a lot of different 'me's, you know. There's the mad me, when I get angry."
**[DC] [Second quote: same Sesame Street vignette as "[[Whitewater]]" lyrics]

*Samples the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2zx4lr-h8 Getaway]" by music group ''[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Earth,+Wind+%26+Fire Earth Wind and Fire]'' throughout the song. <ref>{{#ev:youtube|vE2zx4lr-h8|200}}</ref>
**A video analyzing this sampling has been posted on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPFNDASk60 Youtube].

==Ending==

* The separate vignette at the end of the track is believed to be a composition named "[[Blueberry]]".<ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4720&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25</ref>

== Trivia ==
* [[Sixtyten]] is 70. You'll hear this in [[Aquarius]] too. A reference to [[Music70]], [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s own label. See comments on [[The Smallest Weird Number]] in [[Geogaddi]].

==References==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Song]]
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]]

Equipment

2006-09-03T04:14:12Z

Ryetronics: /* Secret Weapon */

There has been much debate on what equipment Boards of Canada uses to get their unique sound. Due to their reclusive nature and lack of touring, not much is known for certain, but there is much speculation.

== Secret Weapon ==
BoC themselves have, in multiple [[interviews]], mentioned the use of a "secret weapon" they use to generate their unique sound. As the name implied, they have declined to provide any specific information on what this "weapon" might be, but most expect it to be some sort of old analog synth.

Many believe the Yamaha CS-80, used by Vangelis, to be this weapon. In the [[WATMM]] thread "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=1503 ATTN BOC-sessives, CS-80 on eBay], however, jbible refutes this, saying

<blockquote>"The synth used by BOC often mistaken for a CS80 is a Crumar with a BOC emblem covering the name of the synth on the back."</blockquote>.

Since jbible has seen BoC live (and is the source of the [[Live @ ATP]] bootleg), his comments hold some weight.

Here is a detailed "[http://synthmuseum.com/yamaha/yamcs8001.html write-up]" of the CS-80, courtesy of the SynthMuseum.

== Native Instruments ==
In a 2001(?) interview with Mate Galic of [[wikipedia:Native Instruments|Native Instruments]], Boards of Canada is listed as one of the artists using NI products (but not details on which ones). [http://web.archive.org/web/20011219173856/http://www.cakewalknet.com/articlesnieng.htm]

== Tape decks ==
=== Grundig ===
==== Unknown tape deck ====

''“We love these low-quality tape machines,” Eoin says. “The great thing with machines such as the Grundig is that it's tragically bad. Whatever you record into it just doesn't come out unscathed. There's a ‘magic eye’ valve display on it, and when you hit the tape deck with the right volume, enough to fill out the magic eye, it's at that exact sweet spot that it is saturating the tape. So if you then sample back the playback, it's got a thousand years' grain on it.”'' [[interviews|Remix, 2005]]

* Possible models:
** [http://www.rolaa.de/sehensw/radio/tonband/tape1/tape1/tk1_e.htm TK 1 Luxus]
** [http://www.rolaa.de/sehensw/radio/tonband/tape1/tape1/tk5_e.htm TK 5]

* [http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1409390 "Magic eye" article at Everything2]
* [http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/y_kondo/MAGICEYE2.HTM Gallery of Magic Eyes]

=== Tascam ===

==== Unknown 4-track ====
''We drop a lot of our music down onto a Tascam 4-track that has a great saturating effect on the sound.''
[[interviews|Remix, 2002]]

==== MSR-16 ====
''Whether they're working separately or together, getting ideas down is generally a result of recording extended jams to tape on anything from a Tascam MSR-16 reel-to-reel to an old Revox recorder to a Grundig machine to an ordinary cassette.'' [[interviews|Remix, 2005]]

* [http://www.tascam.com/Company.html#1988 TASCAM Company History]
* [http://www.audioscope.net/images/tascammsr16.jpg Image]

== Samplers ==
=== Akai ===
==== S1000 ====
''We have five or six samplers, but my favorite by far is still the Akai S1000. It's an old tank now, and the screen has faded so that I almost can't read it, but I know it inside out. It's the most spontaneous thing for making up little tunes. It adds something to the sound — maybe the lower bit depth has something to do with that.'' - [[interviews|Remix, 2002]]

* [http://www.vintagesynth.com/akai/s1000.shtml Vintage Synth Explorer]
* [http://www.synthmuseum.com/akai/akas100001.jpg Image]