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Two women speaking, presumably on a television show:<br />
* Woman #1: "Wearing light-colored hosiery like that makes your legs look larger. Do you know that?"<br />
* Woman #2: "No. I don't want them larg--"<br />
* Woman #1: "And the shoes, the high-buckle in the instep also squashes your legs--"<br />
* Woman #2: "Really?"<br />
* Woman #1: "so we're gonna do something else there. Let's talk about color for a minute--"<br />
* Woman #2: "All right."<br />
* Woman #1: "Nikki. You like green--"<br />
* Woman #2: "Mmm hmm"<br />
* Woman #1: "and green's gonna be nice on you, but this one is decapitating you."<br />
* Woman #2: "Really?"<br />
* Woman #1: "Yup."<br />
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[[Category:Catalog 3 tracks]]</div>72.14.199.47https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=Davie_Addison&diff=5889Davie Addison2008-11-01T14:40:32Z<p>72.14.199.47: Text replace - 'name1' to 'name'</p>
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"Davie Addison" may be named after David Addison, the character played by Bruce Willis on the 1980s television series ''Moonlighting''.<ref>http://www.davidandmaddie.com/david.htm</ref><br />
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* '''Dawn Chorus''' is is track number 19 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. As well as birdsong at daybreak, the title also may refer to the unexplained phenomena known as electromagnetic dawn chorus which occours during or just after sunrise effecting radio equipment with a transmission similar to birds dawn chorus.<br />
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== Samples/Lyrics ==<br />
* ''"round the, round the, round the cauldron"''(?)<br />
* [Pete from Phaelam] suggests at around 1:40 ''"but you may be dead ... you may be dead"''. <br />
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* Aside from the bird-song variety that all are familiar with, there is an electromagnetic phenomenon of the same name, which occurs when the sun breaks over the horizon during a period of sunspot activity or of solar flares. At such times, those with the proper equipment can hear sounds that have been described as being like whistling, or like hundreds of birds singing at once; some have even reported hearing human voices. [anon] <br />
* You might like to read the description of the effect at: [[wikipedia:Dawn_chorus_(electromagnetic)|wikipedia]]. That article also has links to WAV files of the Dawn Chorus from NASA's site.<br />
* [J] pointed out something interesting: [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] have remixed Meat Beat Manifesto, and the MBM album "Actual Sounds and Voices" contains a very Geogaddi-sounding track called "The Tweek" (track 6). He pointed out that the beginning of the track sounds rather like the beginning of A:B::B:C, and that "a little way through the track, a conversation starts. The two men are discussing radio disturbances/anomalies", and that these are illustrated with pertinent audio samples. "At the end, there is a pause and they begin to play an extended sample of a dawn chorus" that sounds rather like chirping tree-frogs in the summer. One of the men then comments: "The dawn chorus on the other hand is not at all well understood, and there is no theory to explain it." (Actual dawn chorus samples can be heard by following the Wikipedia link given above.) <br />
*It is interesting to notice that the [[wikipedia:Gundestrup_cauldron|Gundestrup cauldron]] depicts "The horned God" Mentioned in [[You Could Feel the Sky]] And the lyrics "round the, round the, round the cauldron" can be heard in this song and that the beginning of A:B::B:C sounds similar to a bubbling cauldron.<br />
* Comments from the [[Interviews#2002-07-01:_Remix|Northern Exposure interview]]:<br />
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"How do you create your drum patterns?"<br />
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"[[Marcus_Eoin_Sandison|Sandison]]: It's a mixture of live performance and step sequencing. Sometimes, we make up sounds and then program them tightly in a really synthetic way. Other times, we want it to sound really rough, so we'll just jam on the drums live. For instance, "Dawn Chorus" is a single-take jammed beat that I played, while "1969" has a live beat all the way through mixed with other beat tracks."<br />
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== References ==<br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_chorus_%28birds%29 Wikipedia article on dawn chorus.]<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_chorus_%28electromagnetic%29 Wikipedia article on electromagnetic dawn chorus.]<br />
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* This is a short remix of [[Dayvan Cowboy]] by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]] which appears on his album [http://www.discogs.com/release/1379539 Pretty Swell Explode] It is different to the version found on [[Trans Canada Highway]].<br />
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* '''Dandelion''' is track number 5 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. The vocal heard over the track is the narative of Leslie Nielson from a National Geographic film. He Served as the host of [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068070 The Explorers], as well as narrating [http://www.beyond.com.au/television/catalogue/wildlife_natural_history/3.phpl The Blue Frontier] series of nature films, along with several other nature films for National Geographic. <br />
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"When lava pours out near the sea surface, tremendous volcanic explosions sometimes occur. In time, submarine sea-mounts or islands are formed. When lava flows underwater, it behaves differently. And a new contraption to capture a 'dandelion' in one piece has been put together by the crew. The preparation for a dive is always a tense time. When lava pours out near the sea surface, tremendous volcanic explosions sometimes occur..."<br />
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* '''Dandelions''' or '''Sea Dandelions''' (Dromalia alexandri) are a species of sea anemone. See also the mention of a ''dandelion'' [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seas/index.phpl?expeditions:channel:dispatch_07_16_2000 here].<br />
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* Play dandelion in reverse, and a richer melody will become evident. The [[Dandelion]] of the track is apparently a deep-sea creature, perhaps an anemone. Attempts to bring one to the surface resulted in its disintegration because of pressure changes. The narration describes attempts to make a device to bring one to the surface intact. [Oscar Bartos] <br />
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[[We Are The Music Makers]] is a website concerning (mostly [[wikipedia:Intelligent dance music|IDM]] - a term originally referring to music on [[Warp Records]], coined on the [[IDM mailing list]]) electronic music, with emphasis on the coverage of [[wikipedia:Aphex Twin|Aphex Twin]], [[wikipedia:Autechre|Autechre]], [[Boards of Canada]], [[wikipedia:µ-Ziq|µ-Ziq]] and [[wikipedia:Squarepusher|Squarepusher]]. It is administrated by James E. Thomas, aka [[Joyrex]].<br />
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== Features ==<br />
[[Image:WATMM.png|thumb|right|Main page]]<br />
The site comprises a main page, with news concerning these artists, as well as sections which filter the news items to those comprising information regarding specific artists. The subsites are under heavy development, but will eventually comprise complete media repositories for these artists, comprising of interviews, live bootlegs, images, and other items.<br />
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[[Image:Forum.watmm.png|thumb|right|Forums]]<br />
The other main feature of WATMM is the lively forums, found at [http://forum.watmm.com forum.watmm.com]. The forum is divided into three sections: General Banter (everything from cheese to scatology to music), Featured Artists (for discussion regarding the artists mentioned above) and EKT (Expert Knob Twiddlers), a forum for aspiring artists to discuss techniques and share their creations.<br />
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== History ==<br />
=== joyrex.com ===<br />
The site was started in mid-1999 as a site about Aphex Twin, as well as a test project for Joyrex to learn HTML. He hosted it on his ISP's free webspace, launching at http://users.ev1.net/~joyrex on June 6, 1999. Almost a month later, on July 3, the site made the move to joyrex.com. The name1 of the site, also used as the pseudonym of its webmaster, was taken from a series of Aphex Twin releases. The site also gained its first user forums, which quickly became popular with both fans and artists alike.<br />
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Joyrex.com soon became '''the''' Aphex Twin resource, a position that was strengthened in late 2001 when the site was purchased by an online music portal, with Joyrex retaining full control over the content of the site and receiving a monthly stipend to support it. Less than a year later, however, the company folded, leaving the site in the lurch with the domain name1 set to expire.<br />
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=== watmm.com ===<br />
Rather than let the site fold, Joyrex instead took the opportunity to expand. He envisioned a new site, not only about Aphex Twin, but other major artists as well. With this new focus came a new name1: "We Are The Music Makers", taken from the name1 of an Aphex Twin track. On April 28, 2002, the new site opened at watmm.com, with sections for [[wikipedia:Autechre|Autechre]], [[wikipedia:Aphex Twin|Aphex Twin]], [[Boards of Canada]] and [[wikipedia:Squarepusher|Squarepusher]]. [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://watmm.com/news/archives/watmm-archive-4-2002.shtml] [http://web.archive.org/web/20020630104013/watmm.com/images/watmm_splash.jpg] [http://web.archive.org/web/20020628161302/watmm.com/watmm_contact.shtml]<br />
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In late 2002, WATMM ran the [[An Eagle In Your Mind video contest]], a [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] fan video contest where the results were judged by the band themselves.<br />
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In 2004 (2005?), the scope of the site was further increased when µ-Ziq was added to the site, completing the current roster.<br />
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In the past, the artist sections were much richer than they are today, containing images, articles, interviews, recordings and videos. They were taken down in 2003? for a redesign. For a long period, there was nothing on the site at all aside from the forums. There are now artists sections once again, but they consist primarily of news items.<br />
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== Timeline ==<br />
* 6 Jun 1999: Site opens at http://users.ev1.net/~joyrex<br />
* 3 Jul 1999: Site moves to joyrex.com<br />
* Late 2001: Purchased by online music portal<br />
* 28 Apr 2002: Site reopens at watmm.com<br />
* 2 Aug 2002 - 20 Dec 2002: [[An Eagle In Your Mind video contest]]<br />
* 15 Jun 2004: Forum re-opens, previous posts lost [http://web.archive.org/web/20041108171417/http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=7] [http://web.archive.org/web/20050504084444/http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9] [http://web.archive.org/web/20050106062301/http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showuser=3]<br />
* 16 Nov 2005: Forum re-opens, previous posts lost [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=2]<br />
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== Releases ==<br />
[[Image:Watmm001CD cover.jpg|thumb|right|''We Are The Music Makers Volume One'']]<br />
*In December 2004, WATMM released a compilaton containing a best-of from the Expert Knob Twiddlers section.<br />
*In ????, a [[wikipedia:Netlabel|netlabel]] known as WATMM Digital Media was founded.<br />
**So far, it has released ????, and Max Marlowe' ''Afterthought'', in conjunction with ????.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://watmm.com We Are The Music Makers - Your Electronic Music Resource]<br />
** [http://forum.watmm.com/ WATMM Forums]<br />
*** [http://chaosmachine.net/watmm2/ WATMM2 forum] run by [[chaosmachine]] for times when WATMM is down<br />
** [http://records.watmm.com/ WATMM Records]<br />
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*"We're startin'up, now we're on our way"<ref>[http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/519267.html Flashback Lyrics]</ref> (from the song '''Flashback''' by Imagination <ref>[http://gutterbreakz.blogspot.com/2008/04/three-illusionary-boys.html Gutterbreakz blog entry about "We're startin' up" sample]</ref>; slowed down 20%)<br />
*"He's a dream" (from the song of the same name1 by Shandi on the <i>Flashdance</i> soundtrack, sampled at 1:55 and slowed down 25%) <ref>[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=7832 WATMM forum post mentioning "He's a dream" sample]</ref> <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ5W8nyIKts YouTube video featuring "He's a dream" sample]</ref><br />
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"[[The Downtempo Duo]]" is a 2005 interview by Heiko Hoffmann. It originally appeared in ''Earplug''.<br />
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With their Warp albums Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, Boards of Canada have become one of the most well-loved and critically revered contemporary artists without releasing singles, videos, or even going on tour. At the same time their sound of electronic psychedelia has been copied so often as to make the duo wonder what to do next. In this interview, which took place at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mike and [[Marcus_Eoin_Sandison|Marcus Sandison]] speak for the first time about their backgrounds, obsessive reactions to Geogaddi, and their upcoming new album The Campfire Headphase.<br />
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{{question|In the interviews you've given over the years and in the bios that your record label sends out it's never been mentioned when and how you got to know each other. So at what age did you guys meet?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Oh. Mmh, just very, very young, actually. We lived in the same place near Inverness in Scotland, a very small coastal town in the middle of nowhere. Our parents were in the same gang of friends."}}<br />
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{{question|How old where you when you started making music?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: We were about 6 or 7 years old when we started to learn instruments and play together. We actually started to record our own music when we were about 10. If your parents have tape recorders, pianos and stuff like lying around in the house you are just going to play around with them."}}<br />
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{{question|Are you coming from musical families?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Yeah. And of course it's a big help when your parents play instruments...[pauses]. Actually can I just stop the recorder there for a second?"}}<br />
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Recorder is switched off. Mike asks Marcus if it's ok to talk about it. Marcus says yes. Mike checks if the recorder is off and explains that they are in fact brothers, but have concealed that as they didn't want to provoke comparisons to Orbital,the electronic duo of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, when they started to release records in the mid-90s. Recorder is switched on again.<br />
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{{boc|"Marcus: Obviously, certain people know us as real people. We haven't gone out of our way to conceal the fact we're brothers. It's not that big of a deal. If people don't ask about it then we don't bring it up. When we started releasing records we just wanted to avoid comparisons to Orbital...<br />
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Mike: Or even the Osmonds or the Jacksons [laughs].<br />
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Marcus: I never thought about it but Ween are brothers as well, aren't they?<br />
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Mike: No, they are not.<br />
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Marcus: I thought they were. Are they not?<br />
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Mike: No, they just pretend that they are. [Laughs]<br />
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Marcus: That's fantastic! [Laughs]<br />
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Mike: See, some people go out of their way to do things like that, while we are trying to avoid it."}}<br />
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{{question|So who had to adopt a new family name1 for the sake of Boards of Canada?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: We are both Sandisons. And Eoin is actually Marcus' middle name1. So that's a pretty simple explanation."}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: From 1979 to 1980. I was eight years old and Marcus was a bit younger. Our father worked in construction. He helped to build the Saddle Dome in Calgary. There was a lot of work at that time in Canada so that's why we moved there. We moved around quite a lot and then relocated to Scotland. We've been based around Edinburgh for the last 20 years, so this is home."}}<br />
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{{question|Why did the educational TV films from the National Film Board of Canada, that you name1d yourself after, have such a big impact on you and your music if you'd only been exposed to them for a year?"}}<br />
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{{boc|"Marcus: We saw them in both Canada and Scotland. The films were on television in the UK for years. For a long time we weren't sure what [the NFBC] would think about a band being name1d after them. Only recently did we find out that they had used our music on some of their films. So we took that as approval.<br />
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Mike: They have a newsletter and even ran an article on us a couple of years ago. So that's a strange feedback loop.<br />
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Marcus: Back then television was a really big deal for us because we were so bored. We weren't old enough to go to the cinema and we were in a town where there was absolutely bugger all to do. So we just went out and vandalized property. [Laughs] Or sneak in video nasties from the local video store. Or got our friends together to make films. We had our crappy early-80s bikes and went out with my dad's super-8 camera making films."}}<br />
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{{boc|"Marcus: Yeah but I wouldn't describe it as Boards of Canada music at that time.<br />
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Mike: Obviously we didn't have a multitrack recorder, but we had two tape recoders. What you could do is record something on one tape recorder, play it back across two feet of air and while it was playing accompany it with something else on the guitar, the piano, the drums, whatever. We would do this, swap the cassettes over and do it again and again until the tapes started getting so distorted that you couldn't do it any longer. So it was really crude old-school multitrack recording. But it was a good way for us to learn how to compose our own stuff."}}<br />
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{{question|Was it always just the two of you playing together?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Well, I went to high school before Marcus did, and I formed a band there with friends.<br />
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Marcus: Initially we were in different bands in high school.<br />
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Mike: But when we came home [from school] we were recording music together. At one point in the mid-80s Marcus was in a really trashy heavy metal band and I wasn't into their music at all. So I invited him to play with my band. We then started to play around with synths. We were the only group at our high school to use synths."}}<br />
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{{question|You only started sending demo tapes to record labels in the mid-90s. Why did take you such a long time to approach a label to release your music?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: We just didn't think that we were good enough. We kept changing what we were doing. The problem with us as a band is that we have a schizophrenic approach to music, which still haunts us. We had a kind of battle when we worked on this album [The Campfire Headphase]. A lot of what we did for this record was really electronic stuff and a lot of what we did was really guitar-y music. I mean much more guitar-y than what ended up on the record. But this problem-- how to fuse these two things-- always plagued us.<br />
Marcus: For me, there's an era of music in the early 90s when people started to combine electronic music with guitar music, forcing them to come together, and I always hated this music."}}<br />
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{{boc|"Marcus: Exactly! I wasn't going to name1 name1s but, yes. For me it didn't really fit together. It was really rubbish.<br />
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Mike: Because we've always listened to huge amounts of different music we experiment with lots of things. So you play guitar one minute and then something extremely electronic the next minute. But if you're gonna be a band you can't really afford to do that. You have to stick with something. Nobody's gonna want to listen to a record where there's an electronic tune and, let's say, a banjo tune right after. You have to stay with a flavor.<br />
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Marcus: Some of the tracks that we worked on are so extreme in one direction that we just can't use them. They don't fit the [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] thing at all. We can't release them under this project. We're already seeing from the reactions to this record that some people love it and are really happy that we've done something different. But there are some people having a problem with the guitars. So if we'd really gone full-on with that they would have just never believed that it's the same group. You would never know that it was us."}}<br />
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{{question|Don't you underestimate your audiences openness for change?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Maybe. In the late-80s the three bands that were a huge influence on us were Front 242 to some extent, and-- to a large extent-- Nitzer Ebb and the Cocteau Twins. And they don't actually fit in the same category...<br />
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Marcus: ...but we would listen to them at the same time. Maybe it's a slightly gothic thing. You can imagine that there was already a seed planted there where that was going in two different directions. I actually rate bands like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson who are a hybrid of electronic and guitar music. I think they are brilliant but the kind of people who are into that kind of thing now are not as broad-minded as maybe people were 20 years ago. Now there's a feeling that if you are one of these kids wearing black eyeliner who's into Marilyn Manson you will never be open-minded enough to listen to electronic music. I think there's a narrowing of taste rather than an opening up of taste.<br />
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Mike: Or maybe it just seems like that from our point of view here in Scotland.<br />
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Marcus: We've actually been in touch with the Cocteau Twins. Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins is a fan of our music. He's been trying for about four years to persuade us do some work on his label Bella Union but we are contractually not allowed to do that. Plus we don't even have the time. But it's a shame because we are such huge fans of theirs."}}<br />
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{{question|It seems that on one hand you're afraid to alienate your audience but on the other you try to avoid being pigeonholed.}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Yeah. The new record is probably the slowest record that we've done. And it's got guitars on it as well. This is something that we've done slightly deliberately. We knew that we had to break away from this thing. It bothered us that if you go into the big stores our stuff is always sitting in the dance music section. We never made a dance record in our entire career but our stuff stilll gets thrown in there. Our drive with this record is to try and get us out of the dance section and into the main section with all the others bands, like ABBA and A-Ha. We're just a band. Not an IDM band, not an electronic band, and not a dance band."}}<br />
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{{question|But this will not happen. It's a losing battle.}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Maybe not now, but in five or 10 years-- if shops are still selling CDs. [Laughs]"}}<br />
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{{question|One reason why you feel quite a lot of pressure, surely is the fact that it takes you such a long time to put a record out. Your last album, Geogaddi, was released three and a half years ago.}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: We've really experienced high expectation regarding the new record, partly because it took such a long time. And we think this works against us as well."}}<br />
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{{question|So what took you so long? When Geogaddi came out you were saying that the new album was already half finished.}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: We both relocated and built new studios. That took us about a year. Then I became a father last year and that was another year lost. Personal things happen in everyone's lives and you find that it's very difficult to get on with work. That was part of the problem.<br />
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But it's correct that we had done a lot of work on this record by the time Geogaddi came out. We have this system of working where we never work in a linear fashion. We work parallel on lots and lots of music at once.<br />
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Marcus: Instead of starting on one song and working on it until its finished we have hundreds of songs on the go at one time and depending on our mood we try working on different ones. We both have pretty short attention spans.<br />
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Mike: We always have enough material for several other albums but what tends to happen is that our tastes move on and we kind of get fed up with what we're doing. We actually have a huge amount of music that people will probably never get to hear.<br />
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Marcus: It's just another manifestation of this schizophrenic problem, trying to do too many things at once.<br />
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Mike: We also started working on an acoustic version of Music Has the Right to Children years ago and it still exists.<br />
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Marcus: The reason why we haven't put something like this out is that it can seem like a retread of something you've already done."}}<br />
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{{question|Is The Campfire Headphase a direct reaction for you on Geogaddi?}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Yes, to some extent I think it is. The whole mood of this record is really uplifting and happy generally. It's really a case of saying: All the mystery and magic and all this kind of nonsense that built up around the last record got to a point where it was just silly. People were understanding things from our music that we didn't put in there and were saying there was an evil underrcurrent to everything. And we are not like that at all. It was a theme that we wanted to persue on that record but people have understood from that that we always put secret, dark, sinister, and satanic things in our music. And that became more important than the music itself.<br />
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Geogaddi was also the most abstract and surreal record we've done. A lot of the tracks don't really have much structure. Some songs are more soundscapes. With the new record we wanted to simplify the whole thing, [to make it] just about music.<br />
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Marcus: We realized that there are some people who would listen to our records but instead of listening to the music they would start looking for some hidden things immediately.<br />
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Mike: People will look for secret things now in this record even if there aren't any."}}<br />
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{{question|More than any of your records before this one reminds me most of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.}}<br />
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{{boc|"Mike: Well, that's a great compliment. Of course we are massive fans of My Bloody Valentine. Loveless is probably one of my top five favorite albums of all time. I think that, even if we don't sound like them, there's a connection in terms of the approach to the music. The idea of making music where it's really difficult to figure out which instruments you are listening to but you just don't care. At the same time we also tried to get away from the notion that our music is entirely contained within electronic boxes. It never has been and we are not big fans of laptop music. So this time we really wanted to try and break out. We're not trying to be an IDM band and we're not trying to be a Warp band or anything."}}<br />
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{{question|But Warp Records have changed a lot too, if you think about bands like Maximo Park, Broadcast etc.}}<br />
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{{boc|"Marcus: Definately. And I think it would have been harder for us to release a record with guitar sounds if that hadn't been the case."}}<br />
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interview by by Heiko Hoffmann, September 2005.<br />
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== Scans ==<br />
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[[Category: The Campfire Headphase era]]</div>72.14.199.47https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=The_Devil_Is_In_The_Details&diff=5794The Devil Is In The Details2008-11-01T13:31:35Z<p>72.14.199.47: Text replace - 'name' to 'name1'</p>
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| runtime=3:53<br />
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* '''The Devil Is In The Details''' is track number 16 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. In an interview with the NME it is suggested that the main riff of the song was designed to imitate a specific well known equation.<br />
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== Samples/Lyrics ==<br />
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* Lyrics for The Devil Is In The Details are sampled and heavily distorted, almost to the point where the words sound like their being spoken underwater. The exact source and precice words are debatable. The following interpretation has been taken from [http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858516485 songmeanings.net]:<br />
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"Just relax and enjoy this pleasant adventure. Here you are, secure and protected, in this...your special place. Letting my voice flow into your mind. you don't need to concentrate, just gently as you go. Suggestions are going into your unconscious mind. Open yourself up to the greater wisdom and understanding. So now you're letting the sound of my voice reach the inner, healthy, receptive center of yourself. See yourself now, in your imagination. you are being transformed in a positive, healthy way. Slowly you are programming your unconscious mind, Gaining new insight to your directions in the future. Allow yourself to be more aware of your pathway through this life. Enjoy new opportunities. <br />
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As the days go by, you will feel it in your mind. You are allowing this to happen. these things are happening day-by-day, Just as i am telling you they're happening, wherever you are. See this happening, and trying to become a part of you. More and more rapidly, more and more surely, more and more powerfully each day. When it is necessary, you can program yourself, and be able to dream the information you require. This awareness will come gradually at your own rate. It will never be more than you can cope with. This guidance will help show you the way. This will only happen, if you choose, it will be so. Ready, now..."<br />
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== Comments ==<br />
* Comment from [[Interviews#2002-02-23:_NME|NME interview]]:<br />
<blockquote><br />
"The Devil Is In The Details' has a riff that was designed to imitate a specific well-known equation, but in musical terms."<br />
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* The bassline and melody of [[The Devil Is In The Details]] are an octave and a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_sixth major sixth] apart. The bassline/melody repeats the first note three times, yielding three consecutive "sixths" in a row, i.e. 6-6-6.<br />
* [[The Devil Is In The Details]] is a quotation whose source and precise words are debatable. If you are interested, you can read a [http://home.earthlink.net/~altquot/quotations.phpl#Godinthedetails discussion] of this topic and its history. [DC] <br />
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[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]</div>72.14.199.47https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Moon_incident&diff=5756Red Moon incident2008-11-01T12:59:54Z<p>72.14.199.47: Text replace - 'name' to 'name1'</p>
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<div>In numerous interviews, Boards of Canada have referred to "Red Moon nights", free-form outdoor gatherings with friends, music, movies and bonfires that Hexagon Sun has celebrated for years.<br />
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In April 2005, a cryptic image appeared on the Boards of Canada web page, seemingly referring to this practice. This image, and another following it, sparked a series of curious events as fans around the world collaborated in an attempt to determine the meaning of the mysterious images amidst red herrings and false clues posted by opportunistic hoaxers.<br />
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== The images ==<br />
[[Image:Original rm.png]]<br />
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The first image appeared on or before April 2, 2005. The image is of a full moon, tinted red, on a black background. Over the face of the moon are two lines of text:<br />
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100606<br />
g60h p5-omh g2h2.t 0-n<br />
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== Timeline of events ==<br />
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* (- April 2] - Music70 contact page is updated with a link to http://www.music70.com/rm.html. The page contains a [http://www.boardsofcanada.com/images/rm.jpg single image of a red-tinted moon] with "100606" in large text as well a second line comprising the what becomes known as the first Red Moon code.<br />
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* April 22, 23 - Family Photo Album appears<br />
A user with the name1 "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showuser=1286 Family Photo Album]" appears on WATMM and starts a new thread entitled "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=7472&hl= ? ?????? ??????]". FPA makes three posts in the thread, two containing [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2750 animated] [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2787 GIFs] containing pictures of Mike and Marcus, images of nature and the text "100606".<br />
[http://www.barneum.com/twoism/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=249 An account of the same name1] also appeared on this date on the Twoism forum.<br />
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* May 11 - Martyrs Monument appears<br />
A user with the name1 "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showuser=1393 Matyrs Monument]" appears on WATMM, starting a thread entitled "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=8289 g60h p5-20mh g2h2.to-n]" about the first code and containing references to the Pentland Hills.<br />
[http://www.barneum.com/twoism/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=264 An account of the same name1] also appears on Twoism, making [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/search.php?search_author=Martyrs+Monument two posts] with roughly the same content.<br />
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* May 12, 4:46 PM EST - Another Family Photo Album post<br />
In the WATMM thread "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=8289 g60h p5-20mh g2h2.to-n]", Family Photo Album [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=8289&st=0&p=168950&#entry168950 posts a cryptic message].<br />
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* (- May 31] - A [http://www.boardsofcanada.com/images/rm0.gif second image of a photo-negative human eye] is added, with additional (reversed) text that becomes known as the second Red Moon code.<br />
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* May 31 - More Martyrs Monument posts<br />
In [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9060&hl= a WATMM thread about the second Red Moon image], Martyrs Monument [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9060&st=25&p=184039&#entry184039 posts a link] to an mp3 entitled "[http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=7F3D69366129F15A 10June.mp3]". MM also posts [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9060&st=25&p=184113&#entry184113 a second comment] about the mp3.<br />
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* June 01 - Xerox<br />
In the Twoism [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/viewtopic.php?t=637&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=304#13742 Red Moon thread], a new user name1d [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=284 Xerox] [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/viewtopic.php?t=637&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=304#13742 posts a message] claiming to have a friend working with [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] setting up an event of some sort "in the next week".<br />
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* June 05, ~2 PM EST - music836.com <br />
A banner ad for http://www.music836.com appears on the xltronic messageboard ([http://xltronic.com/mb/88571/0 thread]). This site has a pop-up of a kaleidoscopic campfire image with the text "6/6/6" and a short looped background music with campfire sounds. 836 is second smallest wierd number.<br />
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* June 6, 1:49 PM EST - Another Martyrs Monument post<br />
Marytrs Monument [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9222&st=50&p=188040&#entry188040 suggests that more will be revealed today].<br />
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* June 6, ~10:10 AM EST<br />
The link to rm.html from the contact page and the page at rm.html itself are now gone.<br />
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* June 6 - Twoism breakthrough?<br />
A group of users of the Twoism forum believe they have cracked the code. The method is detailed [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/viewtopic.php?t=637&start=460 in the Red Moon Party thread]. By inputting various portions of the numbers in the two Red Moon codes into a [http://www.magic.gov.uk/website/magic/ UK goverment mapping site], two closely-located positions in the Pentlands region south of Edinburgh are identified.<br />
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* June 6 - music386 hoaxer revealed<br />
An artist name1d [http://bambambambambam.com/pages/baminyourcuntrecords/releases/biyc70/index2.htm Pycho takes credit] for the music836 site as a promotion for his new [http://bambambambambam.com/pages/baminyourcuntrecords/releases/biyc70/assets/PLC.zip mp3 release].<br />
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* June 10 - Family Photo Album says farewell?<br />
In a new posted entitled "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9462&hl= Farewell.]", Family Photo Album posts another cryptic message. The post contains the phrase "Answe'''red Point'''edly" (emphasis added) which leads some to believe the party is located at Redpoint.<br />
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* June 11 - JimCanada<br />
New user [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showuser=1564 JimCanada] posts [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9480 a story about going to Redpoint] on the 11th and finding signs of a bonfire and some melted tapes. In [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9488&st=0& a second post], he posts a short mp3 that he claims was salvaged off one of the melted tapes.<br />
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* June 11 - Family Photo Album cuts the crap<br />
Family Photo Album makes a new thread entitled "[http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9491&hl= Time to cut the crap.]" in which he [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=9491&st=0&#entry193293 admits] that his posts, as well as the JimCanada posts, were a hoax.<br />
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* June 11 - Twoism expedition results<br />
User twofingersism [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/viewtopic.php?p=14932#14922 posts a report] on the results of the expedition of Twoism users who journied to the Pentland Hills hoping to find a [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] party based on the locations Twoism users determined on June 5th. In short, no signs of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], but a lovely time was had by the hopeful searchers, who built their own fire and kicked back with some beers and good tunes. Fellow searcher Licolnshire Poacher contributes [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/viewtopic.php?t=637&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=560#14868 a photo of the group].<br />
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Celadon submits more photos of Redmoon meet-up at the Earlyburn Observatory.<br />
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70866061@N00/sets/72157594163705685/<br />
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== Conclusion ==<br />
In the end, virtually nothing concrete is known about what (if anything) happened on June 10, 2006. Apart from the strange images posted on the official site, all additional websites, forum posts, etc. were ultimately found to be created by attention-seeking artists and opportunistic hoaxers. Meanwhile, no additional information (or even acknowledgment) about the incident has come from any official or trusted sources (including [[hexagonsun_official]]).<br />
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As it stands, the meaning of the strange images is as unknown as it was in the beginning.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://redmoon.stikipad.com/redmooncode/show/HomePage Stikipad page about the Red Moon code]<br />
* [http://redmoon.stikipad.com/redmooncode/show/Second+Code Stikipad page about the second Red Moon code]<br />
* [http://www.barneum.com/twoism/ Twoism forum]<br />
* [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showforum=9 WATMM Boards of Canada subforum]<br />
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boards-of-canada/ Yahoo! boards-of-canada group]<br />
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boardsofcanada/ Yahoo! boardsofcanada group]<br />
* [http://xltronic.com/mb/ xltronic message board]<br />
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[[Category: Mysteries]]</div>72.14.199.47https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Moss&diff=5757Red Moss2008-11-01T12:59:54Z<p>72.14.199.47: Text replace - 'name' to 'name1'</p>
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| runtime=6.22<br />
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== References ==<br />
=== Name ===<br />
The name1 "[[Red Moss]]" may refer to:<br />
* [http://www.jncc.gov.uk/ProtectedSites/SACselection/SAC.asp?EUCode=UK0019764 Conservation Site]<br />
* [http://www.lancswt.org.uk/Getting%20Involved/communityprojects/red_moss.htm An Incredibly old peat moss]<br />
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=XehL0_BtdBEC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=red+moss&source=web&ots=olai9MVuMC&sig=vB6C62sfqr7ac1HRUWrS5EiniUQ A Scottish Wonder Tale of Myth and Legend]<br />
* [http://www.transportcafe.co.uk/redmoss.html A popular truck stop on the route from London to Edinburgh]<br />
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== Comments ==<br />
[http://www.northernplasticsusa.com/ Northern Plastics] is a Michigan-based company specializing in plastic thermoforming.<br />
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| runtime=1:47 [[A Few Old Tunes|AFOT]]<br />1:21 [[BoC Maxima]]<br />
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==Samples/Lyrics==<br />
*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 -'"<br />
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| runtime=3:40 ([[BoC Maxima]])<br />
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== Comments ==<br />
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* It is presumed that the name1 refers to the M9 motorway in Scotland. [http://www.cbrd.co.uk/motorway/m9/]<br />
* [[M9]] is the notation for a dominant 9th interval of the kind occurring in extended Tertian Chords. [Miikael N]<br />
* An abbreviation for "Method 9 Word Clearing"; see M1 through [[M9]] in this glossary [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scientology/dictionary/], especially M3 and M4. [DC] <br />
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<div>m1cr0naut (Real name1: Ben Plotkin) is a moderator of the [[boards-of-canada]] Yahoo! group. He took the initiative to found that group after the previous Yahoo! group, [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boardsofcanada/ boardsofcanada], became swamped with spam. He is best known for organizing multiple non-profit runs of Boards of Canada t-shirts years before official shirts became available from [[Warp Records]].<br />
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