Turquoise Hexagon Sun - Revision history

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‎Samples / Lyrics

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Fredd-E: See Also

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Hellomynameisjoe: Italian genocide

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Italian genocide

Hellomynameisjoe: Failed to notice this one. Did you know it’s really annoying to edit bocpages on mobile?

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Hellomynameisjoe: Billions must format.

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Billions must format.

Hellomynameisjoe: General cleaning up

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General cleaning up

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 "fan - tastic" [same man?] - at about 4:38.<br />
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-* 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.
+* 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 Hexagon Sun studio, as the title of the track would suggest.
 == Trivia ==

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-"'''Turquoise Hexagon Sun'''" was first publicly released as the second track on ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'' in 1996. It also appears as the seventh track on ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' and the eighteenth on ''[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]]''. It is one of [[Boards of Canada]]'s most well-known songs.
+"'''Turquoise Hexagon Sun'''" is a song by [[Boards of Canada]]. First appearing as the eighteenth track on the duo's limited-release ''[[Boc Maxima]]'', it was more widely re-released later that year as the second track on the EP ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]''. It also appears as the seventh track on their debut studio album, ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]''. It is one of [[Boards of Canada]]'s most well-known songs.
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 | appearson=[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]] (1996)<br>[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]] (1996)<br>[[Music Has the Right to Children]] (1998)
-| next=[[Nlogax]] <small>(Hi Scores)</small>
+| next=[[Whitewater]] <small>(Boc Maxima)</small><br>[[Nlogax]] <small>(Hi Scores)</small><br>[[Kaini Industries]] <small>(Music Has the Right to Children)</small>
-| prev=[[Hi Scores]] <small>(Hi Scores)</small>}}
+| prev=[[Original Nlogax]] <small>(Boc Maxima)</small><br>[[Hi Scores]] <small>(Hi Scores)</small><br>[[Sixtyten]] <small>(Music Has the Right to Children)</small>
 "'''Turquoise Hexagon Sun'''" was first publicly released as the second track on ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'' in 1996. It also appears as the seventh track on ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' and the eighteenth on ''[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]]''. It is one of [[Boards of Canada]]'s most well-known songs.

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-| appearson=[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]] (1996)<br>[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]] (1996)<br>[[Music Has the Right to Children]] (1998)}}
+| appearson=[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]] (1996)<br>[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]] (1996)<br>[[Music Has the Right to Children]] (1998)
 "'''Turquoise Hexagon Sun'''" was first publicly released as the second track on ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'' in 1996. It also appears as the seventh track on ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' and the eighteenth on ''[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]]''. It is one of [[Boards of Canada]]'s most well-known songs.

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 == 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]] - go to Artists, [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], and look at the Gallery photos).
+* [Evan Snyder] gave me this [https://web.archive.org/web/20040202180317/http://jonathanclark.com/diary/flare/ interesting link] 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]] - 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]]:
+* 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 [[The_Secret_Life_of_Boards_of_Canada|NME Interview]]:
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 "What's the significance of hexagons to you?"<br />
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 * "[[Orange Hexagon Sun]]"
 * "[[Sunshine Recorder]]"
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 | appearson=''[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]]'' (1996)<br>''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'' (1996)<br>''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' (1998)}}
-"'''Turquoise Hexagon Sun'''" was first publicly released as the second track on ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'' in 1996. It also appears as the seventh track on [[Music Has the Right to Children]] and the eighteenth on ''[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]]''. It is one of [[Boards of Canada]]'s most well-known songs.
+"'''Turquoise Hexagon Sun'''" was first publicly released as the second track on ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'' in 1996. It also appears as the seventh track on ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' and the eighteenth on ''[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]]''. It is one of [[Boards of Canada]]'s most well-known songs.
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 == 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).
+* [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]] - 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]]:
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 == Samples / Lyrics ==
-* Shares a drum sample almost completely with "[[Orange_Hexagon_Sun|Orange Hexagon Sun]]".
+* Shares a drum sample almost completely with "[[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:
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 == Trivia ==
 *The synth melody that appears at 3 min & 14 sec into this track is similar to the synth melody that appears at 2 min & 49 sec into the track "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" from ''[[Geogaddi]]''.
-*'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]].
+*"Hexagon Sun" refers to the studio of [[Boards of Canada]] in East Scotland, but also to the collective of musicians and friends of [[Michael]] and [[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]].