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==Comments== | ==Comments== | ||
β | *All of the percussion on "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]]" was created using cut up samples of [[ | + | *All of the percussion on "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]]" was created using cut up samples of [[Mike]]'s girlfriend's voice. <ref>[[Interviews#2002-07-01:_Remix|Remix Magazine, 2002]]</ref> |
β | * A video (made for the [[WATMM video contest]]) was created for "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]]" using stock footage sampled from Tatsuo Sato's anime film "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385586/ Cat Soup]." This video also offers an interpretation of the vocal sample heard during the track. | + | * A video (made for the [[WATMM video contest]]) was created for "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]]" by "[https://on-go.bandcamp.com/ Jesse Anderson]" using stock footage sampled from Tatsuo Sato's anime film "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385586/ Cat Soup]." This video also offers an interpretation of the vocal sample heard during the track. |
==Samples / Lyrics== | ==Samples / Lyrics== | ||
β | + | * Between 1:53 and 2:50, a speech sample can be heard. It comes from the documentary "On the Tracks of the Wild Otter (1983)" <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/2sndzz/sound_familiar/</ref><ref>http://www.wildfilmhistory.org/film/467/On+the+Tracks+of+the+Wild+Otter.html</ref>, narrated by Hugh Miles. The sample can be heard at around 26:31 <ref>{{#ev:youtube|NvIneE_fcHM|480||||start=0|false}}</ref>, and says : | |
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β | + | The holts are nearly always close to the sea<br /> | |
β | fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs<br /> | + | in fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs<br /> |
β | all at the top of a | + | all at the top of a stack, like this<br /> |
β | + | High above the sea<br /> | |
β | + | A safe place for cubs<br /> | |
β | + | I wait, tense<br /> | |
+ | then disappointed<br /> | ||
+ | She leaves her spraint to notify others of her visit<br /> | ||
+ | The holts are evenly spaced<br /> | ||
+ | about 500 yards apart, [enough for the use of any otter who passes by?], with or without cubs<br /> </blockquote> | ||
β | + | *Right after this sample, around 2:50, a different voice, saying "I love you", is heard. It cames from the same source as the vocal sample of "[[The Color of the Fire]]"<ref>{{#ev:youtube|pfTks0bgEO4|480||||start=120|false}}</ref>. | |
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β | * | + | * [JimE] noticed something else: |
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β | " | + | "there's a background sound throughout the song which could be "sweat-sweat" (in the first part of the song), with "tension" coming in later. It's hard to recognise as speech, but it could well be; one of the interviews says that the "percussion" in the track was constructed using the voice of the girlfriend of one of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]." </blockquote> |
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β | + | * A voice that sounds like a black male singing "No" fades in at 4:35 and continues throughout the song. (Sounds like another 70s/80s disco/funk sample). At 5:27, a scratchy sample saying "Yeah" is played forward, then backward, then forward again, with some additional scrubbing in between. At 6:00, "Yeah" plays again, but only once. | |
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β | + | ==Trivia== | |
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β | * [ | + | *This track's title is referenced in "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" on ''[[Geogaddi]]''. |
β | + | == Videos == | |
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β | == | + | == External Links == |
β | + | == References == | |
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[[Category:Released tracks]] | [[Category:Released tracks]] | ||
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]] | [[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]] |
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Running time | 6:23 |
Appears on | MHTRTC |
The holts are nearly always close to the sea
about 500 yards apart, [enough for the use of any otter who passes by?], with or without cubs
in fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs
all at the top of a stack, like this
High above the sea
A safe place for cubs
I wait, tense
then disappointed
She leaves her spraint to notify others of her visit
The holts are evenly spaced
"there's a background sound throughout the song which could be "sweat-sweat" (in the first part of the song), with "tension" coming in later. It's hard to recognise as speech, but it could well be; one of the interviews says that the "percussion" in the track was constructed using the voice of the girlfriend of one of BoC."