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Die mysterösen [[Boards of Canada|Superstars der Elektronika]] haben wieder [[The Campfire Headphase|ein Album]] gemacht. Drei Jahre haben die beiden Schotten dafĂŒr gebraucht. âZurĂŒck zu den AnfĂ€ngenâ war ihre Premisse. Warum alle so aufgeregt sind, verstehen sie am aller wenigsten. | Die mysterösen [[Boards of Canada|Superstars der Elektronika]] haben wieder [[The Campfire Headphase|ein Album]] gemacht. Drei Jahre haben die beiden Schotten dafĂŒr gebraucht. âZurĂŒck zu den AnfĂ€ngenâ war ihre Premisse. Warum alle so aufgeregt sind, verstehen sie am aller wenigsten. | ||
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The mysterious [[Boards of Canada|Superstars of electronica]] have made [[The Campfire Headphase|an album]] again. It took the two Scots three years to make it. "Back to the origins" was their premise. Why everyone is so excited they understand least of all. | The mysterious [[Boards of Canada|Superstars of electronica]] have made [[The Campfire Headphase|an album]] again. It took the two Scots three years to make it. "Back to the origins" was their premise. Why everyone is so excited they understand least of all. | ||
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title | Spirit, Logic & Mathematics |
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author | Hendrik Lakeberg |
publication | De:Bug |
date | 2005/10 |
issue | 93 |
pages | p.28 |
"Spirit, Logic & Mathematics" is an interview (in German) by Hendrik Lakeberg originally published Oct. 2005 in De:Bug magazine Number 93. [1] [2]
This is an original text copied verbatim from the original source. Do not edit this text to correct errors or misspellings. Aside from added wikilinks, this text is exactly as it originally appeared.
Die mysterösen Superstars der Elektronika haben wieder ein Album gemacht. Drei Jahre haben die beiden Schotten dafĂŒr gebraucht. âZurĂŒck zu den AnfĂ€ngenâ war ihre Premisse. Warum alle so aufgeregt sind, verstehen sie am aller wenigsten.
RĂŒckwĂ€rts wirdâs auch nicht besser
Seit 1990 findet im Norden Schottlands in der NĂ€he des Boards-of-Canada-Studios einmal jĂ€hrlich eine Outdoor-Party statt. Vor der imposanten Naturkulisse Schottlands und verstreut brennenden Lagerfeuern lauschen die Besucher rĂŒckwĂ€rtslaufenden Sprachcollagen, verfremdeter Filmmusik und starren auf flimmernde LeinwĂ€nde, beschienen von kruden Film-ObskuritĂ€ten. Unter dem Namen Hexagon Sun kollaborierten die Zeremonienmeister der Veranstaltung Mike Sandison und Marcus Eoin regelmĂ€Ăig mit befreundeten Musikern. Wabernder Elektronika-Prog weht ĂŒber einen Strand irgendwo im nördlichen Schottland. In der Nacht des ersten Festivals leuchtete der Mond blutrot und der Name dieses nebligen Gatherings war geboren: Red moon nights.
Vielleicht waren diese Abende die Geburtsstunde der Boards of Canada, wie wir sie heute kennen. Alles scheint dagewesen zu sein: die Faszination fĂŒr Natur, dieses dĂŒstere, esoterisch angehauchte Neo-Hippietum, die Anspielungen auf bedeutungsschwangere mathematische Konstruktionen. Keine andere Elektronika-Band hat in den letzten Jahren mehr RĂ€tsel aufgegeben. In Internet-Foren werden ihre Platten mit pedantischer PrĂ€zision auf versteckte Hinweise untersucht, Samples rĂŒckwĂ€rts abgespielt, Zahlenfolgen gedeutet. So finden sich auf der EP A Beautiful Place In The Country im Artwork der Platte beispielsweise Hinweise auf den Kollektiven Selbstmord der Davidianer-Sekte im texanischen Waco. Und auf ihrem vorletzten Album Geogaddi soll man in einem rĂŒckwĂ€rtslaufenden Sprachsample den Satz âA God with Hornsâ hören können.
"The Devil Is In The Details" nennt sich ein Track auf Geogaddi. Bei den Interpretationen handelt es sich also nicht nur um Phantasmagorien obsessiv veranlagter Fans. Boards of Canada selber sind nicht ganz unschuldig an den Mysterien und VerklĂ€rungen, die sich um sie ranken. Doch die Zeiten scheinen sich geĂ€ndert zu haben. Durch Campfire Headphase, die neue BOC-Platte, weht im Gegensatz zum dĂŒster vernebelten Surrealismus von âGeogaddiâ der illuminierende Wind der AufklĂ€rung. Die Tracks sind strukturell glasklar, die Beats rumpeln prĂ€zise abgezirkelt vor sich hin. DarĂŒber schweben diese typischen BOC-FlĂ€chen, wie pastellige Farben, die langsam ineinander laufen, sich vermischen und vorsichtig gerinnen. Vielleicht ist Campfire Headphase die Abendröte der Elektronika. Zeitlos schön und gerade deshalb so zeitgemĂ€Ă. Fast wie ein klassisches LehrstĂŒck, eine Essenz. Und fĂŒr BOC die logische Konsequenz ihrer bisherigen Arbeit. NatĂŒrlich ist auch Campfire Headphase durchsetzt mit Anspielungen, Konzepten, RĂ€tseln. Das Bild, dass sich aus der Musik herauslesen lĂ€sst, rĂŒckt eine andere Seite ins Licht: Marcus Eoin und Mike Sanderson ging es niemals allein darum, in opake, mystische Welten herabzufĂŒhren, sondern eher darum, das Seltsame, schwer Verstehbare der Welt in Musik umzusetzen. RĂ€tsel aufzugeben, die danach verlangen, entrĂ€tselt zu werden. Eine epische Inszenierung fundamentaler Konflikte auszubreiten: Magie vs. Logik, SpiritualitĂ€t vs. Vernunft.
The mysterious Superstars of electronica have made an album again. It took the two Scots three years to make it. "Back to the origins" was their premise. Why everyone is so excited they understand least of all.
It doesn't get any better backwards
Since 1990, an outdoor party has been held once a year in the north of Scotland near the Boards of Canada studio. Against the imposing natural backdrop of Scotland and scattered burning campfires, visitors listen to backmasked voice collages, alienated film music and stare at flickering screens, illuminated by crude film obscurities. Under the name Hexagon Sun, the event's masters of ceremonies Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin regularly collaborated with musician friends. Wobbling electronica prog wafts across a beach somewhere in northern Scotland. On the night of the first festival, the moon glowed blood red and the name of this misty gathering was born: Red moon nights.
Perhaps these evenings were the birth of Boards of Canada as we know them today. Everything seems to have been there: the fascination with nature, that gloomy, esoteric-tinged neo-hipsterism, the allusions to meaningful mathematical constructions. No other electronica band has posed more riddles in recent years. In Internet forums, their records are examined with pedantic precision for hidden clues, samples played backwards, sequences of numbers interpreted. For example, on the EP "A Beautiful Place In The Country", the record's artwork includes references to the collective suicide of the Davidian sect in Waco, Texas. And on their penultimate album, "Geogaddi", the phrase "A God with Horns" is said to be heard in a backmasked voice sample.
"The Devil Is In The Details" is the name of a track on "Geogaddi". So the interpretations are not just phantasmagorias of obsessively inclined fans. Boards of Canada themselves are not entirely innocent of the mysteries and transfigurations that surround them. But times seem to have changed. Through Campfire Headphase, the new BOC record, the illuminating wind of enlightenment blows in contrast to the darkly fogged surrealism of "Geogaddi". The tracks are structurally crystal clear, the beats rumble along precisely circled. Above them float these typical BOC surfaces, like pastel colors that slowly run into each other, mix and carefully coagulate. Perhaps "Campfire Headphase" is the evening glow of electronica. Timelessly beautiful and precisely for that reason so contemporary. Almost like a classic didactic piece, an essence. And for BOC the logical consequence of their previous work. Of course, "Campfire Headphase" is also riddled with allusions, concepts, riddles. The image that can be gleaned from the music brings another side into the light: Marcus Eoin and Mike Sanderson were never solely concerned with descending into opaque, mystical worlds, but rather with translating the strange, hard-to-understand of the world into music. To give up riddles that demand to be unraveled. To unfold an epic staging of fundamental conflicts: magic vs. logic, spirituality vs. reason.