On this page you can find an overview of all the interviews with a direct link to each individual article, grouped by era.
In April 2017 we created a brand new page that will host notable interview quotes on various domains.
There are a lot of (mainly foreign) interviews in our possession that aren't yet uploaded to bocpages because they still require a lot of attention. All help in either transcribing and/or translating to English is appreciated. We also miss a lot of magazine scans.
See below for the details. Contact me if you would like to help us out.
PS: They seem to really like Japanese interviewers. [1] They often go more in-depth in their questions, and BoC follows suit in their lengthier responses. Check the translated Japanese interviews which recently got added to the wiki.
language | scans needed | transcription needed | translation needed |
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dutch | 0 | 2 | 0 |
english | 10 | 6 | 0 |
french | 3 | 6 | 6 |
german | 4 | 4 | 7 |
greek | 0 | 1 | 1 |
italian | 0 | 5 | 5 |
japanese | 3 | 10 | 7 |
spanish | 0 | 1 | 1 |
swedish | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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"Hardware Addicts" (in German) by Gregor Wildermann
"The Age of Aquarius" by the Cosmic Crofter
"Board Clever" by Richard Hector-Jones
Jockey Slut, Volume 2 Number 13 (April/May 1998) [6] [7]
"A Bunker Full of Memories" by René Passet
Forcefield online interview [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Republished in Pop Is Dead fanzane (aka pissdead) issue #7 (February, 1999) [13] [14]
"Nice Melodies from Nice People" by Thaddeus Herrmann (in German), online
"Two Aesthetes of Electronic Music" (in French) by Ariel Kyrou & Jean-Yves Leloup
Virgin Megaweb online interview [15]
Translation: [16]
"Boards of Canada: Entre Nostalgie de L'enfance et Paranoia du Futur" (In French) by Ariel Kyrou
Coda Number 45 pp.40-41
Essentially an alternate version of the Virgin Megaweb interview above
"Boards of Canada: Moins industriel et plus champĂȘtre..." (In French) by Quetin Groslier
Prémonition Number 29 p.35
"Les Alchimistes" (In French) by Sylvain Collin
Magic Number 21 p.60
"?Boards of Canada?" by Kelley Schwartz
Massive Number 20 (August 1 1998) [17] [18]
"Boards of Canada: Youthful Transgressions" by Justin B Hampton
Alternative Press Number 124 p.84 [19]
Space Age Bachelor 12 (Winter 1998), p. 3
"Children Have the Right to Film" by Daniel Chamberlin
"Facce Nuove: Boards of Canada" (In Italian) by Gian Paolo Giabini
Rumore Number 88 p.11
"Warp Factor Ten" by Toby Manning
Short interviews with Warp artists and founders on Warp's 10th anniversery
Jockey Slut, Volume 2 Number 22 (October/November 1999) [22]
"Les Chant Future Des Musiques Electroniques" (in French) by Max Renn
Coda Series 02 Number 09 p.21 [23]
"Boards of The Underground" by Richard Southern
Jockey Slut Volume 3 Number 11 (Dec 2000) [24] [25] [26]
"Breaking Into Heaven" by Emma Warren
The Face Volume 3 Number 48 [27]
"Big Country" by Steve Nicholls
XLR8R Issue 47 (March 2001), online [28] [29] [30]
"The Colour & The Fire" by Mark Pytlik
HMV online interview [31] [32]
"The Secret Life of Boards of Canada" by John Mulvey
NME, 23 February 2002, pp. 24,53 [33] [34] [[35], [36], [37], [38]] [39] [40]
"The Last Unexplored Area of Boards of Canada" by Satokuzen Nakamoto Hiroi
"In An Imaginary Place Out In The Country" by ...
MondoSonoro #83 (March 2002) online
"Play Twice Before Listening" by Koen Poolman
(German) Spex
"Stoned Immaculate" by Philip Sherburne
www.alternativepress.com #166 (May 2002)
"Country Comfort" by Alexis Georgopoulos
URB magazine (ISSN: 1081-9924) [46]
"Northern Exposure" by Ken Micallef
Remix, Volume 4 Number 7 (July 2002), pp. 22-4?, online [47] [48] [49]
"The Power of Myth" by Piotr Orlov (Note: This is not an original interview; rather, it is a collage of quotes from various other interviews in post-Geogaddi time period.)
Grooves, Issue 08, July 2002 [50] [51]
"The Downtempo Duo" by Heiko Hoffmann
"Spirit, Logic & Mathematics" (in German) by Hendrik Lakeberg
De:Bug #93 (October 2005), p 28 - text - pdf
Note: The online text version has a publishing date of 03.01.206
"Part of the Fire" (in French) by Frank Bedos
Trax Magazine #88 (October 2005), pp 32-37 [52] [53]
"Splendid Isolation" by Neil Davenport
Metro, MetroLife section, 12 Oct 2005 [54]
"Cross Out the Inappropriate" (in Dutch) by Kristoff Tilkin
Humo 3398, 18 Oct 2005, pp. 190-191
"Above Board!" by Gal Detourn
(in Japanese)
"Sweet and Sour Melodies Wander Around between Positive and Celebrative Sounds and Swaying Sadness" by Masaaki Hara (original interview in Japanese, translated to English by Naoko Ross)
"Stirred Up The Ashes" by Heiko Hoffmann
"Two for the No-Show" by Will Hodgkinson
The Times, 28 Oct 2005
"Boards of Canada's Seasons in the Sun" by Kevin Hainey
"Protect and Survive" by Rob Young
The Wire Issue 260 (October 2005), pp. 40-47 [60]
"The Last Secret of Pop" (in Dutch) by Koen Poolman
OOR #10 (October 2005), pp. 65-68 [[61],[62]] [63]
"The Great Escape" by Mark Robertson
The List #533 (October 2005), pp. 18-19 [64]
"Electronic Wonderland" by Akiho Ishii
"Wide Use of Guitars" by Fabio Cagnetti
LosingToday, issue 08, Pg. 33, online [65]
"The Stuff that Dreams Are Made of" (in Spanish) by Javier BlĂĄnquez
GO #61 (November 2005), pp. 32-36 [66]
"It's our take on a pop record" by Brian Murnin
Clash, Issue 11 (Nov/Dec 2005) [67], online
"O Brothers Where Art Thou?" (in German) by Heiko Hoffmann
Groove #97 (Nov/Dec 2005), [68]
(German)
"Emotional Abuse" by Erin Hutton
Remix Vol. 7 No. 12 (December 2005), p26-30, online
Volume 04 #01 2015-10-14 -> 2015-10-27
RE:UP Manual 09 (~Jan 2006), pp. 28-31
Cookie Scene Volume 46 pp.18-21 by Kazumichi Sato/Hidetsugu Ito
See also the review articles: Tomorrow's Harvest#Reviews
"The Charms of the Sphinx" by De:Bug, June 17, 2013 [71] [72]
"Brothers Who Make Electronica by Hand" by Jon Pareles, June 11, 2013 [73] [74]
"We've Become a Lot More Nihilistic over the Years" by Louis Pattison, June 6, 2013 [75] [76]
"Band of Brothers" by Gijsbert Kamer, July 17, 2013 [77]
"L'Assenza Di Domani" by Damir Ivic, July, 2013 [78]
"Les Champs de la Machine" by Sylvain Collin, July, 2013 [79]
"Talk To The Hand, Chokri" by Kristoff Tilkin, July 16, 2013 [80]
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