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"[[La Materia De La Que Están Hechos Los Sueños]]" was an interview (in Spanish) by Javier Blánquez originally published November 2005 in Go Magazine Number 61.
 
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[[Boards of Canada: La Materia De La Que Están Hechos Los Sueños]] was an interview (in Spanish) by Javier Blánquez originally published November 2005 in Go Magazine Number 61.
 
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=== Boards of Canada: La Materia De La Que Están Hechos Los Sueños ===
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=== Boards of Canada: What Dreams Are Made Of ===
  
'''What Dreams Are Made Of'''
 
  
  
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Boards Of Canada play games with time. They compose their tracks like someone who cultivates a vineyard and who bottles wine: carefully nurturing their development, worrying about the sun and good weather, and waiting for the perfect moment of maturity so the full flavour can be brought out. Already from the distant "[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]" (Music70, 95) and the masterly "[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi scores]]" (Skam, 96) a Boards of Canada record seems to come from a remote and uncertain past: it could be the Middle Ages or the Eighties, but it was always indistinguishable and ancestral. "The campfire headphase" sounds even older, {{boc|recorded using the techniques of the Seventies, in the style of James Taylor, it sounds not so much like folk, but like the mainstream rock of that era, especially in the guitars,}} according to '''Sandison'''. {{boc|But it is still our own sound, with a layer of beauty on top and one of bitterness underneath, dark and unsettling.}} Those who label the sound of Boards Of Canada "pastoral and bucolic" leave out, in doing so, the interesting part of the whole: the shadows, the spectral voices, the grey atmospheres, the cobwebs. {{boc|The label "bucolic" is undoubtedly a simplification}} admits '''Marcus'''. {{boc|Words like 'pastoral' or 'hippy'... that has never been our intention. For me, that conjures up images of burning incense, and I don't like that.}}  
 
Boards Of Canada play games with time. They compose their tracks like someone who cultivates a vineyard and who bottles wine: carefully nurturing their development, worrying about the sun and good weather, and waiting for the perfect moment of maturity so the full flavour can be brought out. Already from the distant "[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]" (Music70, 95) and the masterly "[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi scores]]" (Skam, 96) a Boards of Canada record seems to come from a remote and uncertain past: it could be the Middle Ages or the Eighties, but it was always indistinguishable and ancestral. "The campfire headphase" sounds even older, {{boc|recorded using the techniques of the Seventies, in the style of James Taylor, it sounds not so much like folk, but like the mainstream rock of that era, especially in the guitars,}} according to '''Sandison'''. {{boc|But it is still our own sound, with a layer of beauty on top and one of bitterness underneath, dark and unsettling.}} Those who label the sound of Boards Of Canada "pastoral and bucolic" leave out, in doing so, the interesting part of the whole: the shadows, the spectral voices, the grey atmospheres, the cobwebs. {{boc|The label "bucolic" is undoubtedly a simplification}} admits '''Marcus'''. {{boc|Words like 'pastoral' or 'hippy'... that has never been our intention. For me, that conjures up images of burning incense, and I don't like that.}}  
  
Each Boards of Canada album is a colour. "[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi scores]]" was aquamarine, like the open air on the Atlantic shore. "[[Music Has the Right to Children|Music has the right to children]]" was turquoise, rich and beautiful, but also sad, and "[[Geogaddi]]" was sunset orange, mingling heat and cold, like sadness at watching the sun go down while you contemplate its beauty. "[[The Campfire Headphase|The campfire headphase]]" is something between yellow and green, like wheat or sand. On this subject '''Michael Sandison''' says: {{boc|It's true that there is a kind of synaesthetic approach in what we do, and we take great care in the design of the records so that it expresses the mood of the music within. 'Music has the right to children' was an open-sky record, and `Geogaddi' was more claustrophobic. I see this new album as being like a desert, hot and spacious. We very much think of the songs as having a limited colour palette, and it is perhaps for this reason that  'The campfire headphase' looks washed-out, as if bleach had been squirted onto it.}}
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Each Boards of Canada album is a colour. "[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi scores]]" was aquamarine, like the open air on the Atlantic shore. "[[Music Has the Right to Children|Music has the right to children]]" was turquoise, rich and beautiful, but also sad, and "[[Geogaddi]]" was sunset orange, mingling heat and cold, like sadness at watching the sun go down while you contemplate its beauty. "[[The Campfire Headphase|The campfire headphase]]" is something between yellow and green, like wheat or sand. On this subject '''Michael Sandison''' says: {{boc|It's true that there is a kind of synaesthetic approach in what we do, and we take great care in the design of the records so that it expresses the mood of the music within. 'Music has the right to children' was a blue-sky record, and `Geogaddi' was more claustrophobic. I see this new album as being like a desert, hot and spacious. We very much think of the songs as having a limited colour palette, and it is perhaps for this reason that  'The campfire headphase' looks washed-out, as if bleach had been squirted onto it.}}
  
 
The new record indeed sounds acoustic - with strummed guitars layered over samples of real percussion and snatches of ambient sound that are like hot air, as much electronic as folk and giving even Four Tet lessons on how to innovate and to marvel at folktronica. Boards of Canada have even taken on a connection with the magical Great Britain of seventies folk music, with references to vegetation and links to romantic myth. Once again, outside of time.
 
The new record indeed sounds acoustic - with strummed guitars layered over samples of real percussion and snatches of ambient sound that are like hot air, as much electronic as folk and giving even Four Tet lessons on how to innovate and to marvel at folktronica. Boards of Canada have even taken on a connection with the magical Great Britain of seventies folk music, with references to vegetation and links to romantic myth. Once again, outside of time.
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The facts: "Geogaddi" is exactly 66 minutes 6 seconds long - the Number of the Beast - and one of its tracks is titled "[[The Devil Is In The Details]]". The track " [[Amo Bishop Roden]]" refers to one of the victims ''[translator's note: she was not in fact present - see link just given]'' in the carnage of Waco, when the Davidian sect led by David Koresh committed mass suicide before the FBI stormed the compound in which they were gathered. Listening carefully to some tracks reveals voices that should be played backwards, or which seem like psychophonies ''[ = recordings supposedly of the spirit world]''; "[[Sixtyten]]", in "Music has the right to childen", includes a series of numbers recited by the voice of a child, which some fans, as though interpreting the Kaballah, have seen as having a hidden meaning or a secret message, as though they were the Numbers from the show "Lost" - you know, 4 8 15 16 23 42. {{boc|Sometimes we put things into the records that are meant to give rise to ideas or states of mind; others are clues, tricks or gratuitous details that we put there to get people discussing them among themselves. We aren't involved in any kind of cult or sinister religion. It all just aesthetics and games.}} explains '''Michael Sandison'''. {{boc|The voice of a child, or some dialogue out of its context, can help to provide that dark touch that we are looking for, with a subliminal component: you are listening to something very pretty and then, underneath, you are hearing something so sinister that it gives you the shivers. But most of the time we do things as a joke.}} according to '''Eoin'''. {{boc|If 'Geogaddi' lasts 66 minutes and 6 seconds it's because we wanted to end the record with a long silence, and our sound engineer had a bright idea and said to us 'why don't you take the opportunity to extend the play time to 66 minutes and 6 seconds' and we said 'let's do it'. It's not a Satanic message: it's a big joke.}}
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The facts: "Geogaddi" is exactly 66 minutes 6 seconds long - the number of the Beast" - and one of its tracks is titled "[[The Devil Is In The Details]]". The track " [[Amo Bishop Roden]]" refers to one of the victims ''[translator's note: she was not in fact present - see link just given]'' in the carnage of Waco, when the Davidian sect led by David Koresh committed mass suicide before the FBI stormed the compound in which they were gathered. Listening carefully to some tracks reveals voices that should be played backwards, or which seem like psychophonies ''[ = recordings supposedly of the spirit world]''; "[[Sixtyten]]", in "Music has the right to childen", includes a series of numbers recited by the voice of a child, which some fans, as though interpreting the Kaballah, have seen as having a hidden meaning or a secret message, as though they were the Numbers from the show "Lost" - you know, 4 8 15 16 23 42. {{boc|Sometimes we put things into the records that are meant to give rise to ideas or states of mind; others are clues, tricks or gratuitous details that we put there to get people discussing them among themselves. We aren't involved in any kind of cult or sinister religion. It all just aesthetics and games.}} explains '''Michael Sandison'''. {{boc|The voice of a child, or some dialogue out of its context, can help to provide that dark touch that we are looking for, with a subliminal component: you are listening to something very pretty and then, underneath, you are hearing something so sinister that it gives you the shivers. But most of the time we do things as a joke.}} according to '''Eoin'''. {{boc|If 'Geogaddi' lasts 66 minutes and 6 seconds it's because we wanted to end the record with a long silence, and our sound engineer had a bright idea and said to us 'why don't you take the opportunity to extend the play time to 66 minutes and 6 seconds' and we said 'let's do it'. It's not a Satanic message: it's a big joke.}}
  
  
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Fans of Boards of Canada do things that, for example, a fan of The Sea and Cake or Rocío Jurado would never do. Before "The campfire headphase" was released, up to three different versions were circulating on Soulseek, and all three were fakes, put out by imitative fans who, taking advantage of the situation and the minimal information available about the release - the number of tracks, and the titles - uploaded their music to the Internet to pass themselves off as the real Boards of Canada. {{boc|A friend of mine from New Zealand sent me an email,}} relates '''Marcus''', {{boc|and he said to me 'I listened to your new release on the Internet and it's great! I was baffled. I hadn't sent it out yet!}} There are also fans who make up reviews, like the one who runs the Angryrobot blog, who published a track-by-track rundown of the totally made-up record, to which others fans responded with their posts to lift the lid on the situation, and even a Marcus Eoin impersonator who told Angryrobot face to face that his review was a lie. {{boc|But it wasn't me,}} insists '''Marcus'''. {{boc|They didn't just fake our records, but our identities as well!}} Many fans of Boards of Canada are firmly convinced that there was a Maxi single from 2002 called "[[Lavender Trapezoids EP|Lavender trapezoids]]", but what is going around on Soulseek is in fact an EP by the English IDM producer CiM. And so on, ad infinitum. But if anything shows that the most extreme fans of Boards of Canada are out of their minds, it's the prices that they can bring themselves to pay for some of their records. Two months ago a single-sided blue-vinyl test pressing with four songs from "Geogaddi" was auctioned on eBay. It was listed there by a certain 'amtiskaw' and it was bought for £215 (about 315 Euros) by someone calling themselves 'lenapiem' . {{boc|We know 'amtiskaw', he's a former employee of Warp who left the job and is now starting up a business, he needs the money and that's why he's selling off these rare records. But he isn't the problem,}} says '''Michael Sandison''' with laughter. {{boc|The problem is the idiot who pays over £200 for a hunk of blue plastic.}} The kind who, not so long ago, and without the slightest qualm, paid £70 for the first Maxi by Jega, and £120 for the first one by Bola, both released on Skam, the label on which Boards of Canada came to be known after being signed up by Autechre. Yes, some fans are horrible, or have wads of cash to spare. Or Boards of Canada are so great that you just can't help but be driven crazy by them.
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Fans of Boards of Canada do things that, for example, a fan of The Sean and Cake or Rocío Jurado would never do. Before "The campfire headphase" was released, up to three different versions were circulating on Soulseek, and all three were fakes, put out by imitative fans who, taking advantage of the situation and the minimal information available about the release - the number of tracks, and the titles - uploaded their music to the Internet to pass themselves off as the real Boards of Canada. {{boc|A friend of mine from New Zealand sent me an email,}} relates '''Marcus''', {{boc|and he said to me 'I listened to your new release on the Internet and it's great! I was baffled. I hadn't sent it out yet!}} There are also fans who make up reviews, like the one who runs the Angryrobot blog, who published a track-by-track rundown of the totally made-up record, to which others fans responded with their posts to lift the lid on the situation, and even a Marcus Eoin impersonator who told Angryrobot face to face that his review was a lie. {{boc|But it wasn't me,}} insists '''Marcus'''. {{boc|They didn't just fake our records, but our identities as well!}} Many fans of Boards of Canada are firmly convinced that there was a Maxi single from 2002 called "[[Lavender Trapezoids EP|Lavender trapezoids]]", but what is going around on Soulseek is in fact an EP by the English IDM producer CiM. And so on, ad infinitum. But if anything shows that the most extreme fans of Boards of Canada are out of their minds, it's the prices that they can bring themselves to pay for some of their records. Two months ago a single-sided blue-vinyl test pressing with four songs from "Geogaddi" was auctioned on eBay. It was listed there by a certain 'amtiskaw' and it was bought for £215 (about 315 Euros) by someone calling themselves 'lenapiem' . {{boc|We know 'amtiskaw', he's a former employee of Warp who left the job and is now starting up a business, he needs the money and that's why he's selling off these rare records. But he isn't the problem,}} says '''Michael Sandison''' with laughter. {{boc|The problem is the idiot who pays over £200 for a hunk of blue plastic.}} The kind who, not so long ago, and without the slightest qualm, paid £70 for the first Maxi by Jega, and £120 for the first one by Bola, both released on Skam, the label on which Boards of Canada came to be known after being signed up by Autechre. Yes, some fans are horrible, or have wads of cash to spare. Or Boards of Canada are so great that you just can't help but be driven crazy by them.
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