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| |title=Nice Melodies from Nice People | | |title=Nice Melodies from Nice People |
| |author=Thaddeus Hermann | | |author=Thaddeus Hermann |
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− | |publication=De:Bug|issue=Number 11|pages=p.04 | + | |publication=De:Bug |
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− | "[[Nice Melodies from Nice People]]" is an interview (in German) by Thaddeus Hermann originally published in De:Bug magazine Number 11, p.04. | + | "[[Nice Melodies from Nice People]]" is a May 1998 interview by Thaddeus Hermann It originally appeared in De:Bug. <ref>http://de-bug.de/mag/boards-of-canada/</ref> |
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− | == Original text  == | + | == Original text == |
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− | '''Note''': Translated using DeepL Translator<ref>https://www.deepl.com/</ref>.
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− | "[[Nice Melodies from Nice People]]"
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− | [[Boards Of Canada]], the newest horse in the Warp stable.
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− | [[Boards of Canada]] fans have had a hard time getting hold of all the records released by Scotsmen [[Michael Sandison]] and [[Marcus Eoin]]. The first EP, [[Twoism (release)|Twoism]], was self-published in an edition of 100, a large portion of the edition of a 7″ on [[SKAM]] intended as a Christmas single is currently rotting in a living room in Manchester - difficulties with various distributors - and the best BoC track is hiding on MASK 1, a 12″ compilation also limited to 100 copies. This music deserves more attention. Because: it's about melodies between science fiction and "kitsch", and because that's often the same, somehow about earlier. Crazy catchy, engaging and ... haunting. Melodies that make you feel good in your stomach, are probably called memory chords in Detroit and remind you of the really important things: summer vacations, blinking into the sun. Consequently, [[Warp Records|Warp]], home of the pale English, has now bought [[Boards of Canada]] and with ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' presents a mixture of out-of-print and new material. [[Michael Sandison]] calls me on Good Friday, somewhere on the way on a highway near Cologne.
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− | {{question|de:bug: Good Friday on a promotional tour? Does it have to be like that?}} | |
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− | {{boc|[[Michael Sandison]]: We were in Paris yesterday and gave countless interviews there, that was really exhausting. Today we just drove around the Cologne area and looked at the landscape, everything very relaxed. We just visited Schloß. I think it's great here! The landscape reminds me of Scotland and the rain at the moment even more so!}}
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− | {{question|de:bug: You are being passed around quite nicely at the moment. How does that feel?}}
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− | {{boc|[[Michael Sandison]]: It's strange, but of course also nice that a lot of people in Europe are interested in our music, especially if you come from a small Scottish village like us, where just nothing happens. We still feel really comfortable!}}
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− | {{question|de:bug: [[Music Has the Right to Children]]... I found myself nodding questioningly.}}
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− | {{boc|[[Michael Sandison]]: The title comes from a textbook for school music lessons from the 70s. It's called Children Have The Right To Music. If you swap the two terms Children and Music, the phrase gets a completely different, very threatening connotation.}}
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− | {{question|de:bug: But your music is not threatening!}}
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− | {{boc|[[Michael Sandison]]: Well, we use the nice melodies because we are nice people! (laughs) But we like to fuck with people a little bit as well...Of course there's a lot of feeling in our music, it's often compared to lullabies for children. But we use the melodies very carefully, so that not everything is as harmless as it might seem at first sight. In this way we hide things in our music that are more for adults. You can see that in the material we are working on at the moment. [[Warp Records|Warp]] wants to release another album from us this year. The melodic arrangements of the new tracks have become even darker, creating a wonderfully bittersweet mood. The rythms are definitely more extreme, faster and rougher. But before we can release an album like this, we wanted to make it clear to a wider audience with [[Music Has the Right to Children]] what [[Boards of Canada]] is all about: DIY...Do It Yourself...rougher sound. That's what our roots are all about. Now that that's clear, we can move on to new projects.}}
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− | {{question|de:bug: Does the deal with Warp allow you to release material on other labels at all?}}
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− | {{boc|[[Marcus Eoin|Martin Sandison]]: [[Boards of Canada]] are exclusive to [[Warp Records|Warp]]. But we have an agreement that we can continue to release material on other labels, but not under that name. So there will be another record on [[SKAM]]. [[Music Has the Right to Children]] ([[Warp Records|Warp]] / Rough Trade) is available now. QUOTE: "Melodies that remind you of really important things: summer vacations, blinking into the sun."}}
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− | == Scans  == | + | == Scans == |
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− | image:1998 05 DeBug No011 Cover.jpg
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− | image:1998 05 DeBug No011 pg04.jpg
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− | == Highlights ==
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− | * Mike reveals that the title of MHTRTC was inspired by a 70's school music lesson textbook with the phrase "children have the right to music".
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− | == External Links ==
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− | * http://de-bug.de/mag/boards-of-canada/
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− | == References  == | + | == References == |
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− | [[Category: Interviews]]
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| [[Category: Music Has the Right to Children era]] | | [[Category: Music Has the Right to Children era]] |