#106

My favourite BoC memory was when I was helping out on my pal’s short film and was driving some of the actors back at about 2am. I’m really good at geography and thought they were both on the way to mine – [NARRATOR: he isn’t and both were colossal detours] – and I had Geogaddi on. Both passengers loved it – one of them would just occasionally break his own silence with “this is sick”.

One stretch of the drive was down a straight lane lined with trees and (I think?) Silent Hill-ish fog and rain. In my memory, it was basically driving down an outdoors tunnel – just a circle lit by the headlights and otherwise surrounded by darkness and tall trees and that. Perfect accompaniment to that album.

I’ll admit that I skipped ‘Dawn Chorus’ bc I didn’t want the awkwardness of all the weird sex noises tho

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#107

I have fond memories from about 15 years ago when I used to finish work at 2pm on a Friday, of heading straight home, rolling something enjoyable, getting in the bath and listening to BoC. On a number of occasions I woke up seconds before my holding hand plunged into the water, saving my smoke by the skin of it’s roach. I reckon bath smokes it the shower cans of the BoC world.

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#108

Smokes Quantity

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#110

Solid 5. I’ve voted Geogaddi as my favourite as it was the first thing of theirs I heard and initially I wasn’t sure, the wooziness and samples were unlike anything in my CD collection at the time. But repeated listens got it under my skin and I gradually fell in love. I then basically hoovered up anything of theirs I could find!

Would dearly love to see them live.

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#111

They’re brilliant and they’ve never released a bad record, but that is perhaps partly because they’ve released so little. I’ve given them a 4 rather than a 5 (having wavered) partly because of the meagre output and partly because they are not quite as groundbreaking as, say, Aphex. Love all of the albums though.

#112

Yes, but I dont think I appreciated at the time how iconic or rare an opportunity it would be. It was back in 2001…and I think it might also be their most recent live performance!

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#113

This one might be my fave of theirs

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#114

4 albums and 5 EP’s (ignoring all the super rare stuff) is hardly meagre, is it?

#115

over 25+ years, I’d say that was quite meagre

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#116

Think it’s a 4, after spending the morning with them. There are other artists working in the same / similar spheres that just do more for me. It sounds like I’m down on them, which I’m really really not, but it just doesn’t click hard enough for a 5.

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#117

oooh 5/5. I got into them at probably the exact right time for me (like 7 years ago). I was just starting to really appreciate ambient stuff and my tastes were changing. Then BoC were just one of those times where they click perfectly and also change your whole musical perspective and send you off on tangents you were never near before.

My favourite is Campfire Headphase. Not sure why, just the one I return to the most.I imagine if I’d got into them earlier I’d have a different one to pick but I’ve listened to everything they’ve done retrospectively, which I think paints a different picture.

Also, I’d love to go deep and read endless articles on them but I never have for some reason, only read little bits. I don’t know any of their ‘lore’, I just love the music. Any good articles to recommend?

I liked @sheeldz story and funnily enough am just about to start reading Murakami’s Norweigan Wood. I read IQ84 a few years ago and loved it and I’m just starting to pick off some of his other novels. Maybe BoC can be my soundtrack…

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#118

I keep meaning to listen to them and forgetting. I will give them a spin today.

#119

i guess i’d rather they were slow and consistent than punt out an album every 2 years that wasn’t up to their standards

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#120

It works out as the equivalent of an album’s worth of material about every five years.

BOC, Aphex Twin and Autechre all started releasing stuff at roughly the same time.

Aphex has released 9 albums and about 40 eps (depending on how you count them and including stuff under different aliases) plus countless singles and remixes.

Autechre have released 13 or 14 albums (depending on whether you count the NTS sessions) and 15 eps).

#121

Using Aphex Twin as a barometer of ‘rate of output’ is probably a bit unfair

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#122

His quality control is good in relation to the main albums and eps released under his own name, pretty patchy in relation to some of the other stuff.

#123

Always in the mood for BoC. Think I posted elsewhere on here about how Tomorrow’s Harvest became my soundtrack for hours of Minecraft playing when it came out. Happily listen to them on repeat in a way I wouldn’t with anyone else. Probably the first electronica people I seriously got into when a friend at uni put me onto Music Has the Right to Children.

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#124

just seems a weird thing to compare their level of output to other artists, like what does it matter if they’ve released 4 or 40 albums? surely you just rate them based on whatever they’ve released*

*i absolutely don’t give a fuck about this btw i’m just very very bored at work :slight_smile:

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#125

Well, you absolutely rate them how you like. For me, a band that releases ten great albums in 25 years is even better than one that releases five. That’s just because more great albums is better than less great albums.

That’s not to say that I would prefer them to just out any old rubbish out to keep the wheels of industry running, I just think five years is a long time to take to make a record.

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#126

Low 5 from me. Not quite in my top tier of favourite artists or albums but when I’m in the mood for them nothing else really scratches the itch.

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