Where have the boys from Boards of Canada gone?

My kiddo is listening to a Sesame Street podcast from like 2017, and they reused the “I… Love… YOU” segment on the Valentine’s Day episode.

It’s amazing how an album can burrow so deep into your brain — I heard it and immediately started grinning like a fool.

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some nice synth sounds on this

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They came round my place for tea and scones. Case closed.

*close thread

However I guess they did leave after that and I haven’t heard since

*reopens thread

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OP really delivers on this Reddit thread… https://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1nytqbc/oc_playing_bocs_olson_on_a_1959_pdp1_computer/

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A reconstruction which I only just discovered…

Here’s the original description from the creator:

I’ve always been a massive fan of Boards of Canada, if its not obvious already! 10-11 years ago I stumbled upon a bootleg recording of one of their extremely rare live performances at the Warp 10 Birthday party in 1999. The closing tune at this show has always remained a mystery to me. As far as I know it has no title and has never been released. It’s quite possibly one of my favorite things they have done and really is a shame it never came out. You can hear the original bootleg recording (quite bad quality) here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYEZueAelKc

Fast forward to Summer 2012… Since I am a huge nerd I decided to take this bootleg recording and re-produce it for fun. Using the recording I laid new drums over the existing drum patterns (almost 100% accurate to original), replayed some synth parts and the bassline. The only thing I didn’t try to re-create was the original vocoder parts and some random samples so I used the bootleg recording for that. I was tempted to make a shorter 4-5 minute version but I figured I should preserve the piece in its intended length (although the length was most likely due to it being a live jam).

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For those that have not been following a bunch of the old tunes era stuff has recently been leaked in higher quality.

First there was this collection supposedly/possibly from an old cd-r:

Then just the other day this user who appears to actually have the 3 tapes (Old Tunes 1+2 and Boc Maxima) ripped them, here’s vol 1:

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Fuck yeah! Just rocked Old Tunes 2 on the way to work. Will definitely check this out

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Always get a wee bit excited when I see a few posts appear on this………… sigh

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Me too. Even these old tunes can’t cheer me up. I want a new album. :cry:

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Wow. I had no idea about these rips, so thank you!

Furthermore… Sam Amdj – Internet Archive (FLAC etc.)

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