Boards of Canada- Echus

[@Program7]

Notice: I distance myself from the artist’s obvious satanic belief. From now on this upload is only here to inform about that.

[@depressed_cows]

"[w]e're not Satanists, or Christians, or pagans. We're not religious at all. We just put symbols into our music sometimes, depending on what we're interested in at the time. We do care about people and the state of the world, and if we're spiritual at all it's purely in the sense of caring about art and inspiring people with ideas." (OOR, 2002). They aren't satanists.

[@Program7]

That is only their subterfuge but they are apparently satanists. It’s because they mention the devil clearly too much. 1. devil / a few old tunes (1996) 2. peace-tony-devil / old tunes vol. 2 (1996) 3. the devil is in the details / geogadd (2001) 4. the devil is in the details (reverse) / geogaddi (reverse) (2002) If i also count the voice in their one track named ’’you could feel the sky (reverse)’’ who say ’’a god with hooves, a god with horns’’ then we have them already mentioning the devil 5 times. Also is their album called ’’geogaddi’’ exact 66:06 min in length. The standard version of geogaddi does even have a file size of 666mb as well.

[@depressed_cows]

@@Program7 Regarding the album length of Geogaddi, they said "When we were discussing the length of the silence [Warp Records owner] Steve Beckett actually suggested to take it to a total 66 minutes 6 seconds, because then everyone would think it's the devil who made the album. And we just laughed." They're similar to TOOL in that they both just like putting cryptic imagery in their albums. This isn't even limited to the occult, since on Geogaddi they toyed with numerology and mathematics. If you'd like to read a bit for yourself: bocpages.org/wiki/Geogaddi

[@Program7]

Yes that's why this ''magic window'' track is there… exactly to make it all 66:06 min. Still for me this is not cryptic imagery, but devil worship. I mean you see how this look.

[@JoeMama-ot5mj]

@@Program7 BOC arent satanists or even religous at all as has been stated Courting satanic themes is run of the mill for musicians for exactly this reason It bothers people a lot Just like how they arent Branch Davidians but reference the waco incident any chance they can get Its because it elicits a very genuine reaction from those who dont understand

[@bearboyyyyy]

Because BOC has a history of using various vocal samples in their music, somehow, the audience noise seems to fit with this track completely. It's all this big nostalgic blur of people talking and warm memories n' shit. So happysad

[@RyanKaufman]

When you think back far enough, specific details might be missing. What she was wearing, what you ate for lunch, what time you woke up, the temperature outside. But you remember the emotion of the memory vividly. That's why it's a memory, you felt something that made you keep it. It's not just a fact you recall, but an experience you pull back from the past. The wave of sound mimics that wave of emotion you feel. The very general, depersonalized audio clips are the memory. Unimportant but serve a purpose nonetheless, to flesh out the feeling - or to emphasize the sound

[@quirkypurple]

Fuck sake lads. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3S2aJ1rfpuUhcU I'm mean that in the kindest way.

[@raynebow5289]

Reading this hits even harder considering how much the public spaces in my society changed after 2020.

[@gc8972b]

​@@raynebow5289 public, personal. everything went somewhere else

[@weave_of_k]

@@RyanKaufmangorgeously put

[@foxorian]

I love how halfway through the song the crowd stops talking almost entirely and all you hear is the sound of BoC playing. The song sounds like it has a slow start, as some BoC tracks do, but as you listen through you realize the song isn't picking up further than these few chords -- and that's on purpose. Everyone in the room is focusing solely on whats being played, that this music is coming from a deeper personal and emotional place. BoC wants you to feel it, if it just takes time to let it sink in to everyone's minds. It's calming, when you let yourself become washed over by it, relax and think to yourself "this is it ... this is all it has to be." Sometimes it's hard to explain to people why I choose to listen to music like this. "Sounds boring, its putting me to sleep" I hear often. But it has to do all about how it connects with you on some core level. I can't make someone else connect with it how I do. But my explanation above might help them understand a little. Wish I could have experienced it live.

[@Lo0nex_]

i love you matt

[@WithASideOfFries]

Beautiful comment.

[@Scramsonov]

Ya nailed it

[@blakeheh]

I had the same realization, but couldn't put it to words... Glad someone could!

[@SuperChexmixer]

***** Well put man, well put indeed...:)

[@alter8732]

Since this is the only recording I've heard of this song, I find it interesting how the audience voices in effect merged with the music to become part of the song to me.

[@chrisd6736]

It’s weird some of my fav tracks of all time are bootleg live recordings and you will memorize the crowd noises. They just become part of the track.

[@LuredDecoy]

just like Oldboy - Northernaire

[@StankyPickle1]

It's a shame that this is the only version. I've been hoping for years that BoC would come out with a new album where this was included.

[@alexjaybrady]

@@StankyPickle1 tell him to switch it off

[@Stringsloth]

It adds some magic to the song ♪

[@harbinger7591]

To me, this sounds like one of those songs thats signifies an end to something, like seeing someone for the last time and knowing it's the last time you're ever gonna see them.

[@herniagaming]

How, it's too uplifting for that

[@gc8972b]

@@herniagaming every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end 🌤

[@herniagaming]

@@gc8972b good point

[@rickyjulian496]

It's never the last.. we all meet again at some point..

[@affalaffaa]

@@rickyjulian496 In the end it's best to hedge your bets...

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

Even at your most numb, the Sandison brothers will find a way to slip past your empty husk and caress your very soul with the gentlest of tones...

[@7t272]

Chameleonardodavinci And this my friend is one of those tones ✌🏻

[@onegrainofsand]

factual

[@dianafornof9554]

Makes me remember a dream I once had. at a family farm out in the country and found a hidden world through a trap door. The sky perpetually blue, the fields green and orange, just like this...the buildings and the people made from hay, I fell in love with them. I left to tell others of that place, but no one listened, no one believed, and I never found my way back again.

[@-__-_-.-]

Pebbles Williams enjoy the moment, cause it'll escape you.

[@oaffmusic]

this comment makes me both profoundly happy and sad together

[@club882]

Dreams are odd.

[@adamantportraits9514]

It's beautiful with the sound of people especially

[@ceramikxxx5882]

fuck people

[@stefanakosmar]

no, don't.. they are just confused

[@ninworlds5524]

the people is what makes the song great y'know

[@toximan2008]

BoC plays quite well with vocal samples. Either because they've drilled it into our heads from the get go, or that their atmospheres with the aid of people talking, can actually increase. Probably both.

[@softnerdrocks]

Perfect as is

[@matthewling2663]

Clarifying a few thought almost 20 years later: I was there with my brother and 2 other friends, April 2001. I'd previously seen boc at the incredible Lighthouse party the previous October (An amazing show, we were stood in front of Aphex twin for the boc set) Being a huge fan of boc since March 98 when MHTRTC came out we jumped at every chance to see them but there were very few. I also drove from Derby to Edinburgh with a friend to attend the listening party for Geogaddi at a church in January 2002 as he had won tickets (Funnily enough nobody even checked our tickets when we got there, I think it had something to do with always allowing people into a church regardless of what is happening.) ATP 2001 was a great festival all round, curated by Tortoise. Truth be told we only bought tickets because boc were playing, as it turned out for the final time at the time of this message and i'd be surprised if they ever play again. Broadcast were great on the friday night as was Mike Ladd. Autechre were incredible on the Sunday night. Saturday was for boc! The feeling I still get hearing Echus, the opening track is unlike any other feeling I get recalling any of the hundreds of gigs i've been to. There were some non-believers over by the bar area, they were the ones shouting "Press play" and "where's your guitars" as boc got ready to perform. What then transpired was probably the most 'Punk' moment i've ever seen live and by that I mean punk in the purest sense; doing what you believe in, what comes naturally and to hell with the doubters. After 6 minutes of pure mind-tickling bliss the final chord faded away and the entire room (which had settled to complete silence for the tune) exploded in rapture. An incredible moment, brought about by one of the best bands to exist....And then the beat dropped.... To be a boc fan in the early days when their output was so amazing and otherworldly, from 1998 to 2002 and to see them live twice during that time is something i'll always cherish.

[@Stringsloth]

Lucky you!!! Edit: I wish I could watch them live at least once before I die.

[@iamacookie6]

god i can only imagine

[@kobalt77]

I love you for sharing this. All we need is Love, love is all there is.

[@MLElf]

Awesome story, I wish I was there, pretty heavy to think I’ll never see them live, although part of me is glad, I like the magic of them not playing live.

[@TheBeelzebub1]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@twinatoms]

Notice: I distance myself from the uploader's obvious Satanic paranoia I have to encounter every time I pull up this beautiful piece of art.

[@acydxtal]

I mean I don't really believe in God or ghosts but Geogaddi still creeps me out

[@Program7]

That's your good right. But don't you distance yourself from the satanic imagery of boc? I mean is that accepted only because they make good music?

[@tk-4815]

@@acydxtal geogadi was a dark album for boc, because it was made during the 9/11 attacks, when the world really didn't really know what to trust. It's not really satanic at all, it's just has darker tones and I don't know why we have to just jump to satanism

[@young-stove]

@Tyler if you look through the comments and descriptions of their boards of canada uploads you will see them explain. its nice of them to keep the music up anyway lol

[@young-stove]

@Tyler I dont think its evil or anything like that, definitely unusual and otherworldly, but thats part of the point, it can help people feel and see things from beyond their normal vantage points by plucking such unusual emotional strings inside us, thats one aspect of their music anyways. as someone whos been playing around with creating music more in the direction of this music than more conventional music for my entire life, I can say for a fact you do not need to be affiliated with the devil, or evil, or be on drugs (though they dont always hurt) to conjure or create, or just accidentally stumble into, some very strange otherworldly sounds and emotions. sometimes stuff sounds very weird, and sometimes people decide it would be interesting to see what happens if you keep going with it, or try to fit it together with other things. now deeper meanings and intentions can still be a part of this process, but honestly, I think that we have far more serious threats and concerns to focus on in this life. if youre worried about some kind of satanic force manifesting in this world, I dont think this somewhat obscure music that may or may not have had a thought of "satan" involved in its creation Is the thing to be worried about. Theres true physical evil out there, actual horror being caused by human beings. Enjoy music, while you can. and I'm not sure where to find more info about the whole "satanic boards of canada" theory other than the channel that has uploaded this video. Like I said before, they go on and on about their perceived satanic connections with BOC in the comments and descriptions of all their BOC uploads. sorry if this is just a weird run on sentence I just woke up

[@bluelichen9696]

What I love most about synths/strings/woodwinds and other instruments with the capability for darker timbres is how they can make simple song structures like this sound so rich and ethereal.

[@lena-Ramone]

So true so so true 👍

[@DanKale]

At 3:35 you can hear someone telling them to turn their camera off. Imagine if they did then we wouldn’t have this masterpiece.

[@summerteeeth5637]

Iirc it was somebody with a discreetly wired up mini disc recorder.

[@jordynwing]

that part really fits perfectly with this song ngl

[@_pilly]

I've really grown fond of the crowd noises in this recording, especially the "whoo" at 0:32 I feel like it adds some more flavors to the already amazing sound

[@mitchellgreenwood5686]

Yes.

[@ay-kg3rm]

Sure !!!

[@Braxium1]

also the talking

[@Bocqurant]

a_quiet_place I smile a little everytime I hear that little "whoo-hoo!". It's just so... warm.

[@mariusperfundo7299]

Yes!

[@plumbichi]

BoC is the soundtrack to my life. I play it almost everyday.

[@Nassault]

Incredibly unique, one of a kind, my brain loves these waves of sound so much.

[@frantzbarichard]

+Nassault me too.

[@InfiniteRhombus]

lol no its not its just a fuckin drone.

[@t3l3phasicworksh0p]

No it's not a drone - pitch changes too frequently - it's boc genius use of the ADSR release

[@HalConick]

Notice: I grow closer to myself from the artist’s obvious love. From now on this comment is only here to inform the BoC brothers, fellow BoC fans, and uploader of the video that I love them.

[@dpclerks09]

Divine Love Energy ❤🌎 Our World is Healing when we listen to this piece of Music. The vibrations ripple and emanate throughout Time, Space, and Dimensions when we choose to participate and exist in Divine Love Energy. God is Real 💗🙏🙌

[@joaof3524]

Sometimes the simplest things are the most beautiful...

[@tomio8072]

Thank God they never switched it off

[@WhaleEye-r4e]

So true!

[@mattwilkes9502]

I think this version is perfect, with the crowd/security etc. Can't imagine it without them

[@peterl3054]

Timeless lyrics. The camcorder there? Tell him to switch it off.

[@summerteeeth]

Peter L and Press Play...!

[@pointcuration1278]

@@peterl3054 music has the right to children.

[@quantumfuturistic]

@@peterl3054I want it on a shirt

[@numcaps2]

Boards of Canada never consciously make imiations or pay attention to music around them. Mike actually mentioned that Marcus stops listening to music entirely for months to make original material, and they have said in interviews they dont listen much to new music, old stuff inspires them more.

[@coolcat8867]

numcaps2 awesome- cant wait for the next album!!

[@Spectral_Waves]

Lmao statements like that have always come across as pretentious to me. There is loads of incredible music out there.

[@snagglesnorf]

@@Spectral_Waves if they would have listened to newer music they wouldn‘t have made the same kind of music today.

[@jasco5001]

makes sense, new music has turned to mostly shit.

[@tuulymusic3856]

@@Spectral_Waves Completely missing the point

[@findjonmoses]

I just want to go and sit under that tree, enjoy the light, the loneliness, listen to BoC and ponder the universe. This is life expressed in music!!

[@simmy3076]

Spot on, drive around and find that real life place and do it. It is a great feeling

[@findjonmoses]

​@@simmy3076 I took your advice and found that real life place! I'm sitting under that tree and listening as I post this comment!

[@simmy3076]

@@findjonmoses wow! I'm super impressed. How does it feel?

[@s5q1]

I mean it is the Tree of Satan, but you do you I guess.

[@7t272]

To have witnessed this live must have been a remarkable experience..

[@TNJX]

I imagine they wouldn't have had the reverence from the crowd that they would today

[@matthewling2663]

I was there, the best gig I ever saw. The “Press play” and “where’s your guitars” shouting was coming from the bar area. By the end of this track everybody was sold. Unbelievable experience

[@chrisd6736]

Matthew Ling- where was this gig?

[@7t272]

Matthew Ling I’m not jealous at all!😊 salute!!✌🏻

[@7t272]

zoidberg590 special moments are captured in life that can never be repeated,this one of said moments ✌🏻

[@syok1107]

I came across Boards of Canada by freak accident, through a Solar Fields track.

[@summerteeeth]

...and there's plenty more where this came from. Enjoy!

[@OnlYYlnO]

I feel sorry for the people it doesn't reach...

[@PooKneader]

Solar Fields is great too! I love Sky Trees

[@DylanFoglesong]

Man, this song is just so beautiful. Pure bliss. The way the background noise fades in and out with that warm, oscillating synth pad, mimicing the ebb and flow of the ocean. They say that in heaven, the ocean is all they talk about. There's just something about this song that makes me want to be a better person. To open up, be grateful just to be a human being, alive, in the 21st century. To rip the band-aids off of my emotional wounds, throw my hands up to the sky, and exclaim the world "This is who I am. This is who I've always been".

[@ThePhillkillv2]

Exactly, I will never forget discovering this song.

[@jackmace6531]

Who says the ocean is all they talk about in heaven

[@Endvvell]

You are. You are, and I am. Damn, you rarely think about it, but every day you meet people online, like real people, and it's something that seems to be rarely appreciated. It's such a silly thought, but it's like two parallel lines that eventually converged at some single point in this everlasting flow of time just to acknowledge the fact of each other's existence.

[@Hopped777]

I’ve been listening to this live version for 20 years. Probably thousands of times.

[@dpclerks09]

Divine Love Energy ❤🌎 Our World is Healing when we listen to this piece of Music. The vibrations ripple and emanate throughout Time, Space, and Dimensions when we choose to participate and exist in Divine Love Energy. God is Real. Christ is Real. Christ Consciousness is Real 💗🙏🙌

[@suredudefroschgnarlish3882]

All of this whistling yelling in the beginning cracks me up it is a solid ambient track and I love it lol

[@GrandmasDay32]

Discovering Boards Of Canada back in 2002 was the best thing that happened to me musically and mentally. This is the song the whole world needs to hear. Music is the key.

[@patrickhuber8630]

The sound of people makes it feel so alive and beautiful

[@elhombre741]

Discovered this song 10 years ago, been almost a year I've heard this. Speaks to the soul

[@dpclerks09]

🙏🙌

[@MysticGizmos]

God, this song makes me think of life. I mean everything, love, nostalgia, hate, sadness, samsara, and the pointlessness of everything that is the most important to me. In my opinion, the chatter and stuff makes me think of humanity, and I love it. I cannot believe that one day my wife and kids, and brothers and sisters, and parents won't mean a thing. Existing is tough.

[@fruitsnackia2012]

The best i can describe this song is nostalgia in music form. its too bad it never got a studio release outside of someone recreating the song from scratch. but the voices do add that extra charm this song has to offer simply by reflecting youth in its prime imo.

[@WeAtG17]

TBF as well, that recreation is about as good as I've ever heard, he got it spot on

[@fruitsnackia2012]

@@WeAtG17 i agree.

[@jecoharman]

What a unique piece of music.

[@om3g4z3r0]

Feels like after you fought violently to save your people you won but was wounded and now you lay in a field in pain and relief waiting.

[@betamime8523]

The powerful, resonant synths cutting through the silence is so beautiful.

[@foley-huck]

You notice how quiet everyone gets over four chords with a lovely timbre as the song goes on. It's great

[@GB-bb5oi]

Live club voices make this much more precious.. Proof of life and consciousness

[@papersplease]

"The camcorder there...tell him to switch it off."

[@papersplease]

"Cheers"

[@papersplease]

"Oright, mate"

[@Qrills]

I think it melds into the music nicely, and with the muffled laughter and cheering too. Sometimes ambient is too melancholy without company :)

[@karenmckechnie468]

papersplease: My coffee just came down my nose laughing at your comment ha ha I'm still amused. Have to get out more.

[@chrisd6736]

Little did that guy know he’d become part of BOC lore for the rest of time.

[@tygbro]

The scariest...saddest...most beautiful instrumental I ever heard. The last I heard something similar in nature was 'And the gods made love"by JHE in 1968, I was 7 years old, scared me too death, but I keep saying my 20 year brother to play it over and over.

[@Donjah5o]

This song is like the intro for life existence

[@əəəəəə]

I would like to play it for my baby one day. Let it hold this tune.

[@heathenbreathinfire]

this song feels like a good dream

[@TangoDelta70]

It’s Life itself

[@n.fusrodah2889]

We are all children of the universe. It makes you, who read this, my brother or my sister. And I can't stop feel love for you right now. Be in peace, whoever you are

[@Chubbywubbysandwich]

Right back at you brother. Hope you're doing well.

[@Rayhouse]

Why do I always get tears in my eyes when I hear these few chords...

[@pornsakpongthong1092]

Because you're a girl

[@mennominkes1758]

I need a studio release!

[@sinisterai]

My cat chills to this track whenever I play it; just sits loaf-like and purrs..

[@futurevvaves4184]

2019 will be 10 years since this was uploaded onto KZbin.

[@sexdrugsnwifi]

; )

[@GB-bb5oi]

here we go over time shift

[@flimflam6652]

And here we are. See you all again in another 10 if you're still here.

[@CampfireHeadphase]

@@flimflam6652 and another 10 after that, I'm sure

[@Venemoth123]

If i wont be here in 2029 then im prolly dead or worse i forgot about BoC. But if i will come then I'm buying a cold beer for every single one of you so we can drink and talk about the past.

[@HappyFeller9918]

This video has gotten a lot more attention since Tomorrow's Harvest, I love it!

[@akrobatapobyku]

there was a time, long ago, when it was hard to stop my tears from falling down while this osng was playing. This is a weird feeling but I kinda miss those times.

[@TheDivineRe]

+akrobatapobyku and its strange how no words can describe what it is we go through at that instant moment ...

[@spencerch146]

+Joel Zachariah I agree, the closest way i could describe it is an overwhelming feeling of what seems so be all emotions at once, conflicting and intensifying, like the deepest sorrow and feeling overjoyed simultaneously.

[@briansmalls3129]

+akrobatapobyku a feeling that there is something more... more than this... something we are feeling that is always around but cant be touched. something unseen that is as real as the oxygen that surrounds us. connecting us together. each blade of grass to the stars in the sky. know in your heart as the clock counts down i am with you holding your hand. where ever you are. you are. i am. we are. not alone...

[@twisty6621]

I love to see people so deep and opened about their feelings on these songs

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

Legit teared up reading that, thank you Brian.

[@Bender2323]

so beautiful. perfect that it was captured in the moment

[@kpspkyes]

I love how halfway through the song the crowd stops talking almost entirely and all you hear is the sound of BoC playing. The song sounds like it has a slow start, as some BoC tracks do, but as you listen through you realize the song doesn't pick up or progress further than these few chords. And then you realize you're focusing solely on the tones being played, you realize that this music is coming from a deeper personal and emotional place. BoC wants you to feel something. This feeling is worth more than the song dropping out into a 'sick beat' to pander to a crowd. Any DJ can do that. But not just anyone can do what you're hearing here -- not just anyone can jerk feelings from your subconscious like this. This is why Boards of Canada is one of my favorite artists of all time. This is pure stuff, guys. Yeah, I've changed my mind and would like to retract 'ive that I or anyone else has said.

[@Martindrummond73]

I've never agreed more with a comment on youtube in my life.

[@summerteeeth]

That may well be down to BoC's 'secret weapon' (they joked about having one, once).

[@connor48880]

stolen

[@lazarj]

Beautiful piece of music, and I love the background noise. Kinda makes me feel like I'm there. I've been listening to this for a few years and I don't think I'll ever get tired.

[@dpclerks09]

Been coming back to this piece for about 12 years now. Just as potent as ever every time I listen to it. There's definitely a certain magic that was captured during this performance. You're hearing and feeling the energetic exchange happening here. Lightning in a bottle, as they say.

[@volodianike]

Damn, somehow all best tracks of BoC are unreleased bootlegs.

[@TomWGuitar]

Never before have I been so frustrated by an artist not letting us enjoy their art

[@7t272]

Tom Williams Agreed! To have written such wonderful music like this and to never release it is unbelievable!!

[@MrSalvaur]

this sounds a lot like tears from the compound eye

[@fuckamericanidiot]

I don't enjoy their official albums that much so many songs are boring and a little too clean for me but the old tunes and random35 comps have so much brilliance on them

[@larayaglsd]

This song reminds me of going to my grandparents house when i was young

[@DimitriSmith1290]

For some reason, this beautiful music against the still background makes me really sad.

[@summerteeeth]

If you look carefully, the background is very slowly shifting.

[@mitchellgreenwood5686]

Thank you for the honesty

[@gozer9556]

Boards of Canada really have a strong emanation of childhood nostalgia and wonder for the natural world.

[@pointcuration1278]

Nostalgia for a world shared with us via image and sound, but not a world that we can touch. A warm, peaceful life in a fertile place.

[@rotmgdabeatz]

It kinda makes you look back and think what is life. Just focus and reconsider the beauty in the everyday things (laughter and conversation between people in the background, the beautiful picture of nature). I think that's the point, just look back and realise how beautiful life is, and we often forget the wondeful everyday things. So this melody reminds me to live in the moment and enjoy in every little sound I hear and in every sight I see. Life is so beautiful

[@Hopped777]

I would love to hear this on a church organ live

[@franciscotezensolis8084]

Boc is my oxygen.

[@DROG.]

England is my city.

[@7t272]

Francisco Tezén Solis I couldn’t agree more 👌🏻

[@testohtoby]

Everything you do is a balloon

[@shockedmusic1]

yes since its mostly about wild nature

[@hailhaillennon]

British Oxygen Corporation!

[@1kylealexander]

BoA is a weapon of peace, this song brings out emotions in me that ignite all of my most creative thoughts, it makes me calm when angry i can talk when i am speechless and i am speechless when i can talk, this song is truly amazing. it brings calmness and thought to all that listen to it.

[@Program7]

To those who asked about the picture in the video: I don't remember where exactly i downloaded this picture. Althought somebody in the comments answered that question once a long time ago. The place is somewhere in germany.

[@Samuel-ve3wx]

It really looks like a place in western Germany I went a few years ago.

[@omn30]

@@Samuel-ve3wx where?

[@Samuel-ve3wx]

@@omn30 Herrnhut, small town that has lots of religious history. Its right by the border of Poland and Czech Republic

[@omn30]

@@Samuel-ve3wx Thanks

[@TROPICADIA]

This is beautiful and completely original. I can't really categorize this into any one of their major albums. So just hearing something brand new from their older works (even though it's live) is such a breath of fresh air.

[@muhammedverim]

1am at night, listening to BoC. My mind slowly wanders through the abyss. A black giant hollow abyss which holding all my experiences, knowledge, feelings and nothing else. I see everyone i love and i hate yet i feel nothing towards them, realizing the presence of every human that stepped on this very earth in that very moment. Like a train slides in front of my eyes, i see every human's life sliding in front of me. I experience every feeling they felt, they are feeling now and they'll ever feel. The sadness of a soldier who left his family behind, the happiness of a child who got a present for the first time, the hope of a mother wishing his child's to be alive who's stuck under construction after an earthquake. As i shed a tear with soldier, i smiled with child and prayed with mother. I start to spin as the Earth spins, i start to spin around the Sun as Earth spins around it, i start to spin around the black hole in the center of our galaxy as the solar system spins around it, i start to drift as the Milkyway drift in this black sea of nothing but energy we call space. I understand my presence in this colossal system, feeling less and less important as the frame gets bigger until i become nothing but a single dot. My entire existence becomes meaningless yet my mind's bonds are broken, free to wander anywhere. It wanders galaxies, planets, anywhere it desires for hours. But comes back to only thing that's important, my self, my mind. My mind realizes what creates this universe is the mind itself, without it there would be no universe, no humans, nothing. I wish i could share these feelings with everyone i know but they wouldn't understand, they didn't before. This is a brief section of my adventure i make occasionally. BoC is the most unique type of music i've ever felt in my entire life. Thank you guys for being beyond awesome, you brought a whole different dimension to the music world.

[@s5q1]

I am 102 years old next week, and greater words have never been spoken. Thank you for your insight on this gem of the universe.

[@danizareen3926]

ambient gold

[@gartlove]

if in doubt. I come here.

[@7t272]

gartlove 👌🏻

[@dreadful0chicken]

I'm in tears. The emotions brought forth by this song are powerful indeed. The relaxing and peaceful image also compliments the song very well.

[@triplem3827]

It's taken me a long time to realize the reason why this song gives me such a strong feeling of nostalgia. The nostalgia is not for a time i never had, but for a the time i've had so far. This song seems to describe my life. anyone else feel the same?

[@HS-mm2yz]

Exactly man... BoC are the masters of this.

[@furkanaydogdu3293]

BoC's music is like my life.

[@prutata]

I know that this was played live, but I just want to highlight the fact that, the first time I heard this, which was 2 years ago I think, I didn't imagine the audience to be theirs. What pictured in my head was an outdoors high school sports game. I had just graduated from college that same year and I never felt so attached to my high school days than at that time. Fast forward to now, almost done with college and learning so much about life, I want to go back to my school and hear how much the audience here resembles it there. The people cheering, living in the moment and not having a worry in the world, just wanting to enjoy the event. I will always look back to this song in that way. I can see myself in that crowd, seeing everyone happy and moved by what's being displayed to them. That just touches me in a way nothing else can. I love to see people happy. I also find it very strange how this music is the perfect way to depict that.

[@RichardKoning]

Wow! ❤

[@lamouretlaviolence]

My brother made me discover BOC 2 years ago. I hope that, where he is now, he can hear their songs all the time.

[@tehPwnzor7306]

Sucks to be the guy who got caught with the camera at 3:35. I'd have liked to see a video of this...

[@Certainlynotsure]

possibly their best song and it's never been released. amazing.

[@Grauskegg]

The melodies from BoC is like a drug, when youve started listening you cant survive without it

[@MrSentia]

Some of Little Dragon's music is like that now for me too brother.

[@7t272]

Oknytt You’re right!!

[@dpclerks09]

Divine Love Energy ❤🌎 Our World is Healing when we listen to this piece of Music. The vibrations ripple and emanate throughout Time, Space, and Dimensions when we choose to participate and exist in Divine Love Energy. God is Real. Christ is Real. Christ Consciousness is Real 💗🙏🙌

[@HappyFeller9918]

My dream is to meet the brothers some day and tell them how much their music has changed my life. About 4 months back, I was on the verge of suicide. I had it all planned out, I was going to pop on "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" and on the final note, I was going to pull the trigger. As I listened to the song, I saw the beauty an changed my mind. I haven't had a suicidal thought since.

[@DRO0M]

wow man. may your dream come true some day!

[@cerberus.talking]

Back at times, when I was a student, with few other close people I was the main quarter of organasing a massive party, the whole campus of students ever been to. It took place in the garage, designed by one man, it was two-floor apartment, we had dj set and more than hundred people staying close to each other in somewhat of 60-70 sq m. I left the party when the most reliable people came to it, and i returned when more than 80 people came. I was talking with all the people, i was astounished, because it was massive and that was exactly what i was seeking for long part of my life. I did drugs, and at some point i understood i am not handling it, i went to bathroom, turned off the lights, and while people were banging on door i was just lying on the bathroom carpet in full darkness. At that moment of time, i did not knew this song, but as i listen to it know, it lays on like a second skin on the faded muscles...

[@brianmcallister7114]

That lonely tree. In a sterile prison of man. BOC. The absolute highest expression of what electronic music can achieve.

[@ZillaSharkeh]

great music, OP's schizophrenic meltdown in the comments really compliments it nicely

[@frouvoxes]

I always love reading his schizo rambling everytime I revisit this beautiful piece of art

[@d0x2f]

Here from solar sands! Get a load of this program 7 guy lmao

[@cobaltnightmare5920]

in the boards of canada community "Notice: I distance myself from the artist’s obvious satanic belief. From now on this upload is only here to inform about that" is a huge copypasta. A lot of it is based off their album Geogaddi that does have satanic stuff hidden in it but the notion they actually believe it is absurd.

[@Psilocy-ben]

I have been listening to BoC since I was in early High School and have had some truly profound moments and realisations about life thanks to them. Recently I have began to explore Eastern religions/philosophies and the parallels between what I am reading about life, "living in the moment", experiences of death, etc, are unreal in that I feel I already have experienced these things through BoC. Yes, I have taken psychedelics in the past, but I have equal experiences WITHOUT drugs & just BoC.

[@totalDnB]

I want some headphones permanently attached to my ears and have this song on repeat for the rest of my life.

[@Chubbywubbysandwich]

I can relate to that my friend

[@claudiocarbone2225]

Chills in my entire body! This is so beautiful and powerful❤don't know how to describe the feels of this music

[@dpclerks09]

Divine Love Energy ❤🌎 Our World is Healing when we listen to this piece of Music. The vibrations ripple and emanate throughout Time, Space, and Dimensions when we choose to participate and exist in Divine Love Energy. God is Real 💗🙏🙌

[@laserfrogrecords8560]

I miss you Shana

[@doggo4918]

bro get over it

[@laserfrogrecords8560]

@@doggo4918 um that was 3 years ago, dumbass

[@jamesberger8457]

Well, are you over it?

[@Kewn]

It still amazes me how BoC just....is. There's no better word for me to describe their music. It always feels so right and natural when I'm listening to them. As if the music is supposed to be there.

[@mrnoisy3851]

the guy asking for the camcorder to be switched off is English. he is either security or management. some people think it is either mike or Marcus, not with that accent.

[@Spectrophia]

Yeah both are Scottish.

[@mergingmarky8274]

So simple (4 chords) yet so Deep n Relaxing .. One of few songs I cld listen on repeat.✌🏾

[@ScottsShots]

Lyrics: "Press play!" "WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" "YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" "COME ON" "Dude..." "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" "Yeah" "Ayeeeee" (something in Scottish idk) "Yeah, yeah" "That camcorder there." "What?" "Tell him to switch off." *coughing* (Coronavirus?) "Right here, right now." "WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

[@Samuel-ve3wx]

Makes me feel like I'm at a music festival as the sun barely starts to come up. Then you start to feel tired and go to your tent, to get a few hours of sleep to another awesome day. Yay.

[@jecoharman]

This is what life feels like when you're destressed, a beautifully rare thing.

[@shmitix]

boc is always instant shivers and this song particularly

[@yes-zc7hv]

anyone notice at 3:35 that "possibly" you can hear a bouncer say "that camcorder there, switch it off" that means that its possible that there might be a recording of part of this set somwhere?!?

[@futurevvaves4184]

This will always be one of my favorite BoC songs

[@jimyost2585]

This music is for people who like to sit quietly and watch grass grow.

[@xoio]

Jim Yost - Only the wisest can appreciate the growing of grass.

[@aldoskyz8]

Boards of Canada.. over 20 years of dreams.. .Thank you.

[@David.S.]

Revisit this video often..thanks for the upload. Cheers.

[@marccercone8981]

This world is amazing, and I wish everyone would realize that. Spend your lifetime in happiness with the people you love and care for. Dont worry our life is only the beginning!

[@gavinwhyte941]

Anyone notice the profile of a face looking to the right, on the right-hand side of the tree? I know I'm seeing faces in the clouds, but still... I can see the profile of a face in the tree and listening to this makes me think it's smiling.

[@b1nary_f1nary]

Fair play if anyone thinks the sound of the crowd spoils the tune but personally I think it adds so much to the recording. The fact that this video is still online after so many years I think proves that it was meant to be here. This video is the only place this piece of music exists for the majority of people around the world, therefore the extra noise in the recording is part of the song. One of the best pieces of music I will here in my life.

[@Saundersstrong]

Goosebumps every time .

[@Saundersstrong]

Brings me back to centre .

[@faultelectronica]

This is great. Love the video. I saw them live at Incredible WARP lighthouse party - excellent stuff..

[@grenadine-3-3-3]

thank you for not switching it off

[@magpiecore]

Reminds me of when i was younger. Being at a party in the countryside with people i didn't know was my biggest fear. Searching for a silent place to go back to my own little world, away from everyone else.

[@CreQ6644]

It sucks being emotional but its great because you can enjoy music at a inspirational level.

[@kenrben]

It soothes the soul and opens the mind..

[@alvmeta]

What a magical song.