Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Boards of Canada - Aquarius (1999)


BoC track "Aquarius" backed up with a fan-made video

The picture below shows the Scottish electronic duo known as Boards of Canada, They are known for their deep ambient one-of-a-kind sound. It might at first seem repetetive, synthetic and just plain weird - but it's much, much more than that.

Old television samples and random speech mixed with exotic warm background layers creates the unique ambience that Boards of Canada is known for. The child laughs takes us back to the perfect childhood, and the perfection that Michael and Marcus always strives to acquire in their albums.

This admittedly isn't your regular dancefloor bomb, but it takes you away like nothing else. Or to be precise, it takes you absolutely nowhere. It portraits the simplicity of life and nature, as being the basic and most near thing of all. And it makes you feel united with this perfection in life. People may not like electronic music, and claim that it's not real or skillful. But Boards of Canada proves that the mathematical beauty in nature can be expressed through electronic music, and possibly with more success than in any other genre.

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