Copy of Remixes of Boards of Canada

Cover du titre de Pink Floyd de 1969. Paroles et musique : Roger Waters et ALF. Chant : Julie Meil.
Mars 2021

Cirrus minor

Reach For The Dead (BOC Remix)

Sometimes, things "just happen". For months, we’d been working away on various projects and then, without really thinking about it, The Black EP just happened. It seemingly appeared from nowhere.

We’d been talking about the old days; making music with friends and dodgy kit, renting small practice rooms and using makeshift recording studios. It was such a common thing back then, you could pick a dusty space in a half-derelict building for as little as £25 a month. In those days, the Cabs and Human League had studios with posh-sounding names, but in reality, they were the same old workspaces long abandoned by the industries they were built for. Nevertheless, the grand names made them sound magical.

Sheffield had thousands of these spaces, and some still exist today, but their abundance and low-cost made Sheffield a very active place. Someone was always doing something. They’d exploded onto the scene in a flurry of excitement before disappearing just as quickly.

There’s something about these little mesters (workshops) that we believe lives in the very consciousness of Sheffield. It’s one of the reasons we never really had big scenes like Manchester or Leeds. The Hacienda would've never been built here.

We don’t really do big gangs or have that kind of mentality. We tend to exist in little pockets, often leaving each other alone. It would be 30 years before any member of The Black Dog talked to Cabaret Voltaire. Sure, we’d stood outside their practice room as kids, trying to listen in, but never felt any reason to approach. Sheffield is like that.

Once we had the first two tracks of the Black EP, we set off to see Jon at Do It Theesen, where he manually cut the tracks to an extremely limited set of 7" singles using a vinyl lathe. It just felt right to go back to the old ways; a small gang creating something special in workshops and sheds. There’s something very satisfying about it, a perfect circle, if you will.

We pushed further by adopting old practices, working with one synth per person and limiting the use of our computers. We only stopped short of putting everything on beer crates. It seems like madness these days, but there is raw creativity within these confines. Pretty much every band started this way. Depeche Mode travelled to the studio on the London Underground for their first appearance on Top Of The Pops, all lugging a synth each. That's how we approached the creation of this album; stripped back, raw and minimal - it just felt so right.

And then there’s the competitive element that was influenced when the original Human League split and became Human League MK II and Heaven 17. Both continued to use the same studio to write what became the albums "Dare" and "Penthouse and Pavement". There is something about that drive that is very Sheffield, just making stuff and hoping everything falls into place.

In Sheffield, we do things differently, because that’s how we are built.

The Grey Album

Other, Like Me

“Sleep Deprivation” began in 2006, during a time when our sleep patterns were drastically altered by constant travel and late-night gigs. This relentless cycle of broken sleep became a persistent part of our lives, and over time, we noticed something remarkable: our music became more emotional, raw, and vulnerable.

Sleep, or the lack of it, affects every aspect of life, and its influence on our creative process was undeniable. For this album, we chose to embrace that emotional intensity, allowing it to take centre stage over traditional arrangements. Sleep deprivation blurs the lines of logic, and the part of the brain that usually handles structure and order begins to falter. In that haze, deeper feelings rise to the surface, unfiltered and honest.

With this album, we surrendered to that experience, letting the emotional chaos shape the music, and the result is an exploration of what happens when you’re pushed to your limits, both physically and creatively.

Sleep Dreprivation

Sleep Deprivation

[Dustv126] The Black Dog - Sleep Deprivation Preview

We always knew we would return to this project because Brutalism remains a profound part of our lives, something we cherish deeply. Inspired by the photographs we have been capturing for a new book, the music emerged effortlessly. Documenting these buildings feels instinctive; this is where we belong.

Our unwavering fixation on symmetry, synchronisation, and repetition endures, but this time we believe the music reveals a more emotional depth. That is the direction we have been moving towards. Some things simply take time, yet this album seemed to take shape of its own accord.

Join us as we walk through these modern day cathedrals, monuments to the people.

My Brutal Life 2

My Brutal Life 2 Preview

A reworking of what's available of BoC's Duffy :)

Boards of Canada - Duffy (Imploded View Remix)

An acoustic cover I wrote of Over The Horizon Radar by Boards of Canada

Boards of canada-over the horizon radar(helios cover)

An acoustic cover I did of a Boards of Canada track, Melissa Juice off of "Twoism"

Boards of Canada-melissa juice(helios cover)

Boards of Canada - Sixtyniner(Helios rmx)

The Black Dog - Drifting 2 - M:Cast Ambient Mix
1. Lustmord & Robert Rich - Elemental Trigger - Fathom
2. The Black Dog & Sean Bean - Drumhead - Dust Science
3. Jacaszek - Rytm to nie˛miertelnio˛æ I - Miasmah
4. Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Plateaux of Mirror - Polydor
5. Labradford - I - Kranky
6. The Black Dog - Wait Behind This Line - Soma
7. Autechre -  Yulquen - Warp
8. MLO - Aqua - Plus 8 Records
9. FUSE - Carocell - Plus 8 Records
10. Scanner - PuccScan - DS93
11. Throbbing Gristle - Weeping - Industrial Records
12. Beaumont Hannant - Water & Space - GPR
13. The Black Dog - Witches Ov (Beatless Version) - Dust Science

Bonus Mix  The Black Dog Drifting 2 - M:Cast Ambient Mix

Around 2002 Boards of Canada created a microsite with some interactive motion graphics which were accompanied by short loops.  I made this (unofficial) remix back then with some of the samples from the site. 

Boards of Canada - Sevenfortyseven (Helios Remix)

Pre-order the album here: https://smarturl.it/volumemassimo

Amore Amaro is taken from the forthcoming studio album VOLUME MASSIMO. 
Released on Mute 27 September 2019.

Volume Massimo Live-AV tour includes:

30 August - Atonal, Berlin
8 September - Up to Date Festival, Białystok
14 September - Draaimolen, Tilburg
22 September - TBA, Japan
28 September - Sonica, Ljubljana
19 October - Barbican, London
20 October -  LEV Matadero, Madrid
21 October - St Paul`s Sessions, Athens
25 October - Semibreve, Braga
6 November - Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm
8 November - Mira Digital Arts Festival, Barcelona
30 November - KoncertKirken, Copenhagen
6 December - Monk, Rome
7 December - Argo 16, Venice
11 December - Bozar Electronic Series, Brussels
11 April -  Concertgebouw, Bruges

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AMORE AMARO

Sometimes you just need something to clear your head - a state of neither neither if you will. This mix was created to be used in our car when traveling to gigs and to the studio for the sole purpose of clearing our heads of all the jingles/sayings/other peoples music/soundbytes/shite that creeps in, the viruses that nag and chip away like a small child asking "are we nearly there yet?".

Tracklisting
01. Pure - Siouxsie And The Banshees - Polydor
02. 4 3s 555 [Part 2] The Black Dog - Dust Science
03. Minour - The Black Dog - W*rp
04. Alone And Cutting - Slit - Dust Science
05. Gosudaryunia - Marc Almond - Elegy
06. Firspk - D - Rough Trade
07. YouKnowILoveYou - Anthony Child - Dust Science
08. Mutations - Jean-Claude Risset - OHM
09. Dungtitled (In A Major) - Stars Of The Lid - Kranky
10. This Degenerate Little Town (tbd Sheffield Edit) - Current 93 & Thomas Ligotti - Durtro
11. In Reach - Paula Temple - Materials
12. Firspk - D - Rough Trade
13. Seti - The Black Dog - W*rp
14. Do A Little Math - Blank Grid

Reach For The Dead (BOC Remix)

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