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Boards of Canada - Macquarie Ridge

here's that electronic version, similar arrangement to the other one, just kind of has more blips

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Hoshi Neko Remix Electronic Version

Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ - three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

Faith In Strangers

When Angels Fly

This is going WAY back to January, 1987. A calming piece made with my Poly-61 and Superdrums, recorded on an old tape that mostly survived. The original title had the word Heavens in it, but I couldn't make out the rest of it, so let's just call it "My Heavens", since that's kinda funny. 

My Heavens

My Heavens ⋆˚࿔ (Korg Poly-61 + Korg DDM-110, Recorded on tape January 1987)

Cut From The SUMMER Mixtape.

The National Boards of Canada (Spring, Summer, Autumn, & Winter)

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06 Music is Math - Boards of Canada

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