"The Lore" is totally my issue with BoC, or the fanbase I guess. I love all of their albums but let's be realistic, at the end of the day they are just two blokes making brilliant electronic instrumental music, they're not solving world hunger and they're not offering new metaphysical ways of seeing the world. Their use of samples and numbers is brilliant but it's just samples! Anyway great article (again!).
I’m definitely catching a David Sylvian vibe from the Calonico record—the languid quality, the low pitch of his voice. Not a bad thing at all. It feels tailor-made for listening in a dark room.
The carpet in your pic reminded me of the carpet from Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Apparently that connection isn’t a grand Easter-egg to be deciphered; it’s a common pattern from the 60’s called “Hick’s Hexagons”, named after its designer David Hicks (I Googled that…) though I’m sure it factored into the choice of venue, as you suspect.
slept on give u space for a couple weeks, despite having planned to check it on drop day. catching up now and yes, i'm with you on this. (also i just need to pick up everything from short span. they are rapidly becoming a favorite label)
I've asked myself the same question when I received the CD and saw that Mike Sandison got the sole writing credit for the full album. Need to double-check with previous albums but could that be an indication of their actual process – Mike 'writing' the songs, as in: coming up with the melodies and harmonies, and then Marcus making them sound good? But even if that were true, it's weird that Marcus doesn't get any songwriting credit at all, even if he's 'just' doing 'production'.
Warp is marvel for guys who took too much ecstasy in the 90s
Incredible 😂
"The Lore" is totally my issue with BoC, or the fanbase I guess. I love all of their albums but let's be realistic, at the end of the day they are just two blokes making brilliant electronic instrumental music, they're not solving world hunger and they're not offering new metaphysical ways of seeing the world. Their use of samples and numbers is brilliant but it's just samples! Anyway great article (again!).
I’m definitely catching a David Sylvian vibe from the Calonico record—the languid quality, the low pitch of his voice. Not a bad thing at all. It feels tailor-made for listening in a dark room.
Ooh, good reference, that one hadn’t occurred to me!
That second paragraph on K Wata was just incredible.
The carpet in your pic reminded me of the carpet from Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Apparently that connection isn’t a grand Easter-egg to be deciphered; it’s a common pattern from the 60’s called “Hick’s Hexagons”, named after its designer David Hicks (I Googled that…) though I’m sure it factored into the choice of venue, as you suspect.
That is easily the coolest thing I have learned today
All work and no socks…
Available on a pair of socks from the BFI, in case you want to see hexagons on an even more regular basis: https://shop.bfi.org.uk/overlook-hotel-socks/
slept on give u space for a couple weeks, despite having planned to check it on drop day. catching up now and yes, i'm with you on this. (also i just need to pick up everything from short span. they are rapidly becoming a favorite label)
I think my favourite hexagon was the shorts, personally. And that Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. album is a total gem.
I've asked myself the same question when I received the CD and saw that Mike Sandison got the sole writing credit for the full album. Need to double-check with previous albums but could that be an indication of their actual process – Mike 'writing' the songs, as in: coming up with the melodies and harmonies, and then Marcus making them sound good? But even if that were true, it's weird that Marcus doesn't get any songwriting credit at all, even if he's 'just' doing 'production'.
Yeah, seems plausible — I wonder if that is new or if they’ve long worked that way
On TH at least both share writing and production credits.