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Summary: Nice to Sleep To
Comment: I like to put this on when I am getting ready to take a nap - saves on Lunesta.
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Summary: Minimalist chill-out techno
Comment: My introduction to Boards of Canada was through their "Campfire Headphase" release in 2005. This 1998 release, "Music Has The Right To Children" is a really good album, if you keep playing it for awhile. While there are a few tracks that grabbed me right away, like "Roygbiv", "Olsen", and "Rue The Whirl", the album as a whole took a while to sink in to my system. I listened to this album sporadically, and then played it nonstop about 3 or 4 times in my car while driving around. "Rue The Whirl" has a pretty sick beat for driving. "Telephasic Workshop" also works pretty well as driving music. But the key track for me is the sublime two and a half minutes of "Roygbiv". I wish it could have gone on for a little while longer.
Music like this is hard to describe. I will say that anyone who grew up in the 70s, early 80s, like me, might feel a vibe of carefree summer days and vacation road trips when listening to this album. There's a hypnotic quality to it. The cover, depicts some people (mostly children) perhaps at a tourist site/scenic overlook, with their faces missing. A few of the songs have children's voices included. "Aquarius" has a woman counting numbers in what seems, at first, in sequence and then randomly. "Happy Cycling" (only included on the U.S. release) has seagull sounds.
This music might not be as imaginative or complex as the music of my favorite techno band, Future Sound of London, but it still works and anyone who likes chill-out or ambient type music will enjoy this.
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Summary: my best electronica album of all time
Comment: hello everybody !!! i present you the best electronic album of all time ; boards of canada is my favourite group because of the creative electronic sound, deep, mysterious, blissful, symply the best, marvellous; every listen is a pleasure for me, the night test it, it's always better
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Summary: Is there such a thing as life changing music? Maybe. Maybe not. But this is an excellent album nonetheless.
Comment: On vacation one year, i was in a local mom and pop record store, and saw this album, i didn't know who Boards of Canada was or even what style of music it was. i picked it up solely on the album cover, i thought it strange, all the faces blurred out in anonymity the whole picture washed in a relaxing hazy green color. Prior to Boards of Canada my only exposure to any form of electronic music was random songs i've heard throughout the years by the likes of Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Chemical Bro., etc. None of these bands really pushed me into checking out electronic music. So when i popped this in, i was in for a pleasant surprise. i never thought electronic music could be so emotional (not in the pejorative 'emo' sense), i always thought dance music, techno, all the same crap. But this album really opened my eyes to a whole new world (and genre) of music.
From the opener, i knew this was something different the hazy washed out synths the vaguely hip hop beats, the melancholic warbling melodies . All culminated to a very strange sense of nostalgia, this album reminded me of being a child. Maybe it was all subliminal with the cover and title, but they are very fitting to the album. The album sways back and forth between short vignettes and longer pieces. From the chopped up vocals of Telephasic Workshop, to the detuned synths in ROYGBIV, this album has a little for everyone. My personal favorite on the album is one of the shorter songs, track 13 'Olson'. The synth and piano sound wonderfully decayed, like they are being played for the first time in decades after being forgotten in some attic.
i won't normally give an album 5 stars, unless i really think everyone could get into it at some level. This album is a must own for fans of electronic music, and even if you don't really like electronic music, check this album out, it may change your mind. It did for me.
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Summary: A Modern Classic
Comment: I have been into "new age" music since the 1980's, then I discovered ambient/electronica and chill out. "Music has the right to Children" is definitely a blend of the latter, well worth the purchase price. I suppose if you took a little bit of Tangerine Dream, David Lanz, Paul Speer, Freedom, Biosphere and mixed it together, and added a heavy dash of Francois K., The Starseeds and just a touch of Klaus Schulze, you would have this work by Boards of Canada. Modern, contemporary and having no pretenses of tinkly-winkly, star-trekky new age chrystal waving activists, "Music has the Right to Children" is a naturally free-flowing, sonic mix of the band members doing what they do best.
This album in the background inspires me to write better, to relax, and more importantly, to make me feel that I am over the year 2000 hump. I can see listening to this album 20 years from now with the enthusiasm I had when I bought it. (I sampled the tracks at Silver Platters beforehand, so that I didn't end up with only two or three good tracks, and the rest mediocre). I wish I had waited and bought a used copy, but, that doesn't really matter. My favorite tracks are #2, "An Eagle on Your Mind" and #4, "Telephasic Workshop," where the synchopated, off-beat rhythmica develop nicely with the harmonious keyboard scaled tremelos in the backdrop. A few muddled voices with the crisp high-hat percussion add to the variety, making this album a true keeper. I look forward to acquiring more of their work. Good job, fellows!
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