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Mira Calix| One on One

Label: Warp Records Country: UK Released: 2000

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Blectum from Blechdom | Haus de Snaus

Label: Tigerbeat6 ‎ Country: US Released: 2001

Blectum from Blechdom’s impulsive, glitchy electronic music is simultaneously challenging and unpretentious—fun, even. Kristin Erickson and Bevin Kelley, aka Kevin Blechdom and Bevin Blectum, met at Mills College in the late 1990s, and Haus de Snaus collects two of the women’s first releases, 1999’s Snauses and Mallards and 2000’s De Snaunted Haus.

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Kid 606| Down With the Scene

Label: Ipecac Recordings Country: US Released: 2000

AllMusic gave the album four stars out of five, noting that Kid606 "injects a much-needed sense of humor into the experimental/hardcore scene" which " may not be enough to warrant any more than two or three listens, but there's at least a 50-50 balance between senseless distortion and well-programmed tracks with a semblance of a groove."

Rolling Stone Album Guide awarded the album four stars, referring to it as "as ironic an electronic album as there is."

Pitchfork: "helped upend IDM’s stereotype of bloodless astringency" and that the album was "a kaleidoscopic effort and a half.

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Isan | Salamander | 1999

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Elemnt | Elemnts | 2017

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Plaid | Mbuki Mvuki

Label: Black Dog Productions ‎– BDP 001 Country: UK Released: 1991

This was Plaid's first album. All tracks on this album are contained on the first disc of the compilation Trainer released in 2000.

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Aphex Twin | ‘Cheetah EP’ http://www.cheetah-ep.com/ Video directed by Ryan Wyer, aged 12, of Rush, County Dublin.

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#Album Review The Campfire Headphase

The Campfire Headphase‘s initial pull is through familiar motifs and sensations. Like a transistor radio finding the right tuning, “Into the Rainbow Vein” opens the record with an admitted confusion, a subtle hint that what follows is subject to your memories and ideas.

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But OH! The concept of this album! In the name of "Satellite Anthem Icarus," you can hear the crickets chirping and the crackling of wood; the river flowing and the echo off of the canyon.

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#Remix Boards of Canada

This Bird - Remixed by Solange Knowles Appears on Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams and contains a sample of Slow This Bird Down CD. 26 August 2008.

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#Album Facts The Campfire Headphase

The liner notes include a grid-like collage of apparently seventies-era photos, degraded in a manner similar to the cover. The source of a few of these images have been discovered:

A photo of a curly-haired man sitting at an Commodore CBM 2001 computer was taken from a 1979 yearbook photo from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

A photo of blonde-haired woman in profile was taken from a 1972 anti-drug propaganda film Social Seminar: Tom. A sample of dialogue from the film was also used towards the end of the album track "Chromakey Dreamcoat".

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#Boards of Canada Facts

Marcus Eoin

While Marcus and Michael are indeed brothers, sharing the family name Sandison, Marcus continues to use the name Marcus Eoin for professional reasons.

His birthday is the 21st of July 1971

Marcus Eoin's Top Ten Films

Papillon

Ice Core Drilling (unknown - thought to perhaps be an NFBC film)

The Invention of Destruction (unknown)

Zabriskie Point

Alice

The Andromeda Strain

Jesus Christ Superstar

Diagram (unknown - may refer to Paul Glabicki's 1978 Diagram Film)

Capricorn One

The Wizard of Oz

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#Album Review The Campfire Headphase

The Campfire Headphase pursues the same effect but with slightly different means. For the first time the group have incorporated acoustic and electric instruments, like guitars, alongside their customary array of vintage analogue synths and digital samples. So they're no longer making electronic music but an unclassifiable hybrid.

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“We were picturing this character losing his mind at the campfire and compressing weeks of events into a few hours, in that time-stretching way that acid fucks with your perception.” -Michael Sandison

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The group's track titles similarly combine an eye for poetic resonance, nostalgia and the peculiar. Until now the group have remained mute and allowed their music and texts to speak for them, while an ever-inquisitive public have projected their own images upon their shadowy outlines.

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#Album Facts The Campfire Headphase

The most obvious of these acoustic sources is the frequent (and recognizable) use of guitar on TCHP. "With the new album," Marcus explains,"we deliberately went for a lo-fi guitar sound on a few of the tracks because we were going for a sun-bleached, Californian summer kind of sound, it's almost reminiscent of a Joni Mitchell sound in places."

Indeed, the brothers have admitted several times in interviews that the North American landscape (and its music) heavily influenced the direction of The Campfire Headphase. "This time we set out to make something simple that had shades of a road movie soundtrack, like the musical score to a surreal journey across a late 70's North American desert highway," Michael Sandison explains, also characterizing the record as something "like a futuristic western or something...but [always with] something subtle and surreal going on in the tracks to remind you that you're hearing something that has been tainted or spiked in some way by unfathomable futuristic technology. It's maybe like campfire music played by android cowboys."

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#Remix Boards of Canada

Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix) - Remix by Odd Nosdam Appears on the Trans Canada Highway EP. 29 June 2006. WAP 200.

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Boards of Canada | The Campfire Headphase | 2005

In 2005, Boards of Canada released their third studio album, titled The Campfire Headphase. Perhaps the most organic of their publicly available output, The Campfire Headphase represents a significant departure both in mood and timbre from its predecessor, Geogaddi.

"We decided to make an escapist soundtrack," Michael Sandison said in a 2005 Playlouder interview, "like a kind of sanctuary; a day-glo vista you can visit by putting the record on."

In place of the dense and highly electronic nature of Geogaddi, The Campfire Headphase favors a more stripped-down, acoustic approach, with a significantly reduced use of synthesizers.

As Marcus pointed out to Playlouder magazine: "There's less use of synths on this record. We've leaned heavily towards a whole 'played, taped and sampled' backdrop this time. I guess sampling for us is different from a lot of other bands, because we routinely sample ourselves rather than other records, so most of the sound generation is coming from real instruments that we played ourselves, mostly recorded with microphones, and a lot of location recording. What you hear on the record is kind of a wall of sound created by sampling as many gnarled acoustic sources [as] we could find."

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#Album Review The Campfire Headphase

Of course, this being Boards of Canada, the guitar is first a sound tool, the familiar timbre of which is loaded down with the weight of emotional memory.

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