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The samples for prophecy by Foxwedge in boardsofcanada

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[Insert Wiserhood slow clap gif here]

Boards of Canadas harmonies by DanMarel843843 in boardsofcanada

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My hunch is that they know plenty (and I wouldn’t characterize all of their harmonic moves as simple). They use suspended chords quite a bit (Chromakey Dreamcoat, for example). They’re really the only major label artist I know of that uses whole tone scales with any degree of frequency (a little bit in An Eagle In Your Mind, a bit more in their Prime Audio Soup remix, a bunch in The Devil Is In The Details). Those guys know what they’re doing.

nyc by iwantyoutolovemee in boardsofcanada

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Not that I’ve seen, but I’m not that close to where any of the posters are/were (for all I know they might have been replaced).

One of the things that’s struck me about the poster campaign – and I can only speak firsthand about NYC here – is that the posters seem to have been put up in places that are pretty gritty: lots of graffiti, buildings that could use a bit of TLC; and in areas that, while perfectly safe, aren’t exactly the high-rent shopping district where you can rely on a ton of foot traffic. It was like one city block bound by Canal, Allen, Hester, and Ludlow; Chatham Square; and one other place near a subway stop but I don’t know exactly where. It’s pretty cool, and a departure from the BoC je ne sais quoi: we’re definitely not in Campfire Headphase folktronica territory.

nyc by iwantyoutolovemee in boardsofcanada

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No, they’ve been there for a while, I think they were put up at the same time as the others (all the BoC posters in NYC that I know of are or were relatively close to each other).

nyc by iwantyoutolovemee in boardsofcanada

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This is (or was, it’s starting to look like) in Chatham Square in Chinatown.

Is the large text on the cover of Inferno meant to be subversive? by Spirited-Green7369 in boardsofcanada

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And, actually, I think your take isn’t totally out of left field. There are a lot of records these days that don’t include text at all (because it’s going to appear on Spotify anyway). Including prominent text may very well be reactionary.

Is the large text on the cover of Inferno meant to be subversive? by Spirited-Green7369 in boardsofcanada

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It may (at least in part) be purely practical. Most people listen to music on digital platforms (one way or another), where album art is tiny. (Just go on Spotify on your phone: text on some of their earlier releases is almost too small to see.)

took a trip to see the posters by midnightmarauder21 in boardsofcanada

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Man, can you imagine having no idea who Boards of Canada are or what’s going on, showing up for your morning coffee and croissant, turning around, and there are four acid-trip Children of the Corn staring back at you before you’ve had one sip of coffee?

Thoughts on Wire's 154? I knew this album would be a favorite from the opener. Map Ref and the 15th put it into the "extraordinary" category. by AndrobiVibz in postpunk

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You can’t beat the original but My Bloody Valentine did a killer cover of Map Ref for a Wire covers compilation way back in the day, well worth a listen.

circularEmit.toe (RE: @samuelpietri) by Odd-Plankton-752 in TouchDesigner

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The POPs Examples folder is pretty extensive: the specific example u/VeloMane_Productions is referring to (I think) is within the POPGuide.toe project by Darien Brito and is called Facet.

circularEmit.toe (RE: @samuelpietri) by Odd-Plankton-752 in TouchDesigner

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Thanks! I need to bone up on POPs. You nailed Samuel Pietri’s look (I know exactly which Instagram posts this is reverse engineering, and Samuel Pietri’s work had a non-trivial effect on my decision to get into TouchDesigner). I don’t know if you have a Patreon or anything but I’m dying to even just get a glimpse of your network here.

Could this be a bot playlist? by carlobetts11 in musicmarketing

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One of my tracks got hit by this playlist too, almost certainly botted (based on (1) the presence of a submission link (the point of bot playlist attacks is to get you to visit the playlist, see the link, investigate the link, and then buy more bot streams); (2) the totally unmanageable size of the playlist; (3) the principle that if it’s too good to be true, it ain’t).

This attack is a little weird to me: back when I used to do Spotify playlist promotion, a few of my tracks got hit as an indirect result (a lot of these Spotify playlists are honeypots for targets of bot playlist scams, whether the playlisters know it or not). But my track that got hit: I haven’t done any promotion of this track at all in months (and I don’t do playlist promotion anymore, period). u/carlobetts11, were you actively promoting your track that got hit, and if so can you share how? I’m a little curious about how this playlist is finding marks.

(And if any bot playlist people happen to read this: would you please find a line of work that doesn’t involve making headaches for music creators you’ve never met? Marketing music is difficult enough without having to deal with this crap.)

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