Boards of Canada - Echus

[zaprshka]

I thought voices are part of the track, they fit well, they sound like some parts from memories...

[adamgore1]

beautiful

[KewKewKashi]

At first I didn't feel like I was listening to music. I felt like I was listening to sound. Now I feel like I'm not listening to sound, but listening to the birth and life of the Universe.

[Jack2duhMAX77]

When i listen to this song, i close my eyes, and my imagination takes me away to a parallel universe. One where i am at peace, one where i have good times and bad. And when i finally open my eyes, i feel refreshed, peaceful. And so really, by listening to BoC, i can make the parallel universe the same as mine - peaceful.

[DegreesNorth54]

What a great picture. 

[Dapperdanman2]

can you reup the track, would love it but megaupload is gone now

[Nofarewell]

My God this song is absolutely fantastic...I demand a studio version! :)

[FrederikMeyer]

Where can i find the picture? Need it for Wallpaper!

[splittermusik]

@FrederikMeyer flickr.com/photos/splitterphot­os/4844124272/in/photostream

[Aquablue33]

When I hear this, I think of after working on a hot roof on a high rise or something, just sitting back back with my buds, drinking some cold ones, and thinking, "Wow.......look at it all......life is beautiful."

Thanks, Bennicoke

[HypnoGlisten]

Also want to add...this track always strikes me as soooo very patient and it resonates with a beautiful restraint...

[HypnoGlisten]

I sat in my car at my father's wake with my older sis and we quietly listened to this...we both found it very soothing and serene in a way that was needed on that day...thank you, BoC.

[Pwnzor729]

This song almost gets a different perspective completely if you consider the background voices as simply a part of the song.

Try it, it's kind of cool... just think of yourself detached from the audience, viewing both them and the music together as one entity. Amazing what a complex range of emotions a song can stir up.

[akrobatapobyku]

This is very deep. My memories comes back while I listen to this song. Beautiful

[bennicoke]

I love "heard from telegraph lines" and Echus is in that style but with voices. So for my taste it sounds better without them. You still can download the original. Who says, you have to download my version? ;D

[Aquablue33]

@bennicoke, Awesome photograph, really captures the mood, I think, of the track.

[liuton2005]

You want to take out the voices but I think they maybe intended the song this way, with the voices.

[lensip2]

Well done man. Fair play and thank you. Looking forward to downloading this

Youtube wins again :)

[jangofet555]

my life will always slow..and flow... with boc

[HerpDerpBeehive]

Boards of canada has the ability to make music that goes so well with the words "after life"

This is fucking amazing

[Vertsk8er419]

it's just not the same without the voices :)

[xPshahaf]

as said in other BoC video`s

BoC have to many best songs

[bennicoke]

Hey there,

I made a second edit of Echus and cut away the annoying voices. It's downloadable as 320k mp3 on megaupload. You'll find the link in the description. :)

[franzeek]

@bennicoke in my opinion the voices make a better feeling from the fact that it proves it's live.

[postsilence]

@bennicoke That's pretty cool, I honestly like the voices though.

It's probably cliche to associate BoC with childhood memories but that's what I get from this, I think of my grandfather's old place in Oklahoma and picture being in the bed in the back room late at night, everything warm, light and voices from the hallway spilling in, the adults are all still awake and talking.

[Isithiel]

@bennicoke Good job, thanks for it.

[davidevgen]

@bennicoke was there a CD album release with this song on it??

[bennicoke]

@davidevgen No, not for this song. It's from All Tomorrow's Parties 2001 but on the CD release is only the BoC Song In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country.

[davidevgen]

@bennicoke thanks. so where can i download it in its original fourm? (pay or free it doesnt matter)

[SuperZorgh]

@bennicoke Hi ! This music is so great ! As megaupload is gone now could you give us a new link to download the song you remastered ? Many many Thanks in advance.

SuZo

[Munkydude150]

I absolutely love BoC, and I hate to dampen this song for anyone by making this comparison, but this track sounds like an ambient, spaced out version of "Leader of men" by Nickelback. Now I really hate that trashy, sellout band, but I'm really glad that chord sequence has been used for something good ^^^ some sounds have great potential, they just go to waste when bands like Nickelfuck use them :P

[SpinazFou]

It travels me above the atmosphere!

[justinianianian]

this is so fucking beautiful. Maybe all the corrupt politicians and heartless corporations could go take a 2 hour walk in the woods with this song on loop. I bet they couldn't help but change for the better....

[QUIZFILTER]

@justinianianian I can see a really cool music video idea coming out of that thought of yours. Thats so cool you said that. They go contemplate life, their lives, their families lives, our lives, the lives of innocent animals who don't deserve to be scared and torn from their families & hurt & possibly killed by a nuclear bomb... & the politicians & corporations come back from the woods, etc. with a whole new spirit & outlook & hearts & then a fat BoC type beat kicks in & everyone gets along!!

[QUIZFILTER]

@QUIZFILTER & damn, I just rea your other comment about the cliffs of Dover & crying & now I'm getting emotional, though I already was when writing my 1st comment. Fuck! :) & when I mentioned the innocent animals it made me remember these commercials that we Americans see on TV about adopting homeless animals & seeing their scared worried faces looking at the camera & they're shivering probably because they'd been beaten & wondering if thats what the camera mans going to do... now I'm crying.

[QUIZFILTER]

& I can't stop listening to this track its so amazingly beautiful. Very emotional for me, but calming at the same time. Something about this is very amazing.

[fuzkforyou]

i hear voices

[88Cortex]

this effects me in a way that I sense an enormous size/space/ all around me..

[88Cortex]

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[iestooo]

go and sit on top of a mountain and listen to this...it'll make you appreciate life

[justinianianian]

@iestooo I actually did this on the cliffs of dover in england.  I started to cry out of the sheer swelling of emotions from the crashing waves, the rolilng clouds, and all the tiny people below getting on the ferry to france....

[joshorsonhatesyou]

if I was almost certain I was going to commit suicide, this would be the only place I'd know where to go. Either way it tells me would be the right decision

[912614]

its beautiful when you find this music and then you read the comments... men i found people like me.... just like im thinking.

[RomanticsInc]

How on earth may we download this amazingness?

[YogritMUN]

If I don't see these guys live before I die I will be sorely disappointed.

[hier0phant]

1 John 5:13

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

[telmopaz]

@hier0phant Why do you cite that lie, the Bible? Freedom from religion fits this track. You´re utterly lost in this world.

[Jian0001]

if the sun could talk it would sound like this

[gotoalex100]

You did a good job with the audio.

[Kwergs]

Dude, I love this song. I listen to it whenever I'm pissed and it always mellows me out.

[elfgurl73]

I listen to this almost daily. Its like sitting somewhere very high up on a hot night in summer, and a cool breeze caresses your bare shoulders and sends a shiver down your spine. You are alive and at peace. What a beautiful life this is.

[bennicoke]

@elfgurl73 ..that happens, when you listen to Boards of Canada. Your life gets beautiful.

[buddyboy68]

@bennicoke Your life does'nt get beautiful , but inside your mind it does.

[splittermusik]

@buddyboy68 Where's the difference?

[flightoftheunknown]

@splittermusik The difference is that you dont hear as much of the people in the crowd shouting like drunken when they should be quietly appreciating this beautiful piece.

[flightoftheunknown]

@buddyboy68 The mind is the only place where eternal beauty can exist. Everything physical get old, dies, and ends eventually.

[splittermusik]

@flightoftheunknown Thanks, got it. :)

[splax31]

@bennicoke damn straight. life is enhanced with BOC

[Fishyboy14]

@bennicoke can i ask what camera u used for that AMAZING SHOT and the location

[docbeetle]

@elfgurl73 i love you :)

[elfgurl73]

@docbeetle love you too

[djteq9]

@elfgurl73 I find taking night drives in the wooded areas of NOVA very relaxing listening to BoC

[stoph2]

@elfgurl73 What a cunt

[stoph2]

Oh this just isn't music! It's just fucking TONES! I could literally make something of a higher standard spinning on my cock!

[Smileyfacedkiller]

@elfgurl73

lol life isn't beautiful at all. Why don't you go to Sudan and then tell me if life is beautiful. Visit the homeless people each day that don't know if they will survive the next day. Life is very chaotic and is a piece of shit.

[TurnLeftTomorrow]

simply the best<3

[futurejunior]

nice sound

[PrivateBuckwheat]

Beautiful music, and I must say that I love the pictures on your flickr account. It makes me want to buy a decent camera and figure out how to use it.

[Paycheck125]

"The camcorder over there?"

"Yeah?"

"Telling him to switch it off."

"Jeez...."

Very nice version of this song. I like how you edited out the beginning. Either way, I still love this song with all of my heart.

[Konnayaha]

Is that BoC at 3:14 saying "Tell him to switch it off?" Just wondering..

[EthanTutorial]

@Konnayaha Yes.

[TRaddcliff]

@Konnayaha

the clubs strong-arm telling him to switch off