Boards of Canada - Sunshine Recorder

[Artifacts187]

i am i be,...........

[boinghd]

Well as time went on it seems we've become enlightened; so much that we've come to devolve, just as the entire world has come to seem so interesting. Accordingly, we're into the same things (so to speak)as we will be for quite a while. The whole function seems to have inverted. And we wonder about intelligent design. Is it entropy? It's always some erudite reconciling of energy. We should all do well to explore precisely that. Really, what is the most important thing in the world- for the world?

[MustDidCanada]

The numbers Mason, what do they mean??...

[MrTsiolkovsky]

This song is more evil than any death metal I've ever heard.

[DJRozwell]

@MrTsiolkovsky BoC really only have two moods, it seems: happy, optimistic nostalgia, and eerie, semi-occult creepiness. (And combinations thereof.)

[boinghd]

I don't think it's humanly possible to be at the same vibe as this track. WHAT DOES IT MEAN??

[MegaThecolonel]

wrong song title though isn't it?

[sandorlev]

@MegaThecolonel nope.

[Soprano69ful]

Лучшее . Большой брат видит вас...

[Monsieurnurshi]

Man... I would give anything to have this in my ear for ever.

[mrfishbooty]

The lyrics along with the video remind me of G. Orwell's "1984", in which they tell you not to worry, it's a beautiful place, but beneath the surface... Don't worry... all is fine. Big Brother is watching all the time.

[shantyfarm44]

makes me think of a person goind mad inside of some kind of solar observatory in the future

[ProtoGrey]

Sunshine Recorder: Light builds. Dies. Light builds. Dies. Light builds. Dies; Synth grows. Dies. Synth grows. Dies. Synth grows. Dies. - This song is a good couple months of sunshine recordings.

[theonelinerkid]

as the inevitably like everything must come to an end....

[theonelinerkid]

when i listen to this i can hear... computers still on with no one warking them as they slowly degrade to the ages....and become more and more corrupt....their memories fading....the sound of pure loneliness......and flashes of before...when they were brand new.. faded and corrupted like the computers

[mrscruffy]

@theonelinerkid That's amazing. I totally get that! Thank you!

[scottie644]

When I watch the video, it reminds me of Aperture science... "hello, and again, welcome to the aperture science computer aided enrichment centre"

[sizone]

@scottie644 you got it backwards. the dystopic Kafka-esque future run by machinery was pressaged in works far earlier than even Fritz Lang's Metropolis, but came to the fore in popular cinema after the era of 'bright future' pulp sci-fi, continuing to this day in modern scifi flicks (so many of which are from Philip K Dick's books). THX1138 is a milestone certainly, but not the original. Portal is a latecommer

[christttophercole373]

THIS SONG IS JUST EIRRY

[disreputablelabrador]

To me, how the song changes at 6 mins seems to speak of a loss of innocence; a fading childhood. The chatter in the background represents a job role, as an adult.

[Vertsk8er419]

@disreputablelabrador dude, that's a new song (in the annex)

[disreputablelabrador]

@Vertsk8er419 Oh so it is thanks =)

[Vertsk8er419]

@disreputablelabrador lol no problem, man

[Demapplebottomjeanz]

Okay really guys? One dislike? Cmon. There just had to be that one asshole that dislikes it every time now doesn't there?

[whyschoulditell]

where is that original vid?? or is it the thx 1138 thing? because this is looking older?

[ThePMRadio]

When I close my eyes, I see a viral outbreak just before the beginning of an apocalypse... Everyone running around a large, populated city on a dark rainy morning, going about their daily business, with the plague unknowingly spreading like wildfire right under their noses...

[therealgadfly]

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[therealgadfly]

am i really high or does it sound like the voice is saying "can you see things in your mind?"

[JJJCFLS4]

i just imagined myself lost in a maze...

[spetsnaz5]

If I ever somehow become a big movie director and make a sci fi movie I'm going to pay boc a lot of money to use their music.

[kristenskeets]

i think of beautiful things when i hear this

[jimbarrow]

Nanny State will have us all monitored.

[StudioScarecrow]

@jimbarrow please don't bring your politics into my Boards of Canada.

[FlooperMap]

It seems that you were hypnotised into sleep, when reccording this, for the video contains more geogaddi, than thought

[xxlllllMeTaLlllllxx]

B-O-A-R-D-S O-F C-A-N-A-D-A

[Unyumyaz]

I love the atmosphere that the video creates, i always felt a panicking sort of emotion with the song drum beat and skittering voice, guess you saw it that way also

[sweeny513]

RULE # 3 CARDIO

[HOrseeker]

how old is that stuff?

boards of canada?

feels like somekind of father of trance..

[BlackSunSerenade]

@HOrseeker Their first actual album was from 1995, but this song is from 2002.

[zenapplejones]

Lucas would be Proud !!!

[Nithralas]

Something dreary yet soothing about this beat...

I imagine a very creepy forest that takes shapes like the shadows of itself changing in the moonlight. As I am venturing, I can see nothing like it is, it's constantly changing. There I am admiring it, instead of being creeped out by it.

Voices help me along the way, getting me to the moon, the only place where things are like they are, the end of my journey where I find peace within me

You should imagine when I would be stoned!! haha

[TheCodyJarett]

Great job ! Thanks

[guitarguy93]

this is probably the best thing I've ever seen



[PaandaExtras]

I imagine a dark broken down house

almost like a dungeon and someone is struggling to get out

then when "beautiful place" kicks in the man who owns the house comes home...

[SouthPawBrown]

Who mixed this?

[Verrruckt90]

D A M N!

man you're one of a kind ...

[Cyberdwarf14]

That was a real creative idea to put the reversed songs at the end, it makes the song more insane than it already is.

[AtWarWithGod]

I heard this song very stoned once in my home by myself one night with some headphones about 5 years ago and scared the fuck out of myself.

[fintogive]

beautiful place

[MrGreen13]

this is amazing.....

[DougDiug]

THIS BAND IS AMAZING

[raaakz1]

i think so 2.

[BeansOnGhost]

Nothing comes close to that Boc feeling,the innocent child like memories and the feeling of nostalgia.I have a very eclectic taste in music but Boc is the only artist that can bring these emotions out of me.

[levidapyro]

Somewhere, the music of boc is unleashing horribly fantastic realities.

[88Cortex]

There's morse code at 6:55.. Makes me eager to find out what it says. If I find out i'll post it here.

[malves98]

This surrealistic, dark video definitely matches this dark, dreamlike, psychedelic BOC song. Both the video (Early Lucas!) and this particular BOC strange, dreamlike music make one feel out of this world....

Running endlessly through a dark hallway, with pulsating music singing in an alien voice "A beautiful place, a beautiful place"...

[twilightpens23]

This somehow reminds me of the journey into life or whatever it was called. You know, that movie that you had to watch in health about child birth? Yeah, that one.

[VideoKiwi2008]

I find Geogaddi, the song that this is off, to be a rather different album to the others that BOC have done. experimental and so creative. i think the album is somewhat more darker.

[murdoch2486]

sinister..................love it

[other6people]

i imagine terrible things when i hear this

[DDRpwnerer]

I think that's what they were going for...

[hendrixphish420]

@DDRpwnerer i tried LSDMT to this song for the first time. blew me away :D

[zwerty007]

@other6people Weird... it always made me imagine talking 50s cars...

[Zellps0]

@other6people I get an "eerie" vibe from a lot of boards of Canada songs.. but its more like of an embracing of the strangeness. like when on psychedelic.

[zwerty007]

@other6people Weird, I imagine a talking 60s-ish car that talks...

[olivierpil]

fuckin great!!! man u r good

[RolyPablo]

Very goood video, BUT this is not how i imagine this song so it is hard to watch for me. when i listen to this song i imagine a very positive scene... not this scary video. i hope u understand. goood video, it goes well with the tune but just not how ive pictured it...... if u know what i mean. private mail me if u want to discuss.

[skarocksemomom]

music isnt all bunnies and rainbows...good luck waking up to life

[fruithero]

He is just sharing his thoughts about it.

[DDRpwnerer]

No need to private mail. I see this song with a heightened sense of duality that goes beyond anything else BoC has written - that is, it's the most enigmatic; it's mood is the least straightforward. I often think of this song as an after-rain nature scene due to how the song sounds reversed (Like long low pitched wind chimes.)

For a song like Roygbiv, it's hard to interpret multiple ways, but for this one it's extremely simple.

[AntiPop4Ever]

@RolyPablo I dont find this video scary...

[plisb]

this one fits veeeeeeeeeeeery good

nicely cut/matched

[timeiimove]

excellent!!! :D

[BMS1974]

Well worth the wait ;-) you've been misses bro ;-)x

[sherbunlulz]

great video, julie and candy quite fit the ending

[MaRqu3e]

Now I want to watch this film :D

[yeahduden]

@MaRqu3e well there is a movie called THX which is great! it has to be based upon this

[bnobo]

@yeahduden this is the original THX made by Lucas when he was a student