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Music Has the Right to Children

Boards of Canada

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Album Review

Although Boards of Canada's blueprint for electronic listening music — aching electro-synth with mid-tempo hip-hop beats and occasional light scratching — isn't quite a revolution in and of itself, Music Has the Right to Children is an amazing LP. Similar to the early work of Autechre and Aphex Twin, the duo is one of the few European artists who can match their American precursors with regard to a sense of spirit in otherwise electronic music. This is pure machine soul, reminiscent of some forgotten Japanese animation soundtrack or a rusting Commodore 64 just about to give up the ghost. Alternating broadly sketched works with minute-long vignettes (the latter of which comprise several of the best tracks on the album), Music Has the Right to Children is one of the best electronic releases of 1998.

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A Beautiful Album

I can't describe how this album makes me feel. It reminds me of my childhood, of long car rides down grey urban highways at the age of 7, staring at the speeding blur made up of cars and pavement. It reminds me of that beautiful age of wonder, but also evokes the dark sense of mystery and unknown that surround childhood. The song that captures this the most is "Roygbiv". Definitely worth a purchase, it's just a beautiful album.

Electronic music fans, this is your "Dark side of the Moon"

Start with Roygbiv, then once you've gained respect for the album based on that track, listen to the whole thing all the way through. Roygbiv = life changing. I love electronic music a lot, but I hate cheesy break beats and trance beats; that is amateur and typical electronica. This is one of the best albums ever, and its brilliance will be obvous to true music fans. If you like, Ulrich Schnuass, STS9, 1320 Records, Zero 7, and funky nuggets, buy this immediately.

music to listen to alone...

This is Boc's pinacle achievement, the perfect electronic album. It's so well produced that it almost comes off as organic, like the soundtrack to an early 80's earth documentary. Contrasting sound canvases aparent all around us. Tracks to look out for are Bocuma, Roygbiv and Aquarius.

Biography

Formed: 1996 in Scotland

Genre: Electronic

Years Active: '90s, '00s

Boards of Canada are the duo of Michael Sandison (born July 14, 1971) and Marcus Eoin (born May 27, 1973). Based on the northern coast of Scotland, the group got its start on acclaimed experimental electronica label Skam in 1996 after recording an obscene number of tracks and pressing the best of them up as a miniscule-run 12", Twoism, an eight-track promo EP the group sent to labels in lieu of a demonstration tape. The pair's first official release appeared on Skam toward the middle of 1996, and...
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