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Boards of Canada came to their sound because in their youth, the brothers had to move to Canada for a time. Even though it was only a couple of years their experience made an indelible mark on them—particularly school days watching old National Film Board of Canada tapes on worn VCR heads.

When they moved back to Scotland and started their music they started incorporating both the machinery and the sounds from the tapes in their compositions. And they could play their compositions live. It was quite the rig.

It’s not just entertainment. It’s communicating a very specific feeling and perspective. Keep learning and create, don’t be satisfied with just copying.

The biggest difference here is in the doing. You have to grow into one mode over time and energy spent, the other is immediate gratification with minimal personal energy.

Everything valuable comes during the course of that process of growing and committing energy. And it’s so good. Don’t deny yourself.

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naillo2y ago· 1 in thread

I get that. I think it's really cool what they did and when musicians put in time and energy into making amazing tracks. I get enough satisfaction from my normal coding job though, I don't have time to dedicate my life to music like they have. So from that perspective I'm just happy that it's possible to get more music like that type. Just a cool thing that exists in the world now, but I still think working hard to realize an artistic vision is also cool, separately.

52-6F-62OP2y ago

I think it's worth contemplating that if there were no Scottish brothers very temporarily moved to Canada, and entire sound may have gone un-established in the popular psyche.

So shortchanging yourself in experience by skipping over all of the things that make art a practice and not just a material commodity you may be missing out on such a moment. Nothing to do with what's cool or not. One has soul, the other is void.