Bits and BOCs

Here are 25 tracks in little over 30 minutes, celebrating those wonderful small pieces of sound and music that piece together the much loved Boards of Canada albums and early tapes.



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Mixcloud link HERE

Soundtrack to a nightly walk in the woods

Step outside. It's night, it's dark, rather cold, and the woods are just around the corner. Walk. What's that sound? Listen.

Olafur Arnalds – Vio vorum sma...
Goldmund – Turquoise Hexagon Sun
William Basinski – Melancholia #4
Jonny Greenwood – Peartree
Deaf Center – Thread
Simon Fisher Turner – Isle of spices
Tim Hecker – Careless whispers
Ernst Reijseger – Longing for a frozen sky
Deaf Center – Animal sacrifice
Olafur Arnalds – Loftið Verður Skyndilega Kalt
Loscil – Motoc
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Passage
Max Richter & Dinah Washington – This bitter earth & On the nature of daylight

Mixcloud link HERE

Pubstep Five

Nothing but pubstep favorites in this one, old and new combined in a warm and hipteasing selection, from techno to dubstep to elektro to the genres that haven't been named yet.

Four Tet – Angel echoes
Wishmountain – Radio
Pantha du Prince – Lay in shimmer
Koreless – Up down up down
Burial – Archangel
Lab Rat XL – Lab Rat 3
AFX – PWSteal.Ldpinch.D
Moderat – Rusty nails
Caribou – Kaili
Four Tet – Plastic people
Animal Collective – What would I want? Sky!
Animal Collective – Peacebone (Pantha du Prince remix)
Matt Elliott – The mess we made
The Third Eye Foundation – You've lost that loving feline

Listen and/or download HERE

Night of the Cold Noses (Soundtrack by Acid Barrett, Barton Funk and Oscar)

Winter was hard, and long. And cold. How did we survive these dark, frosty nights? Well, we had music. And lots of it! This is a soundtrack to our winter, brought to you by three cold noses.



Nils Økland - 01
Monolake - Infinite Snow
Autechre - Perlence Suns
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Icelandic Version)
Boxhead ensemble - Captain's Bay Road
Boxhead ensemble - Mother Gromoff
Sonanze - 1st movement
Photek - Hybrid
Hecate - Profundo Loco
Dat Politics - Morgens, Mittags
Alva Noto - u_07
David Van Tieghem - Night of the Cold Noses
Demdike Stare - Library of Solomon Book 1
Coil - Unquiet Rest
Jonny Greenwood - Moon Trills
87 Central - Tusen Takk, Wachet Auf
Gridlock - Fix
Géographique - Myrtille
Mychael Danna - My Angel
Jean-Marc Zelwer - Querelle Biblique
Normand Corbeil - Last Breath
Monster Zoku Onsomb! - Four Enclosed Monsters (& tequila)

Step outside and listen HERE

Piano Works (Sweet)

Here's a relaxing Sunday selection of instrumental piano favorites, from Satie to Gonzales, Chopin to Aphex Twin, Jerry Roll Morton's ragtime to Preisner's and Mansell's filmscores, from Glass' minimalism to Shostakovich's deeply moving endnotes to this pianotastic trip.

Eric Satie – Gnossiennes, Lent
Zbigniew Preisner – Les marionnettes
Aphex Twin – Kesson daslef
Rachel's – First self-portrait series
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Falling
Gonzales – Manifesto
Tsegué-Maryam Guebrou – Mother's love
Jerry Roll Morton – Frog-I-More
Frédéric Chopin – Raindrop
Clint Mansell – Together we will live forever
Philip Glass – Glassworks: opening
Max Richter – Autumn music 2
Roedelius – Wobbly flu twilight
Dmitri Shostakovich – Prelude and fugue No.1 in C major (played by Keith Jarrett)

Get that piano playing right HERE

Pubstep Four

Off for a new round in the ol' Pubstep and this one's particulary heavy on deep bass and sluggish beats, perfect for excessively nodding your head to. Try some!

Drexciya – Intro
Coil – Theme from Blue I
Brian Eno & David Byrne – Mea culpa
Boards of Canada – Telephasic workshop
Drexciya – Sea snake
Caustic Window – Italic Eyeball
The Other People Place – Running from love
Jamie Woon – Night Air
Bloc Party – Where is home? (Burial remix)
Joy Orbison – bb
Take – Neon Beams
Jamie Lidell – Little bit more (Luke Vibert remix)
Venetian Snares – Öngyilkos vasarnap
Seefeel – Faults

Listen or download HERE

Pubstep one, two, three

Since this place can become quite messy sometimes, why not collect the three Pubstep mixes in one post and bring together these easy-to-the-ears-and-hips collections of ideal pre- or afterparty tunes, to either nod your head or shake yourself to.



Part One.
Opening statement featuring pubstep favorites Joy Orbison, Burial, Four Tet, Autechre, AFX, Lab Rat, Pantha du Prince and Caribou.

Part Two.
Slowly digging deeper into the roots of pubstep with Autechre, Ovuca, Boards of Canada, Super Collider, MJ Cole and µ-Ziq, hand in hand with fresh young lads like James Blake, Mount Kimbie and Pantha du Prince.

Part Three.
Full-on celebration of the early days of pubstep, honoring the heroes, such as FSOL, Mark Van Hoen, Biosphere, The Orb, CJ Bolland, Drexciya and Burial, alongside the new generation.
To be continued.