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The IDM Artists Behind "Boards Of Canada" - Are They Evil Occult Illuminati Monsters?

 
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"Geogaddi was kind of exorcising demons, and even after we'd set out to do a record like that, smack in the middle of working on it, 9/11 happened. I remember there were a few of us in the studio that day, and we just ended up glued to the TV for the whole day. I think the months after that pushed us into making a darker record, as I'm sure it did with a lot of bands." (Play Louder, 2005)

The controversial nature of Geogaddi, however, has more to do with the 'lyrical' content of the album than with its style or context. The hidden elements (back masked vocals, voices embedded deeply into the mix, etc.), while often present in their previous output, abound in unprecedented numbers on Geogaddi. The subjects addressed in these vocal samples range anywhere from the occult to the mathematical to the possibly satanic.
[edit] Themes

The following divisions will address some of the primary themes found throughout Geogaddi:
[edit] Satanism and the Occult

A common sentiment expressed in reactions to Geogaddi is summarized very well by the following Amazon.com customer's review of Geogaddi:

"A person can't listen to a BOC disc without feeling that there is something baleful in their music. These guys are weirdos (from the interviews they've done), which doesn't take anything away from what they may be trying to accomplish (make good music). I believe they are trying to do something more than just make good music. They are working for the side that I'm not on, so it would be deleterious to my soul to listen to the influential grooves they lay down. The evil is blatant." (Amazon, 2003).

Many have expressed similar feelings. So just how much satanic content really is there on Geogaddi (if at all)?

It's hard to say. Many of the so-called vocal 'easter eggs' found on Geogaddi are usually at best based on guesses or approximations of what is probably really being said. Boards of Canada have become increasingly dismissive in recent interviews of the theories and speculation built around the record:

"...all the mystery and magic and all this kind of nonsense that built up around the last record [Geogaddi] got to a point where it was just silly. People were understanding things from our music that we didn't put in there and were saying there was an evil undercurrent to everything. And we are not like that at all. It was a theme that we wanted to pursue on that record but people have understood from that that we always put secret, dark, sinister, and satanic things in our music. And that became more important than the music itself." (Pitchfork Media, 2005).

Yet despite their surprise with the public's reaction to their records (particularly Geogaddi and In a Beautiful Place out in the Country), Boards of Canada have done little to allay the fears of those troubled by the content. The references to the Branch Davidians are difficult to dismiss, and many subsequent decisions on the brother's part (such as the original Trans Canada Highway release date as well as the TCH trailer micro-site) have only further cemented their quasi-satanic image rather than eased debate.

As Marcus explained to URB Magazine:

"[w]e're interested in all kinds of subjects, and I suppose we went through a patch of looking at cults and the mass mind control of religion and so on. We read a lot and pay attention to cultural events, but we view everything from a distance. We're up here in our observation point, gathering up data about all the weird shit that's happening in the world and spewing it out in some way in our music and visuals. The Davidians thing was about the shock of seeing the way the U.S. authorities handled it all." (URB Magazine, 2002).

Despite this avowed interest in the occult, Boards of Canada has repeatedly maintained in interviews that:

"[w]e're not Satanists, or Christians, or pagans. We're not religious at all. We just put symbols into our music sometimes, depending on what we're interested in at the time. We do care about people and the state of the world, and if we're spiritual at all it's purely in the sense of caring about art and inspiring people with ideas." (OOR, 2002).

Even given these pronouncements from the brothers, the controversy surrounding the occult references in Geogaddi continues to burn. Perhaps it is this very mythos that gives Geogaddi its enigmatic and enduring appeal.

For specific discussions of back masked lyrics and other easter eggs, please see the individual track articles, especially the articles for "You Could Feel the Sky," "Alpha And Omega," "Dawn Chorus," and "1969."

It is also worthy of note that the standard version of Geogaddi clocks in at 66:06. Boards of Canada explained this fact in a 2005 Interview with Earplug Magazine:

"When we were discussing the length of the silence [Warp Records owner] Steve Beckett actually suggested to take it to a total 66 minutes 6 seconds, because then everyone would think it's the devil who made the album. And we just laughed."
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wtf
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They are just highly intelligent. I think. Simply brilliant. Nothing better as far as music goes.
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A perfect song.

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This is perfect, hands down best remix.

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We're seeing something odd right now that seems to relate to them, but couldn't possibly directly be a result of 'them'.

If they brought some kind of evil on the world or their people, I supposed some would consider them to be monsters.

It was just the 20th anniversary of Geogaddi, and it wasn't a good one.

It seems the Queen tested positive for Covid within that timeframe too.

There's a lot of other stuff going on as well though, and it's non beneficial.

This Russia thing does NOT benefit Scotland in any way, or the UK in general.
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We're seeing something odd right now that seems to relate to them, but couldn't possibly directly be a result of 'them'.

If they brought some kind of evil on the world or their people, I suppose some would consider them to be monsters.

It was just the 20th anniversary of Geogaddi, and it wasn't a good one.

It seems the Queen tested positive for Covid within that timeframe too.

There's a lot of other stuff going on as well though, and it's non beneficial.

This Russia thing does NOT benefit Scotland in any way, or the UK in general.
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Dabbling with an idea that you're not taking seriously is pretty much the whole story it seems.
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When you get down to the crux of it, is it human? is it non human? What are we really talking about, right?
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Boc are brothers fro scotland.

Not satanic at all, but certainly pondering the foibles of humanity.

People also think crows and or ravens are satanic but they are not.
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Absolutely LOVE BOC. Without a doubt one of my top 5 faves of all time.

About time they released some new music.
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They are just highly intelligent. I think. Simply brilliant. Nothing better as far as music goes.
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You do realise they aren't Canadian? peace
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They are just highly intelligent. I think. Simply brilliant. Nothing better as far as music goes.
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This.


Going to be a lot of melodramatic and paranoid clowns that show up here to shit on them none the less cuz...well, GLP FAX!
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They are just highly intelligent. I think. Simply brilliant. Nothing better as far as music goes.
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You do realise they aren't Canadian? peace
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Where did they imply they thought that, lol?

Are your eyes ok?
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BOC is my favorite group of all time. Their music has helped me through some of the most difficult times in my life. Perhaps Geogaddi was intertwined with some evil things because it was made during 9/11, and which was a horribly evil event. I never really felt the evil from that album. I always found it to be a fun one to eat shrooms to, and I'm not a Satanist because of it lol.
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I remember listening to Geogaddi around 2004 and it was during a dark period of my life. I was using amphetamines and I had started hearing voices. I began to believe that I could communicate with the voices more clearly if Geogaddi was playing.

They would answer me directly through the music and I thought that I was getting so much valuable information about reality and the truth and all that.

Now, I know that it was just the drugs mixed with sleep deprivation, but it's odd to read this post so many years later.

I had no idea others were getting this kind of occult-like information as well.

Weird.
This is my happening and it freaks me out!
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It should be noted when the Brothers finally see this that 'Feet like a Bear' coincides exactly with the vaccination effort (thou shall not Buy and Sell without)

He's here.
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Not only is he/it here, but he/it is a lot more brutal than anyone had ever imagined.
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Over the Horizon Radar.

Later.
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This is a copy pasta from the other BOC thread.

So basically something strange is going on with the board, and it coincides with Ukraine and the Pandemic, which also make little sense. It's this thing with Canada, ostensibly Canadian trucker obstructionists, which has literally turned GLP into Boards of Canada, and I interpret this as an unexplainable sign of some form. My feeling on this is irrelevant since I have no view at all, and have historically had a few Canadian friends whom I liked.

Today is the 20TH anniversary of the release of Geogaddi, and shit is about to go all to hell, and if it does I'm really going to think there was something to what I'm implying.

Pure analog, reel to reels, playing shit backwards, all kinds of synthesizer techniques, hand pluggings, sine waves, triangle waves, square waves, every form of nonsense known to man.

I had already held this opinion for several days now, and some will recall that from other threads, but I delved into it more deeply, and after finding out that TODAY is the 20th Anniversary of the release of the album, I'm absolutely convinced something is going on and it has NOTHING to do with the two brothers.


God speed, and God help us all, because it looks like this was the real deal for some reason.
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11 days later or so from this post. Russia has invaded Ukraine, and now the Boards of Canada stuff is gone.

It was definitely a warning for sure, and it absolutely DOMINATED the forums. IT became Boards of Canada, and it coincided with the 20th Anniversary of Geogaddi. The Queen is also still sick with Covid.

None of this benefits real Boards of Canada at all, nor Scotland where they come from, nor the UK at large, nor the US.

Gonna put this in the other thing too.
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Nobody is even listening to Boards of Canada. Maybe people have a song or two in their playlists.

You're seeing a totally autonomous thing going on here.
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When it comes to Geogaddi, you're not going to have a lot of the songs in your playlist, because the album just becomes flat out scary.
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Things have gotten really nasty now, and as prior stated, the Boards of Canada thing with the Canadian Truckers went poof right in time for thing to get really nasty.

At this point you hope there's going to be a cease fire, but it's dependent on how much of the Russian Arsenal Putin is willing to apply before he's willing to see that it was a mistake the entire time.

I had warned people a long time ago, leading up to this point, that modern day Ukraine is more well equipped than WW2 Germany was, and this just proved to be brutally true.

Ukraine is claiming that they killed thousands of Russian troops at this point......

As for their own losses, it has to be much higher.

They supposedly took down two paradrop transport aircrafts killing an estimated 300 people with one or two stones. This is the kind of thing I was warning about, and when things get really personal.

That's a seriously PERSONAL thing, but Russia is the aggressor, and the reason behind such an onslaught of bullshit is totally undefined.

Whether the Boards of Canada thing was some warning that this is going to migrate into Nuclear War, and broader war, I have no idea, but it was definitely a REAL WARNING that can't be explained.

Omicron is still killing thousands per day here too, with another almost 3000 people killed by it, and 6000 over the past two days.

It's been speculated that Putin may have caught the Delta Variant in October and lost his mind from it, or has some other health problem, nobody knows.
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Things have gotten really nasty now, and as prior stated, the Boards of Canada thing with the Canadian Truckers went poof right in time for things to get really nasty.

At this point you hope there's going to be a cease fire, but it's dependent on how much of the Russian Arsenal Putin is willing to apply before he's willing to see that it was a mistake the entire time.

I had warned people a long time ago, leading up to this point, that modern day Ukraine is more well equipped than WW2 Germany was, and this just proved to be brutally true.

Ukraine is claiming that they killed thousands of Russian troops at this point......

As for their own losses, it has to be much higher.

They supposedly took down two paradrop transport aircrafts killing an estimated 300 people with one or two stones. This is the kind of thing I was warning about, and when things get really personal.

That's a seriously PERSONAL thing, but Russia is the aggressor, and the reason behind such an onslaught of bullshit is totally undefined.

Whether the Boards of Canada thing was some warning that this is going to migrate into Nuclear War, and broader war, I have no idea, but it was definitely a REAL WARNING that can't be explained.

Omicron is still killing thousands per day here too, with another almost 3000 people killed by it, and 6000 over the past two days.

It's been speculated that Putin may have caught the Delta Variant in October and lost his mind from it, or has some other health problem, nobody knows.
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Before I knew that between February 13th to the 19th would be the Geogaddi respective releases for its 20th Anniversary, I had already made this connection with the Canadian Trucker thing, which like with the Russian Invasion, doesn't make a lot of sense.

I'm a fan of that particular structure of music, so it was already in the background of my mind. However, going to where they went to is where I draw the line. There's definitive intent in their album, and this is the problem we're talking about.

It doesn't have anything to do with them though, and they don't benefit at all from any of this as Scots, nor does the UK.

European civilization doesn't benefit from any of this.
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Once the Military Hardware comes out in the way we're seeing, things become extremely personal.

This idea of a 'Civil War' is pretty much a nonsense, and always leads to untold brutality.

In the European context it's led to Genocides and Holocausts and so forth, and I think this is part of the warning.

Putin brought the Chechen guys out too, and after the ass kicking Russia has already received, you don't really want them gaining the leverage to do what they want with the Ukrainian people, should Ukraine fall to Russia for some reason. In this particular context, the more you fight, the greater the consequence later on.

You want all this to end as quickly as possible, because you don't really know what you're dealing with until it happens.
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The time to really press the diplomatic thing and cease fire is right now.





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