The original creator of this animation, Hashiguchi Chiyomi aka ''Nekojiru'' was a huge IDM fan. She listened to Aphex Twin a lot (and specifically Boards of Canada too), even before she killed herself at the age of 31 she listened to Aphex Twin's album. She was buried with her favorite artists' album after death.
@@SM-ce1uy no one romanticised her love for IDM artist, it is a common respect to deceased individual to bury them with what they used to love while they were alive.
There's a certain type of desolate loneliness that I only feel when I listen to Boards of Canada, yet I enjoy it. I sort of relish the sensation of complete detachment they provide. I just feel so cold, yet I feel as though I want to run through the fog forever.
Is that a Burial-ized version of Aphex Twin, your avatar? If so, that's quite a compliment to BoC coming from a man who clearly knows his music :p (but yes, I agree, this song is simply incredible. It's like a microcosm of its own).
An example (if you listen on headphones) of how they are masters of subtle production. On top of many other things (melody, arrangement, and what timbre is needed out of the instrumnet). A masterpiece.
Brandon Luco One time in middle school I went on a one week field trip for our science class and this would have been perfect for it. I wish I wasn't so awkward and occupied with pointless insecurities back then.
I love my old anime music videos. I can't believe it's received 812k views! Thanks for posting this AmericanEric. I think I still have the original DVD somewhere!
the fact that you didnt just grab it out of said "closet" and reupload it, makes me strangely happy because it is so appropriate given the boc ethos...
When I was a university student, I would listen to MHTRTC every time I took the bus from Tokyo to my hometown for vacation. The bus just gets on to Shutoko when this song starts. As I moved through the gaps between buildings, I observed the lives of people reflected in those tiny windows. A messy office, businessmen chatting, people relaxing in a small apartment... all these things combined with this song made me extremely anxious. And I realized that other people at the same time as me were living completely different lives. Oh, before I knew it, I heard a slow girl's voice. Then I'll go back to music again...
Definitely one of their best tracks. The movement of the drums and how all of the different percussion pieces play off of eachother is sort of unexplainable... It just works, and I love the scratching too. Trip hop at its best.
I discovered them when I was 14 years old, this song scared me and hypnotized me. Today I'm 28, it has been years but each time I listent to it, especially while drunk or high, it hits so hard I must stop and stare at the void. Just hunting.
This video is an essential part of that magical time circa 2009, between the releases of TCH and TH. There was lots of wonderful fan created media back then, and much of it is lost. I'm glad this is still around.
Yeah, i feel like their tracks take me away from where i am and what i'm doing. They're like mini epiphanies, they transport me back to things i love most in life and the essense of my being. I have a lot to thank the guys that make this music. They've helped me through the most difficult times of my life and enhanced the highs.
It's definitely their most well known. Geogaddi is just a good, personally its my favorite. The EPs are great too, just get everything they ever made and you wont be disappointed!
@@BurlyMammoth what, obv it's just to really hammer in the point that this is still his favorite song despite listening to Boc for a very long time, what a garbo interpretation
Whenever I stay indoors all day or week, I just listen to these guys. Their sounds amplify my subconscious mind and allow to just wander in deep thought and I love it so much ❤ "the Sage travels all day, without ever having to leave home."
Found this when I was a kid/early teen. I remember finding it very mystical, like a trance There's just something about 240p that's very nostalgic to me.
***** I think I agree with you. But they're different. I think BoC put more purpose in to their music. Each track seems to have some intent in the sound. Aphex is a bit more random. Like, it has feelings, but they're more personal, he isn't very concerned with whether people can feel what he's feeling, just that he translates it to music for himself. I guess it comes down to the fact that Aphex is just one guy, and BoC is 2 guys.
My younger brother made this Cat soup AMV so long ago. The memory of the emotions at the time are as surreal and nostalgic as the song itself is to me. Strangely enough, this is the one AMV I don't remember watching a work in progress of. It just was. He also made one of "Olson" by Boards of Canada to Cowboy Bebop. "Come to Daddy" by Aphex Twin to Lain (I think it's on RUclips as "Come to daddy bear mix"). I don't know if any other ones are online anymore. This was the last AMV he made.
BoC are my favourite artists and this track and Julie and Candy are probably my favourite tracks. The eerie sound at the beginning that pans around is just insanely beautiful. Then the build-up for so long with the subtle changes and the voice sample just work together so well. I also love the "scratching" towards the end of the track, such an insane sound. These guys are so far above the rest.
I can never say what my fave BoC song is, because really I love them all. I can't think of any I could say is bad, and I also can't think of one that stands from the rest. They are all just so good! I think it's because this is music that you really can never say straight away you hate. It's actually very difficult to hate this I find. It's so open ended and can be interpreted in any way you as the listener want. The one I listen most though is Olson. Such an immersive atmosphere.
The progression of this song is fascinating. I absolutely love how the percussion slowly, and I mean SLOWLY becomes less and less "random", from sounding like a skipping CD in the start to culminating in a satisfying stable pattern at 4:11
I've listened to this band for a couple years now but have never seen this music video. This was absolutely intoxicating and I'm going to find Nekojiru-So for myself because of it.
THANK YOU boards of canada, for keeping me alive. That's really the best way i know how to put it right now you make me believe in something out there bigger and better than myself
***** I really couldn't tell you what type of weed it was. All I can assume was that it was laced, and then I reacted really badly with it and it made me trip out hard - like I was in a dream and paranoia attached to it. I was on medication, which didn't help with tripping out too. I hear you, I would only smoke on the weekends, back in late 1999 and early 2000's in high school - 16 years later, and I still have the bad effects - no more weed for me lol
***** I was young and very impressionable - I wanted to fit in, so I did it at that age. Not all médications are bad. Im on meds now, and its good for me I think. Brain damage - maybe, but I'm still living and in decent health.
I'm absolutely shocked at people commentating with statements such as calling this 'filler', or questioning what makes the song spectacular and / or enjoyable. For me, this has always been a standout track on what's already a perfect album. The atmosphere and the feelings I get out of this are incredible, I absolutely love every aspect of this song. If some people can't have the same appreciation, I feel for them. Their loss.
this music is very interesting... i wish i knew what's its purpose was. honestly i think it's music for the sad and lonely, for the artists, for the drug users, for the ones who truly know the world and have seen it all in their heads.
one of the most beautiful things I saw and heard in my life... it has been almost 10 years since I watched this video last time... it brings back so many memories...
@AmericanEric its perfect man, this is beautiful music/visuals for late nights after 60+ hours no sleep plus multiple chems and a big fat spliff... i always come back to this video, thanks you :)
Jesus Christ that second half of the song is amazing. Felt this wave of ecstasy flow over me. I felt "high" but in a very natural way. Fucking amazing.
I used to run long distances with my friend Jamie in high school. BOC tracks were a favorite of ours. Jamie, I and our bros took a trip at the end of HS camping across Colorado in an old restored 68 cadillac. Running switch back horse trails listening to BOC and driving towards the great sand dunes forever etched in my brain. Vertical grades and synthesizers filled my head while my breath became an increasing metronome.
As expected with fan made Boards of Canada videos, this is excellent. Fantastic choice of clips and top notch video splicing. If y'all haven't seen the short film that these clips are taken from (Cat Soup), I highly recommend it. Very surreal animated adventure. If you like Boards, you'll love Cat Soup, I can almost guarantee it!
Man, 2017. How time flies and things change. But for a moment, the music teminds you and transports you back to where and when you heard it. Somber feeling.
yay! One of my favorite cartoons with my favorite duo, Boards of Canada in a video together!!!!!! The thing that I like most about this video is that they both go well together.
i read one of your comments on a video of the music from ocarina of time yesterday and now you turn up again today! it seems we share tastes quite a bit!
@ArmTheNeutral I find that quite the good short-hand analysis and note. It's true, also for me personally, that the focus of discussion is mostly aimed towards the melodies, harmonies and what-not, while the DRUMS always play a huge role as well. It's easy to skip the drums and move right on to the melodie's awe's, so yeah good note there mate.
wow you perfectly described this song with that comment lol. i've always felt that way about the tune but i could never quite put it into words like that.
you're right rage. BoC's music transcends the human psyche in a way others cannot. I heard one track from BoC and I paused and I had to know who this music is from...BoC is a treasure.
It's one of many of my favourite boards tunes. I used to listen to it When doing laborious repetitive art processes to ensure I kept focused. Then I'd occasionally fuck up. Cut something too fast without thinking. And blame the music. For bringing out the artist in me.
@EthanFilms Nekojiru-So aka Cat Soup. It's in the description. You can watch it here on youtube. I really do recommend it and I'm usually not very keen on anime either.
Wow. I'd like to thank you; this is the video that turned me on to cat soup. It was a really amazing anime. I didn't get the the m-world part at the end though...
I can't believe this video has over 1 million views! Thanks to whomever put this online. I made this back in 2004.
Extremely well done sir.
Thanks man, a beautiful work
You're an absolute don.
Jesse Anderson amazing work
Does a high quality version-greater than 240p-exist?
The original creator of this animation, Hashiguchi Chiyomi aka ''Nekojiru'' was a huge IDM fan. She listened to Aphex Twin a lot (and specifically Boards of Canada too), even before she killed herself at the age of 31 she listened to Aphex Twin's album. She was buried with her favorite artists' album after death.
Oh fuck that is so sad. She lives on in another realm.
how nefarious to romanticise her early departure from this Earth by saying she was listening to her fav artist, she was depressed. Christ ...
@@SM-ce1uy yeah it's kind of a fucked up comment
@@SM-ce1uy no one romanticised her love for IDM artist, it is a common respect to deceased individual to bury them with what they used to love while they were alive.
@@SM-ce1uy sharp as a cue ball, arent you
Love the part that goes "I love you", gets me every time.
same :')
💔
I luv u
Listened to this for the first time back in 1998, I was about 17. Still my favorite part of my favorite album. :)
@@mrg4388 I didn't discover them until 2003. We r the same age. Where do u live?
Right after he says "I love you" and the indian flute starts going up a little bit in a short riff always gets my heart. I love it.
That got me shook a bit...it was beautiful and in harmony 😍☺️💖
There's a certain type of desolate loneliness that I only feel when I listen to Boards of Canada, yet I enjoy it. I sort of relish the sensation of complete detachment they provide. I just feel so cold, yet I feel as though I want to run through the fog forever.
After all these years still my favorite song of all time.
Boards of Canada are life creators.
Is that a Burial-ized version of Aphex Twin, your avatar?
If so, that's quite a compliment to BoC coming from a man who clearly knows his music :p (but yes, I agree, this song is simply incredible. It's like a microcosm of its own).
yes :)
mee too
Mine too. Changed my life when I heard it at 17 in 1999.
Have you listened to any AFX stuff? (Aphex twin)I almost believe they are the same sound is so alike
An example (if you listen on headphones) of how they are masters of subtle production. On top of many other things (melody, arrangement, and what timbre is needed out of the instrumnet). A masterpiece.
Wish I heard of BoC back in high school... would have made some great music for field trips.
There are other kinds of trips that this music is good for.
Sup dudes you pos junkie.
Sup dudes Someday i'll take those trips.
Brandon Luco One time in middle school I went on a one week field trip for our science class and this would have been perfect for it. I wish I wasn't so awkward and occupied with pointless insecurities back then.
I listened to boc in high school and it made away games for marching band really nice
I love my old anime music videos. I can't believe it's received 812k views! Thanks for posting this AmericanEric. I think I still have the original DVD somewhere!
the fact that you didnt just grab it out of said "closet" and reupload it, makes me strangely happy because it is so appropriate given the boc ethos...
What is the name
i love this comment
Are you planning to reupload this at one point?
When I was a university student, I would listen to MHTRTC every time I took the bus from Tokyo to my hometown for vacation. The bus just gets on to Shutoko when this song starts. As I moved through the gaps between buildings, I observed the lives of people reflected in those tiny windows. A messy office, businessmen chatting, people relaxing in a small apartment... all these things combined with this song made me extremely anxious. And I realized that other people at the same time as me were living completely different lives. Oh, before I knew it, I heard a slow girl's voice. Then I'll go back to music again...
Completely obsessed with this track
Definitely one of their best tracks. The movement of the drums and how all of the different percussion pieces play off of eachother is sort of unexplainable... It just works, and I love the scratching too. Trip hop at its best.
The opening of this track still gives me goosepimples, even after hearing it over 100 times.
100% there's still nothing even close.
I discovered them when I was 14 years old, this song scared me and hypnotized me. Today I'm 28, it has been years but each time I listent to it, especially while drunk or high, it hits so hard I must stop and stare at the void. Just hunting.
I love you
10) kittyvalium i love you.
2) kittyvalium i love you
kittyvalium i.luv.u.2.
kittyvalium
+TempesT OfTheUnholyLight Oh for god's sake! Get a room.
Jean Bush but I love you
Where as most BoC calms me this particular piece puts me on edge. I wonder why.
This video is an essential part of that magical time circa 2009, between the releases of TCH and TH. There was lots of wonderful fan created media back then, and much of it is lost. I'm glad this is still around.
These scottish brothers are the best! I've been listening to them for 15 years now. I play their music still every day.
Their tunes have such an ever new joy behind them.
this is powerful stuff. I really hope no one thinks you need to be high to listen to it.
13 years later and this still tears me apart.
Same here
does this mean the song is now 26 years old. woah!
Boards of Canada music always makes me feel like my heart is being slowly abducted. (Tractor beam- style)
Tractor beam from Ratchet and Clank?
Yeah, i feel like their tracks take me away from where i am and what i'm doing. They're like mini epiphanies, they transport me back to things i love most in life and the essense of my being. I have a lot to thank the guys that make this music. They've helped me through the most difficult times of my life and enhanced the highs.
20 years, I got old, this remains fresh.
Me listening to any BoC song: "This song is amazing, I love it!"
What about magic window?
One of the greatest ambient tracks ever made - period!!
The film that's playing is Cat Soup
every millisecond of each track of each album of boc is amazing.
Man, the first time i watched this video i was a child and it completly traumatized me, now that im an adult i've come to really love it
It's definitely their most well known. Geogaddi is just a good, personally its my favorite. The EPs are great too, just get everything they ever made and you wont be disappointed!
"sweat, sweat."
"...I LOVE YOU."
After 15 years of listening to these guys still, my favourite track Evil, love, envy, angst, lots of things within it.
Andres Estupinan I’ll never understand the casual timeline drop in posts like this outside of a need for validation.
@@BurlyMammoth what, obv it's just to really hammer in the point that this is still his favorite song despite listening to Boc for a very long time, what a garbo interpretation
Whenever I stay indoors all day or week, I just listen to these guys. Their sounds amplify my subconscious mind and allow to just wander in deep thought and I love it so much ❤
"the Sage travels all day, without ever having to leave home."
Found this when I was a kid/early teen. I remember finding it very mystical, like a trance
There's just something about 240p that's very nostalgic to me.
4:12 ....holy shit....so damn good!!!!!!
these sounds run through my spine
***** I think I agree with you. But they're different. I think BoC put more purpose in to their music. Each track seems to have some intent in the sound. Aphex is a bit more random. Like, it has feelings, but they're more personal, he isn't very concerned with whether people can feel what he's feeling, just that he translates it to music for himself.
I guess it comes down to the fact that Aphex is just one guy, and BoC is 2 guys.
Jerry Mores Seems a bunch of comments were deleted. I was talking to someone else, who did mention Aphex Twin.
Around 4:34 is when it gets really fun. Theres a bit in the background that comes in and changes the atmosphere.
My younger brother made this Cat soup AMV so long ago. The memory of the emotions at the time are as surreal and nostalgic as the song itself is to me. Strangely enough, this is the one AMV I don't remember watching a work in progress of. It just was.
He also made one of "Olson" by Boards of Canada to Cowboy Bebop. "Come to Daddy" by Aphex Twin to Lain (I think it's on RUclips as "Come to daddy bear mix"). I don't know if any other ones are online anymore. This was the last AMV he made.
He did awesome job!
BoC are my favourite artists and this track and Julie and Candy are probably my favourite tracks.
The eerie sound at the beginning that pans around is just insanely beautiful. Then the build-up for so long with the subtle changes and the voice sample just work together so well.
I also love the "scratching" towards the end of the track, such an insane sound. These guys are so far above the rest.
This has to be my favorite music video out there. I love the editing on this.. and Nekojirou Sou fits BoC so damn well
I can never say what my fave BoC song is, because really I love them all. I can't think of any I could say is bad, and I also can't think of one that stands from the rest. They are all just so good!
I think it's because this is music that you really can never say straight away you hate. It's actually very difficult to hate this I find. It's so open ended and can be interpreted in any way you as the listener want.
The one I listen most though is Olson. Such an immersive atmosphere.
This music has centered me, opened my thoughts, and completely calmed me down , its a masterpeice of music in the purest form.
This song is amazing...it's very terrifying, makes me feel trapped, controlled and surrounded.
One of the most masterful displays of sampled analog drums n loops ever!
Favorite song of my favorite band. You can't get any better than Boards of Canada. The music is so full in it's own way.
The progression of this song is fascinating. I absolutely love how the percussion slowly, and I mean SLOWLY becomes less and less "random", from sounding like a skipping CD in the start to culminating in a satisfying stable pattern at 4:11
Whoever made/edited this deserves some praise. I am continually amazed at some of the fanmade video efforts for BOC! Awesome job.
I've listened to this band for a couple years now but have never seen this music video. This was absolutely intoxicating and I'm going to find Nekojiru-So for myself because of it.
this is a serious piece of work Jesse. For me a long time fan of this album for the last 20 years you really nailed this one.
One of the best BoC vids I've ever seen, great timing and a fantastic selection for visuals. I found myself lost in many parts. Good friggin job.
I remember listening to this song on the bus stop in a shady area at sunset
Boards of Canada brought me here and my love for supreme electronic music.
THANK YOU boards of canada, for keeping me alive. That's really the best way i know how to put it right now you make me believe in something out there bigger and better than myself
I first heard this in the late 90s, it changed me then and continues to do so 20+ years forward.
Great stuff, i cant hear the track without seeing these images now.
An absolute gem no wonder John loved you so much.
I love how this stirs mystery
Stellar music. Where have you been all my teen life. It would of been great if I heard about you in the late nineties.
*****
I don't fux with weed anymore.
I got too paranoid when smoking the chronic.
If I don't mess with weed, don't worry, I won't go near salvia.
*****
I really couldn't tell you what type of weed it was. All I can assume was that it was laced, and then I reacted really badly with it and it made me trip out hard - like I was in a dream and paranoia attached to it.
I was on medication, which didn't help with tripping out too.
I hear you, I would only smoke on the weekends, back in late 1999 and early 2000's in high school - 16 years later, and I still have the bad effects - no more weed for me lol
*****
I was young and very impressionable - I wanted to fit in, so I did it at that age.
Not all médications are bad. Im on meds now, and its good for me I think.
Brain damage - maybe, but I'm still living and in decent health.
+Rubifen Errex You're right, I have a tendency to slobber too much.
thats when i found them :3 it was great and there was nothing like them.
What a tune! So eerie. Great video too.
this video is the reason I watched this Cat Soup anime, very well done, and excellent song of course
I'm absolutely shocked at people commentating with statements such as calling this 'filler', or questioning what makes the song spectacular and / or enjoyable. For me, this has always been a standout track on what's already a perfect album. The atmosphere and the feelings I get out of this are incredible, I absolutely love every aspect of this song. If some people can't have the same appreciation, I feel for them. Their loss.
this music is very interesting... i wish i knew what's its purpose was. honestly i think it's music for the sad and lonely, for the artists, for the drug users, for the ones who truly know the world and have seen it all in their heads.
My favorite part is the "I love you"
I have no idea why, but I think it's brilliant.
one of the most beautiful things I saw and heard in my life... it has been almost 10 years since I watched this video last time... it brings back so many memories...
as simple a bass riff as a song can have but one of the most effective.
@AmericanEric its perfect man, this is beautiful music/visuals for late nights after 60+ hours no sleep plus multiple chems and a big fat spliff... i always come back to this video, thanks you :)
Oh shit, it's awesome. Mysterious and fascinating music (Boards of Canada rules!) with this amazing clip make impression.
Jesus Christ that second half of the song is amazing. Felt this wave of ecstasy flow over me. I felt "high" but in a very natural way. Fucking amazing.
I used to run long distances with my friend Jamie in high school. BOC tracks were a favorite of ours. Jamie, I and our bros took a trip at the end of HS camping across Colorado in an old restored 68 cadillac. Running switch back horse trails listening to BOC and driving towards the great sand dunes forever etched in my brain. Vertical grades and synthesizers filled my head while my breath became an increasing metronome.
That was an incredibly well put-together video. I enjoyed it all very much. Captured the song perfectly to me. Keep it up!
hands down the finest boards video on youtube. what a perfect combination
As expected with fan made Boards of Canada videos, this is excellent. Fantastic choice of clips and top notch video splicing.
If y'all haven't seen the short film that these clips are taken from (Cat Soup), I highly recommend it. Very surreal animated adventure. If you like Boards, you'll love Cat Soup, I can almost guarantee it!
Beautiful song from 4.12 minute to end.
Awesome electronic rhythm, good work!
well that was amazing....
seriously good job on the video man.
Hands down, my favorite fanmade BOC video.. i'm really into Nekojiru and .. wow.. this song fits the movie so well.
really appreciate the cat soup mash up to this masterpiece
you have incredible taste in both music and films.
this is absolute genius. i listen to it while walking in the hills. makes me afraid of nature
Man, 2017. How time flies and things change. But for a moment, the music teminds you and transports you back to where and when you heard it. Somber feeling.
This is an absolute classic tune, this will be one of the tracks I will listen to for the rest of my life!!!!
yay! One of my favorite cartoons with my favorite duo, Boards of Canada in a video together!!!!!! The thing that I like most about this video is that they both go well together.
So beautiful, so eerie.
i read one of your comments on a video of the music from ocarina of time yesterday and now you turn up again today! it seems we share tastes quite a bit!
This video haunts my imagination
heathenbreathinfire this video imagines my horror
wow man i have to say you did a fantastic job with the video editing. It fits very well!!! Love this song so much!!! So trippy, mysterious and dark...
this speaks to me in so many ways. what a haunting video. it plays in the same way the mind resurrects an old, vivid memory of a significant dream
this song feels like a mental lagoon
genius....the track is...this video is...I LOVE YOU...keep up the good work..
@ArmTheNeutral I find that quite the good short-hand analysis and note. It's true, also for me personally, that the focus of discussion is mostly aimed towards the melodies, harmonies and what-not, while the DRUMS always play a huge role as well. It's easy to skip the drums and move right on to the melodie's awe's, so yeah good note there mate.
wow you perfectly described this song with that comment lol. i've always felt that way about the tune but i could never quite put it into words like that.
One of the best pieces of music ever mate...heheh
Excellent work. I'd never thought I'd see what the words were in the middle part of the song. I had no idea what they were sampled from.
The best track B.o.c have ever done!
you're right rage. BoC's music transcends the human psyche in a way others cannot. I heard one track from BoC and I paused and I had to know who this music is from...BoC is a treasure.
very nice song from BOC. Loved the editing and the animations as well :)
in my opinion this is the best boc music video out there
This is A Mastery, Masterpiece.
CarlostheGod a strongly, strongening.
Using the closing sound-box sound from Neko. so's closing titles was excelent!
It's one of many of my favourite boards tunes.
I used to listen to it
When doing laborious repetitive art processes to ensure I kept focused.
Then I'd occasionally fuck up. Cut something too fast without thinking.
And blame the music.
For bringing out the artist in me.
@EthanFilms Nekojiru-So aka Cat Soup. It's in the description. You can watch it here on youtube. I really do recommend it and I'm usually not very keen on anime either.
nice vid, saw cat soup some time ago, it's awesome. love boc, as broadcastmyass4u says, another reason why i love music.
Wow. I'd like to thank you; this is the video that turned me on to cat soup. It was a really amazing anime. I didn't get the the m-world part at the end though...
impressive editing, the timing is great.
4:11 The feels.
By the way, thank you so much for introducing me to this wonderful film.