All this funky new block editor stuff and I still don’t get the insert media from URL option to add a YouTube video? Come on, WordPress…
Boards of Canada – Northern Plastics … The first time I heard this track was as I was driving up around Alder Springs in the Mendocino National Forest. It all worked so nicely.
Last night I was driving home down I-5 and the notoriously, uh, imperfect, Bluetooth connection to the stereo in my old Subaru Forester glitched out in a fabulous way leading to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn album getting played at 50% speed.
Ok, that was so cool I’ve gotta share. I slowed these tracks in Audacity for the same effect. Then I tried to upload them via WordPress but found it’s stuck with an 8 meg upload size limit and I don’t feel like troubleshooting that right now so I threw ’em on der aktiv-schaum. Then I googled the wordpress upload limit and…. BROKE GOOGLE.
Mitternacht wound up sounding like something that belongs as haunted house ambience:
http://aktiv-schaum.kg4cyx.net/Mitternacht-slowed.mp3
The title track, Autobahn, just… took on whole new dimensions of weird.
http://aktiv-schaum.kg4cyx.net/Autobahn-slowed.mp3
I was also treated to a weird stuttering flanging thing happening when I tried to play an Aphex Twin track through it, which eventually stopped as my phone simply gave up on sending Bluetooth audio. Oh well.
I was looking around at the Boards Of Canada Subreddit and found a link to CIALYN’s “A Night Of A Short Wave Listener”.
I’m very glad I did, because this is just wonderful. The style is very much like that of Boards of Canada, with really mysterious sounding synthesizers and samples that sound like they were off some wonderful but long forgotten tape.
The SoundCloud page has some wonderful tracks too.
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/224681377″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
Definitely worth looking at if you like BoC. Just saying.