DJ Food, the funky Flexistentialist known to his mates as Kev (Strictly), has just dropped O is for Orange, an engaging AV mix of the Boards’ work and inspirations along with material from their contemporaries and those they inspired.
Release of their first album in 8 years and all the attendant tease (not to mention MHTRTC‘s 15th!) has brought a resurgent splurge of eyeball-and-ear’oling of Boards of Canada. DJ Food ’s re-edit of “Reach for the Dead,” lead track from Tomorrow’s Harvest, was a boon to those of us left hanging at the end of its barely 5-minute trip (hop), deploying some sneaky suture to extend the ride. Now Food, the funky Flexistentialist known to his mates as Kev (Strictly), has just dropped O is for Orange, an engaging AV mix of the Boards’ work and inspirations along with material from their contemporaries and those they inspired.
Word from the Ninja Tune veteran: ‘This mix originated because of a night called ‘A Few Old Tunes’ that I was involved with alongside Posthuman, Tom Central and Mach V. The idea was to build a night of sound and vision around Boards of Canada-inspired music with visuals of a similar aesthetic. It’s a loose concept and I’ve used it to string together a lot of downtempo tracks that usually wouldn’t get played in one of my regular club sets. ‘O Is For Orange’ is the sound of weathered tape saturation, detuned analogue synthesizers, vinyl crackle and machine hum. It’s also the look of flickering, unfocused lenses, mirror image filters and blurry grain embedded into film. Unofficial fan films sit alongside experimental animation, public information shorts and even the odd official video. Material that BoC took inspiration from blends with their own work as well as many that they in turn inspired.’
Sound and vision, text and tracklist here.
(P.S. eagle-eyed soundcloud-combers will have also spotted IDM-lovin’ comic Peter Serafinowicz’s BoC-infused Solid Steel mix)
