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.
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).
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
@@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
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.
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.
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."
***** 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.
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.
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.
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 UA-cam as "Come to daddy bear mix"). I don't know if any other ones are online anymore. This was the last AMV he made.
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.
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!
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...
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.
@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 :)
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Starts pretty easy with a numerical synth, and when I hear that beat rushing in, I can feel my own liberty, my free, independent thoughts chasing one another through my veins. It's like diving into one big box of knowledge, taking my time with it, loving the way it stumbles upon my mind and beginning to play with it.
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.
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?
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?
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
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
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.
Completely obsessed with this track
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?
13 years later and this still tears me apart.
Same here
does this mean the song is now 26 years old. woah!
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.
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.
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...
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.
Where as most BoC calms me this particular piece puts me on edge. I wonder why.
20 years, I got old, this remains fresh.
One of the greatest ambient tracks ever made - period!!
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
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.
every millisecond of each track of each album of boc is amazing.
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.
Me listening to any BoC song: "This song is amazing, I love it!"
What about magic window?
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
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."
"sweat, sweat."
"...I LOVE YOU."
this is powerful stuff. I really hope no one thinks you need to be high to listen to it.
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.
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.
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 music has centered me, opened my thoughts, and completely calmed me down , its a masterpeice of music in the purest form.
One of the most masterful displays of sampled analog drums n loops ever!
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
I first heard this in the late 90s, it changed me then and continues to do so 20+ years forward.
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.
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.
This has to be my favorite music video out there. I love the editing on this.. and Nekojirou Sou fits BoC so damn well
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 UA-cam 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!
I remember listening to this song on the bus stop in a shady area at sunset
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 love how this stirs mystery
The film that's playing is Cat Soup
This song is amazing...it's very terrifying, makes me feel trapped, controlled and surrounded.
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.
What a tune! So eerie. Great video too.
Boards of Canada brought me here and my love for supreme electronic music.
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!
Whoever made/edited this deserves some praise. I am continually amazed at some of the fanmade video efforts for BOC! Awesome job.
Great stuff, i cant hear the track without seeing these images now.
So beautiful, so eerie.
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 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...
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
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.
this video is the reason I watched this Cat Soup anime, very well done, and excellent song of course
My favorite part is the "I love you"
I have no idea why, but I think it's brilliant.
An absolute gem no wonder John loved you so much.
This is an absolute classic tune, this will be one of the tracks I will listen to for the rest of my life!!!!
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.
@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 :)
as simple a bass riff as a song can have but one of the most effective.
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.
Oh shit, it's awesome. Mysterious and fascinating music (Boards of Canada rules!) with this amazing clip make impression.
this song feels like a mental lagoon
really appreciate the cat soup mash up to this masterpiece
4:11 The feels.
Hands down, my favorite fanmade BOC video.. i'm really into Nekojiru and .. wow.. this song fits the movie so well.
This video haunts my imagination
heathenbreathinfire this video imagines my horror
this music is so nostalgic, love it, listen to it everday.
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.
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 absolute genius. i listen to it while walking in the hills. makes me afraid of nature
The best track B.o.c have ever done!
well that was amazing....
seriously good job on the video man.
Creepiest "I Love You" in history.
hands down the finest boards video on youtube. what a perfect combination
That was an incredibly well put-together video. I enjoyed it all very much. Captured the song perfectly to me. Keep it up!
One of the best pieces of music ever mate...heheh
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.
This is A Mastery, Masterpiece.
CarlostheGod a strongly, strongening.
you have incredible taste in both music and films.
Excellent
Beautiful song from 4.12 minute to end.
Awesome electronic rhythm, good work!
I LOVE IT!!!!! BEATIFUL, AMAZING!!! Sublime!!!.
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!
impressive editing, the timing is great.
A is to B as B is to C.
Diving station
genius....the track is...this video is...I LOVE YOU...keep up the good work..
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!
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 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.
Finally UA-cam recommends something good
Starts pretty easy with a numerical synth, and when I hear that beat rushing in, I can feel my own liberty, my free, independent thoughts chasing one another through my veins. It's like diving into one big box of knowledge, taking my time with it, loving the way it stumbles upon my mind and beginning to play with it.
i still listen to this in 50+ years, this is more timeless then anything else on earth.....
this is what a dream feels like
very nice song from BOC. Loved the editing and the animations as well :)
this one, about 20 years ago changed way i listened music. turned around my sound world.
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.
Boards of Canada are incredible, can't stop listening to em.
Music to cook by, read, study, live by
this is great editing, i love it.