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The Science of Canada

By Ipaghost on August 17, 2014 8:27 pm

About to leave Vancouver today, should have spent more time exploring than writing this!
Here is my view while I was writing this:

Vocal samples from:
https://archive.org/details/mobile_lab
https://archive.org/details/Televisi1960
I totally wrote another song with a sample I took from the steam clock, but I figured something more BoC inspired would make sense while I'm here!

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Very cool.  I always like how you pros use old vocal samples.  The chopped up/glitched vocals are especially nice.

Very enjoyable.

Love the saggy melody line with those old vocals (that we pros use) :-)

Definitely was immediately thinking Boards of Canada when this came on. Chillin'!

also: STEM ughhhhh

mmmm warm analog vhsy goodness.  The vocal glitch part bounces perfectly off the kick ace drums.  Nice job! smile yay BoC!

BOC sounds coming through, loving the science samples as well... and... the building out of your window in the right quadrant of the gif looks like its becoming illuminated by something...

great work as always.

P

Edmund Snyder wrote:

Very cool.  I always like how you pros use old vocal samples.  The chopped up/glitched vocals are especially nice.


If you like that, you should listen to some Boards of Canada, as they do a much better job at it than I!

vinpous wrote:

Very enjoyable.


Very thanks!

Jim Wood wrote:

Love the saggy melody line with those old vocals (that we pros use) :-)


PROTIP: Use old vocals!

kineticturtle wrote:

Definitely was immediately thinking Boards of Canada when this came on. Chillin'!

also: STEM ughhhhh


I was hoping I could pull it off! Although BoC does it better!
I guess I could release stems, but it might be easier to just release the source file, since I managed this sound using only native flstudio and free vsts.

Tone Matrix wrote:

mmmm warm analog vhsy goodness.  The vocal glitch part bounces perfectly off the kick ace drums.  Nice job! smile yay BoC!


I'm a pretty big fan of the lofi vhsy sound, I'm pretty happy I got it from free plugs!
Notably: Interruptor's Wow & Flutter, FerricTDS, Milli Vynilli, Vinyl Dreams, and NastyDLAmkII. Also, cutting out the high end goes a long way for this sound!

PhillipeGrishin wrote:

BOC sounds coming through, loving the science samples as well... and... the building out of your window in the right quadrant of the gif looks like its becoming illuminated by something...

great work as always.

P


It totally is being illuminated, by science!

duuuuuuuudeeeeeeeeeee I was just thinking...oh, this guy must really like boards of cana....oh it's by lpaghost tongue

wonderful rendition of the boc sound...I sometimes also use archive.org for vocal samples smile

Sweet use of the vocal samples. really nice. and sweet GIF of vancouver!

dreikelvin wrote:

duuuuuuuudeeeeeeeeeee I was just thinking...oh, this guy must really like boards of cana....oh it's by lpaghost tongue


But I do really like BoC! I wish I started this earlier, I think BoC does other subtle things I didn't get a chance to incorporate here, specifically with vocals. Getting the classic 70's documentary voice-over was a must, and archive.org was the quickest way to find some which were public domain! And by quick, I mean really slow on the hotel's throttled internet.

cfurrow wrote:

Sweet use of the vocal samples. really nice. and sweet GIF of vancouver!


Thanks! I wish I had my nice camera instead of my dinky phone, it really didn't do the view justice! The window was a full curved wall panoramic, it pretty much felt like I was scoring Vancouver in real time!

lol awesome. great track!

george bowles wrote:

lol awesome. great track!


Tanks!

successful rip off!

yan_g wrote:

successful rip off!


I'm sure there was a better way to put it!

Ipaghost wrote:
yan_g wrote:

successful rip off!


I'm sure there was a better way to put it!


should've read tribute

better than the original?

yan_g wrote:

better than the original?


Doubtful!

Very awesome, such a bright and groovy track. Reminds me of a tech doco from the 90s.

Man, missed this one last week because of work. You totally mastered the BoC sounds. Thanks for sharing the plugins, I'll be powering my ModPlug tracker copy just to drop some old drum patterns on them.

Awesome stuff as usual. I'm amazed you even had the time to put a nice gif together smile

Are you sure you don't have a team of MPC ninjas choppin' beats for you while you sleep, kinda Tyler Durden?

Lyons wrote:

Very awesome, such a bright and groovy track. Reminds me of a tech doco from the 90s.


Thanks!

laguna wrote:

Man, missed this one last week because of work. You totally mastered the BoC sounds. Thanks for sharing the plugins, I'll be powering my ModPlug tracker copy just to drop some old drum patterns on them.

Awesome stuff as usual. I'm amazed you even had the time to put a nice gif together smile

Are you sure you don't have a team of MPC ninjas choppin' beats for you while you sleep, kinda Tyler Durden?



The first rule of WB Club, is you don't talk about WB Club.
I was wondering what happened to you! Besides the delay, all of those plugs can go on the post processing of a track. I also used MiniMogue for the analog synth, which is pretty essential for the BoC sound, since that is what they used in a lot of those old documentaries. It's not the best moog vst I've used, but it's pretty good for free, and you can probably find more presets floating around the internet.

fantastic.

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