A question put to Mike from Boards of Canada:

Somebody somewhere once said that the best electronic music is music that you could never quite imagine on your own; yours seems to fall distinctly in that territory. Are you aware as to how strangely your music seems to co-exist with the subconscious?
Mike: I don’t know if we hear it quite the way the listener does. For us the whole point of writing music is to get something infectious into the back of the listener’s mind, something that feels so personal to you that you couldn’t even possibly convey it in words to a close friend. I find personally that I only really enjoy music if it has that effect on me, so it’s a challenge for me to write tunes that do that for other people. If you listen to a tune by some musician and it really gets to you emotionally, it’s as though for a few minutes you’ve tuned into the feelings that were in the musician’s head. There’s a sort of knowing connection there between the listener and the musician that ordinary language would never be able to achieve. In a way it’s like the closest you’ll ever get to being psychic.

MATHEMATIKOI

or alternatively it could be the track name for ‘Tribal’?!

all a bit exciting isn’t it?!!!!

Look.

“I think on the first album I wrote really on my own or with my stuff in mind. But I wrote very much thinking of myself as a singer/songwriter with a guitar and piano. Now I know that I have a chance of working with my band so with that in mind, I can hear things definitely [like] how a band may come in as I’m writing a song. It adds a little diversity.”

See? We can’t ever even hope to reach his level of incisive and visionary genius. Let’s call it a day now.

album! album!

“What’s that?”

album! album!

“Weird.”