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Boards of Canada is a Ambient act. Their sound grew out of Boom Bip, Colonel Abrams, Galt Macdermot, The Peel Session and Mark Van Hoen. Those roots explain a lot about how Boards of Canada arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Autechre, Casino Versus Japan, AFX, Plaid and Oneohtrix Point Never, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Disintegration Loops, Lone, Louis Cole, Nathan Fake and Com Truise, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 53 connections around Boards of Canada, reaching back through Boom Bip and forward to The Disintegration Loops. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Boards of Canada connections
Boards of Canada grew out of Boom Bip, Colonel Abrams, Galt Macdermot and The Peel Session, shares an orbit with Autechre, Casino Versus Japan, AFX and Plaid, went on to shape The Disintegration Loops, Lone, Louis Cole and Nathan Fake. 53 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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