Playing around with the Serato Sample plugin has been eye-opening for me. Because it makes it easy to drag a tune into it and cut it up into samples, it has let me work much faster on a long-held theory of mine and others, namely that Boards of Canada used a lot of samples (duh, well-known) but the samples were more than simple cuts because a lot of stuff is backward samples in their music. Some people have made videos of their music completely backward (the whole tracks) and they sound good (check YouTube for "reversed Boards of Canada music.")
By reversing some of the samples of my own music (I took Innerjoy recently and cut it up with reverse samples), I've been getting - purely by accident - a sound reminiscent of Boards of Canada's music,... some of it. And Innerjoy is a purely piano-based track, so the fact that it can sound like BoC when reversed, pitched, slowed, etc., is quite amazing to me. It could mean that BoC's samples are from simple instruments they could easily have played on their own or segments of songs they may have sampled.
So these little experiments have made me realize that their (Boards of Canada (BoC)) music has a lot of samples not only in forward play but also in backward. Like I said, not a revelation as such because plenty of others already know this. But the wonder of finding something out on my own by accident and experiment is always a great experience, so I'm happy.
Maybe the next stop I make will be to understand what the samplers they (Boards of Canada) were purported to have used are capable of and replicate the limitations of their equipment to get even closer to exacting with my reverse sample tunes. But I think I don't have to, really, because what I have found is spot-on already.
By reversing some of the samples of my own music (I took Innerjoy recently and cut it up with reverse samples), I've been getting - purely by accident - a sound reminiscent of Boards of Canada's music,... some of it. And Innerjoy is a purely piano-based track, so the fact that it can sound like BoC when reversed, pitched, slowed, etc., is quite amazing to me. It could mean that BoC's samples are from simple instruments they could easily have played on their own or segments of songs they may have sampled.
So these little experiments have made me realize that their (Boards of Canada (BoC)) music has a lot of samples not only in forward play but also in backward. Like I said, not a revelation as such because plenty of others already know this. But the wonder of finding something out on my own by accident and experiment is always a great experience, so I'm happy.
Maybe the next stop I make will be to understand what the samplers they (Boards of Canada) were purported to have used are capable of and replicate the limitations of their equipment to get even closer to exacting with my reverse sample tunes. But I think I don't have to, really, because what I have found is spot-on already.