From Pete Sent Fri, Sep 24th 1999, 20:07
From Pete Sent Fri, Sep 24th 1999, 20:07
I already posted a message similar to this one a few days ago but I tried
to get cute with the subject and I'm guessing most people deleted it
rather than read it. Besides the reasons that many people have already
mentioned for liking BoC, one of the main attractions for me is the
psychedelic effect and the subliminal messaging (yes, those chopped up
voices you hear are actually saying something) To me it's always exciting
when something new percolates up into my consciousness that I hadn't
heard on a previous listen. The odd thing about the messages is that it
seems as though many people, even when directed where to listen in the
song, still are unable to distinguish anything. That makes it all the
more entertaining for me. Secondly, I think there's a completely seperate
factor about BoC listening that many people aren't in touch with. I hate
to be that guy from Half Baked ("Have you ever seen Wizard of Oz... on
WEED?") but according to, um, a friend, listening to BoC on LSD is a
completely different experience. A true quote from a friend upon hearing
BoC for the first time while tripping, "This music, it's... it's so..."
and all I could respond was, "exactly" I understand completely the
sentiments of the guy willing to pay $250 for BoC stuffs he hasn't been
able to hear, becuase I went through a lot of trouble just to hear
Twoism, Hi Scores, and the Skampler. Though I wouldn't shell out that
much dough for even older stuff than Twoism, which IMO isn't nearly the
same caliber as their later stuff, I would pay ridiculous amounts of
money to see them live or for some of the videos they're rumored to have
made/be making. I'm a college student in Iowa and part of me seriously
considered attempting to get to that Warp show before I learned it was
sold out. As it is 5 of us are taking a week out of school and driving to
Cali. to see Autechre et al at Coachella.
Anyways, for those of you who know what I'm talking about in terms of the
subliminal side of BoC I'm curious as to whether other artists use
similar subliminal triggering techniques in their music.
pete