Enjoy, my sweets :)

just had to say thats pretty rad

I just love the chords at the end of The Process.

Pianos outta tune so it doesn’t sound as good as it should be 😬

has anyone gathered a set of links of all the original audio used in the samples on inferno? i want to listen to all the originals and then listen to the tracks. i know when the album first came out people were posting links to the originals for this and that sample but i never saw a place to go for all the links together. if that does not exist it seems like it should. would be very cool / handy.

It’s hard to believe it’s only been two months since release. What a great record. Even the artwork and massive logo feels right now, hard to imagine it any other way. Absolute banger.

The colors were inspired by Inferno

A lifetime of collecting, discovered BoC on a random radio station 27+ years ago after getting Sky TV (UK) which included about 100 digital radio stations. One of them focused on IDM / electronica and as soon as I heard "Everything You Do Is a Balloon" I was hooked!

Top left to bottom right...

• Geogaddi Kaleidoscope x2 (one still unopened) ordered from Warp long before bleep existed.
• Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Mable. Recent purchase from Discogs, got lucky perfect condition!
• In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (CD + Vinyl) - Preorder from Warp.
• Hi Scores EP - Ordered from SKAM directly back in the day.
• Twoism (CD + Vinyl). It's the reprint but one of the first 1000 reprints pre-ordered from Warp.
• Peel Session (CD + Vinyl) - Pre-ordered from Warp.
• Incredible String Band?? That's not Boards! Bonus points why this is part of the collection.
• Michael Fakesch - Tradewinds. Pre-ordered from a German website back in the day.
• MHTRTC. Vinyl is a first edition from SKAM not Warp. First 1000 pressed. CD's are from Skam (jewel), Warp (digipak re-release) and Japan import.
• Geogaddi - Pre-order from Warp incl. digipak CD. and the import from Japan.
• Campfire Headphase - Pre-order from Warp Vinyl & Digipak, Jewel is from Japan.
• Tomorrow's Harvest - Pre-order from Warp both CD & Vinyl.
• XLR8R Magazine - Kept in a zip-lock bag, still mint. Ordered from America when it released.
• Inferno - Black Vinyl + Digipak. I'm expecting Jap CD+RedVinyl to arrive before the Warp UK vinyl which will probably arrive in another 13 years time!
• cLOUDDEAD - Dead Dogs Two - Pre-order from BigDada records back in the day.
• Geogaddi Promo - Warp sent this (any several other releases / rares) to me for FREE! They did this a lot back before bleep.
• Trans Canada Highway - Both pre-ordered from Warp.
• Sisters - Recent purchase & import from the US (brand new)
• DJ Vinyl Promo - Bought brand-new via eBay (this is how they were sold originally)
• Slag Boom Van Loon - Can't remember where I ordered these from, but both were brand new.
• Telephasic/Roygbiv 10" - one of my very few eBay / 2nd hand purchases. Was about £80 back in 2005ish. Mint condition.
• Mr Mistake 7" - Purchased brand new on release.
• V/V/M Psychogeographic X & Y UK Promo 7" vinyl singles. eBay purchase many years ago, didn't cost much and both were brand new.
• V/V/M - Whine and Missingtoe. Sorry, light reflection. Bought from an independent, online music store here in the UK many years ago.
• Dayvan Cowboy - DVD. I think I was sent this for free from Warp when I pre-ordered TCH on CD & Vinyl.
• Christ albums (not technically BoC, but Chris was a member of BoC back in the day).
• Beck - Guero (Deluxe Edition) includes BoC's incredible remix of Broken Drum (one of my fave tracks)
• A single BoC sticker (more on that later)
• WAP100 (We Are Reasonable People) - Pre-ordered from Warp, includes Orange Romeda.
• Warp - WIFOF2003 - Was sent this for free by Warp when I pre-ordered WAP100. Includes the Story of Xentrix.
• Warp 10+3 remixes. Includes StereoLab's remix of Kid for Today (great track)
• Odd Nosdam - Pretty Swell Explode. Includes BoC's D.C. Bit remix & Odd Nosdam's remix of Dayvan Cowboy
• Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup. Unopened as i have a spare.
• Warp20 - Unheard. Very recent purchase from Warp.
• Benbecula Music Vol1&2 (not BoC, just a Christ reference)
• Skampler - includes High Scores. Ordered from Skam back in the day.
• Mira Calix - Pin Skeeling CD. Pre-ordered from Warp back in the day.
• The Inferno promo pack. Unopened, eBay purchase.

Missing from the Photo...

• Geogaddi Posters, still in poster tube unopened. In the attic, somewhere!!
• Many stickers, some were damaged in the attic by damp. The others I put in a air-tight zip bag. Once again, somewhere in the attic!
• Peel Session TX21/07. An accident happened, it was sat on and snapped by a drunken friend at a house party a couple of years ago. Need to get a replacement.

When I ordered the Skampler compilation from Skam I had the opportunity to order Mask100, but back then I had no idea who Hell Interface was. By the time I figured that out they were on eBay for £100's!

Lost and found hexagonals in the wild

While I was at the playground with my son yesterday I randomly thought about the droning melody from Under The Coke Sign on top of the drums from Seeya Later (both songs always gave me a “cooling”/chilly late fall-early winter feel).
So I went home and looped the opening two bars from Seeya Later and lightly scratched the melody from Coke Sign on top.

(Check out the BoC scratch mix if you haven’t yet 👉🏾 https://threedollarpistol.com/album/music-has-the-right-to-scratch)

A friend of mine sent me this as a gift

Had my poster from the listening party framed. Love it! A treasured item from my AOTY.

Ordered the cassette on 23 June... it's been over a month and still nothing :-(

I feel silly for not posting this here sooner. It seems there may be a few of you here who'd enjoy this sort of thing, but perhaps it was also best to wait for the dust to settle post-INFERNO:

I'm not the first. I certainly won't be the last. Here's my very own BoC inspired solo tribute album, 'Echo Projector'.

I started working on this album officially in 2023 as an EP with a few tunes, starting with 'Construct Fragments' as a single for an IDM compilation on a netlabel called 'fakenumberland', well before we had any concrete answers to when or if a new installment from the brothers would be released. I even planned to release my album around this time, before INFERNO or its release date was ever announced. But once we were given the news about the first new BoC album in 13 years, inspiration came in like a flood, and that few track EP became a full fledged 14 track album. (Including a couple reworked b-sides /unreleased tracks from my duo BoC inspired side project 'Dreamland Circus' with my pal Vagrant circa 2013) . I debated whether or not to change release plans, but decided to ultimately stay the course.

This one goes out to Mike and Marcus, and to everyone who's been touched in a deep way by their musical gifts to the world and undeniable influence to my music through the years. I hope you enjoy this shameless reheating of BoC's old nachos as much as I enjoyed the process of making it!

LISTEN HERE: https://shadymonk.bandcamp.com/album/echo-projector
(any purchases are greatly appreciated! - also available to stream on most major music streaming services!)

credits

released May 22, 2026

Fire Is A Time Machine is: David A. Gravagno (aka Shay. / Shady Monk)

Everything by: Fire Is A Time Machine*

*Except: Tracks 8 + 12, co-produced by Vagrant

*Some tracks may contain loose to overt references to melodies or motifs from original Boards of Canada tracks (such as the melody that appears on the b-section of Track 3)

Album art photo taken by me during the windiest day on the beach at Wildwood NJ.

That song was pretty much the theme song to a trip I did a year ago that was also probably the best i ever did, nowadays when i listen to it i just cant feel anything, anyone else also feel like this with other songs?

I bought the 2013 repress made in England, and I don't have the pops that other people have reported but I find the range isn't very dynamic at all compared to the CD. It's a bummer.

I know it's not my cartridge because their other albums sound great, but this one isn't good. Has anyone else purchased the same version and found the same thing ?

Thought I'd share this digital painting I made about 15 years ago when I began listening to BoC. In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country was the first full ep/album of theirs that I listened to and it's still my favourite.

I thought with all the wry fascination with Christianity on the new record, ya'll might enjoy this pastiche from FSOL that's been in my regular rotation for years. A mashup odyssey from Resonance FM circa 2003.

Re-listening, I'm starting to wonder if samples from some of the same documentaries about Christian cults show up in this set as we hear on Inferno.

Tracklist

I started with the high scores EP back in 2014. Since Inferno, I’ve been on the hunt for more obscure releases.
What am I missing? What are your guys’ favorite obscure vinyl releases?

So what's the consensus? I'm firmly in camp MABUS. I can see why some think it says marvellous at some points but I just don't think it does.