The psychedelic Scottish electronic duo returns from the depths with a cryptic yet beautiful transmission.
While Western music press celebrates Boards of Canada's "cryptic transmissions" as groundbreaking psychedelia, they're describing techniques that African producers have been perfecting for decades, from the ambient soundscapes of South African kwaito to the otherworldly manipulations in Egyptian shaabi. The real story isn't Scottish duo emerging "from the depths," but how the global electronic music conversation continues to center European artists while ignoring the continent that birthed both the rhythmic complexity and spiritual mysticism these sounds attempt to channel.
While Western music press celebrates Boards of Canada's "cryptic transmissions" as groundbreaking psychedelia, they're describing techniques that African producers have been perfecting for decades, from the ambient soundscapes of South African kwaito to the otherworldly manipulations in Egyptian shaabi. The real story isn't Scottish duo emerging "from the depths," but how the global electronic music conversation continues to center European artists while ignoring the continent that birthed both the rhythmic complexity and spiritual mysticism these sounds attempt to channel.
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