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Thanks for this! I've been a BoC fan since 2000 after discovering "Music Has The Right To Children", I think in part due to John Peel. Amazingly this site has s

• core-questions 7y ago
  Right on. Yeah, I got into them in the 90s thanks to the odd way in which Napster introduced me to new music. Typically I'd find an electronic artist, search for them, and find songs by them on compilation albums or on mixtapes that people had painstakingly separated into tracks with good ID3s. Download those whole albums, listen, and then whatever was good from them, I'd put back into the system. It was sort of like manually crawling through a curated recommendations graph. Ironically, it made me buy a ton of CDs, so the industry probably made more off me than if I'd had no access to this sort of thing. $50 import British double-CDs off Warp Records et al? You know I was shelling out for it. Beautiful Warp20 collection with an unheard, virgin-vinyl cut from Boards of Canada? How could I not, back when I was younger and had disposable income? The cult aspect of BoC is what turned me into a follower, because there's all these insane references that add a ton of depth to the music that still isn't really there with most of the artists that have filled the space they carved out.