Coming late I am getting totally addicted to Everything You Do Is a Balloon by Boards of Canada. The 7' 34'' track has been on repeat today and yesterday for at least two hours. Boards of Canada are a duo from Scotland (probably most of my favourite bands come from there) and released Music Has the Right to Children in 1998. Their second album Geogaddi (ILM, MeFi discussions) will come out in Mars February. They make electronic music which is usually filed into the IDM (intelligent dance music) category. It is quite close to ambient and new age. Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno and the Orb are influences. Probably the most human electronic music I know of. It is mainly instrumental with some voice samples (often kids and women) knitted in. The track in question is extremely soft and dreamy. The beat is hypnotic and the melody line which is long and slow is absolutely enchanting. Like a soundtrack to a fantasy film. There is something very mysterious about this track. When I listen to it I have the feeling to walk in a misty snow-covered landscape with occasional glimpses of the sun when the fog clears for a moment. This kind of warm impressionist electronic music is not so far from Friedemann's chef d'oeuvre Indian Summer. Though where Friedemann is down-to-earth when he simulates natural late summer sounds Boards of Canada remain mystic. I still did not really get into the 100 seconds intro with the children piano. Some secrets should be kept for a while...