Boreal Network
Boreal Network
Genre musical | ambient techno, noise rock, circuit bending, electro, downtempo |
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Labels | Retronym, Twoism Records, auto-publiées |
Site officiel | borealnetwork.net |
Membres | Nicole Johnson |
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Boreal Network est le nom d'enregistrement de Nicole Johnson[1] créé aux alentours de 2004[2]. Originaire de Minneapolis[3] (Minnesota)[4], elle a aussi créé d'autres projets : Cone Distance[5], Maousss[6], Simulate Televangelist (collaborateur) et Ruiness. Nicole Johnson est en partie influencée par Boards of Canada[7] (dont elle a notamment composé un remix de 1986 Summer Fire)[8], Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails. VHS Head et de Oneohtrix Point Never.
Les musiques composées sont de style downtempo, ambient, Intelligent dance music et électronique[9] et sont distribuées sous label indépendant[10],[11],[12]
Discographie[modifier | modifier le code]
Boreal Network[modifier | modifier le code]
Album / EP[modifier | modifier le code]
2007 : The View From Harney Peak (EP)
Sortie le 05 juillet 2007.
- The View From Harney Peak (1:32)
- Black-Footed Ferret (1:18)
- Devil's Tower (4:00)
- Soo Line (2:40)
- The View From The Needles (2:07)
2007 : Bikehigh USA
Sortie le 06 septembre 2007.
- NSP (5:26)
- River Trail (4:48)
- Barges and Pylons (1:33)
- Bikehigh USA (3:42)
- Reynolds Park Watertower (2:27)
- 2-Mile Loop (1:06)
- Viewers Like You (1:20)
2008 : Aviation Weather
Sortie le 05 juillet 2008.
- Zero Zero Zulu (2:42)
- Big Dead Field, Overcast (5:20)
- Cloud Map (2:04)
- Local Forecast (3:57)
- Rain Gauge (2:05)
- Old Indian Skin (4:40)
- Wetland (3:00)
- Ravine Explorer (4:50)
- The Big Fitz (7:33)
- Post-Surgery Hospital Overnight (1:28)
- Crow Circles (5:36)
- Lost In Outer Space (Lena's Song) (3:28)
- Game Boy Over (1:55)
- Star Wheel (4:36)
- Hockey Scab (2:57)
- Siren Test (2:22)
- Sorry (0:31)
- Crybaby (2:19)
2008 : Treeborhood (EP) (Moodgadget Records)
Sortie le 19 novembre 2008.
- Empire Builder (3:15)
- Steel Whirl (3:58)
- Itasca Road Trip (2:32)
- Cherokee (0:54)
- Treeborhood (4:24)
- Magic Mushroom (4:20)
- Badlands (edit) (1:07)
2009 : The Motion Range (EP) (Retronym Records)
Sortie le 28 février 2009. Musiques composées par Boreal Network et GABRIEL.
- Newtonian (GABRIEL) (3:27)
- Pinecone Kicker (Boreal Network) (3:48)
- Durham Avenue (with Orange Crush) (GABRIEL) (4:14)
- One Night at Split Rock (Boreal Network) (5:05)
- Cradle (GABRIEL) (3:52)
- Turns To Soil (Boreal Network) (3:51)
- Missing Persons (GABRIEL) (3:05)
- Say Goodbye Nintendo Sky (Boreal Network) (4:29)
2009 : DOS Image (Retronym Records)
Sortie le 05 juillet 2009.
- 200 Gigapascals (5:47)
- Adrive (4:30)
- Blue Blur (2:49)
- Your Favorite Thing? (3:21)
- DOS Image (5:42)
- Hitops 88 (4:46)
- Build A Love (4:00)
- Crescendaleon (5:36)
- Verrazano Sunset (4:01)
- Blast Process (3:42)
- Midnight Flyway (4:45)
- Televisionary Madmen (3:21)
- Iron Rangers and Arrowheads (5:11)
- Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us (Forevergreen rmx by Boreal Network) (5:28)
- Thanks For Playing (1:54)
2009 : Bikehigh USA 2: Nettles Revenge (Retronym Records)
- Edgerider (3:12)
- Regional Trail (4:22)
- Chatters A Warning (3:01)
- Millionpede (2:38)
- Pause (Re Up) (1:07)
- Nettles Revenge (3:23)
- Tree Spider (3:22)
- Bikehigh Forever (3:39)
2010 : Phase With The Moon (EP) (Retronym Records)
Sortie le 10 juillet 2010.
- Isle Royale Study (3:51)
- Den Mother Dear (3:47)
- King of Currumpaw (4:15)
- Aerial Kill (2:31)
- Phase With The Moon (1:46)
- Ely Rendezvous Site (5:21)
- Once Roamed (1:42)
2011 : Means Business (Retronym Records)
Sortie le 12 septembre 2011.
- Corporate Training Video (3:27)
- Marble Hall Headquarters (1:17)
- Means Business (3:00)
- Mission Statement (3:13)
- Radio North (3:30)
- The Demand Factor (1:16)
- Benzene Alert (2:08)
- Furnace 5 Discharge Scrubber (3:15)
- Pine Bend Emissions (4:10)
- Sulfide Impact Statement (3:55)
- Future of Choice (4:05)
2013 : Boreal Network
Sortie le 13 novembre 2013.
- As The Crow Flies (3:19)
- Evers Ridge (4:55)
- Oberg (2:40)
- Sympathy For Decay (3:16)
- Normal Hopeless Future (4:08)
- Dead Sky (2:25)
- View From (4:17)
- Northern Prairie Habitat (2:13)
- Transcontinent (6:36)
- Pylon Alley (2:07)
- Rainy Circle (2:30)
- Quillpig (2:02)
- Thuja (4:03)
- Gravesite (1:07)
- Scotts Bluff Erosion Period (2:05)
- Day Hill (2:44)
- Bow Echo (3:27)
- Farewell This Age (4:20)
Single[modifier | modifier le code]
2008 : Birch Pine Maple Oak (Single)
Sortie le 18 mai 2008.
- Birch Pine Maple Oak (5:27)
2008 : Atmogon - Remain Inconspicuous (Thornbeetle rmx)
Sortie en juillet 2008.
- Atmogon - Remain Inconspicuous (Thornbeetle rmx) (3:59)
2009 : Steel Whirl / Empire Builder (Single) (Moodgadget Records)
Sortie le 10 février 2009.
- Steel Whirl (3:57)
- Empire Builder (3:14)
- Remain Inconspicuous (Thornbeetle rmx by Boreal Network) (3:59)
2012 : Scream Blue Vein
Sortie le 03 juin 2012.
- Scream Blue Vein (3:49)
One on Twoism[modifier | modifier le code]
2008 : One on Twoism Volume 2 (Twoism Records)
Sortie le 23 mars 2008[14].
- 8. Another Bad Dream (3:18)
2009 : One on Twoism Volume 3 (Twoism Records)
Sortie le 23 mai 2009[15].
- 3. The Copper Harbor Conglomerate (3:02)
2010 : One on Twoism Volume 4 (Twoism Records)
- 32. Park Avenue (4:49)
2015 : One on Twoism Volume 6 (Twoism Records)
- (basse et pads) 2. Sanctum (4:49)
Remix[modifier | modifier le code]
2009 : 1992 In An Igloo Remixed (Retronym Records)
Sortie le 28 novembre 2009. Album original par 88 Marquis 1992 In An Igloo sortie en même temps.
- 1. Apollo Road (Boreal Network Remix) (3:40)
Autres projets[modifier | modifier le code]
Cone Distance[modifier | modifier le code]
2008 : And Four People Died (EP)
Sortie le 09 novembre 2008.
- Cactus Rust (3:58)
- A Hi Tilt Cab Restructure (3:56)
- Bad Shallot (2:55)
- Mouse Party (1:29)
- A Bracelets Cirry Hut Tut (Paracat Remix) (4:47)
2009 : It Indecent To Object
Sortie le 27 juillet 2009.
- Gloopy (3:26)
- Ticks Are Dicks (1:46)
- Fragmented Personality (4:16)
- Undercurrent (2:58)
- Fuck Golf Emotions (4:28)
- Underachiever! (2:38)
- Balst (5:40)
Maousss[modifier | modifier le code]
2011 : Planet Cheese
Sortie le 03 août 2011.
- Rocket (1:36)
- House Mouse (4:54)
- Ender (1:46)
- Planet Cheese (3:12)
- Shimmer (2:30)
- Circle of the Rat (2:40)
- The Pool of Everlasting Wisdom (3:06)
- The Highest Air (3:42)
- Mouse II (4:04)
2012 : You Are Geography
Sortie le 22 mars 2012.
- Enemy Of (3:52)
- Thuja II (4:39)
- You Are Geography (2:52)
- Mothermouse Is Calm (3:52)
- Never Sun (3:20)
- The Boy Argument (3:38)
- Thuja III (1:37)
- Radiocloud Dusk (2:40)
- Better Colors Warmer Seas (2:51)
- You Are Geography II (1:57)
Ruiness[modifier | modifier le code]
2013 : Nightmare Moon
Nightmare Moon (4:00)
2013 : Breathless (Song for Spike)
Breathless (Song for Spike) (5:13)
2013 : Front Page (I've Got The Story Now)
Front Page (I've Got The Story Now) (3:39)
2013 : No One Told You It Could Be Like This
No One Told You It Could Be Like This (4:33)
2014 : In Your Dust
In Your Dust (5:03)
Notes et références[modifier | modifier le code]
- "Boreal Network is Nicole Johnson's musical love letter to the life she has known" Retronym Records (sur le site officiel)
- "BN was catalyzed around 2004" Retronym Records (sur le site officiel)
- "Nicole Johnson. Born in Minnesota" Sur le site officiel de Boreal Network)
- "Boreal Network is Minnesota native Nicole Johnson."
- "Boreal Network is Nicole Johnson. Born in Minnesota, resides in Seattle. Child of technology. Self-editing. Other music projects: maousss Cone Distance" Sur le site officiel de Boreal Network
- "check out my new project, Maousss" sur la page officielle Boreal Network (facebook)
- "when a heavily Boards-of-Canada-inspired Nicole began to compose music with more focused style" Retronym Records (sur le site officiel)
- "1986 Summer Fire - Careless Cigarettes mix by Boreal Network"
- "Tous les tags ambient american analog aphex twin artificial lounge boards of canada casino versus japan chillwave chiptune downtempo electro electronic electronica experimental future dust idm illuminant interesting lo-fi lost integrity nostalgica numinous one on twoism perfect pixies palace producer psychedelic psychild sinister to listen trills trip-hop triphop under 2000 listeners warp Taguer Boreal Network"
- "Retronym Records"
- "One on Twoism",
- ou sont auto-publiées "Bandcamp".
- "Itasca Road Trip (self-released, no label) June 9 2007"
- ""Another Bad Dream" - Track 8 - One on Twoism Volume 2 (Twoism Records) March 23 2008"
- ""The Copper Harbor Conglomerate" - Track 3 - One on Twoism Volume 3 (Twoism Records) May 23 2009"