Maaan. Boards of Canada played a huge role in my life. I was obsessed with them in high school. They are what really got me started listening to electronic music. Although BoC was still widely and unabashedly called IDM then.

I downloaded this mixtape that had µ ziq - hasty boom alert and a Boards of Canada song or two on it. I wish I could find it, in all of it's (assumed) 128kbps glory. Prior to this mixtape, I primarily listened to metal to wallow in pubescent angst.

I credit Boards of Canada for creating a huge shift in, for lack of a better word, my spirit. I became obsessed in much the same way you did. I rigged my pillow with headphones so I could fall asleep to them at night. I wouldn't feel right if I didn't listen to them in the morning before doing anything. I listened to them directly after school. I listened to them while doing homework. I sought out as much information as I could about them, but there was very little to be found at that time.

I really think BoC, as musicians, managed to channel something deep and that a lot of musicians struggle to do the same. The fact that they could do it without lyrics, or to my mind, without screaming, completely changed the way I viewed music and the human connection to it.