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Hi Scores (release)

2026-06-02T01:00:22Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E: /* Hi Scores Trivia */

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Hi Scores
| cover=Hi Scores.jpg
| release_date=1 December 1996 (original)<ref>https://bleep.com/release/388652-boards-of-canada-hi-scores</ref> 13 October 2014 (remaster)<ref>https://skam.bleepstores.com/release/73174-boards-of-canada-hi-scores</ref>
| format=CD 12"
| label=Skam
| catno=SKA008CD SKA008
| runtime=33:34
}}
[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]] is an EP by [[Boards of Canada]], released in December of 1996 on CD and 12". It was [[Boards of Canada]]'s first widely available release, as 1995's ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]'' would not become widely available until it was re-issued in 2002. [[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]] was re-issued in 1999, and has subsequently had multiple further re-issues, including a full remaster in 2014.<ref> https://www.discogs.com/master/2004-Boards-Of-Canada-Hi-Scores </ref>

The [[Hi Scores (song)|title track]] is the only track on the EP that is exclusive to it. "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]", "[[Nlogax]]", "[[June 9th]]", and "[[Everything You Do Is A Balloon]]" all appear on ''[[Boc Maxima (release)|Boc Maxima]]'', released privately in 1996, while "[[Seeya Later]]" also appears on ''[[Twoism (release)|Twoism]]''. "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]" would also later appear on ''[[Music Has The Right To Children]]''.

== Tracks ==
# "[[Hi Scores (song)|Hi Scores]]" – 4:57
# "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]" – 5:09
# "[[Nlogax]]" – 6:54
# "[[June 9th]]" – 5:18
# "[[Seeya Later]]" – 4:12
# "[[Everything You Do Is A Balloon]]" – 7:04

== Hi Scores Trivia ==

* Hi Scores is mastered by Darrell Fitton, aka Bola.
* On the 2014 remaster and re-release, the left and right audio channels appeared to have been reversed. This was later elaborated upon and, due to an issue with the original transfer in 1996, it was the original release in which the left and right audio channels were truly reversed. When the original DAT tape masters were used for the 2014 remastering of the EP, the channels where subsequently restored back to their original form as originally intended.
* "[[Nlogax]]" contains a sample of Indeep's 1983 hit "Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life."
* It has been suggested that the "hi" of "Hi Scores" could refer to the initials of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s alias [[Hell Interface]].
* The Braille on the label: Some have interpreted it as having typos. In fact, it is quite correct. If you read it using a simple alphabetic Braille chart, you get "bo?ds ? canada", where the "?" represent characters not found on the chart. Numbering the dots in column one from top down as 1,2,3, and column two as 4,5,6, the two odd characters are 3-4-5 and 1-2-3-5-6, and reference to a more complete [http://www.duxburysystems.com/braille.asp braille listing] reveals that the first of these symbols stands for the letter pair [ar], and the second represents the word [of], so the sticker does indeed read "boards of canada". [DC]

== Critical Reviews ==

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20000816163145/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/boards-of-canada/hi-scores.shtml Pitchfork Media Review by Paul Cooper]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5zmtk6gxrkrd Allmusic.com's Review by Sean Cooper]
* [http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/boc_twoism.htm Review at the Milk Factory]

== Relevant Links ==

* [http://www.warprecords.com Warp Records]
* [http://www.bleep.com Bleep.com]

== Artwork ==
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The Process

2026-05-31T15:04:24Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E: /* Comments */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
• “The Process” most likely refers to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s. “The Process” was the title of the group’s self-titled magazine.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of babble, such as "We noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "Between various Phoenician Bishops it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']."

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==
{{#widget:YouTube|id=FIyVCeQuSI4}}

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/42OW4oOni3AFXblcQnPthw </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

Blood In The Labyrinth

2026-05-31T01:32:03Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E: /* Samples / Lyrics */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Blood In The Labyrinth
| runtime=4:55
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

"[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" is the twelfth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

__TOC__

== Comments ==
* The ending of the track is highly reminiscent of the ending of "[[Collapse]]" from ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 2:10, interviews with rehabilitated PCP (angel dust) addicts from the 1979 anti-drug documentary "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20858530/ Angel Death]".<ref>{{#ev:youtube|ByIB5wlJJQY|480||||start=1290|false}}</ref>
<blockquote>
Quite often I found myself being pretty violent. 
Wanna get it out of you, just wanna fight. 
Just the least thing would really set me off. 
I don't know why but we got in a fight, we were throwing lamps. 
 
I got out of the swimming pool and I watched her. 
Even when she was at the bottom, 
I said 'oh we're bad, now we're doing something', you know. 
And when I finally did dive in and get her, she was already dead. 
And um, after that I just ran off screaming. 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/1sJSQT0OSIAsiMDE7Qs9zj </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

Blood In The Labyrinth

2026-05-31T01:29:55Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Blood In The Labyrinth
| runtime=4:55
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

"[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" is the twelfth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

__TOC__

== Comments ==
* The ending of the track is highly reminiscent of the ending of "[[Collapse]]" from ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]''.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 2:10, interviews with rehabilitated PCP (angel dust) addicts from the 1979 anti-drug documentary "[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20858530/ Angel Death]".<ref>{{#ev:youtube|ByIB5wlJJQY|480||||start=1290|false}}</ref>
<blockquote>
Quite often I found myself being pretty violent. 
Wanna get it out of you, just wanna fight. 
Just the least thing would really set me off. 
I don't know why but we got in a fight, we were throwing lamps. 
 
I got out of the swimming pool and I watched her. 
Even when she was at the bottom, 
I said 'oh we're bad, we're doing something', you know. 
And when I finally did dive in and get her, she was already dead, 
And um, after that I just ran off screaming. 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/1sJSQT0OSIAsiMDE7Qs9zj </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

The Word Becomes Flesh

2026-05-31T01:23:15Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Word Becomes Flesh
| runtime=5:20
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}
"[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" is the tenth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.

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== Comments ==
* The track title is a direct biblical reference to verse 1:14 of the book of John; "The Word became Flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the on and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

== Samples / Lyrics ==
The source of the speech is sampled from Introduction to Development,<ref>https://archive.org/details/introductiontodevelopment</ref> a 1983 educational film by Vuke, George J. Using time-lapse, close-up photography, and illustrations, this work documents the developmental processes of an amphibian and a bird, covering stages from the fertilized egg to the formation of critical anatomical structures like the nervous system, gut, circulatory system, and heart.

<blockquote>
The head of the embryo grows forward and the gut elongates rearward 
The neural folds meet in the brain region, but fuse 
At this stage, four pairs of somites, blocks of mesodermal tissue, have formed 
As the head of the embryo grows forward 
The head fold further undercuts its anterior end 
The neural folds fuse to form new sets 
Anterior end develops into a three-part brain 
Early structures of the eye are now prominent 
Meanwhile 
The embryo develops in an equally exciting manner 
In this later stage 
And the small embryo is already visible 
As a light-colored disk 
Soon, blood vessels appear outside the embryo 
The heart develops and begins to beat 
The pattern of blood vessels over the egg expands 
Supplying the embryo with food and oxygen and removing waste 
As the embryo grows, the brain, eyes, and other structures develop 
Soon, a vigorously beating heart is pumping blood throughout the complex embryo 
Which is rapidly developing into a mature organism 
The blastoderm, the area pellucida, is translucent because it is over a liquid 
And the white of the egg 
Vessels over the yolk expands 
Some of the albumen becomes thickened and twisted as the egg passes down the oviduct 
These rope-like strands, called the chalazae, help to hold the cell in position 
The blastoderm at this stage consists of many cells produced by repeated cell division 
While the egg is still within the organism 
</blockquote>

== Trivia ==
* The track was used in the end credits of [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26657236/ Backrooms] by [[wikipedia:Kane Parsons|Kane Parsons]], a film based on the [[wikipedia:Backrooms (web series)|web series]] and [[wikipedia:The Backrooms|creepypasta]] of the same name.
** Notably, ''[[Inferno]]'' and the film were released on the same day, May 29th, 2026. How [[wikipedia:A24|A24]] received advanced access to the track is unknown.

== Videos ==

A video breaking down roughly the parts with the sample:

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== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/2zKrt7YUpsKWEQagjS4rOQ </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

The Process

2026-05-30T22:46:26Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
• “The Process” most likely refers to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and had disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, “The Process” was the title of the group’s self-titled Magazine.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of babble, such as "We noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "Between various Phoenician Bishops it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']."

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/42OW4oOni3AFXblcQnPthw </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

The Process

2026-05-30T18:22:13Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E: /* Samples / Lyrics */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
• “The Process” most likely refers to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and had disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, “The Process” was the title of the group’s self-titled Magazine.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of babble, such as "We noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "Between various Phoenician Bishops it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']"

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/42OW4oOni3AFXblcQnPthw </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

The Process

2026-05-30T18:21:53Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E: /* Samples / Lyrics */

{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
• “The Process” most likely refers to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and had disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, “The Process” was the title of the group’s self-titled Magazine.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of "babble" such as "We noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "Between various Phoenician Bishops it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']"

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/42OW4oOni3AFXblcQnPthw </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

The Process

2026-05-30T18:21:42Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=The Process
| runtime=3:01
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
• “The Process” most likely refers to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and had disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, “The Process” was the title of the group’s self-titled Magazine.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of "babble" such as "We noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "Between various Phoenician Bishops it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']"

</blockquote>

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/42OW4oOni3AFXblcQnPthw </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]

Age Of Capricorn

2026-05-30T17:54:48Z

2600:1004:A034:74AF:C5FA:A62:4FF6:387E:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Age Of Capricorn
| runtime=3:52
| appearson=[[Inferno]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==

The frequent mentions of Mabus possibly refer to the writings of Nostradamus. Mabus is popularly considered to be the name of one of three supposed antichrists in the writings of Nostradamus. This is disputed by others, but nonetheless the name "Mabus" for the Antichrist remains tied to Nostradamus mythology.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
* From 0:49 onwards, a Nostradamus prophecy theorist (potentially John Hogue) performing anagrammatic analysis on the name "Mabus", linking Osama Bin Laden through an alternative spelling "Usama".
<blockquote>
U-S-A-M-A 
M double A-U-S 
U 
M-A-B-U-S 
Mabus, Mabus</blockquote>
* From 1:25 onwards, call and response choral singing.
<blockquote>
This will always come to be / Just the Lord's love for me 
?
</blockquote>
* From 1:58, a prayer from the end of televangelist Jack Van Impe's 1990 video tape "[https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1166333-a-d-2000-the-end A.D. 2000: The End?]".<ref>{{#ev:youtube|SXscbPwJXSA|480||||start=3219|false}}</ref>
<blockquote>
I am a sinner 
All have sinned 
You bore my sin 
You shed your blood for me 
To cleanse me 
I receive you 
And your shed blood 
For the remission of my sins 
Come into my heart 
Save me now 
Help me to be ready for your return 
In your name, I pray this</blockquote>
* At 2:55, a deep raspy voice, possibly TTS, saying "Capricorn".

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==
https://youtu.be/lz0-k9eDLGI?si=MhMg_vVhWMZAlA7x&t=3211

== Audio ==
<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/6iQ2DAJ3fmtDzByJQAqAki </spotify>

== External links ==

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Inferno tracks]]