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User:Ivo

2008-08-31T14:46:02Z

Ivo:

My real name is [http://novayshun.com Brian] and I live in [[wikipedia:England|England]]. I was born in 1973.

I am active on [[Twoism (forum)|Twoism]] (as [http://www.twoism.org/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=457 novayshun]) and [http://last.fm Last.FM] (as [http://last.fm/user/novayshun novayshun]).

However I am banned from [[WATMM]] (as [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showuser=2678 Ivo]) due to a clerical error.

User:Ivo

2008-08-31T12:35:04Z

Ivo: New page: I am Brian from [http://novayshun.com novayshun.com]. My real name is Brian and I live in England. I was born in 1973. I am active on Twoism (as ...

I am Brian from [http://novayshun.com novayshun.com]. My real name is Brian and I live in [[wikipedia:England|England]]. I was born in 1973.

I am active on [[Twoism (forum)|Twoism]] (as [http://www.twoism.org/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=457 novayshun]) and [http://last.fm Last.FM] (as [http://last.fm/user/novayshun novayshun]).

However I am banned from [[WATMM]] (as [http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showuser=2678 Ivo]) due to a clerical error.

Unreleased Tracks

2008-08-26T20:04:37Z

Ivo: New page: {{Infobox Release| | name=Unreleased Tracks | release_date=2007 | format=12" | label=Not On A Label | catno=BOCNM-1104 | runtime=20:35 }} The origin of this record is unknown. Despite t...

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Unreleased Tracks
| release_date=2007
| format=12"
| label=Not On A Label
| catno=BOCNM-1104
| runtime=20:35
}}

The origin of this record is unknown. Despite the title three of the four tracks have received a proper release.

==Tracks==
# "[[Trapped (Hell Interface Remix)]]" from [[MASK200]] – 6:21
# "[[Trapped (Short Slow Version)]]" from [[A Few Old Tunes]] – 3:52
# "[[Midas Touch]]" from [[MASK500]] – 4:43
# "[[Korona]]" from [[MASK100]] – 5:39

{{Nav-Releases}}

John Peel (radio programme)

2008-08-26T16:51:18Z

Ivo:

The Peel Session was recorded especially for the John Peel Radio Programme on BBC Radio 1. The peel session was recorded in-part for John Peel's show 16th June 1998 and was broadcast in it's entirety 21st July 1998. The recording track list as follows:

== Tracks ==
# "[[Aquarius]]"
# "[[Happy Cycling]]" (Changed From Bad Day)
# "[[Olson]]"
# "[[Xyz]]"

Credits Include:
# Producer - Mike Robinson
# Engineer - Fred Kay
# Studio - Maida Vale 4

== Comments ==
* [[Xyz]] was the only track broadcast live on 16th June 1998 with John Peel talking with [[Boards Of Canada]] breifly before their performance.
* The only recordings from that session that have been officially released are [[Aquarius]] and [[Olson]]. For reasons unclear the recordings of [[Happy Cycling]] and [[Xyz]] from that session were not part of the [[Peel Session]] release the following year.

== External links ==
* ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1990s/1998/Jun16boardsofcanada/ John Peel]'' at BBC.co.uk

[[Category: Stubs]]
[[Category: Recordings]]

John Peel (radio programme)

2008-08-26T15:03:35Z

Ivo:

The Peel Session was recorded especially for the John Peel Radio Programme on BBC Radio 1. The peel session was recorded as in-part for John Peel's show 16th June 1998 and was broadcast in it's entirety 21st July 1998. The recording track list as follows:

== Tracks ==
# "[[Aquarius]]"
# "[[Happy Cycling]]" (Changed From Bad Day)
# "[[Olson]]"
# "[[Xyz]]"

Credits Include:
# Producer - Mike Robinson
# Engineer - Fred Kay
# Studio - Maida Vale 4

== Comments ==
* [[Xyz]] was the only track broadcast live on 16th June 1998 with John Peel talking with [[Boards Of Canada]] breifly before their performance.
* The only recordings from that session that have been officially released are [[Aquarius]] and [[Olson]]. For reasons unclear the recordings of [[Happy Cycling]] and [[Xyz]] from that session were not part of the [[Peel Session]] release the following year.

== External links ==
* ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1990s/1998/Jun16boardsofcanada/ John Peel]'' at BBC.co.uk

[[Category: Stubs]]
[[Category: Recordings]]

John Peel (radio programme)

2008-08-26T14:57:54Z

Ivo: Details of radio session

The Peel Session was recorded especially for the John Peel Radio Programme on BBC Radio 1. The peel session was broadcast as part of John Peel's show 16th June 1998. The recording track list as follows:

== Tracks ==
# "[[Aquarius]]"
# "[[Happy Cycling]]" (Changed From Bad Day)
# "[[Olson]]"
# "[[Xyz]]"

Credits Include:
# Producer - Mike Robinson
# Engineer - Fred Kay
# Studio - Maida Vale 4

== Comments ==
* The only recordings from that session that have been officially released are [[Aquarius]] and [[Olson]]. For reasons unclear the recordings of [[Happy Cycling]] and [[Xyz]] from that session were not part of the [[Peel Session]] release the following year.

== External links ==
* ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1990s/1998/Jun16boardsofcanada/ John Peel]'' at BBC.co.uk

[[Category: Stubs]]
[[Category: Recordings]]

Discography

2008-08-26T14:43:44Z

Ivo: /* Radio Shows */

== Early vs. Late Releases ==
[[Boards of Canada]]'s discography essentially falls in two camps.
*The well-known releases that followed after the duo were signed, first to [[SKAM]] and then to [[Warp Records]], which can be purchased in any decent record shop.
*The releases which precede this, of which original copies are exceptionally rare. Much of the knowledge we have of the latter is due to [[The Cosmic Crofter]]'s webpage, which is now defunct.
**The exceptions: copies of [[BoC Maxima]] and the "Old Tunes" tapes which are almost certainly legitimate are readily available on the p2p networks.
** These older items are '''NOT AVAILABLE'''; only friends and family of BoC have heard them.
*** In addition, three extracts of genuine old tracks came from a BoC-related website that no longer exists. They are: "duffy" (extract) (0:24), [[Wouldn't You Like To Be Free]] (extract) (0:56), [[circle]] (extract) (0:35), [[duffy]] is a gentle and innocent track a little bit similar to [[Melissa Juice]]; "wouldn't you like to be free?" features massed guitars; "circle" has slowly changing high-pitched glacial tones, fitting the Alaskan theme of the album it comes from.

== Fakes ==
* Many albums which purport to be other rare releases are commonplace too, but almost without exception, these have proven to be fakes of varying qualities so far.
** Among the fakes, the most common are [[eno test]] and [[parson]], wrongly taken to be by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] and [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], whereas they are by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] alone. A few other such mis-labelled tracks go around from time to time. Other fakes: a longer version of [[circle]] which sounds nothing like the genuine short extract. [[trillions]] (3:31) is a fake, as is [[treeline]] '(1:12).
** Another set of fake MP3s that went around were called [[nskino]], ''gridlock'', [[lavender trapezoids]], [[golden hinterland]], [[rhomboid]], and maybe some more. We've been told that these are mislabelled tracks by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/CiM CiM] [[nskino]] is really ''disco alta'', [[rhomboid]] is really ''isempty'', and so on (thanks, MCBPete). With any luck, the fakes will eventually stop being labelled as [[Boards of Canada|BoC]].
** A recent fake that surfaced is the track ''Sur Round'' [http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4388], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNouwiE8rRA]--[[User:Fredd-E|Fredd-E]] 15:00, 25 August 2008 (CEST)

== Rare/Early Releases ==
* ''[[Catalog 3]]''
* ''[[Acid Memories]]
* ''[[Closes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Play By Numbers]]''
* ''[[Hooper Bay]]''
* ''[[BoC Maxima]]''
* ''[[A Few Old Tunes]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 2]]''
*''[[Geogaddi (test pressing)]]'': February 2002, blue colored LP (limited to 10 copies), WARPLP101

== General Releases ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'': 20 April 1998, CD + LP, WARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Geogaddi]]'': 18 February 2002, CD + 3xLP + Limited edition hardbound, WARP101
* ''[[The Campfire Headphase]]'': 17 October 2005, CD + 2xLP + Promotional copies, WARP123

=== Eps and 12"s ===
* ''[[Twoism]]'': 1995, Cassette + LP (100 copies originally printed, now many), BOARD1
* ''[[Hi Scores]]'': December 1996, LP, SKA008
* ''[[Aquarius]]'': 5 January 1998, 7" LP (limited to 500 copies), KMAS001
* ''[[Peel Session]]'': 15 January 1999, CD + LP, WAP114
* ''[[In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country]]'': 17 November 2000, sky-blue LP, WAP144
* ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'': 29 May 2006, CD + Enhanced CD + EP+ Promotional copies, WAP200

== Promotional Releases ==
* ''[[Telephasic Workshop (release)|Telephasic Workshop]] 10" (b/w [[Roygbiv]])'' : 1998, 10" LP (limited to 200 copies), 10WARPLP055P
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' : 1998, CD, PWARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Orange Romeda]]'' : 29 June 1998, 12" EP (Limited edition); WAP100P
*''[[Geogaddi (promo)]]'' : 12 January 2002, LP, WARPLP101P

== Bootleg Releases ==
*''[[Unreleased Tracks]]'' : 2007, 12", BOCNM-1104

== Remixes ==
=== Remixes by BoC ===
* ''[[Michael Fakesch - Surfaise : The Trade Winds Mix By Boards Of Canada]]'' - Appears on ''Demon 1''. March 1997. 12". MAS 04.01.
* ''[[Mira Calix - Sandsings]]'' : remixed by Boards Of Canada - May 1998. 2 x10", CD Single. WAP 97.
* ''[[Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Marble]]'' : Boards Of Canada Mix - 1998. 12", CD Single. iLLXXX007.
* ''[[Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup]]'' : Vegetarian Soup by Boards Of Canada - 23 Nov 1998. 12", CD Single, BIAS 352.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD, 12" Promo. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (reprise)]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake]]'' : Boards Of Canada Remix - May 2003. 12", LEX 014.
* ''[[Clouddead - Dead Dogs Two]]'' : Remixed by Boards of Canada - 26 January 2004. 12". CD Single. BDCDS064.
* ''[[Beck - Broken Drum]]'' : Boards of Canada Remix - 29 March 2005. CD, Promo 12" EP, Promo CD EP. B0004365-00.
* ''[[Why? - Good Friday]]'' : Remix by Boards of Canada - 29 November 2007. "Lilac" Vinyl 12" EP [UK], Promo CD EP. ABR 79/TOM 111.

=== Remixes of BoC ===
* ''[[Kid For Today (Stereolab Remix)]]'' - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Stereolab|Stereolab]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 October 1999. WARP 69.
* ''[[An Eagle in Your Mind (Consumed and Regurgitated By The P.B.O.ster!)]]'' - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Push Button Objects|Push Button Objects]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 Oct 1999. WARP 69.
* ''[[Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)]]'' - Remix by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]]
** Appears on the ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'' EP. 29 June 2006. WAP 200.
* ''[[D C (Bit)]]'' - Remix by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]]
** Appears on ''[http://www.discogs.com/release/1379539 Pretty Swell Explode]'' and is related to [[Dayvan Cowboy]] LP. 10 June 2008. ABR0083LP.
* ''[[This Bird]]'' - Remixed by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Solange+(2)?noanv=1 Solange Knowles]
** Appears on [[wikipedia:Sol-Angel_and_the_Hadley_St._Dreams|Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams]] and contains a sample of [[Slow This Bird Down]] CD. 26 August 2008.
===== Notes =====
* Several bootleg remixes of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] tracks also exist, but are not listed here.
* ''[[Roygbiv#Alpha_Quest_Mix|ROYGBIV (Alpha Quest Mix)]]'' was a custom edit by [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] for an independent film. Not intended to be released, the mix was leaked onto the internet.

== Tracks On Compilations ==

=== As Boards of Canada ===
* ''[[Korona]]'' : Dec 1996. 12". Limited Edition. MASK100.
* ''[[Orange Romeda]]'' : 29 June 1998. CD + 12". WAP100CD + WAP100.
* ''[[Sixtyniner]]'' : July 1998. 7". Limited 500 copies. DISKONO001X.

=== As Hell Interface ===
The [[Hell Interface]] side-project seems to be more in the nature of a remix project than [[Boards of Canada]] proper. The works released under the HI name are: remixes of [[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped|Colonel Abrahams' Trapped]] and of [[Midnight Star - Midas Touch|Midnight Star's Midas Touch]], and a strange little speech-only track called [[The Story of Xentrix]]. Can this last track be described as a remix? Most of the speech seems to be synthesized; however, the last few words sound rather different - perhaps from another source (just speculation).

There used to be link here to an animated trailer here, for a program called "Zentrix", which was taken down after a while. By request, here it is again (be aware that the trailer is not necessarily related to the Hell Interface track, except by the similarity of names). The trailer can be found at the Zentrix site [http://www.zentrix.tv/].

* ''[[Soylent Night]]'' : 1997. 7". VVMT0004 & 2001. 3"CD. VVMT0004X.
* ''[[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped]]'' : April 1997. 12". Limited Edition. MASK200.
* ''[[Midnight Star - Midas Touch]]'' : 1999. 12". Limited Edition. MASK500.
* ''[[The Story of Xentrix]]'' : 6 January 2003. CD. Mixed. WARPCDWIF.

== Live Bootlegs ==
An overview of [[Boards of Canada]]'s live set geographical locations can be seen [[Gigography|here]].

Some of those performances were bootlegged:
* ''[[Live @ Warp10]]'': 5 November 1999, MP3
* ''[[Live @ Lighthouse]]'': 14 October 2000, MP3
* ''[[Live @ ATP]]'': 7 April 2001, MP3

== Others ==
=== Radio Shows ===
* [[Disengage|Disengage radio show]]
* [[Helter Skelter (radio programme)|Helter Skelter radio show]]
* [[John Peel (radio programme)|Peel Session]]
{{Nav-Releases}}

Peel Session

2008-08-26T13:47:19Z

Ivo: added detail about japanese release

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Peel Session
| release_date=18 Jan 1999
| format=12" <br> cd5"
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WAP114 <br> WAP114CD
| runtime=16:51
}}

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9927/peelsessionnz5.jpg

[[Boards of Canada]]'s [[Peel Session]] is a recording of their 21 July 1998 broadcast on BBC Radio 1 for [[wikipedia:John Peel]]'s radio program. It features significantly different takes of both [[Aquarius]] and [[Olson]]. The version of [[Happy Cycling]] that we see on this release is not the same as what was actually broadcast, here we find the polished version that also appears as an extra track on [[Music Has The Right To Children]] and the broadcast version formerly known as [[Bad Day]] being dropped.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about the nature and timing of this recording, in part because of the surfacing of an unreleased track on peer-to-peer networks entitled "[[XYZ]]." This track appears to have been a part of the Peel Session but was strangely omitted from the track listing of the official release. "[[XYZ]]" in its full 9:38 cut (shortened versions still circulate) includes an exchange both before and after the track between John Peel and [[Boards of Canada]].

As explained by Deadfly on the [[Twoism_(messageboard)|Twoism]] forum:

"Peel Sessions normally consisted of four tracks which were recorded in advance in the BBC recording studio and broadcast at a later date when the band were not present. Sometimes bands played live on the programme, but they were not referred to as Peel Sessions. The BoC session was unusual because they were in the BBC recording studio recording their session at the same time as the Peel programme was on air. This meant that they could have a live link-up with BoC in the recording studio, and that's when the interview took place. They played XYZ live on the programme at that time (16-6-98 ), but that was the only track they played and the mp3 of XYZ with the interview really is the whole thing. The complete Peel Session was broadcast on 21-7-98 with all 4 tracks, but the band were not present and there was no interview"([http://www.barneum.com/twoism/viewtopic.php?t=1135&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=32, Original Post]).

Peel Session was released by [[Warp Records]] (WAP 114) on both CD and 12" vinyl formats. These tracks are also available as part of [http://www.discogs.com/release/156669 Warp Peel Sessions Vol. 1] in Japan.

==Tracks==
# "[[Aquarius (Version 3)]]" – 6:24
# "[[Happy Cycling]]" – 7:56
# "[[Olson (Version 3)]]" – 2:31

{{Nav-Releases}}

Discography

2008-08-26T13:03:57Z

Ivo: /* As Hell Interface */

Discography

2008-08-26T12:56:46Z

Ivo: added Bootleg Releases section

== Early vs. Late Releases ==
[[Boards of Canada]]'s discography essentially falls in two camps.
*The well-known releases that followed after the duo were signed, first to [[SKAM]] and then to [[Warp Records]], which can be purchased in any decent record shop.
*The releases which precede this, of which original copies are exceptionally rare. Much of the knowledge we have of the latter is due to [[The Cosmic Crofter]]'s webpage, which is now defunct.
**The exceptions: copies of [[BoC Maxima]] and the "Old Tunes" tapes which are almost certainly legitimate are readily available on the p2p networks.
** These older items are '''NOT AVAILABLE'''; only friends and family of BoC have heard them.
*** In addition, three extracts of genuine old tracks came from a BoC-related website that no longer exists. They are: "duffy" (extract) (0:24), [[Wouldn't You Like To Be Free]] (extract) (0:56), [[circle]] (extract) (0:35), [[duffy]] is a gentle and innocent track a little bit similar to [[Melissa Juice]]; "wouldn't you like to be free?" features massed guitars; "circle" has slowly changing high-pitched glacial tones, fitting the Alaskan theme of the album it comes from.

== Fakes ==
* Many albums which purport to be other rare releases are commonplace too, but almost without exception, these have proven to be fakes of varying qualities so far.
** Among the fakes, the most common are [[eno test]] and [[parson]], wrongly taken to be by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] and [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], whereas they are by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] alone. A few other such mis-labelled tracks go around from time to time. Other fakes: a longer version of [[circle]] which sounds nothing like the genuine short extract. [[trillions]] (3:31) is a fake, as is [[treeline]] '(1:12).
** Another set of fake MP3s that went around were called [[nskino]], ''gridlock'', [[lavender trapezoids]], [[golden hinterland]], [[rhomboid]], and maybe some more. We've been told that these are mislabelled tracks by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/CiM CiM] [[nskino]] is really ''disco alta'', [[rhomboid]] is really ''isempty'', and so on (thanks, MCBPete). With any luck, the fakes will eventually stop being labelled as [[Boards of Canada|BoC]].
** A recent fake that surfaced is the track ''Sur Round'' [http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4388], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNouwiE8rRA]--[[User:Fredd-E|Fredd-E]] 15:00, 25 August 2008 (CEST)

== Rare/Early Releases ==
* ''[[Catalog 3]]''
* ''[[Acid Memories]]
* ''[[Closes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Play By Numbers]]''
* ''[[Hooper Bay]]''
* ''[[BoC Maxima]]''
* ''[[A Few Old Tunes]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 2]]''
*''[[Geogaddi (test pressing)]]'': February 2002, blue colored LP (limited to 10 copies), WARPLP101

== General Releases ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'': 20 April 1998, CD + LP, WARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Geogaddi]]'': 18 February 2002, CD + 3xLP + Limited edition hardbound, WARP101
* ''[[The Campfire Headphase]]'': 17 October 2005, CD + 2xLP + Promotional copies, WARP123

=== Eps and 12"s ===
* ''[[Twoism]]'': 1995, Cassette + LP (100 copies originally printed, now many), BOARD1
* ''[[Hi Scores]]'': December 1996, LP, SKA008
* ''[[Aquarius]]'': 5 January 1998, 7" LP (limited to 500 copies), KMAS001
* ''[[Peel Session]]'': 15 January 1999, CD + LP, WAP114
* ''[[In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country]]'': 17 November 2000, sky-blue LP, WAP144
* ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'': 29 May 2006, CD + Enhanced CD + EP+ Promotional copies, WAP200

== Promotional Releases ==
* ''[[Telephasic Workshop (release)|Telephasic Workshop]] 10" (b/w [[Roygbiv]])'' : 1998, 10" LP (limited to 200 copies), 10WARPLP055P
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' : 1998, CD, PWARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Orange Romeda]]'' : 29 June 1998, 12" EP (Limited edition); WAP100P
*''[[Geogaddi (promo)]]'' : 12 January 2002, LP, WARPLP101P

== Bootleg Releases ==
*''[[Unreleased Tracks]]'' : 2007, 12", BOCNM-1104

== Remixes ==
=== Remixes by BoC ===
* ''[[Michael Fakesch - Surfaise : The Trade Winds Mix By Boards Of Canada]]'' - Appears on ''Demon 1''. March 1997. 12". MAS 04.01.
* ''[[Mira Calix - Sandsings]]'' : remixed by Boards Of Canada - May 1998. 2 x10", CD Single. WAP 97.
* ''[[Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Marble]]'' : Boards Of Canada Mix - 1998. 12", CD Single. iLLXXX007.
* ''[[Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup]]'' : Vegetarian Soup by Boards Of Canada - 23 Nov 1998. 12", CD Single, BIAS 352.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD, 12" Promo. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (reprise)]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake]]'' : Boards Of Canada Remix - May 2003. 12", LEX 014.
* ''[[Clouddead - Dead Dogs Two]]'' : Remixed by Boards of Canada - 26 January 2004. 12". CD Single. BDCDS064.
* ''[[Beck - Broken Drum]]'' : Boards of Canada Remix - 29 March 2005. CD, Promo 12" EP, Promo CD EP. B0004365-00.
* ''[[Why? - Good Friday]]'' : Remix by Boards of Canada - 29 November 2007. "Lilac" Vinyl 12" EP [UK], Promo CD EP. ABR 79/TOM 111.

=== Remixes of BoC ===
* ''[[Kid For Today (Stereolab Remix)]]'' - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Stereolab|Stereolab]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 October 1999. WARP 69.
* ''[[An Eagle in Your Mind (Consumed and Regurgitated By The P.B.O.ster!)]]'' - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Push Button Objects|Push Button Objects]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 Oct 1999. WARP 69.
* ''[[Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)]]'' - Remix by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]]
** Appears on the ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'' EP. 29 June 2006. WAP 200.
* ''[[D C (Bit)]]'' - Remix by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]]
** Appears on ''[http://www.discogs.com/release/1379539 Pretty Swell Explode]'' and is related to [[Dayvan Cowboy]] LP. 10 June 2008. ABR0083LP.
* ''[[This Bird]]'' - Remixed by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Solange+(2)?noanv=1 Solange Knowles]
** Appears on [[wikipedia:Sol-Angel_and_the_Hadley_St._Dreams|Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams]] and contains a sample of [[Slow This Bird Down]] CD. 26 August 2008.
===== Notes =====
* Several bootleg remixes of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] tracks also exist, but are not listed here.
* ''[[Roygbiv#Alpha_Quest_Mix|ROYGBIV (Alpha Quest Mix)]]'' was a custom edit by [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] for an independent film. Not intended to be released, the mix was leaked onto the internet.

== Tracks On Compilations ==

=== As Boards of Canada ===
* ''[[Korona]]'' : Dec 1996. 12". Limited Edition. MASK100.
* ''[[Orange Romeda]]'' : 29 June 1998. CD + 12". WAP100CD + WAP100.
* ''[[Sixtyniner]]'' : July 1998. 7". Limited 500 copies. DISKONO001X.

=== As Hell Interface ===
The [[Hell Interface]] side-project seems to be more in the nature of a remix project than [[Boards of Canada]] proper. The works released under the HI name are: remixes of [[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped|Colonel Abrahams' Trapped]] and of [[Midnight Star - Midas Touch|Midnight Star's Midas Touch]], and a strange little speech-only track called [[The Story of Xentrix]]. Can this last track be described as a remix? Most of the speech seems to be synthesized; however, the last few words sound rather different - perhaps from another source (just speculation).

There used to be link here to an animated trailer here, for a program called "Zentrix", which was taken down after a while. By request, here it is again (be aware that the trailer is not necessarily related to the Hell Interface track, except by the similarity of names). The trailer can be found at the Zentrix site [http://www.zentrix.tv/].

* ''[[Soylent Night]]'' : 2001. CD + Mini. VVMT0004X.
* ''[[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped]]'' : April 1997. 12". Limited Edition. MASK200.
* ''[[Midnight Star - Midas Touch]]'' : 1999. 12". Limited Edition. MASK500.
* ''[[The Story of Xentrix]]'' : 6 January 2003. CD. Mixed. WARPCDWIF.

== Live Bootlegs ==
An overview of [[Boards of Canada]]'s live set geographical locations can be seen [[Gigography|here]].

Some of those performances were bootlegged:
* ''[[Live @ Warp10]]'': 5 November 1999, MP3
* ''[[Live @ Lighthouse]]'': 14 October 2000, MP3
* ''[[Live @ ATP]]'': 7 April 2001, MP3

== Others ==
=== Radio Shows ===
* [[Disengage|Disengage radio show]]
* [[Helter Skelter (radio programme)|Helter Skelter radio show]]
{{Nav-Releases}}

This Bird

2008-08-26T12:45:32Z

Ivo:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=This Bird
| runtime=6:09
| appearson=[[wikipedia:Sol-Angel_and_the_Hadley_St._Dreams|Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams]]}}

[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Remixes of boc]]

{{stub}}

Geogaddi (promo lp)

2008-08-26T12:42:41Z

Ivo: fixed the year

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Geogaddi (Promo)
| release_date=21 Jan 2002
| format=12"
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARPLP101P
| runtime=7:28
}}

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/8528/geogaddipromoog8.jpg

The '''''Geogaddi promo''''' was a one-sided 12" vinyl disc advertising [[Boards of Canada]]'s album, [[Geogaddi]]. The center label is in the shape of a turquoise hexagon and all two of the tracks are uncredited. The second song, ''Beware The Friendly Stranger'' contains a locked groove.

==Tracks==
'''Side A:'''
# "[[Alpha And Omega]]" – 6:58
# "[[Beware The Friendly Stranger]]" – 0:30

'''Side B:'''
# "[[Magic Window]]"

==Trivia==
*Copies of the promo were distributed at the [[Other live sets#Promotional events|Geogaddi listening parties]].

==See Also==
*[[Geogaddi]]
*[[Geogaddi (test pressing)]]

[[Category:Promotional Releases]]
{{Nav-Releases}}

Discography

2008-08-26T12:42:14Z

Ivo: /* Promotional Releases */ fixed the year

== Early vs. Late Releases ==
[[Boards of Canada]]'s discography essentially falls in two camps.
*The well-known releases that followed after the duo were signed, first to [[SKAM]] and then to [[Warp Records]], which can be purchased in any decent record shop.
*The releases which precede this, of which original copies are exceptionally rare. Much of the knowledge we have of the latter is due to [[The Cosmic Crofter]]'s webpage, which is now defunct.
**The exceptions: copies of [[BoC Maxima]] and the "Old Tunes" tapes which are almost certainly legitimate are readily available on the p2p networks.
** These older items are '''NOT AVAILABLE'''; only friends and family of BoC have heard them.
*** In addition, three extracts of genuine old tracks came from a BoC-related website that no longer exists. They are: "duffy" (extract) (0:24), [[Wouldn't You Like To Be Free]] (extract) (0:56), [[circle]] (extract) (0:35), [[duffy]] is a gentle and innocent track a little bit similar to [[Melissa Juice]]; "wouldn't you like to be free?" features massed guitars; "circle" has slowly changing high-pitched glacial tones, fitting the Alaskan theme of the album it comes from.

== Fakes ==
* Many albums which purport to be other rare releases are commonplace too, but almost without exception, these have proven to be fakes of varying qualities so far.
** Among the fakes, the most common are [[eno test]] and [[parson]], wrongly taken to be by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] and [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], whereas they are by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] alone. A few other such mis-labelled tracks go around from time to time. Other fakes: a longer version of [[circle]] which sounds nothing like the genuine short extract. [[trillions]] (3:31) is a fake, as is [[treeline]] '(1:12).
** Another set of fake MP3s that went around were called [[nskino]], ''gridlock'', [[lavender trapezoids]], [[golden hinterland]], [[rhomboid]], and maybe some more. We've been told that these are mislabelled tracks by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/CiM CiM] [[nskino]] is really ''disco alta'', [[rhomboid]] is really ''isempty'', and so on (thanks, MCBPete). With any luck, the fakes will eventually stop being labelled as [[Boards of Canada|BoC]].
** A recent fake that surfaced is the track ''Sur Round'' [http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4388], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNouwiE8rRA]--[[User:Fredd-E|Fredd-E]] 15:00, 25 August 2008 (CEST)

== Rare/Early Releases ==
* ''[[Catalog 3]]''
* ''[[Acid Memories]]
* ''[[Closes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Play By Numbers]]''
* ''[[Hooper Bay]]''
* ''[[BoC Maxima]]''
* ''[[A Few Old Tunes]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 2]]''
*''[[Geogaddi (test pressing)]]'': February 2002, blue colored LP (limited to 10 copies), WARPLP101

== General Releases ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'': 20 April 1998, CD + LP, WARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Geogaddi]]'': 18 February 2002, CD + 3xLP + Limited edition hardbound, WARP101
* ''[[The Campfire Headphase]]'': 17 October 2005, CD + 2xLP + Promotional copies, WARP123

=== Eps and 12"s ===
* ''[[Twoism]]'': 1995, Cassette + LP (100 copies originally printed, now many), BOARD1
* ''[[Hi Scores]]'': December 1996, LP, SKA008
* ''[[Aquarius]]'': 5 January 1998, 7" LP (limited to 500 copies), KMAS001
* ''[[Peel Session]]'': 15 January 1999, CD + LP, WAP114
* ''[[In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country]]'': 17 November 2000, sky-blue LP, WAP144
* ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'': 29 May 2006, CD + Enhanced CD + EP+ Promotional copies, WAP200

== Promotional Releases ==
* ''[[Telephasic Workshop (release)|Telephasic Workshop]] 10" (b/w [[Roygbiv]])'' : 1998, 10" LP (limited to 200 copies), 10WARPLP055P
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'' : 1998, CD, PWARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Orange Romeda]]'' : 29 June 1998, 12" EP (Limited edition); WAP100P
*''[[Geogaddi (promo)]]'' : 12 January 2002, LP, WARPLP101P

== Remixes ==
=== Remixes by BoC ===
* ''[[Michael Fakesch - Surfaise : The Trade Winds Mix By Boards Of Canada]]'' - Appears on ''Demon 1''. March 1997. 12". MAS 04.01.
* ''[[Mira Calix - Sandsings]]'' : remixed by Boards Of Canada - May 1998. 2 x10", CD Single. WAP 97.
* ''[[Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Marble]]'' : Boards Of Canada Mix - 1998. 12", CD Single. iLLXXX007.
* ''[[Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup]]'' : Vegetarian Soup by Boards Of Canada - 23 Nov 1998. 12", CD Single, BIAS 352.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD, 12" Promo. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (reprise)]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake]]'' : Boards Of Canada Remix - May 2003. 12", LEX 014.
* ''[[Clouddead - Dead Dogs Two]]'' : Remixed by Boards of Canada - 26 January 2004. 12". CD Single. BDCDS064.
* ''[[Beck - Broken Drum]]'' : Boards of Canada Remix - 29 March 2005. CD, Promo 12" EP, Promo CD EP. B0004365-00.
* ''[[Why? - Good Friday]]'' : Remix by Boards of Canada - 29 November 2007. "Lilac" Vinyl 12" EP [UK], Promo CD EP. ABR 79/TOM 111.

=== Remixes of BoC ===
* ''[[Kid For Today (Stereolab Remix)]]'' - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Stereolab|Stereolab]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 October 1999. WARP 69.
* ''[[An Eagle in Your Mind (Consumed and Regurgitated By The P.B.O.ster!)]]'' - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Push Button Objects|Push Button Objects]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 Oct 1999. WARP 69.
* ''[[Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)]]'' - Remix by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]]
** Appears on the ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'' EP. 29 June 2006. WAP 200.
* ''[[D C (Bit)]]'' - Remix by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]]
** Appears on ''[http://www.discogs.com/release/1379539 Pretty Swell Explode]'' and is related to [[Dayvan Cowboy]] LP. 10 June 2008. ABR0083LP.
* ''[[This Bird]]'' - Remixed by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Solange+(2)?noanv=1 Solange Knowles]
** Appears on [[wikipedia:Sol-Angel_and_the_Hadley_St._Dreams|Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams]] and contains a sample of [[Slow This Bird Down]] CD. 26 August 2008.
===== Notes =====
* Several bootleg remixes of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] tracks also exist, but are not listed here.
* ''[[Roygbiv#Alpha_Quest_Mix|ROYGBIV (Alpha Quest Mix)]]'' was a custom edit by [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] for an independent film. Not intended to be released, the mix was leaked onto the internet.

== Tracks On Compilations ==

=== As Boards of Canada ===
* ''[[Korona]]'' : Dec 1996. 12". Limited Edition. MASK100.
* ''[[Orange Romeda]]'' : 29 June 1998. CD + 12". WAP100CD + WAP100.
* ''[[Sixtyniner]]'' : July 1998. 7". Limited 500 copies. DISKONO001X.

=== As Hell Interface ===
The [[Hell Interface]] side-project seems to be more in the nature of a remix project than [[Boards of Canada]] proper. The works released under the HI name are: remixes of [[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped|Colonel Abrahams' Trapped]] and of [[Midnight Star - Midas Touch|Midnight Star's Midas Touch]], and a strange little speech-only track called [[The Story of Xentrix]]. Can this last track be described as a remix? Most of the speech seems to be synthesized; however, the last few words sound rather different - perhaps from another source (just speculation).

There used to be link here to an animated trailer here, for a program called "Zentrix", which was taken down after a while. By request, here it is again (be aware that the trailer is not necessarily related to the Hell Interface track, except by the similarity of names). The trailer can be found at the Zentrix site [http://www.zentrix.tv/].

* ''[[Soylent Night]]'' : 2001. CD + Mini. VVMT0004X.
* ''[[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped]]'' : April 1997. 12". Limited Edition. MASK200.
* ''[[Midnight Star - Midas Touch]]'' : 1999. 12". Limited Edition. MASK500.
* ''[[The Story of Xentrix]]'' : 6 January 2003. CD. Mixed. WARPCDWIF.

== Live Bootlegs ==
An overview of [[Boards of Canada]]'s live set geographical locations can be seen [[Gigography|here]].

Some of those performances were bootlegged:
* ''[[Live @ Warp10]]'': 5 November 1999, MP3
* ''[[Live @ Lighthouse]]'': 14 October 2000, MP3
* ''[[Live @ ATP]]'': 7 April 2001, MP3

== Others ==
=== Radio Shows ===
* [[Disengage|Disengage radio show]]
* [[Helter Skelter (radio programme)|Helter Skelter radio show]]
{{Nav-Releases}}

Signalquality.co.uk

2008-08-26T12:27:37Z

Ivo: New page: A website "that was an old Hexagon Sun-related page someone was using, but it's now gone" MDG. ==See Also== *[http://www.signalquality.co.uk The website] *Boards of Canada *[[Mar...

A website "that was an old Hexagon Sun-related page someone was using, but it's now gone" [[MDG]].

==See Also==
*[http://www.signalquality.co.uk The website]
*[[Boards of Canada]]
*[[Marcus Eoin]]
*[[Michael Sandison]]
*[[Music70]]
*[[Hexagon Sun]]
*[[wikipedia:Hexagon Sun|Wikipedia article on Hexagon Sun]]

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{{Nav-Sites}}

Category:Website

2008-08-26T12:20:43Z

Ivo: /* Official Sites */

A list of websites associated with [[Boards of Canada]].
== Official Sites ==
* [[Boardsofcanada.com|www.boardsofcanada.com]]
* [[Music70.com|www.music70.com]]
* [[Hexagonsun.com|www.hexagonsun.com]]
* [[Abeautifulplace|myspace.com/abeautifulplace]]
* [[Atomless.com|www.atomless.com/projects/boc/site/]]
* [[Signalquality.co.uk|www.signalquality.co.uk]]

== Related Record Labels ==
* [[Warprecords.co.uk|www.warprecords.co.uk]]
* [[Skam.co.uk|www.skam.co.uk]]
* [[Matadorrecords.com|www.matadorrecords.com]]
* [[Beatnik.com|www.beatink.com]]

== Articles & Misc ==
* [[wikipedia:Boards_Of_Canada|boards of canada at wikipedia]]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-01-19/music/melancholy-machines/ melancholy machines]
* [http://www.warprecords.com/ography/WARP55/ music has the right to children microsite]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060519060341/http://www.speakeasy.org/~adbrown/boc.html what the hell is up with boards of canada?]
* [http://mikeypdiddy.tripod.com/boardspaper.htm misanthropy, brainwashing, and society: an analysis of boards of canada's geogaddi]

== Forums & Messageboards ==
* [[Twoism_(messageboard)|Twoism (messageboard)]]
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boards-of-canada/ boards of canada yahoo group - it's all in the wrists...]
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boardsofcanada/ boards of canada yahoo group - music has the right to boc]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/boardsofcanada/ the hexaon sun's journal - livejournal community]
* [[We_Are_The_Music_Makers|We Are The Music Makers (messageboard)]]
* [[Xltronic|Xltronic (messageboard)]]

Category:Website

2008-08-26T12:20:00Z

Ivo: /* Official Sites */

A list of websites associated with [[Boards of Canada]].
== Official Sites ==
* [[Boardsofcanada.com|www.boardsofcanada.com]]
* [[Music70.com|www.music70.com]]
* [[Hexagonsun.com|www.hexagonsun.com]]
* [[Abeautifulplace|myspace.com/abeautifulplace]]
* [[Atomless.com|www.atomless.com/projects/boc/site/]]
* [[Signalquality.co.uk|www.signalquality.co.uk]] - Owned by Hexagon Sun, currently defunct.

== Related Record Labels ==
* [[Warprecords.co.uk|www.warprecords.co.uk]]
* [[Skam.co.uk|www.skam.co.uk]]
* [[Matadorrecords.com|www.matadorrecords.com]]
* [[Beatnik.com|www.beatink.com]]

== Articles & Misc ==
* [[wikipedia:Boards_Of_Canada|boards of canada at wikipedia]]
* [http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-01-19/music/melancholy-machines/ melancholy machines]
* [http://www.warprecords.com/ography/WARP55/ music has the right to children microsite]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060519060341/http://www.speakeasy.org/~adbrown/boc.html what the hell is up with boards of canada?]
* [http://mikeypdiddy.tripod.com/boardspaper.htm misanthropy, brainwashing, and society: an analysis of boards of canada's geogaddi]

== Forums & Messageboards ==
* [[Twoism_(messageboard)|Twoism (messageboard)]]
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boards-of-canada/ boards of canada yahoo group - it's all in the wrists...]
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/boardsofcanada/ boards of canada yahoo group - music has the right to boc]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/boardsofcanada/ the hexaon sun's journal - livejournal community]
* [[We_Are_The_Music_Makers|We Are The Music Makers (messageboard)]]
* [[Xltronic|Xltronic (messageboard)]]

D C (Bit)

2008-08-26T12:12:52Z

Ivo: track details

{{Infobox Song|
| name=D C (Bit)
| runtime=1:34
| appearson=[http://www.discogs.com/release/1379539 Pretty Swell Explode]}}

== Comments ==
* This is a short remix of [[Dayvan Cowboy]] by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]] which appears on his album [http://www.discogs.com/release/1379539 Pretty Swell Explode] It is different to the version found on [[Trans Canada Highway]].

Peel Session

2008-08-26T10:51:41Z

Ivo: added detail about happy cycling

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Peel Session
| release_date=18 Jan 1999
| format=12" <br> cd5"
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WAP114 <br> WAP114CD
| runtime=16:51
}}

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9927/peelsessionnz5.jpg

[[Boards of Canada]]'s [[Peel Session]] is a recording of their 21 July 1998 broadcast on BBC Radio 1 for [[wikipedia:John Peel]]'s radio program. It features significantly different takes of both [[Aquarius]] and [[Olson]]. The version of [[Happy Cycling]] that we see on this release is not the same as what was actually broadcast, here we find the polished version that also appears as an extra track on [[Music Has The Right To Children]] and the broadcast version formerly known as [[Bad Day]] being dropped.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about the nature and timing of this recording, in part because of the surfacing of an unreleased track on peer-to-peer networks entitled "[[XYZ]]." This track appears to have been a part of the Peel Session but was strangely omitted from the track listing of the official release. "[[XYZ]]" in its full 9:38 cut (shortened versions still circulate) includes an exchange both before and after the track between John Peel and [[Boards of Canada]].

As explained by Deadfly on the [[Twoism_(messageboard)|Twoism]] forum:

"Peel Sessions normally consisted of four tracks which were recorded in advance in the BBC recording studio and broadcast at a later date when the band were not present. Sometimes bands played live on the programme, but they were not referred to as Peel Sessions. The BoC session was unusual because they were in the BBC recording studio recording their session at the same time as the Peel programme was on air. This meant that they could have a live link-up with BoC in the recording studio, and that's when the interview took place. They played XYZ live on the programme at that time (16-6-98 ), but that was the only track they played and the mp3 of XYZ with the interview really is the whole thing. The complete Peel Session was broadcast on 21-7-98 with all 4 tracks, but the band were not present and there was no interview"([http://www.barneum.com/twoism/viewtopic.php?t=1135&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=32, Original Post]).

Peel Session was released by [[Warp Records]] (WAP 114) on both CD and 12" vinyl formats.

==Tracks==
# "[[Aquarius (Version 3)]]" – 6:24
# "[[Happy Cycling]]" – 7:56
# "[[Olson (Version 3)]]" – 2:31

{{Nav-Releases}}

Discography

2008-08-26T10:38:57Z

Ivo: /* Promotional Releases */ added promo cd to list

== Early vs. Late Releases ==
[[Boards of Canada]]'s discography essentially falls in two camps.
*The well-known releases that followed after the duo were signed, first to [[SKAM]] and then to [[Warp Records]], which can be purchased in any decent record shop.
*The releases which precede this, of which original copies are exceptionally rare. Much of the knowledge we have of the latter is due to [[The Cosmic Crofter]]'s webpage, which is now defunct.
**The exceptions: copies of [[BoC Maxima]] and the "Old Tunes" tapes which are almost certainly legitimate are readily available on the p2p networks.
** These older items are '''NOT AVAILABLE'''; only friends and family of BoC have heard them.
*** In addition, three extracts of genuine old tracks came from a BoC-related website that no longer exists. They are: "duffy" (extract) (0:24), [[Wouldn't You Like To Be Free]] (extract) (0:56), [[circle]] (extract) (0:35), [[duffy]] is a gentle and innocent track a little bit similar to [[Melissa Juice]]; "wouldn't you like to be free?" features massed guitars; "circle" has slowly changing high-pitched glacial tones, fitting the Alaskan theme of the album it comes from.

== Fakes ==
* Many albums which purport to be other rare releases are commonplace too, but almost without exception, these have proven to be fakes of varying qualities so far.
** Among the fakes, the most common are [[eno test]] and [[parson]], wrongly taken to be by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] and [[Boards of Canada|BoC]], whereas they are by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marumari Marumari] alone. A few other such mis-labelled tracks go around from time to time. Other fakes: a longer version of [[circle]] which sounds nothing like the genuine short extract. [[trillions]] (3:31) is a fake, as is [[treeline]] '(1:12).
** Another set of fake MP3s that went around were called [[nskino]], ''gridlock'', [[lavender trapezoids]], [[golden hinterland]], [[rhomboid]], and maybe some more. We've been told that these are mislabelled tracks by [http://www.discogs.com/artist/CiM CiM] [[nskino]] is really ''disco alta'', [[rhomboid]] is really ''isempty'', and so on (thanks, MCBPete). With any luck, the fakes will eventually stop being labelled as [[Boards of Canada|BoC]].
** A recent fake that surfaced is the track ''Sur Round'' [http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4388], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNouwiE8rRA]--[[User:Fredd-E|Fredd-E]] 15:00, 25 August 2008 (CEST)

== Rare/Early Releases ==
* ''[[Catalog 3]]''
* ''[[Acid Memories]]
* ''[[Closes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Play By Numbers]]''
* ''[[Hooper Bay]]''
* ''[[BoC Maxima]]''
* ''[[A Few Old Tunes]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 1]]''
* ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 2]]''
*''[[Geogaddi (test pressing)]]'': February 2002, blue colored LP (limited to 10 copies), WARPLP101

== General Releases ==
=== Albums ===
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'': 20 April 1998, CD + LP, WARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Geogaddi]]'': 18 February 2002, CD + 3xLP + Limited edition hardbound, WARP101
* ''[[The Campfire Headphase]]'': 17 October 2005, CD + 2xLP + Promotional copies, WARP123

=== Eps and 12"s ===
* ''[[Twoism]]'': 1995, Cassette + LP (100 copies originally printed, now many), BOARD1
* ''[[Hi Scores]]'': December 1996, LP, SKA008
* ''[[Aquarius]]'': 5 January 1998, 7" LP (limited to 500 copies), KMAS001
* ''[[Peel Session]]'': 15 January 1999, CD + LP, WAP114
* ''[[In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country]]'': 17 November 2000, sky-blue LP, WAP144
* ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'': 29 May 2006, CD + Enhanced CD + EP+ Promotional copies, WAP200

== Promotional Releases ==
* ''[[Telephasic Workshop (release)|Telephasic Workshop]] 10" (b/w [[Roygbiv]])'': 1998, 10" LP (limited to 200 copies), 10WARPLP055P
* ''[[Music Has the Right to Children]]'': 1998, CD, PWARP055 + SKA001
* ''[[Orange Romeda]]'': 29 June 1998, 12" EP (Limited edition); WAP100P
*''[[Geogaddi (promo)]]'': 12 January 2001, LP, WARPLP101P

== Remixes ==
=== Remixes by BoC ===
* ''[[Michael Fakesch - Surfaise : The Trade Winds Mix By Boards Of Canada]]'' - Appears on ''Demon 1''. March 1997. 12". MAS 04.01.
* ''[[Mira Calix - Sandsings]]'' : remixed by Boards Of Canada - May 1998. 2 x10", CD Single. WAP 97.
* ''[[Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Marble]]'' : Boards Of Canada Mix - 1998. 12", CD Single. iLLXXX007.
* ''[[Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup]]'' : Vegetarian Soup by Boards Of Canada - 23 Nov 1998. 12", CD Single, BIAS 352.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD, 12" Promo. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (reprise)]]'' : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD. ZIQ007CD.
* ''[[Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake]]'' : Boards Of Canada Remix - May 2003. 12", LEX 014.
* ''[[Clouddead - Dead Dogs Two]]'' : Remixed by Boards of Canada - 26 January 2004. 12". CD Single. BDCDS064.
* ''[[Beck - Broken Drum]]'' : Boards of Canada Remix - 29 March 2005. CD, Promo 12" EP, Promo CD EP. B0004365-00.
* ''[[Why? - Good Friday]]'' : Remix by Boards of Canada - 29 November 2007. "Lilac" Vinyl 12" EP [UK], Promo CD EP. ABR 79/TOM 111.

=== Remixes of BoC ===
* "[[Kid For Today]] (Stereolab Remix)" - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Stereolab|Stereolab]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 October 1999. WARP 69.
* "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]] (Consumed and Regurgitated By The P.B.O.ster!)" - Remixed by [[Wikipedia:Push Button Objects|Push Button Objects]]
** Appears on ''Warp 10+3 Remixes'' compilation album. 11 Oct 1999. WARP 69.
* "[[Dayvan Cowboy]] (Odd Nosdam Remix)" - Remix by [[Wikipedia:Odd Nosdam|Odd Nosdam]]
** Appears on the ''[[Trans Canada Highway]]'' EP. 29 June 2006. WAP 200.

===== Notes =====
* Several bootleg remixes of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] tracks also exist, but are not listed here.
* ''[[Roygbiv#Alpha_Quest_Mix|ROYGBIV (Alpha Quest Mix)]]'' was a custom edit by [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] for an independent film. Not intended to be released, the mix was leaked onto the internet.

== Tracks On Compilations ==

=== As Boards of Canada ===
* [[Korona]] (5:43) released on [http://www.discogs.com/release/19797 MASK100] - Dec 1996
* [[Orange Romeda]] (4:51) released on [http://www.discogs.com/release/637 WAP100CD] | [http://www.discogs.com/release/28759 WAP100] - June 1998
* [[Sixtyniner]] (5:01) released on [http://www.discogs.com/release/20858 DISKONO 001 X] - July 1998

=== As Hell Interface ===
The [[Hell Interface]] side-project seems to be more in the nature of a remix project than [[Boards of Canada]] proper. The works released under the HI name are: remixes of [[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped|Colonel Abrahams' Trapped]] and of [[Midnight Star - Midas Touch|Midnight Star's Midas Touch]], and a strange little speech-only track called [[The Story of Xentrix]]. Can this last track be described as a remix? Most of the speech seems to be synthesized; however, the last few words sound rather different - perhaps from another source (just speculation).

There used to be link here to an animated trailer here, for a program called "Zentrix", which was taken down after a while. By request, here it is again (be aware that the trailer is not necessarily related to the Hell Interface track, except by the similarity of names). The trailer can be found at the Zentrix site [http://www.zentrix.tv/].

* [[Soylent Night]]
* [[Colonel Abrahams - Trapped]]
* [[Midnight Star - Midas Touch]]
* [[The Story of Xentrix]]

== Live Bootlegs ==
An overview of [[Boards of Canada]]'s live set geographical locations can be seen [[Gigography|here]].

Some of those performances were bootlegged:
* ''[[Live @ Warp10]]'': 5 November 1999, MP3
* ''[[Live @ Lighthouse]]'': 14 October 2000, MP3
* ''[[Live @ ATP]]'': 7 April 2001, MP3

== Others ==
=== Radio Shows ===
* [[Disengage|Disengage radio show]]
* [[Helter Skelter (radio programme)|Helter Skelter radio show]]
{{Nav-Releases}}

About

2008-08-22T09:44:14Z

Ivo: /* Biography */

'''Important:'''
I'm working on a redesign of the boc wiki to make it less general wiki styled, but more in line with the theme of boc's music. This work has only just begun. It's not final and everything is subject to change. Not only visual changes are planned, but the goal is to import all the info from the [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/ static boc pages] to the boc wiki.

Also I've updated to the [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-August/000076.html latest MediaWiki] version and have installed a proper [http://recaptcha.net/ captcha system] in order to stop the anonymous spam edits and anonymous bot registrations. If there's anything you like to suggest you can do so by using [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/contact/ my contact page]. --[[User:Fredd-E|Fredd-E]] 18:35, 21 August 2008 (GMT+1)

== About ==

Welcome to the [http://fredd-e.narfum.org fredd-e.narfum.org] wiki created around and about [[Boards of Canada]]. Here you will find information and analyses on the brother's various creations and themselves.

Feel free to add information or facts to any existing article or perhaps create your own!

At the moment, the wiki is rather unstructured, so the best way to find things is to view the [[Special:Allpages|article list]] or [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/wiki/Category:Stubs the list of articles that need expansion].

== News ==

<insert [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/news/ boc news] here>

== Biography ==

A good knowledge of North American TV shows of the late seventies helps in an understanding of the ideas and sounds of Boards of Canada. As children, Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin (Sandison) taught themselves to play various musical instruments whilst soaking up the American cathode-tube culture of the likes of The Six million Dollar Man and Sesame Street, as well as the bleak vision of movies like The Andromeda Strain, Logan's Run and Silent Running. The duo was also picking up influences from the more synthetic exponents of new-wave pop of the time, in particular Devote and The Human League. For a few years Mike focused on creating a band, to keep himself anchored whilst his family relocated several times between northern Scotland, London in England and Alberta in Canada. By the age of ten, now based back in Scotland, Mike was making his own home recordings on old worn-out BASF cassettes.

The sci-fi paranoia and flawed TV soundtracks of that era were a big influence on the duo, as were the early arcade videogames of the time. At the beginning of the 1980's Mike and Marcus had begun writing tracks that imitated the warbling, damaged sounding music found on the soundtracks of 16mm educational documentaries made by the National Film Board of Canada, and they later named their band as a nod to this early influence.

The band spent the early eighties near the beaches of north-east Scotland making crude multi-track recordings with friends, using borrowed tape machines, analogue synths and live drums. Around 1981 they had begun producing home-made movies on Super-8 cine film, and were creating the films' soundtracks by themselves. By 1984, aged thirteen, Mike was already visiting a local recording studio and making rough demos. Mike and Marcus were by now producing more structured songs with any instruments they could lay their hands on, as well as completely abstract tape collages of found sounds from radio and TV.

In the mid-eighties, now based near Edinburgh in Scotland, Mike recruited a few friends to form the first of several incarnations of a 'proper' band. Marcus Eoin was drafted in, initially as a bass player, but he soon emerged as co-writer and co-conspirator for what the band was later to become. At this point the band had a fairly traditional live set-up; guitars, bass, keyboards, drummer and occasional vocals, but the emphasis was on minimal, atonal electronic songs, a sound that easily stood out amongst the abundance of traditional rock and hair-metal bands the audiences in their local area were used to. The line-up of the group changed frequently, and Marcus was later quoted as saying that they had gone through at least fourteen other musicians during this period, a statistic Mark E. Smith would be proud of.

During the late 1980's whilst working on a series of film and photographic projects, the group decided to create a studio of their own. Unrewarding day-jobs funded the purchase of audio gear and a variety of exotic acoustic musical instruments, and with the acquisition of samplers the band began producing do-it-yourself garage demos on their own label Music70 which they distributed mainly amongst friends. Soon the band was producing cassette EP's and even entire albums of demo material, some of which have since gone on to become legendary collectors' items. It was during this period that the name 'Boards of Canada', initially an EP project title, became the name of the band.

Around 1990 Mike and Marcus, frustrated by the traditional line-up and the lack of commitment of other band members, started to mould the band's performances into something altogether more bizarre. Every summer Mike and Marcus collaborated with friends under the name Hexagon Sun to throw late-night outdoor parties in the countryside near their studio in Scotland, where bonfires were accompanied by electronic music, processed television themes, films, projections and reversed speech tapes to create an exciting, if slightly threatening, atmosphere. These nights, which the band still occasionally organise to this day, became known as 'Redmoon' nights after an early event which was dramatically backdropped by a blood-red full moon.

In the summer of 1995 Boards of Canada recorded and self-financed a vinyl-only limited-edition album called Twoism. It was essentially a well-produced demo, and the intention was to mail it out to record companies and artists that the group were listening to at that point. The album was a breath of fresh air to those who had grown tired of the frantic and polished sci-fi studio acrobatics of jungle and drum&bass which were the predominant trends in electronic music of the time. Twoism was a collection of spacious, gnarled and glacial tones and dissonant, melancholy melodies over sparse hip-hop beats, but with a curiously deliberate 'broken-ness' to the production. Every melody had been created to wobble and flutter slightly, like damaged music from an old worn-out cassette. In an era of clean, digital music, and with compact discs having largely replaced vinyl as the primary format for commercial music, this nostalgic, imperfect sound was to earn Boards of Canada huge respect as innovators in subsequent years.

At the beginning of 1996 a copy of Twoism arrived at the headquarters of Skam Records in Manchester, England, and within a day of hearing it, Autechre's Sean Booth had contacted Boards of Canada. Mike and Marcus recorded the Hi Scores EP for Skam and it was released later that year. A string of live dates followed, notably including an appearance at the 1997 Phoenix Festival, where BOC brought their anachronistic sounds and Super-8 visuals to play alongside various luminaries of the electronic music scene.

Shortly after the release of the single on Skam entitled Aquarius in February 1998, amid much speculation, the announcement came that Boards of Canada had signed to Warp Records, and after a few remixes and single appearances, the band completed the album Music Has The Right To Children which was jointly released between Warp Records and Skam in April 1998.

Music Has The Right To Children combined beautiful sparse melodies with off-pitch analogue synths and moments of unsettling fragmented speech, all produced with the band's trademark 'damaged' sound. The record closes with the very wry anti-censorship message One Very Important Thought, which pastiches the messages usually found at the end of 1980's porno videos: a very 'BOC' moment.

Music Has The Right To Children received rave reviews in the international music press, and after landing a licensing deal with Matador Records in the USA it went on to become one of the most highly acclaimed records of 1998 and received multiple end-of-year awards. "Album of the Issue" - Jockey Slut, April/May 1998, "Album of the Month" - Wax magazine, May 1998. "No.16" - NME Albums of the Year 198, "No.3" - Jockey Slut Albums of the Year 1998, "No.5" - The Wire Albums of the Year 1998, "No.8" - DJ Magazine Albums of the Year 1998, "No.19" - Muzik Albums of the Year 1998.

Boards of Canada recorded an exclusive session for the John Peel Show on the UK's Radio 1 in June 1998, and performed live on the show during the recording of the session. Peel described it on air as an "excellent session." Warp later released the session as a single.

Music Has The Right To Children returned to the UK Independent Chart top 20 in February 1999, and after staying around for three weeks it peaked at number 7. Simultaneously the Peel Sessing single hung around the Top 10 of the Independent Singles Chart for several weeks. Boards of Canada soon found themselves in demand for remix work and obliged with a handful of mixes for various artists, including the hugely influential Meat Beat Manifesto.

In May 1999 NME included Boards of Canada in its "Top Ten Nu-Psychedelic Bands," alongside Mercury Rev & The Beta Band. In the same issue NME ranked Boards of Canada's debut album 'Music Has the Right to Children' in its "Top 25 Psychedelic Records of All Time".

From 1999 onward various tracks from the BOC back-catalogue were being licensed for compilation albums, TV synchronisation and film soundtracks all over the world. In the summer of 1999 Boards of Canada commenced work on their second full-length album for Warp Records. Meanwhile they contributed two exclusive tracks to Warp's 10th birthday celebration albums which were released later that year.

In November 2000, after a few more live dates in the UK, the band released a four-track EP called In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country. It was a deceptively optimistic title for a collection of beautifully sad, melancholy tunes, especially as closer inspection revealed references in the artwork and titles to the 1993 killings by FBI agents of David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult at Waco in Texas.

In april 2001 BOC headlined at All Tomorrow's Parties, a festival on the south coast of England with an esoteric line-up including Lambchop, Television, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise, Broadcast, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many others.

In February 2002 Boards of Canada released Geogaddi, the long-awaited follow-up to 'Music Has the Right to Children'. Described as a darker partner to the previous album, with its swirling psychedelic melodies and layers of dense ephemeral detail, it managed to be both beautiful and disturbing. Geogaddi immediately entered the Top 20 Album Chart and stayed there for several weeks. In interviews, Mike and Marcus revealed that the album had included many so-called 'easter eggs', and that some of the music had been developed using number theory and equations such as the Fibonacci Ratio. This led to some of the band's fans setting up entire websites devoted to decryption of the 'back-masking' and other hidden details on the record. Ultimately, BOC's true intentions were written there clearly all along; in typical sardonic style they had even included a track on the album entitled The Devil is in the Details, as a kind of knowing wink to the astute listener.

In September 2002 Boards of Canada produced a lush remix of US artist Boom Bip's track 'Last Walk around Mirror Lake' for a single taken from his 'Seed to Sun' LP, and in February 2004 BOC created a giddy reworking of the song 'Dead Dogs Two' by US band cLOUDDEAD from Oakland. The BOC version brought in the whole gamut of retro psychedelic elements including reversed guitars, flutes, sitars and strings, and culminated in a wigged-out Beatles-esque climax reminiscent of 'A Day In The Life'.

In the summer of 2004 Mike became a father. His daughter was born during the writing sessions of the band's forthcoming third studio album for Warp.

At the end of 2004 US artist Beck asked Boards of Canada to remix a song from his upcoming album 'Guero'. BOC took the vocal lines of his beautifully wistful track Broken Drum and created a whole new melody around them, with an epic, heavily layered crescendo. In an interview with Clash magazine in the spring of 2005, Beck described the remix as "my favourite remix I've ever had done, they brought out something that was there but then they just added a whole new dimension. I guess it's quite an emotional song and they brought out something bittersweet in it that was kinda hippyish, but it doesn't maim you with saccharin. It kinda gets you right in the chest."

In summer 2005 Boards of Canada completed work on their third album for Warp Records. The Campfire Headphase is set for worldwide release in October 2005.

{{stub}}

== FAQ ==
=== I downloaded Catalog 3 / Acid Memories / Closes Vol.1 / Play by Numbers / Hooper Bay on Soulseek. Legit? ===

No, they aren't. Please read the first paragraph of the discography. Also copies of these albums were only given to friends and family of the band which implies that it's not possible to acquire them on the internet.

=== I downloaded a collection of BoC tracks labeled as A Few Old Tunes Volume 2. Are these tracks legit? ===

There is no such thing as A Few Old Tunes Volume 2. The tracks you downloaded however are most likely a collection of tracks from genuine BoC compilations; probably compiled from the following authentic BoC material: A Few Old Tunes, Old Tunes Volume 01 and/or Old Tunes Volume 02.

=== I downloaded a BoC track labeled Eno Test / Parson / Trillions / Treeline / Nskino / Gridlock / Lavender Trapezoids / Golden Hinterland / Rhomboid. Are they legit? ===

No, they are just a bunch of mislabeled mp3s floating around the internet. Please see the discography for more information.

=== Are BoC pagans / satanists / [various other strange suggestions]? ===

No, they are just normal lads like you and me. Please read the interviews for more insights.

{{stub}}

About

2008-08-22T08:11:59Z

Ivo: /* Biography */

'''Important:'''
I'm working on a redesign of the boc wiki to make it less general wiki styled, but more in line with the theme of boc's music. This work has only just begun. It's not final and everything is subject to change. Not only visual changes are planned, but the goal is to import all the info from the [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/ static boc pages] to the boc wiki.

Also I've updated to the [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-August/000076.html latest MediaWiki] version and have installed a proper [http://recaptcha.net/ captcha system] in order to stop the anonymous spam edits and anonymous bot registrations. If there's anything you like to suggest you can do so by using [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/contact/ my contact page]. --[[User:Fredd-E|Fredd-E]] 18:35, 21 August 2008 (GMT+1)

== About ==

Welcome to the [http://fredd-e.narfum.org fredd-e.narfum.org] wiki created around and about [[Boards of Canada]]. Here you will find information and analyses on the brother's various creations and themselves.

Feel free to add information or facts to any existing article or perhaps create your own!

At the moment, the wiki is rather unstructured, so the best way to find things is to view the [[Special:Allpages|article list]] or [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/wiki/Category:Stubs the list of articles that need expansion].

== News ==

<insert [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/news/ boc news] here>

== Biography ==

A good knowledge of North American TV shows of the late seventies helps in an understanding of the ideas and sounds of Boards of Canada. As children, Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin (Sandison) taught themselves to play various musical instruments whilst soaking up the American cathode-tube culture of the likes of The Six million Dollar Man and Sesame Street, as well as the bleak vision of movies like The Andromeda Strain, Logan's Run and Silent Running. The duo was also picking up influences from the more synthetic exponents of new-wave pop of the time, in particular Devote and The Human League. For a few years Mike focused on creating a band, to keep himself anchored whilst his family relocated several times between northern Scotland, London in England and Alberta in Canada. By the age of ten, now based back in Scotland, Mike was making his own home recordings on old worn-out BASF cassettes.

The sci-fi paranoia and flawed TV soundtracks of that era were a big influence on the duo, as were the early arcade videogames of the time. At the beginning of the 1980's Mike and Marcus had begun writing tracks that imitated the warbling, damaged sounding music found on the soundtracks of 16mm educational documentaries made by the National Film Board of Canada, and they later named their band as a nod to this early influence.

The band spent the early eighties near the beaches of north-east Scotland making crude multi-track recordings with friends, using borrowed tape machines, analogue synths and live drums. Around 1981 they had begun producing home-made movies on Super-8 cine film, and were creating the films' soundtracks by themselves. By 1984, aged thirteen, Mike was already visiting a local recording studio and making rough demos. Mike and Marcus were by now producing more structured songs with any instruments they could lay their hands on, as well as completely abstract tape collages of found sounds from radio and TV.

In the mid-eighties, now based near Edinburgh in Scotland, Mike recruited a few friends to form the first of several incarnations of a 'proper' band. Marcus Eoin was drafted in, initially as a bass player, but he soon emerged as co-writer and co-conspirator for what the band was later to become. At this point the band had a fairly traditional live set-up; guitars, bass, keyboards, drummer and occasional vocals, but the emphasis was on minimal, atonal electronic songs, a sound that easily stood out amongst the abundance of traditional rock and hair-metal bands the audiences in their local area were used to. The line-up of the group changed frequently, and Marcus was later quoted as saying that they had gone through at least fourteen other musicians during this period, a statistic Mark E. Smith would be proud of.

During the late 1980's whilst working on a series of film and photographic projects, the group decided to create a studio of their own. Unrewarding day-jobs funded the purchase of audio gear and a variety of exotic acoustic musical instruments, and with the acquisition of samplers the band began producing do-it-yourself garage demos on their own label Music70 which they distributed mainly amongst friends. Soon the band was producing cassette EP's and even entire albums of demo material, some of which have since gone on to become legendary collectors' items. It was during this period that the name 'Boards of Canada', initially an EP project title, became the name of the band.

Around 1990 Mike and Marcus, frustrated by the traditional line-up and the lack of commitment of other band members, started to mould the band's performances into something altogether more bizarre. Every summer Mike and Marcus collaborated with friends under the name Hexagon Sun to throw late-night outdoor parties in the countryside near their studio in Scotland, where bonfires were accompanied by electronic music, processed television themes, films, projections and reversed speech tapes to create an exciting, if slightly threatening, atmosphere. These nights, which the band still occasionally organise to this day, became known as 'Redmoon' nights after an early event which was dramatically backdropped by a blood-red full moon.

In the summer of 1995 Boards of Canada recorded and self-financed a vinyl-only limited-edition album called Twoism. It was essentially a well-produced demo, and the intention was to mail it out to record companies and artists that the group were listening to at that point. The album was a breath of fresh air to those who had grown tired of the frantic and polished sci-fi studio acrobatics of jungle and drum&bass which were the predominant trends in electronic music of the time. Twoism was a collection of spacious, gnarled and glacial tones and dissonant, melancholy melodies over sparse hip-hop beats, but with a curiously deliberate 'broken-ness' to the production. Every melody had been created to wobble and flutter slightly, like damaged music from an old worn-out cassette. In an era of clean, digital music, and with compact discs having largely replaced vinyl as the primary format for commercial music, this nostalgic, imperfect sound was to earn Boards of Canada huge respect as innovators in subsequent years.

At the beginning of 1996 a copy of Twoism arrived at the headquarters of Skam Records in Manchester, England, and within a day of hearing it, Autechre's Sean Booth had contacted Boards of Canada. Mike and Marcus recorded the Hi Scores EP for Skam and it was released later that year. A string of live dates followed, notably including an appearance at the 1997 Phoenix Festival, where BOC brought their anachronistic sounds and Super-8 visuals to play alongside various luminaries of the electronic music scene.

In February 1998, amid much speculation, the announcement came that Boards of Canada had signed to Warp Records, and after a few remixes and single appearances, the band completed the album Music Has The Right To Children which was jointly released between Warp Records and Skam Records in April 1998.

Music Has The Right To Children combined beautiful sparse melodies with off-pitch analogue synths and moments of unsettling fragmented speech, all produced with the band's trademark 'damaged' sound. The record closes with the very wry anti-censorship message One Very Important Thought, which pastiches the messages usually found at the end of 1980's porno videos: a very 'BOC' moment.

Music Has The Right To Children received rave reviews in the international music press, and after landing a licensing deal with Matador Records in the USA it went on to become one of the most highly acclaimed records of 1998 and received multiple end-of-year awards. "Album of the Issue" - Jockey Slut, April/May 1998, "Album of the Month" - Wax magazine, May 1998. "No.16" - NME Albums of the Year 198, "No.3" - Jockey Slut Albums of the Year 1998, "No.5" - The Wire Albums of the Year 1998, "No.8" - DJ Magazine Albums of the Year 1998, "No.19" - Muzik Albums of the Year 1998.

Boards of Canada recorded an exclusive session for the John Peel Show on the UK's Radio 1 in June 1998, and performed live on the show during the recording of the session. Peel described it on air as an "excellent session." Warp later released the session as a single.

Music Has The Right To Children returned to the UK Independent Chart top 20 in February 1999, and after staying around for three weeks it peaked at number 7. Simultaneously the Peel Sessing single hung around the Top 10 of the Independent Singles Chart for several weeks. Boards of Canada soon found themselves in demand for remix work and obliged with a handful of mixes for various artists, including the hugely influential Meat Beat Manifesto.

In May 1999 NME included Boards of Canada in its "Top Ten Nu-Psychedelic Bands," alongside Mercury Rev & The Beta Band. In the same issue NME ranked Boards of Canada's debut album 'Music Has the Right to Children' in its "Top 25 Psychedelic Records of All Time".

From 1999 onward various tracks from the BOC back-catalogue were being licensed for compilation albums, TV synchronisation and film soundtracks all over the world. In the summer of 1999 Boards of Canada commenced work on their second full-length album for Warp Records. Meanwhile they contributed two exclusive tracks to Warp's 10th birthday celebration albums which were released later that year.

In November 2000, after a few more live dates in the UK, the band released a four-track EP called In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country. It was a deceptively optimistic title for a collection of beautifully sad, melancholy tunes, especially as closer inspection revealed references in the artwork and titles to the 1993 killings by FBI agents of David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult at Waco in Texas.

In april 2001 BOC headlined at All Tomorrow's Parties, a festival on the south coast of England with an esoteric line-up including Lambchop, Television, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise, Broadcast, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many others.

In February 2002 Boards of Canada released Geogaddi, the long-awaited follow-up to 'Music Has the Right to Children'. Described as a darker partner to the previous album, with its swirling psychedelic melodies and layers of dense ephemeral detail, it managed to be both beautiful and disturbing. Geogaddi immediately entered the Top 20 Album Chart and stayed there for several weeks. In interviews, Mike and Marcus revealed that the album had included many so-called 'easter eggs', and that some of the music had been developed using number theory and equations such as the Fibonacci Ratio. This led to some of the band's fans setting up entire websites devoted to decryption of the 'back-masking' and other hidden details on the record. Ultimately, BOC's true intentions were written there clearly all along; in typical sardonic style they had even included a track on the album entitled The Devil is in the Details, as a kind of knowing wink to the astute listener.

In September 2002 Boards of Canada produced a lush remix of US artist Boom Bip's track 'Last Walk around Mirror Lake' for a single taken from his 'Seed to Sun' LP, and in February 2004 BOC created a giddy reworking of the song 'Dead Dogs Two' by US band cLOUDDEAD from Oakland. The BOC version brought in the whole gamut of retro psychedelic elements including reversed guitars, flutes, sitars and strings, and culminated in a wigged-out Beatles-esque climax reminiscent of 'A Day In The Life'.

In the summer of 2004 Mike became a father. His daughter was born during the writing sessions of the band's forthcoming third studio album for Warp.

At the end of 2004 US artist Beck asked Boards of Canada to remix a song from his upcoming album 'Guero'. BOC took the vocal lines of his beautifully wistful track Broken Drum and created a whole new melody around them, with an epic, heavily layered crescendo. In an interview with Clash magazine in the spring of 2005, Beck described the remix as "my favourite remix I've ever had done, they brought out something that was there but then they just added a whole new dimension. I guess it's quite an emotional song and they brought out something bittersweet in it that was kinda hippyish, but it doesn't maim you with saccharin. It kinda gets you right in the chest."

In summer 2005 Boards of Canada completed work on their third album for Warp Records. The Campfire Headphase is set for worldwide release in October 2005.

{{stub}}

== FAQ ==
=== I downloaded Catalog 3 / Acid Memories / Closes Vol.1 / Play by Numbers / Hooper Bay on Soulseek. Legit? ===

No, they aren't. Please read the first paragraph of the discography. Also copies of these albums were only given to friends and family of the band which implies that it's not possible to acquire them on the internet.

=== I downloaded a collection of BoC tracks labeled as A Few Old Tunes Volume 2. Are these tracks legit? ===

There is no such thing as A Few Old Tunes Volume 2. The tracks you downloaded however are most likely a collection of tracks from genuine BoC compilations; probably compiled from the following authentic BoC material: A Few Old Tunes, Old Tunes Volume 01 and/or Old Tunes Volume 02.

=== I downloaded a BoC track labeled Eno Test / Parson / Trillions / Treeline / Nskino / Gridlock / Lavender Trapezoids / Golden Hinterland / Rhomboid. Are they legit? ===

No, they are just a bunch of mislabeled mp3s floating around the internet. Please see the discography for more information.

=== Are BoC pagans / satanists / [various other strange suggestions]? ===

No, they are just normal lads like you and me. Please read the interviews for more insights.

{{stub}}

About

2008-08-22T08:11:37Z

Ivo: /* About */

'''Important:'''
I'm working on a redesign of the boc wiki to make it less general wiki styled, but more in line with the theme of boc's music. This work has only just begun. It's not final and everything is subject to change. Not only visual changes are planned, but the goal is to import all the info from the [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/ static boc pages] to the boc wiki.

Also I've updated to the [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-August/000076.html latest MediaWiki] version and have installed a proper [http://recaptcha.net/ captcha system] in order to stop the anonymous spam edits and anonymous bot registrations. If there's anything you like to suggest you can do so by using [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/contact/ my contact page]. --[[User:Fredd-E|Fredd-E]] 18:35, 21 August 2008 (GMT+1)

== About ==

Welcome to the [http://fredd-e.narfum.org fredd-e.narfum.org] wiki created around and about [[Boards of Canada]]. Here you will find information and analyses on the brother's various creations and themselves.

Feel free to add information or facts to any existing article or perhaps create your own!

At the moment, the wiki is rather unstructured, so the best way to find things is to view the [[Special:Allpages|article list]] or [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/wiki/Category:Stubs the list of articles that need expansion].

== News ==

<insert [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/boc/news/ boc news] here>

== Biography ==

A good knowledge of North American TV shows of the late seventies helps in an understanding of the ideas and sounds of Boards of Canada. As children, Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin taught themselves to play various musical instruments whilst soaking up the American cathode-tube culture of the likes of The Six million Dollar Man and Sesame Street, as well as the bleak vision of movies like The Andromeda Strain, Logan's Run and Silent Running. The duo was also picking up influences from the more synthetic exponents of new-wave pop of the time, in particular Devote and The Human League. For a few years Mike focused on creating a band, to keep himself anchored whilst his family relocated several times between northern Scotland, London in England and Alberta in Canada. By the age of ten, now based back in Scotland, Mike was making his own home recordings on old worn-out BASF cassettes.

The sci-fi paranoia and flawed TV soundtracks of that era were a big influence on the duo, as were the early arcade videogames of the time. At the beginning of the 1980's Mike and Marcus had begun writing tracks that imitated the warbling, damaged sounding music found on the soundtracks of 16mm educational documentaries made by the National Film Board of Canada, and they later named their band as a nod to this early influence.

The band spent the early eighties near the beaches of north-east Scotland making crude multi-track recordings with friends, using borrowed tape machines, analogue synths and live drums. Around 1981 they had begun producing home-made movies on Super-8 cine film, and were creating the films' soundtracks by themselves. By 1984, aged thirteen, Mike was already visiting a local recording studio and making rough demos. Mike and Marcus were by now producing more structured songs with any instruments they could lay their hands on, as well as completely abstract tape collages of found sounds from radio and TV.

In the mid-eighties, now based near Edinburgh in Scotland, Mike recruited a few friends to form the first of several incarnations of a 'proper' band. Marcus Eoin was drafted in, initially as a bass player, but he soon emerged as co-writer and co-conspirator for what the band was later to become. At this point the band had a fairly traditional live set-up; guitars, bass, keyboards, drummer and occasional vocals, but the emphasis was on minimal, atonal electronic songs, a sound that easily stood out amongst the abundance of traditional rock and hair-metal bands the audiences in their local area were used to. The line-up of the group changed frequently, and Marcus was later quoted as saying that they had gone through at least fourteen other musicians during this period, a statistic Mark E. Smith would be proud of.

During the late 1980's whilst working on a series of film and photographic projects, the group decided to create a studio of their own. Unrewarding day-jobs funded the purchase of audio gear and a variety of exotic acoustic musical instruments, and with the acquisition of samplers the band began producing do-it-yourself garage demos on their own label Music70 which they distributed mainly amongst friends. Soon the band was producing cassette EP's and even entire albums of demo material, some of which have since gone on to become legendary collectors' items. It was during this period that the name 'Boards of Canada', initially an EP project title, became the name of the band.

Around 1990 Mike and Marcus, frustrated by the traditional line-up and the lack of commitment of other band members, started to mould the band's performances into something altogether more bizarre. Every summer Mike and Marcus collaborated with friends under the name Hexagon Sun to throw late-night outdoor parties in the countryside near their studio in Scotland, where bonfires were accompanied by electronic music, processed television themes, films, projections and reversed speech tapes to create an exciting, if slightly threatening, atmosphere. These nights, which the band still occasionally organise to this day, became known as 'Redmoon' nights after an early event which was dramatically backdropped by a blood-red full moon.

In the summer of 1995 Boards of Canada recorded and self-financed a vinyl-only limited-edition album called Twoism. It was essentially a well-produced demo, and the intention was to mail it out to record companies and artists that the group were listening to at that point. The album was a breath of fresh air to those who had grown tired of the frantic and polished sci-fi studio acrobatics of jungle and drum&bass which were the predominant trends in electronic music of the time. Twoism was a collection of spacious, gnarled and glacial tones and dissonant, melancholy melodies over sparse hip-hop beats, but with a curiously deliberate 'broken-ness' to the production. Every melody had been created to wobble and flutter slightly, like damaged music from an old worn-out cassette. In an era of clean, digital music, and with compact discs having largely replaced vinyl as the primary format for commercial music, this nostalgic, imperfect sound was to earn Boards of Canada huge respect as innovators in subsequent years.

At the beginning of 1996 a copy of Twoism arrived at the headquarters of Skam Records in Manchester, England, and within a day of hearing it, Autechre's Sean Booth had contacted Boards of Canada. Mike and Marcus recorded the Hi Scores EP for Skam and it was released later that year. A string of live dates followed, notably including an appearance at the 1997 Phoenix Festival, where BOC brought their anachronistic sounds and Super-8 visuals to play alongside various luminaries of the electronic music scene.

In February 1998, amid much speculation, the announcement came that Boards of Canada had signed to Warp Records, and after a few remixes and single appearances, the band completed the album Music Has The Right To Children which was jointly released between Warp Records and Skam Records in April 1998.

Music Has The Right To Children combined beautiful sparse melodies with off-pitch analogue synths and moments of unsettling fragmented speech, all produced with the band's trademark 'damaged' sound. The record closes with the very wry anti-censorship message One Very Important Thought, which pastiches the messages usually found at the end of 1980's porno videos: a very 'BOC' moment.

Music Has The Right To Children received rave reviews in the international music press, and after landing a licensing deal with Matador Records in the USA it went on to become one of the most highly acclaimed records of 1998 and received multiple end-of-year awards. "Album of the Issue" - Jockey Slut, April/May 1998, "Album of the Month" - Wax magazine, May 1998. "No.16" - NME Albums of the Year 198, "No.3" - Jockey Slut Albums of the Year 1998, "No.5" - The Wire Albums of the Year 1998, "No.8" - DJ Magazine Albums of the Year 1998, "No.19" - Muzik Albums of the Year 1998.

Boards of Canada recorded an exclusive session for the John Peel Show on the UK's Radio 1 in June 1998, and performed live on the show during the recording of the session. Peel described it on air as an "excellent session." Warp later released the session as a single.

Music Has The Right To Children returned to the UK Independent Chart top 20 in February 1999, and after staying around for three weeks it peaked at number 7. Simultaneously the Peel Sessing single hung around the Top 10 of the Independent Singles Chart for several weeks. Boards of Canada soon found themselves in demand for remix work and obliged with a handful of mixes for various artists, including the hugely influential Meat Beat Manifesto.

In May 1999 NME included Boards of Canada in its "Top Ten Nu-Psychedelic Bands," alongside Mercury Rev & The Beta Band. In the same issue NME ranked Boards of Canada's debut album 'Music Has the Right to Children' in its "Top 25 Psychedelic Records of All Time".

From 1999 onward various tracks from the BOC back-catalogue were being licensed for compilation albums, TV synchronisation and film soundtracks all over the world. In the summer of 1999 Boards of Canada commenced work on their second full-length album for Warp Records. Meanwhile they contributed two exclusive tracks to Warp's 10th birthday celebration albums which were released later that year.

In November 2000, after a few more live dates in the UK, the band released a four-track EP called In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country. It was a deceptively optimistic title for a collection of beautifully sad, melancholy tunes, especially as closer inspection revealed references in the artwork and titles to the 1993 killings by FBI agents of David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult at Waco in Texas.

In april 2001 BOC headlined at All Tomorrow's Parties, a festival on the south coast of England with an esoteric line-up including Lambchop, Television, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise, Broadcast, Sun Ra Arkestra, and many others.

In February 2002 Boards of Canada released Geogaddi, the long-awaited follow-up to 'Music Has the Right to Children'. Described as a darker partner to the previous album, with its swirling psychedelic melodies and layers of dense ephemeral detail, it managed to be both beautiful and disturbing. Geogaddi immediately entered the Top 20 Album Chart and stayed there for several weeks. In interviews, Mike and Marcus revealed that the album had included many so-called 'easter eggs', and that some of the music had been developed using number theory and equations such as the Fibonacci Ratio. This led to some of the band's fans setting up entire websites devoted to decryption of the 'back-masking' and other hidden details on the record. Ultimately, BOC's true intentions were written there clearly all along; in typical sardonic style they had even included a track on the album entitled The Devil is in the Details, as a kind of knowing wink to the astute listener.

In September 2002 Boards of Canada produced a lush remix of US artist Boom Bip's track 'Last Walk around Mirror Lake' for a single taken from his 'Seed to Sun' LP, and in February 2004 BOC created a giddy reworking of the song 'Dead Dogs Two' by US band cLOUDDEAD from Oakland. The BOC version brought in the whole gamut of retro psychedelic elements including reversed guitars, flutes, sitars and strings, and culminated in a wigged-out Beatles-esque climax reminiscent of 'A Day In The Life'.

In the summer of 2004 Mike became a father. His daughter was born during the writing sessions of the band's forthcoming third studio album for Warp.

At the end of 2004 US artist Beck asked Boards of Canada to remix a song from his upcoming album 'Guero'. BOC took the vocal lines of his beautifully wistful track Broken Drum and created a whole new melody around them, with an epic, heavily layered crescendo. In an interview with Clash magazine in the spring of 2005, Beck described the remix as "my favourite remix I've ever had done, they brought out something that was there but then they just added a whole new dimension. I guess it's quite an emotional song and they brought out something bittersweet in it that was kinda hippyish, but it doesn't maim you with saccharin. It kinda gets you right in the chest."

In summer 2005 Boards of Canada completed work on their third album for Warp Records. The Campfire Headphase is set for worldwide release in October 2005.

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== FAQ ==
=== I downloaded Catalog 3 / Acid Memories / Closes Vol.1 / Play by Numbers / Hooper Bay on Soulseek. Legit? ===

No, they aren't. Please read the first paragraph of the discography. Also copies of these albums were only given to friends and family of the band which implies that it's not possible to acquire them on the internet.

=== I downloaded a collection of BoC tracks labeled as A Few Old Tunes Volume 2. Are these tracks legit? ===

There is no such thing as A Few Old Tunes Volume 2. The tracks you downloaded however are most likely a collection of tracks from genuine BoC compilations; probably compiled from the following authentic BoC material: A Few Old Tunes, Old Tunes Volume 01 and/or Old Tunes Volume 02.

=== I downloaded a BoC track labeled Eno Test / Parson / Trillions / Treeline / Nskino / Gridlock / Lavender Trapezoids / Golden Hinterland / Rhomboid. Are they legit? ===

No, they are just a bunch of mislabeled mp3s floating around the internet. Please see the discography for more information.

=== Are BoC pagans / satanists / [various other strange suggestions]? ===

No, they are just normal lads like you and me. Please read the interviews for more insights.

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