Hooper Bay

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{{Infobox Release|
| cover=BOC-album-16.jpg
| name=Hooper Bay
| release_date=1994
| format=12"<br>Cassette
| label=Music70
| catno=THS012
| runtime=30:52
}}

[[Hooper Bay]] is the name of [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth known release. [[Hooper Bay]] introduced the use of children's voices (see [[Interviews#1998-04:_Jockey_Slut|Jockey Slut interview]]), a technique which would remain a staple of the band's style through the release of ''[[Geogaddi]]''. It has been said that the three longest tracks on the EP mark the beginning of the band's "mature phase".<ref>http://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/boardsof.html#boc</ref>

[[Hooper Bay]] is also an Alaskan village, a Cup'ik Eskimo settlement; the native name is Naparagamiut, but the name "hooper bay" came from a Post Office with that name established in the area.

Of the EP's five tracks, only a 35-second excerpt of [[Circle]]<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s-LHQdQnsU</ref> (posted on the [[EHX]] website in the late 1990s) has been heard by those outside of the band's friends and family. A set of MP3s labeled [[Hooper Bay]] but with significantly shorter track times than the actual EP can be found on P2P networks; however, this set is mis-labeled and is not music by [[Boards of Canada]]. The track [[Seward Leaf]] is sometimes mistaken with mùm's Slow Bicycle.

== Tracks ==
# "[[Seward Leaf]]" – 7:02
# "[[Geiser]]" – 5:15
# "[[Circle]]" – 2:38
# "[[Noatak]]" – 8:41
# "[[Point Hope]]" – 7:16

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Hooper Bay