Latest revision as of 20:20, 22 April 2026

Boards of Canada have had an online presence for most of their career. These websites provide an interesting glimpse into the non-musical artist output of both the band and the Hexagon Sun collective.

EHX[edit]

The earliest web page for Boards of Canada was part of EHX, a website on the Edinburgh electronic music scene run by the enigmatic Cosmic Crofter.

EHX itself was started sometime in late 1996. It is not known when Boards of Canada's page was added, although it was mentioned in March 1997 usenet post advertising EHX. The earliest known archived copy is from December 6, 1998. The original location was at:

http://www.ednet.co.uk/~ehx/artists/canada.htm [IArchive] [BibAlex]

On September 20, 1999, the Boards of Canada site was relaunched as its own section at EHX. The new site was now located at:

http://www.ednet.co.uk/~ehx/boc/ [IArchive] [BibAlex]

The relaunched site was greatly expanded from the original EHX page, with multiple pages including an illustrated discography and audio clips.

The band left EHX in March 2000 when the page moved to the boardsofcanada.com domain name.

boardsofcanada.com[edit]

According to whois records, the domain name boardsofcanada.com was first registered on September 9, 1999. The earliest known archived copy, dated August 18, 2000, was largely identical to the previous EHX sub-site. The front page changed from time to time, but the main structure of the website remained the same.

By July 2001, the web page suddenly "went dark"; the previous multi-page site was replaced with a single front page with an image of the band, contact information, and background music. [1]

Shockwave animations[edit]

The site was remodeled for the release of Geogaddi by March 2002. The new site featured a series of Macromedia Shockwave animations accompanied by music, including songs from the upcoming album. The site was designed by designer James Tindall. A copy of the site was hosted at his page, Atomless, along with his comments about the site. The site was awarded a Prix Ars Electronica award for Net Excellence in 2003. [2]

Redesign for TCH[edit]

The Geogaddi site design stuck around in some form until August 2005, when the main page of the site was changed to promote the release of The Campfire Headphase. It was a simple design featuring the album cover and the text "released 17 october 2005". This was further changed in 2006, when sections for "News", "Discography", "Pictures", and "Contact" were added.

Minor changes between TCH and TM[edit]

At some point in 2008, the "Contact" tab was removed. In 2009, the "Pictures" tab was also removed. The basic design stayed the same.

Redesign for TM[edit]

In May 2013, the website was redesigned for the release of Tomorrow's Harvest, featuring the new font logo and title, a YouTube video, the text "June 11", and links to pre-order the album.

Redirect for vinyl reissues and other pages[edit]

Later into 2013, the main page redirected to promote vinyl reissues of BOC's main releases. The Tomorrow's Harvest main page was relegated to a seperate page. This stayed the same until sometime in 2016, when boardsofcanada.com redirected to Bleep's homepage for BOC. It was changed in 2022 to redirect to Warp's page for the band.

Email sign-up and Inferno[edit]

On April 16, 2026, for the first time in a decade, the BOC site was updated to a non-redirect. It had a form to enter an email. This was updated on April 22 to announce the release of Inferno, with links to pre-order, pre-save, and another form for an email, hinting at "first access".

hexagonsun.com[edit]

The domain name hexagonsun.com was registered on September 9, 1999. The earliest archive dates to February 24, 2001. It had a simple white background with images linking to pages titled "index", "pictures", "clips", "records", "sounds", "misc", "links", "contact", and "credits". This is where the first mentions of BOC's lost releases likely come from.