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Old Tunes Vol. 1, also known as A Few Old Tunes, is one of two known cassette tape compilations produced by Boards of Canada in 1996. Along with its counterpart Old Tunes Vol. 2, it was self-released under Boards of Canada's Music70 label and distributed to the band's friends and family. Notable recipients of the tapes include Sean Booth of Autechre, and Mike Paradinas. The tapes came to wider attention in the early 2000s when they leaked onto peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as Soulseek, and are now widely available on sites like YouTube.
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| + | [[Old Tunes Vol. 1]], also known as '''A Few Old Tunes''', is one of two known cassette tape compilations produced by [[Boards of Canada]] in 1996. Along with its counterpart ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 2]]'', it was self-released under [[Boards of Canada]]'s [[Music70]] label and distributed to the band's friends and family. Notable recipients of the tapes include Sean Booth of [[Autechre]], and [[Wikipedia:Mike_Paradinas|Mike Paradinas]]. The tapes came to wider attention in the early 2000s when they leaked onto peer-to-peer file-sharing networks such as [[Wikipedia:Soulseek|Soulseek]], and are now widely available on sites like [[Wikipedia:YouTube|YouTube]]. | ||
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Revision as of 11:14, 9 June 2025
| Old Tunes Vol. 1 \ A Few Old Tunes | |
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| Label(s) | Music70 |
| Catalogue No(s) | CANCAS001 |
| Release date(s) | 1996 |
| Format(s) | Cassette |
| Running time(s) | 71:40 |
Contents
Background
- A Few Old Tunes seems to be sourced from a cassette tape containing a (presumably) hand-selected set of pre-BoC Maxima tracks. The leaking of these tracks to p2p networks (Soulseek, originally) provided much drama on WATMM.
- Commonly referred to as A Few Old Tunes, due to its label; however, according the Twoism forum user dealer, who posted new photos of the cassette and liner notes, it is also the true Old Tunes Vol. 1 (and not the tape previously assumed to be OTV1). But, on the other hand, the WATMM forum user phaelam posted new scans from a different angle which depict A Few Old Tunes as the cover and the cassette label. This leads to believe Boards of Canada used two different labelings for the very same cassette. See the two conflicting scans below.
Availability
- A rip can be downloaded at rareboc.org.
Cover
- According to KToiBalToi: "the girl on the cover of "a few old tunes" is Louise Campbell, the younger sister of (Peter) Iain Campbell who has worked with them on other art projects. I think it was taken as a still from an old family video."[1]
- The image is also used on the cover of Hi Scores.
Samples/Lyrics
- A sample from a porn movie in P:C:.
- Large chunks of the Colonel Abrams song "Trapped" in "Trapped".
- A sample from an advertisement for a cleaning product in Devil.
- A sample from the British game show Blockbusters in the song of the same name.
- "The Way You Show" contains a loop sampled from "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang.
Tracks
Side A:
- "Spectrum" – 2:19
- "Light, Clear Hair" – 0:41
- "P:C:" – 0:48
- "Trapped" – 3:52
- "Rodox Video" – 1:19
- "Happy Cycling" – 1:49
- "House Of Abin'adab" – 1:55
- "Finity" – 5:00
- "Forest Moon" – 6:35
- "Skimming Stones" – 2:12
- "Carcan" – 1:50
- "Devil" – 0:14
- "Mansel" – 5:36
- "She Is P" – 1:42
- "Davie Addison" – 1:15
Side B:
- "Sac" – 1:23
- "Blockbusters" – 0:40
- "I Will Get It Tattooed" – 1:37
- "The Way You Show" – 2:56
- "I Love U" – 1:41
- "King Of Carnival" – 4:18
- "M9" – 3:32
- "Original Nlogax" – 1:11
- "Sequoia" – 4:49
- "Boqurant" – 1:43
- "5.9.78" – 4:14
- "Wendy Miller" – 0:32
- "Paul Russell's Piece" – 0:53
- "Up The March Bank" – 3:24
- "Nova Scotia Robots" – 1:47
Videos
References
See also
Artwork
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