Eno Test & Parson
Revision as of 03:21, 4 October 2022 by 172.69.22.139 (talk) (It's Submarine Tactics, you guys. It was Submarine Tactics the whole time.)
| Eno Test | |
|---|---|
| Running time | 4:38 |
| Appears on | P2P networks |
| Parson | |
|---|---|
| Running time | 5:12 |
| Appears on | P2P networks |
"Eno Test" and "Parson" are two tracks often mis-attributed to Boards of Canada. The tracks are sometimes credited to "Marumari & Boards of Canada", and are also sometimes erroneously named "Stry Craty Bya", the name of a track from the album Acid Memories, which has never been released to the public.
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Discovery
The songs were discovered on various P2P networks. They are among the earliest mislabeled tracks; "Eno Test" was first mentioned on idm-l on May 14, 2000, with "Parson" first mentioned in another post (in conjunction with "Eno Test") on Jan 12, 2001. They were included on the earliest archived copy of DavidAC's BoC pages, dated August 2002.
Unclear origin
It is commonly believed that both tracks are the work of Marumari alone. However, nowhere in Marumari's discography do any tracks with these names appear.
After previewing tracks from available Marumari albums, they do not appear to be any of the tracks on the following Marumari works:
- Story of the Heavens (1999) (MP3 previews)
- Ballad of the Round Ball (1999) (MP3 previews)
- The Wolves Hollow (2000) (MP3 previews)
- Supermogadon (2001) (MP3 previews)
- The Remixes (2002) (MP3 previews)
- VA - Carpark eMusic Sampler (MP3 previews)
Possible origin
The track "Eno Test" is listed on http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/tradelist.htm as part of a 3 disc Stereolab bootleg named B-Sides Collected. It is listed as the 15th track on the second disc and credited as "Eno Test (with Marumari)." While this could just be a fan compilation it could actually be the original source. If anyone has this bootleg, they could confirm the origin of the track.
The main melody is sampled from the song "But If" by Brian Eno on the album "The Drop" (1997)
The identity of Eno Test & Parson
The lack of appearance in any Marumari albums frustrated the search for the actual identity of this tune. However, previous searches did not account for the presence of it on compilations. On May 1st, 2002, a compilation album was released through Toast and Jam Recordings called "We Bore". Track 3, credited to Marumari, is called "Submarine Tactics". Two differently structured cuts of "Submarine Tactics" that diverge near the 3:30 mark are linked below. The running times of both versions are consistent with the running times of "Eno Test" and "Parson", respectively.
On 19 March 2020, Marumari confirmed that he made the tune known as Stry Craty Bya/Eno Test "back in the Napster days".