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.
- 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.
Rare/Early Releases
General Releases
Albums
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
- Telephasic Workshop 10" (b/w Roygbiv): 1998, 10" LP (limited to 200 copies), 10WARPLP055P
- 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
Remixes
Remixes by BoC
Remixes of BoC
Notes
- Several bootleg remixes of BoC tracks also exist, but are not listed here.
- "ROYGBIV (Alpha Quest Mix)" was a custom edit by BoC for an independent film. Not intended to be released, the mix was leaked onto the internet.
Tracks On Compilations
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 and of 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 [1].
Live Bootlegs