Mask 100 compilation) (Skam, 1996)

Darkness visible:: slurring synths and an uneasy, off-kilter rhythm.

• Untitled (from Mask 200 as Hell Interface) (Skam, 1997)
  

Even darker, harder, faster side of the Boards. "Who are Hell Interface?" they ask.

• Michael Fakesch "Surfaise" (Boards of Canada remix) (Warp, 1997)
  

Spacious, dissonant, slightly disembodied ambience.

• Mira Calix "Sandsings" (Boards of Canada remix) (Warp, 1997)
  

Boards render Warp's press officer's warblings intelligble.

• Jack Dangers "Prime Audio Soup" (Boards of Canada remix) (Play it Again Sam, 1998)

Respectful to the Meat Beat man, this is a curious, slightly gothy hybrid.

• "Aquarius" (seven-inch single) (Skam, 1998)
  

A different version to the one on Music. Sesame Street meets Kraftwerk meets the between-scenes bits from Seinfeld.

• Music Has the Right to Children (Skam/Warp, 1998)
  

Music has The Right to Children claimed not just children but grown adults of shock both sexes.

• Bubbah's Tum "Dirty Great Mable" (III, 1998)
  

Unusually beat-heavy, balanced by their trademark use of kids' voices and big, spooky chords. Their final mix.

• "Orange Romeda" (from We Are Reasonable People compilation) (Warp, 1999)
  

Very much in the Music. vein. Children's voices, bird's wing percussion and yearning, half-heard synth melodies.

• Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit, 1999)
  

Reworks of "Aquarius" and "Olson", plus newie "Happy Cycling".

• In a Beatiful Place Out in the Country EP (Warp, 2000)
  

OK, so it's an EP not an album, and it's not exactly a revolutionary departure, but when familiar ground is this gorgeous, who's complaining?

interview by Richard Southern, December 2000.

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