Revision as of 10:55, 3 January 2010

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.
  • These older items are NOT AVAILABLE; only friends and family of BoC have heard them.
    • In addition, three extracts of genuine old tracks came from a BoC-related website that no longer exists. They are: "duffy" (extract) (0:24), Wouldn't You Like To Be Free (extract) (0:56), circle (extract) (0:35), duffy is a gentle and innocent track a little bit similar to Melissa Juice; "wouldn't you like to be free?" features massed guitars; "circle" has slowly changing high-pitched glacial tones, fitting the Alaskan theme of the album it comes from.

Fakes

• 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.
  • Among the fakes, the most common are eno test and parson, wrongly taken to be by Marumari and BoC, whereas they are by Marumari alone. A few other such mis-labelled tracks go around from time to time.
    • Stry Craty Bya (as seen here, for instance) is actually eno test.
  • Other fakes include a longer version of circle which sounds nothing like the genuine short extract. trillions (3:31) is a fake, as is treeline '(1:12).
  • Another set of fake MP3s that went around were called nskino, gridlock, lavender trapezoids, golden hinterland, rhomboid, and maybe some more. We've been told that these are mislabeled tracks by CiM nskino is really disco alta, rhomboid is really isempty, and so on (thanks, MCBPete). With any luck, the fakes will eventually stop being labelled as BoC.
  • "Slow Bicycle," a song by múm, is often mislabeled as Seward Leaf.
  • A recent fake that surfaced is the track Sur Round [1], [2]--Fredd-E 15:00, 25 August 2008 (CEST)

Rare/Early Releases

• Catalog 3
• Acid Memories
• Closes Vol. 1
• Play By Numbers
• Hooper Bay
• BoC Maxima
• Old Tunes Vol. 1 \ A Few Old Tunes
• Old Tunes Vol. 2
• Random 35 Tracks Tape (Marked as Old Tunes Vol. 1 too somewere)
• Geogaddi (test pressing): February 2002, blue colored LP (limited to 10 copies), WARPLP101

General Releases

Albums

• Music Has the Right to Children: 20 April 1998, CD + LP, WARP055 + SKA001
• Geogaddi: 18 February 2002, CD + 3xLP + Limited edition hardbound, WARP101
• The Campfire Headphase: 17 October 2005, CD + 2xLP + Promotional copies, WARP123

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
• 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

Promotional Releases

• Telephasic Workshop 10" (b/w Roygbiv) : 1998, 10" LP (limited to 200 copies), 10WARPLP055P
• Music Has the Right to Children : 1998, CD, PWARP055 + SKA001
• Orange Romeda : 29 June 1998, 12" EP (Limited edition); WAP100P
• Geogaddi (promo) : 12 January 2002, LP, WARPLP101P

Bootleg Releases

• Unreleased Tracks : 2007, 12", BOCNM-1104

Remixes

Remixes by BoC

• Michael Fakesch - Surfaise : The Trade Winds Mix By Boards Of Canada - Appears on Demon 1. March 1997. 12". MAS 04.01.
• Mira Calix - Sandsings : remixed by Boards Of Canada - May 1998. 2 x10", CD Single. WAP 97.
• Bubbah's Tum - Dirty Great Mable : Boards Of Canada Mix - 1998. 12", CD Single. iLLXXX007.
• Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup : Vegetarian Soup by Boards Of Canada - 23 Nov 1998. 12", CD Single, BIAS 352.
• Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD, 12" Promo. ZIQ007CD.
• Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (reprise) : Boards Of Canada - 26 Oct 2001. CD. ZIQ007CD.
• Boom Bip - Last Walk Around Mirror Lake : Boards Of Canada Remix - May 2003. 12", LEX 014.
• Clouddead - Dead Dogs Two : Remixed by Boards of Canada - 26 January 2004. 12". CD Single. BDCDS064.
• Beck - Broken Drum : Boards of Canada Remix - 29 March 2005. CD, Promo 12" EP, Promo CD EP. B0004365-00.
• Why? - Good Friday : Remix by Boards of Canada - 29 November 2007. "Lilac" Vinyl 12" EP [UK], Promo CD EP. ABR 79/TOM 111.

Remixes of BoC

• Kid For Today (Stereolab Remix) - Remixed by Stereolab
  • Appears on Warp 10+3 Remixes compilation album. 11 October 1999. WARP 69.
• An Eagle in Your Mind (Consumed and Regurgitated By The P.B.O.ster!) - Remixed by Push Button Objects
  • Appears on Warp 10+3 Remixes compilation album. 11 Oct 1999. WARP 69.
• Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix) - Remix by Odd Nosdam
  • Appears on the Trans Canada Highway EP. 29 June 2006. WAP 200.
• D C (Bit) - Remix by Odd Nosdam
  • Appears on Pretty Swell Explode and is related to Dayvan Cowboy LP. 10 June 2008. ABR0083LP.
• This Bird - Remixed by Solange Knowles
  • Appears on Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams and contains a sample of Slow This Bird Down CD. 26 August 2008.

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 Boards of Canada

• Korona : Dec 1996. 12". Limited Edition. MASK100.
• Orange Romeda : 29 June 1998. CD + 12". WAP100CD + WAP100.
• Sixtyniner : July 1998. 7". Limited 500 copies. DISKONO001X.

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 Abrams' 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 [3].

• Soylent Night : 1997. 7". VVMT0004 & 2001. 3"CD. VVMT0004X.
• Colonel Abrams - Trapped : April 1997. 12". Limited Edition. MASK200.
• Midnight Star - Midas Touch : 1999. 12". Limited Edition. MASK500.
• The Story of Xentrix : 6 January 2003. CD. Mixed. WARPCDWIF.

Produced by BoC for Others

• Here Come the Rubber Cops: 29 Sept 2008, Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, A&B-015

Live Bootlegs

An overview of Boards of Canada's live set geographical locations can be seen here.

Some of those performances were bootlegged:

• Live @ Warp10: 5 November 1999, MP3
• Live @ Lighthouse: 14 October 2000, MP3
• Live @ ATP: 7 April 2001, MP3

Others

Radio Shows

• Disengage radio show
• Helter Skelter radio show
• Peel Session

BMI Repertoire search results

The following track titles returned by a BMI Repertoire search for "Michael Sandison" do not appear in the track listing of any known BoC or Hell Interface release:

• Nissan Statistics
• Sdesis
• Woice099 (alternate title: Woice Zero Ninety Nine)
• Flute Frum Thing
• It's Too Orangey
• Blueberry