Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin. Signing to Skam and then Warp Records in the 1990s, the duo received recognition following the release of their debut album Music Has the Right to Children in 1998. Their subsequent albums. On Geogaddi, Boards of Canada have replaced silence with the drone, and the master tapes are saturated with the sounds of the duo's customized machinery.
- 13-10-2014, 19:50
- Music | Electronic | Downtempo | Ambient | FLAC / APE
Artist: Boards of Canada
Title Of Album: Hi Scores 2014 Edition
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Skam Records
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Downtempo, IDM
Quality: FLAC
Total Time: 33:24 min
Total Size: 186 MB
Tracklist:
1. Hi Scores (4:57)
2. Turquoise Hexagon Sun (5:09)
3. Nlogax (6:49)
4. June 9th (5:18)
5. Seeya Later (4:12)
6. Everything You Do Is a Balloon (6:59)
As things tend to move rather slowly under the hexagon sun, the re-release of two legendary Boards Of Canada recordings has been widely acknowledged as one of the events of the year. First was the announcement made by Warp only a few weeks ago that they were to re-release the long lost seminal Twoism, then it was the turn of Skam to bring back the equally essential Hi Scores EP. Although Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin came to the attention of the masses with the beautiful and dreamy Music Has The Right To Children in 1998, the hardcore electronic fans had known of Boards Of Canada for some time thanks to a handful of very limited releases published on the band’s own imprint, Music70.
Hailing from Scotland, the duo started recording at the end of the eighties, but it is not until Skam released the Hi Scores EP that Boards Of Canada finally started to get properly recognised. Two years later, Skam and Warp conjointly released the band’s fifth album, Music Has The Right To Children, followed in 2000 by the In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country EP, and this year’s Geogaddi.
Originally recorded in 1995 as a demo for the then unsigned duo to take to record labels, Twoism finally hit the shelves this month, creating one of the biggest buzz in recent years. Revealing the blueprint for the Music… and Geogaddi albums, this recording is commonly regarded as one of the pair’s best. Darker than subsequent releases, the mini album’s eight tracks are built around heavily sedated hip-hop beats and smooth vintage electronic sounds, emphasising on beautiful melodies rather than on complex sonic constructions. Defining dream sequences through an intelligent use of sounds, Eoin and Sandison were going against everything the electronic scene was standing for when they recorded this album, and demonstrated that it was possible to create music with a human dimension, using computers. From the simple space ballad that is Oirectine to the floating electro of Iced Cooly, with its approximate tuning, or the stellar lullaby title track and the low energy funk of Seeya Later, the album plays on a complex pattern of tricks and subversive elements to capture the imagination of the listener.
Released a year later as a follow up to Twoism, Hi Scores reveals slightly more open, if equally as drowsy, soundscapes. Evoking frosty fields at dawn, this EP demonstrates further the incredible maturity of the Boards’ sound back then. The opening title track and Turquoise Hexagon Sun, which was later included on Music…, are classic BoC, with their repetitive melodic lines cast over chilled beats, drawing attention to notions of wide open spaces while tiny sonic details activate in the background. While Nlogax takes further the dirty electro-funk sound experienced with Seeya Later, also included on this release, highlighting a more upbeat and upfront side of the pair’s musical identity, which would further blossom on Music…, the remainder of the EP is typical of the sleepy atmospheric electronica of Twoism.
With these two classic records now made widely available, it is no wonder why Boards Of Canada have become one of the finest and most highly regarded acts, not only in the UK, but all over the world. This is absolutely essential listening.
Hailing from Scotland, the duo started recording at the end of the eighties, but it is not until Skam released the Hi Scores EP that Boards Of Canada finally started to get properly recognised. Two years later, Skam and Warp conjointly released the band’s fifth album, Music Has The Right To Children, followed in 2000 by the In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country EP, and this year’s Geogaddi.
Originally recorded in 1995 as a demo for the then unsigned duo to take to record labels, Twoism finally hit the shelves this month, creating one of the biggest buzz in recent years. Revealing the blueprint for the Music… and Geogaddi albums, this recording is commonly regarded as one of the pair’s best. Darker than subsequent releases, the mini album’s eight tracks are built around heavily sedated hip-hop beats and smooth vintage electronic sounds, emphasising on beautiful melodies rather than on complex sonic constructions. Defining dream sequences through an intelligent use of sounds, Eoin and Sandison were going against everything the electronic scene was standing for when they recorded this album, and demonstrated that it was possible to create music with a human dimension, using computers. From the simple space ballad that is Oirectine to the floating electro of Iced Cooly, with its approximate tuning, or the stellar lullaby title track and the low energy funk of Seeya Later, the album plays on a complex pattern of tricks and subversive elements to capture the imagination of the listener.
Released a year later as a follow up to Twoism, Hi Scores reveals slightly more open, if equally as drowsy, soundscapes. Evoking frosty fields at dawn, this EP demonstrates further the incredible maturity of the Boards’ sound back then. The opening title track and Turquoise Hexagon Sun, which was later included on Music…, are classic BoC, with their repetitive melodic lines cast over chilled beats, drawing attention to notions of wide open spaces while tiny sonic details activate in the background. While Nlogax takes further the dirty electro-funk sound experienced with Seeya Later, also included on this release, highlighting a more upbeat and upfront side of the pair’s musical identity, which would further blossom on Music…, the remainder of the EP is typical of the sleepy atmospheric electronica of Twoism.
With these two classic records now made widely available, it is no wonder why Boards Of Canada have become one of the finest and most highly regarded acts, not only in the UK, but all over the world. This is absolutely essential listening.
- 29-08-2017, 12:15
- Discography | Electronic | Downtempo | Ambient | FLAC / APE
Artist: Boards of Canada
Title: Discography
Year Of Release: 1996-2013
Label: Music70, Warp Records, Skam
Genre: Electronic, IDM, Ambient, Downtempo...
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 8:54:48
Total Size: 2.75 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
BiographyTitle: Discography
Year Of Release: 1996-2013
Label: Music70, Warp Records, Skam
Genre: Electronic, IDM, Ambient, Downtempo...
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 8:54:48
Total Size: 2.75 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Boards of Canada are the duo of Michael Sandison (born June 1, 1970) and Marcus Eoin (born July 21, 1971). Based on the northern coast of Scotland, the group got its start on acclaimed experimental electronica label Skam in 1996 after recording an obscene number of tracks and pressing the best of them up as a miniscule-run 12', Twoism, an eight-track promo EP the group sent to labels in lieu of a demonstration tape. The pair's first official release appeared on Skam toward the middle of 1996, and was quickly hailed as among the label's finest releases to date. Titled Hi Scores, the EP is an engaging mix of simple, infectious three-part synth melodies, subtle hip-hop and electro references, and alternately tense and relaxing beatwork endlessly repeated in shifting combinations (à la Autechre, Bochum Welt, and Cylob). Almost a mini-LP at six tracks and nearly half an hour in length, the debut was followed in late 1996 by a series of live gigs opening for Plaid and Autechre, as well as compilation tracks for Uvm and Skam/Musik Aus Strom side project label Mask (under the name Hellinterface).
Music Has the Right to Children Further releases for Skam, Mask, and 4th World in-house label Ampoule were scheduled, and in 1998 Boards of Canada issued Music Has the Right to Children, a landmark for electronic listening music that was widely copied. Nearly four years later (and after the release of only a single four-track EP and the archival Peel Sessions), the duo returned with its second LP, Geogaddi. Another long wait followed, until in October 2005 Boards of Canada released The Campfire Headphase, which introduced subtle changes into the pair's sound. A six-track EP, Trans Canada Highway, appeared in May 2006. After seven years of silence, the duo announced new music was on the horizon in typically cryptic fashion: a mysterious album released on Record Store Day 2013 was one of several clues that Boards of Canada's fourth album, the darker, more streamlined Tomorrow's Harvest, would arrive that June.
Discography
Albums
1996 - Twoism FLAC
1998 - Music Has the Right to Children FLAC
2002 - Geogaddi FLAC
2005 - The Campfire Headphase FLAC
2013 - Tomorrow's Harvest FLAC
Demos & Rarities
1996 - Boc Maxima FLAC
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2013 - Remixes FLAC
EPs & Singles
1996 - Hi Scores FLAC
1998 - Aquarius FLAC
1999 - Peel Session FLAC
2000 - In a Beautiful Place out in the Country FLAC
2006 - Trans Canada Highway FLAC
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