Boards of Canada

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Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada live at the Warp Lighthouse Party 1999
Boards of Canada live at the Warp Lighthouse Party 1999
General information
Genre (s) IDM , ambient , trip-hop , psychedelic
founding 1986
Website www.boardsofcanada.com
Founding members
Michael Sandison
Marcus Eoin Sandison
former members
Chris Horne

Boards of Canada ( BoC for short ) is a Scottish musician duo, consisting of Michael Sandison (born June 1, 1970) and Marcus Eoin Sandison (born July 21, 1971). Her works belong to the electronica genre. The duo also released under the pseudonym Hell Interface .

style

Characteristic of the music are usually a slow tempo, hip-hop- inspired rhythms and playful melodies. Most listeners attribute a psychedelic quality to the music , and it is often associated with childhood memories and nostalgia . In addition to the melodies, the creative use of samples , especially from film and television, is essential . The sampled passages are often barely perceptible and partly alienated (e.g. played backwards) and integrated in the background of the songs, creating an organic atmosphere, sometimes a kind of diffuse anxiety (especially on the Geogaddi album ). This also leads to the fact that many fans on the Internet try together to decipher the content of the text passages and to set up speculative theories about their meaning.

history

The two musicians hid the fact that they are siblings for years. It was only with the release of the fourth album The Campfire Headphase both announced that they were brothers. They would have concealed this fact at the beginning of their career so as not to be hastily compared with the Hartnoll brothers from Orbital .

The collaboration between the brothers arose from a common preference for films, series and documentaries. In the 1970s and 1980s , both of them took their first musical steps by setting self-produced short films to music. The own films got longer and longer and larger photo documentaries followed, in which Boards of Canada always contributed the music. From the late 1980s onwards, a community of musicians with an often changing line-up developed. The core of the group always consisted of Marcus Eoin ( drums ) and Mike Sandison ( bass ).

The band name is derived from the National Film Board of Canada , the state film authority to promote the cultural and social representation of Canada , whose nature documentaries had a significant influence on the work of the two.

From the 1990s onwards, BoC appeared at various festivals with their own audio-video installations. The Pentland Hills Hexagon Sun studio was built in Scotland . Their own label, under which they are now releasing for the first time, is called Music70 . This is where the first EP and soundtracks are released. In 1996 their first EP Twoism landed on the desk of Sean Booth ( Autechre ) by chance , who was then released on Skam Records , among others . Then BoC received a record deal with the label.

From 1998 they released their first LP Music Has the Right to Children on Skam and Warp Records , which was hailed as album of the month by the trade press. The music magazine NME included their debut album in the top 25 psychedelic albums, which also includes albums by the Byrds , the Beatles and My Bloody Valentine .

Discography (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Geogaddi
  UK 21st 
silver
silver
03/02/2002 (4 weeks)
The Campfire Headphase
  UK 41 October 29, 2005 (2 weeks)
Trans Canada Highway
  UK 63 06/10/2006 (1 week)
Tomorrow's Harvest
  DE 52 06/21/2013 (1 week)
  CH 35 06/23/2013 (2 weeks)
  UK 7th 06/22/2013 (4 weeks)
  US 13 06/29/2013 (4 weeks)
Singles
Peel sessions
  UK 82 01/30/1999 (1 week)

Albums

EPs

  • 1996: Hi Scores
  • 1998: Aquarius
  • 1998: Telephasic Workshop
  • 1999: Peel Session
  • 2000: In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
  • 2006: Trans Canada Highway

swell

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

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