Twoism

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Twoism
Boards of Canada studio album

Publication
(s)

1995
2002

admission

Summer 1995

Label (s) Music70 BOARD1
Warp Records

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Electronic Music
Ambient Techno
Ambient
Trip-Hop

Title (number)

9

running time

36:37

production

Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin

Studio (s)

Hexagon Sun Studios , Pentland Hills , Scotland

chronology
Hooper Bay (1994) Twoism Music Has the Right to Children
1998

Twoism is the first album by the Scottish electro duo Boards of Canada . It was released in 1995 on her own record label Music70 .

The album was privately distributed as a self-financed cassette and record. Boards of Canada was not publicly distributed until the EP Hi Scores on Skam Records . Twoism , however, was the work that was noticed by Skam Records. In 2002 the album was re-released on CD and LP by Warp Records .

content

There are differences between Sixtyniner on this album and the track of the same name on Music Has the Right to Children (1998). Boards of Canada often released earlier tracks on later, more popular albums, sometimes with differences, as in this case.

"Smokes Quantity" (which also appeared later on Music Has the Right to Children ) has the short hidden track "1986 Summer Fire" , which is not listed on the LP .

publication

Before Twoism was released again, it was a hotly sought rarity, as the album was only pressed about a hundred times. It often cost around $ 800 to purchase the album.

Twoism is the only widespread publication by Boards of Canada with early third member Chris Horne, who was listed on the original publication as Chris H. in the booklet. However, his name was completely omitted from the 2002 Warp release. So it is not clear how much and to what extent he co-produced on this record.

The audio channels have been inverted on the CD re-release compared to the original LP. This is particularly evident in the Seeya Later and Smokes Quantity tracks .

Artwork

The album cover (two motorcyclists holding their helmets against each other) is from the 1980 film The Killings at Outpost Zeta .

The first CD pressing from Warp Records was on a black CD and thus resembled PlayStation discs. The CD also contained a yellow Boards of Canada sticker. The barcode on the CD case was also an easy-to-remove sticker.

reception

On January 9, 2003, the online music magazine Pitchfork Media awarded the album 7 out of 10 points.

The album got four out of five stars on allmusic and John Bush wrote:

"Excepting only the rigid drum monster" Basefree "(which sounds a bit like Aphex Twin circa 1992), Twoism features the same exquisitely spooky, textured emotronica that fans will want to hear, all at as high a level as the brilliant music has the Right to Children to boot. "

"With the exception of the heavy drum monster" Basefree ", which sounds a bit like Aphex Twin circa 1992, Twoism contains the same exquisitely eerie, textual Emotronic music that fans want to hear. Everything on top of that on the same level as the brilliant Music Has the Right to Children . "

- John Bush

Track list

All tracks from Boards of Canada.

  1. Sixtyniners 5:17
  2. Oirectine 5:11
  3. Iced Cooly 2:22
  4. Basefree 6:35
  5. Twoism 6:06
  6. Seeya Later 4:33
  7. Melissa Juice 1:32
  8. Smokes Quantity 3:10
  9. 1986 Summer Fire "1:36 (Hidden Track)

swell

  1. ^ Matthew Walton: Scottish Duo Re-release Their Ultra Rare Seminal Debut . British Broadcasting Corporation. 2002. Retrieved November 26, 2006.
  2. ^ Pitchfork: Album Review: Twoism
  3. ^ Twoism Boards of Canada

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