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Boards of Canada is tagged as: ambient, electronic, idm, electronica, chillout

Boards of Canada is an electronic music duo from Edinburgh, Scotland, composed of brothers Mike Sandison (b. 1 June 1970) and Marcus Eoin (b. 21 July 1971). They have released a number of works, most notably Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, with little advertising and few interviews - like many of their label-mates on the pioneering electronic music label Warp.
Boards of Canada have had an enormous influence on the ambient, downtempo and idm scenes. They have frequently made reference to the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970s television. Indeed, the Sandison brothers admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which they take their name. The duo have recorded a few minor works under the name Hell Interface. Boards of Canada’s music has been used in several CSI episodes and on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim interlude shorts; small bits of their music have been used on the BBC program Top Gear for transitional music.
Early Boards of Canada (1970s-1995)
Growing up in a musical family, brothers Mike and Marcus Eoin began playing instruments at a young age. They experimented with recording techniques at around the age of 10, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of t...
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Top 10 Boards of Canada Songs
Turquoise Hexagon Sun
Roygbiv
Dayvan Cowboy
Wildlife Analysis
Oscar See Through Red Eye
Telephasic Workshop
Chromakey Dreamcoat
Aquarius
Sixtyten
Kaini Industries
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Top 10 Boards of Canada Albums
Music Has the Right to Children
The Campfire Headphase
Geogaddi
Boc Maxima
Twoism
Trans Canada Highway
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Hi Scores
A Few Old Tunes
Peel Session
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