The Lost Albums of Boards of Canada
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- Boards of Canada is one of those bands where the more you dig into their discography, the more you end up falling into rabbit holes of secrets and theories. But this band gets even more mysterious when you consider everything that the band hasn't released.
From 1987 to 1996, BOC released over 9 albums via extremely limited homemade cassettes, but here's the thing: For most of them, we don't even know what they sound like...
These are the lost albums of Boards of Canada.
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The albums I talk about (in order):
- Catalog3 (no audio available)
- Acid Memories
• Boards of Canada - Duf...
- Closes Vol.1 (no audio available)
- Play by Numbers
• Boards of Canada - Wo...
- Hooper Bay
• Boards of Canada - Cir...
- Boc Maxima
• Boards of Canada - Boc...
- A Few Old Tunes
• Boards Of Canada - A F...
-Old Tunes Vol.2
• Boards of Canada - A F...
- Random 35 Tracks Tape
• Boards of Canada Rando...
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:13 Catalog3
1:57 Acid Memories
3:10 Closes Vol.1
4:07 Play by Numbers
5:11 Hooper Bay
6:19 Boc Maxima/Old Tunes
7:18 Random 35 Tracks Tape 
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I just hope they come back as Tomorrow`s harvest is now 10 years old!! We need more of their music :)
Yes! If your reading BOC we need a new album!
Losing hope, but at least we have Autechre
@@depptx2869 a new album is confirmed and on the way
No need to lose hope, there's a channel on RUclips called Boards Of Canada similar artists and it's helped me to discover artists just as good but less accomplished than boards of cananda. A few to name are Lost Integrity, Clocolan, and Ciaryn. All very good idm artists that give just as much as the BOC vibe.
Good to see a new generation of BOCHeads. I've became an avid listener after my second listen to MHTRTC back in 1998 on a totally random buy at a record store upon the recommendation of the staff. Hopefully, the brothers are cooking something up for us.
an album this yr got confirmed to my knowledge
@@shelly- WHAT WHERE WHEN
@@shelly-where and when
@@shelly- Are you serious?!
@@shelly-I think that these are empty words, but...I hope you're right
it’s crazy how timeless the music is
Such a damn mysterious band. I don't know if they'll ever return or if they'll ever shine the light of day on their back catalog, but what they did give us is cool as hell (among them Geogaddi which is actually my favorite album ever) and feels incredibly profound and conceptual, which makes it REALLY interesting to wonder where this all started and how it turned into what it became, I mean fuck dude if Sean Booth hadn't gone deep diving at a record shop and found two astronauts hugging on an album cover with the word "Twoism" on it, we'd probably have NONE of this. Great viddy broski, always enjoy your BoC schticks.
they have confirmed that they are working on a new album still
They dropped a mixtape on 2019 and dropped a remix last year bruh
Wait... We have, to thank for Boards of Canada's existence to the outside world, one half of _Autechre!?_
@@TheVeyron623 yep, he's the reason they actually got signed to Skam for Hi Scores
@@LK-428 That's awesome!
I do a lot of work finding and ripping tapes no one knows about by mostly a subset of late-90s to Early-00s bands no one's ever heard. Often times, these bands would just make mixtapes of random songs for friends or for promo reasons. I have a 53-song mixtape of demos ranging 2007-2020 made for me by the front man of this band called Pataphysics, for example.
I imagine the "random 35 tracks" tape was like that. Just a mixtape of rarities made for a friend, no artwork, no tracklisting, which he then ripped and threw on the internet.
so weird that it's been almost 10 years since Tomorrow's harvest... there's only like 4-5 more months
Been and gone now….
It's so weird, something about this group just strikes a chord that nothing else can, first time I fully listened to geogaddi I got lost on the TransCanada Highway at night in rain which maybe has something to do with the association, but no one other electronic group seems to have been able to so successfully freak me out while also making me feel so at home at the same time
BoC is magical
That one track called 5d from Closes vol.1 is kinda considered to be found as official Boards YT account added a fan video titled 5d in their playlist which also was in R35TT A06
Excellent work on this. I really enjoyed how informative and detailed this was! Please continue more BOC topics!
I love how this is just a Boards of Canada channel, thank you for getting me into these guys
Hey TennisThom. I love channels like yours, because they're underrated and haven't been ruined by their communities. Even if you upload once a month, it is SO worth it! Honestly some of the most engaging content i've seen on youtube in a while. Keep going dude!
They have to be leaked. I don't know how, and I don't even know who would do it. But these have to be heard
For real. I've been listening to BoC for years and there is nothing that comes close to their music. They have this special nostalgic vibe that I really cherish
-A06 is most likely 5d. Someone uploaded A06 as a music video and mislabled it as "5d". This would normally be considered a fake...until Boards of Canada put set video in an official fan music video playlist they curated.
-There's also a chance A14 is Godever, as it was being passed around the internet under that name before the R35TT leak.
This is a great video! I agree that Hooper Bay is one that I would want to here the most but also Catalog 3 since that is their first known release!
Wake up babe, tennisthom has uploaded
Wow did you think of this comment all by yourself?! 😀 #original
I know you from Di filllm makerrs
Great video! Thx a lot, pal! I'm a relatively late bloomer as a BoC fan, but, God, what a band! So much to discover, and your videos help a lot with that.
I knew about these lost albums but damn there is so much good info in this video i wouldve never figured out ever!! Great vid🙆♀️
I'm probably not too much older but goddamn if it isn't good seeing younger people getting into the glorious world-building BoC has done for themselves. So brilliantly cryptic.
also adding to the authenticity of R35TT is the fact that some of the samples used in the songs there are notable for appearing in later releases as well - A06's melody, for example, was used in a track called Seven Forty Seven on Warp20.
Also of note, A06 features a sample of a kid saying "does that come with uhh, chicken fingers?", which is used in the track "Dave (I'm A Real Traditionalist)" from Old Tunes Vol. 2.
just got into boards of canada over the last 6 months... thank u for sharing information about their music... :3
This is weird... I swear I heard a tune from them on an educational video tape played in school when I was 6 in 1987, and I've been like, "maybe I was misremembering it", and "This music sounds familiar" Now, it might have been possible that I did hear something back then!
How old are these dudes??
I don't remember what the tape was about, but I remember shapes, like a dark purple octagon over a white background... or something.
Kid for Today (Stereolab remix) hit me in the face the first time I heard it 20 years ago.
It's kind of unofficially confirmed by BoC that 5d off closes vol. 1 is on random 35 tracks tape. That or a troll by the group or whoever runs their official youtube channel.
I love Boards of Canada-listened to them since I was 16. Thanks for doing this. Happy New Year!
good job, mate. coming from an old head producer/dj .. love that you are talking about this. subscribed.
Cheers mate for heads up on my favourite group 👊
been listening to BoC for twenty years and i can tell you it has evoked for me a lot more than "the backrooms"
Been thinking about R35TT for a good month (after knowing about it for a decade) before finding this video. It's such a mystery for a band that's already cryptic. It's just so weird that there's bits of MHTRTC, Geogaddi, Old Tapes, and even rare trax (found out that A06 was later sampled in Seven Forty Seven). I don't know what to truly believe personally, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was leaked from a former band member or friend who made a lil mix. Maybe the truth will come out when they FINALLY decide to rerelease the whole thing. I'm so curious to hear BoC as a whole band.
Relevant discussion from 2009 involving BoC representative "MDG"
MDG:"I've seen comments a few times about a mystery "35 track" tape which itself is a mystery to us too, sorry"
audiotrack: "these tracks have to be BOC. they are what i listen to the most. MDG are you saying they are not BOC?"
MDG: "No I'm not saying they're not BOC, but the compilation itself is a mystery, just a mixture."
I love this. Thank you for this!! :)
Man, I love your channel
Very interesting analysis. Well done.
Duffy sounds like an early version of diving station
I love your content broski, love BOC as well ;)
your so cool… like thank you for making these!
their live sets are sometimes available and are often full of non-album music, id wager a lot of that is variations on the early unreleased stuff. There are some really great live sets on youtube that are worth looking into.
Enjoyed it! Great video
Listen to A06 on random 35 tracks tape, it’s definitely the early version of their later released track Seven Forty Seven!! This definitely proves 35 tracks tape is real because it first leaked on Soulseek in 2004, but that track wouldn’t come out until Warp20 compilation in 2009
another great video, I don't understand how you don't get much more views. But keep up this great work, it's always so good to watch, you got me into BOC since your Geogaddi video, thanks for all this :D
I actuallly own an mp3 copy of Closes Vol. 1 and Hooper Bay, dowloaded a long time ago on some illegal website. So yes, they do exist.
if this is actually true then you are very lucky 😂. I really do wish i could hear them myself haha
I also have mp3s of those early albums, unfortunately they are fake, many of the tracks were other artists, with possibly some real tracks mixed in but never confirmed.
why not post them on google drive or something then?
@@namajeff4199OP likely failed to realize the prevalence of fake copies of these unreleased records that are floating around and just assumed they were legit. If it were that easy to just search them up and download them, there wouldn't be hundreds of forum discussions about them for the past 20-something years.
@@namajeff4199yes fr
I'm about the same age as the duo, and Catalog3 from 1987 would have been when they were 16-17 or so. That's pretty damn young, and it's hard for me to believe they had two previous full albums worth of songs. I think you've done a bit of a disservice not connecting their ages to this pretty big accomplishment, maybe because you're pretty young yourself (at least look so) maybe it's harder to appreciate. Anyways, highly doubtful there's Catalog 1 or 2, and I hope any of your future deep dives includes timelines of how old they were when they made releases, "lost" or not.
We probably have heard some of closes vol. 1, A06 and A14 from Random 35 track tape have been speculated to be 5D (a06) and a14 (godever), they also appear in BoC's official RUclips playlist, though this is jus speculation.
I like the Closes Vol. 2 theory, but I'm pretty sure that these tracks disprove it, unless BoC decided to rerelease songs from Closes Vol. 1 on Vol. 2. It's unfortunate considering how neat it is that the interlude pattern from Closes Vol. 2 was retained. Maybe that was just how BoC liked doing interludes at the time, even for what are just tapes containing edited versions of an assortment of their material. Societas X Tape does the opposite where it starts on an interlude and ends on a full song.
Tennis Thom you’re back!
I enjoyed this video! Never heard of these BoC albums so this was super interesting. I'd like to hear your thoughts on other electronic artists. Ever listen to Jade Cicada, Tipper, Supertask, CharlstheFirst, or Detox Unit?
8:00 track 11 is outro in "Twoism" and track 17 is also an outro for "Basefree" on "Twoism" album. I'm quite mad that people tend to don't bring out this album cause it EP, but for me it's actually the best BoC album.
Good investigative work
always here for BoC content
BOC is one the most understated & yet influential artist in the history of electronic music... & you can bet i was gob smacked like most when i first herd them as they transcended everything in the musical Landscape when they came on the scene & few artist will ever reach these highs of both unique sonic identity & quality... i got all the major vinyl still from back in the days. as well as all digital stuff most fans have herd though i was never one of those mathematical Raiman super fans tracking down all the detailed mystery box, bread crumb clues the BOC cult following has helped inspire....I just love exceptional music...So this is just a shot in the dark! ...BUT... what if (they) or some one with the 5 lost tapes in their possession scattered most of those lost tapes tracks into that nameless 35 track release? that would both maintain the mystery of the lost tracks as no one could verify it.. while still getting that lost early tunes freely into the hands of fans ? Duno...could be totally off... but that's my 2 cents
Thanks dude I'm happy for learning this is hard to find info or facts like this in Spanish but I use cc and the English I can understand ♥️
Ive never considered 35 tracks to be anything but boards of canada, sadly no one can produce BOC music like they can, even without the references. The history/mystery of it is pretty interesting, I didn't know anything about it.
Cool video. Interesting thing is that the album art for Acid Memories is very likely not legit since I believe the BOC name was not being used when Acid Memories was released. The entire lore of these lost albums is just fitting for the aesthetic of the band, best music ever
You make great Videos...go on
I was unaware, very nice.
Catalog3 was released when BOC were 16 years of age. They clearly dont want you hearing it because they were just kids. Kinda makes sense
i think random 35 tracks tape is actually just about half of closes vol 1 mixed up with sone oddities thrown in. and it’s almost confirmed that A14 is godever and A06 is 5d
People say that Noatak was a track they played at ATP. A party where any form of filming or recording was strictly forbidden and actively enforced by security at the event. This is what it would have sounded like: ruclips.net/video/PR5mcHuUcB0/видео.html
They definitely went a long way to prevent people from getting access to the actual tracks. I think the mystery around these missing tapes is what makes it so good and interesting to people. The moment they release all of this, it would probably lose its value except for those already in on it.
Thank You for your job
R35TT A06 from the Random 35 Tracks Tape is thought to be 5D from Closes Vol. 1
Someone outthere on the internet must have at least one and isn’t sharing it
I'm just having my morning coffee and stumbled across your video. I bought Music has the right when it first came out after it got a rave review from Q magazine (in England). As soon as Telephasic Workshop came on, I was hooked.
I'm fortunate enough to have sourced the albums you're covering and I only wish the brothers would re-release them. Great video. I'll have a look at some of your other BoC work.....
Which albums did you source?
Good documentary. Good information. I'm a hardcore Boards Of Canada fan. Super hardcare.
un Québecois qui fait des videos de BOC et de musique super interressantes?! abonnement instantanné bro.
Thanks for covering these absolute geniuses. This is one of those rare videos that looks and feels like it has 100k+ views, but is barely scratching the 1k mark. I bet this will blow up in the near future :)
We’ll sail the stars…
Awesome.
Can anyone confirm that boc bringing new album out this year? I've read a comment underneath that suggests this
great vid, should also be noted that their early live performances featured some unknown tracks, possibly from these albums, this one is speculated to be Noatak from Hooper Bay ruclips.net/video/Jm1BjJNd3JU/видео.html as there's a robotic vocal that sounds like the the song title and shares a similar runtime
Back in the mid 90s when BOC were starting out with their 1st releases it definitely would have sounded good to pad out their catalogue with some "earlier releases" and chuck up some clips they had lying around as soundbites from those "releases." Of course when they actually started to get an audience these "releases" were quietly wiped from the site but through the magic of the internet the early site was saved and now people have been claiming to have heard these "releases" to give themselves some credentials. Nearly 20 years later there are still countless youtube videos, including this very one talking about albums that never existed in the 1st place and naturally the BOC boys are lapping it up as part of their mysterious character. If any of this stuff existed it would have surfaced years ago, just like r35tt and a few old tunes did. I can´t wait for the day one of the guys lets slip it was all a troll.
There's a very real chance that they do exist. Every (good) band have to start out experimenting and discover their sound. BoC has definitely spend a lot of time slowly cooking up their signature sound, whereas there absolutely must be earlier stuff that they have "released". These "releases" were probably mainly for feedback purposes in the circles of friends, family and likeminded psychonauts in their area. When they started to have a collection of well received tracks, they probably started seeking out label interest and got a foot in the door. The reason that most of their old stuff is not public is very very likely because the boys themselves are not satisfied with the quality.
@@alpaca_growing_kit There's a very real chance that @lotsofmagnets is right.
On one hand, from my very own experience, I started making music around 2005 (14 years old) and made like four "albums" (so to speak) nobody but a couple of friends and family listened to. I haven't released them because I find them a bit cringey to be honest. I'd like to dump them to bandcamp just to have proof when I share this story now that I'm 34. To me, that seems to be the case with the Old Tunes tapes and BoC Maxima.
But... the other stuff could be perfectly made up by the band themselves. Even the artwork seems rushed compared to their other stuff (BoC using IMPACT font on an album cover? Not even as begginers!)
Also there's a good chance that half of R35 tape is a mix of BOC and someone else's stuff. Remember when Boc Transmission came out in 2019? While it was streaming people were wondering if they're were playing unreleased stuff or if it was just a DJ set. And it was the latter. The mix was so well crafted and revealing of their influences that it could've passed as some rare BOC. And I suspect the band know that and meant it. WIth a so nerdy fandom, they can perfectly troll us as they want (After all they kinda did that when they promoted Tomorrow's Harvest).
BOC fans are a very "I want to believe" group of people. So I tend to distrust the theories, apply some Okham's razor and asume the most simple alternative is the most probable to be the truth, as boring as it could be.
I would like to know other peoples opinion on the live track posted here on youtube. It's from a live show of BoC and in the song the word "noatak" is repeated. I commented that it seemed logical to conclude it may a song off Hooper Bay, however people replied a while back that they didn't think so. If it's not the track from Hooper Bay then what do people think it is? Is it a known BoC track? If you search "Boards of Canada - Live ATP Track 7 (Ganzfeld Engine Remaster)" its the one that is 8:20 in duration from uploader "xmd5a".
Boards of Canada. I am 65 now and I think they are amazing. The first music I was interested in was electronic in the 1970s. BOC has taken it to another level.
I thought this was some clickbaity vid, turns out you did an excellent job.
Cmon BOC, we need some more of your "past inside the present"~
I know it’ll never happen due to the nature of band, but a book written by one of the brothers would be a godsend. I would almost prefer that over a new album (well, not really). It would be incredible to see how this all really happened.
Very interesting!
I'm willing to bet some of the tracks on the R35TT are from some of these unreleased albums
Cold Earth
And to add up even more to the mystery, there are also these fascinating videos which have been uploaded last April and although opinions are divided regarding the origin of these tracks, it still sounds pretty damn much like genuine BOC material: ruclips.net/video/RFt53mKlDbM/видео.html
Random 35 Tracks Tape is some of the bands best work.
I need it to live
Damn I'm pretty sure I had a copy of these old tapes with A and B titles, and a bunch of other shit from BoC, can't find them on my old drive though. They WERE NOT the actual tapes but digital recordings. I'm remembering the covers for Olde Tunes and Old Tunes Vol 2. Are these lost media? Anyway, didn't think there were some lost albums for BoC, I'd like to hear the stuff pre 1995, has to be HELLA crunchy
I've downloaded something purporting to be Hooper Bay from the internet, but the clips in this vid don't really match the tracks and the track lengths are quite a bit off. Anyone know what I've been listening to?
ive got a theory: there couldve been an ep that has all the short tracks like closes 1-4, blueberry, etc that nobody knows about
another one: the image for "hi scores" is in hooper bay
there were some fake leaks from closes vol.1 that do sound alot like BOC, but the cuts were too high quality from the time and they don't have tape hiss im pretty sure
5D and Trillions have been ID'd from Closes Vol. 1. On the 35 Random Tracks cassettes.
I discovered boards of Canada from Solar Sand using roygbiv at the end of monumentality and haven’t looked back since.
Excellent.
I gotta come back to this vid, my internet is not working in this housing neighborhood atm
Torrents, friend!
I downloaded a (clearly incomplete) BOC discography maybe 15 years ago. I have:
Acid Memories (6 tracks, 32 minutes)
Visual Drone (a 12 minute track from Catalog 3)
Hooper Bay (5 tracks, 30 minutes)
and much more.
what would you use to summerise each releases sound? im just so curious to know
I see another comment above that makes me realize I can't be certain I've got the correctly labeled tracks, but they certainly sound like BOC!
I should try shazam to see if it recognizes them...
I actually never realized I had anything rare until i watched this video!
Oh damn! Google song recognition confirmed that at least a few of my favorite BOC songs are actually Múm songs that were mislabeled in a fraudulent torrent file!!
Well, thanks for setting me straight!
rumor has it, the boys themselves have lost these albums, given them away whatever ...
This stuff, some of it at least, will get out someday. I'm pretty certain of it.
Will that likely be when the brothers are in their 80s? Yeah, but I mean, I've waited this long...
I've still got my copy of catalog 3. I daren't put it in the cassette player these days. I do have it backed up on data. Can't ever release it though. Sworn to secrecy.
What is your relation to the band? How did you get hold of it and when?
@@clashpanda120 No relation to the band. But I swapped a Juno 106 (Probably worth about 500 quid at the time) for the tape with a Pakistani guy from Blackburn. He told me not to ever leak it. Said that they were pissed that the other tapes leaked. He says they were sent out as demos in and around 96/7. He always says that he suspected that Mike Paradinas leaked them. The release itself is great. I've always preferred their unreleased music to when their careers took off.
@@SoulFlask Wow, I’ll take your word for it. You are an extremely lucky person to have that and you know how desperate so many fans, including myself are to want to here that, but I bet you wouldn’t be able to trust anyone who you shared it with also not to leak it. (Although if you share it with me, I will not leak it).
What is the album like? Is it like Twosim or completely different? Is the song “Visual Drone 12” like the supposedly leaked version on RUclips? Do you have any other of unreleased BoC material?
If you are telling the truth this is madness and needs to be shared because on BoC Pages it says “no one outside of the bands friends and family have heard it” let alone own copies! It would be amazing if you could share even just what the cassette looks like or the credits so I know you are being legit and would be great to have the images for the fan page and Discogs, it’s up to you though if you do not want to.
@@clashpanda120 I'm not at my house yet as I'm on holiday Seal spotting in Lincolnshire. I'll have a think about it and see what I can do.
@@SoulFlask Thank you, I will be waiting. Enjoy your time spotting seals
Hey, what's the number on the background? Sounds interesting!!
Yeah Boards of Canada could be background music to liminal spaces. I could see that being a thing.
Gracias.
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Try looking at the NTS sessions by autechre. Also, LOVE ur Channel!
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¿Noatak de Hopper Bay no fue tocada en vivo?
No se a confirmado nada, y ni siquiera se sabe si dice "noatak"
I love this video.
TennisThom What's the Track, in the background, that starts playing at 0:54, for the first time and it's throughout the video?
It’s “Happy Cycling” from A Few Old Tunes vol.1 (not the one from Music Has the Right To Children)
@@TennisThom Thank you : ) Have a nice New Year's Eve!
way back in the Early 2000's I remember grabbing a whole bunch of music from a friend of mine in High School. Closes Vol. 1 and Hooper Bay was part of that music grab.
Please elaborate. Do you still have them?
@@averagesizedperson I got them in digital form. Their run times don't match up exactly with the run times in the video so I don't know if they are legit or not. Plus the track sample from Hooper Bay doesn't match up exactly with what I've got so I don't know if either of them are legit or not.
@@Shortyland05 probably not legit then
@@Shortyland05 you should try posting them regardless
try to post hem on google drive or something and link it here
@@namajeff4199 I mean if the author of the video wants me to send them to him then I will
I'm watching the Legend of Korra and there's this character with the name "Noatak". Obviously no connection here, but it's interesting that a track from Hooper Bay is named like that.
The connection is that it's obviously a name that comes an indigenous arctic culture, which inspired both BoC and the water tribes in Avatar.