A Few Old Tunes (album)

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A Few Old Tunes
Compilation album by Boards of Canada
Released	1996
Genre	IDM
Length	71:40
Label	Music70 CANCAS001
Producer(s)	Michael Sandison & Marcus Eoin
Old Tunes chronology
Old Tunes Vol. 1 (1995)	A Few Old Tunes (1996)	Old Tunes Vol. 2 (1996)

A Few Old Tunes is a rare studio-recorded IDM compilation album by Electronic music duo Boards of Canada. One of the three Boards of Canada tapes collectively referred to as Old Tunes, A Few Old Tunes is rumored to have been privately released to friends and family of the band sometime around 1996.

Recently, electronic copies of the Old Tunes cassettes have been leaked onto peer to peer networks.

[edit] Track listing

• Side A

1. "Spectrum" - 2:19
2. "Light, Clear, Hair" - 0:41
3. "P.C." - 0:48
4. "Trapped" - 3:52
5. "Rodox Video" ¹ - 1:19
6. "Happy Cycling" ^{1, 2, 3} - 1:49
7. "House of Abin'adab" - 1:55
8. "Finity" - 5:00
9. "Forest Moon" - 6:35
10. "Skipping Stones" - 2:12
11. "Carcan" ¹ - 1:50
12. "Devil" - 0:14
13. "Mansel" - 5:36
14. "She is P" - 1:42
15. "Davie Addison" - 1:15

• Side B

1. "Sac" - 1:23
2. "Blockbusters" - 0:40
3. "I Will Get it Tattooed" - 1:37
4. "The Way You Show" - 2:56
5. "I Love U" ^[sic] - 1:41
6. "King of Carnival" - 4:18
7. "M9" ¹ - 3:32
8. "Original Nlogax" ¹ - 1:11
9. "Sequoia" - 4:49
10. "Boqurant" - 1:43
11. "5:9:78" - 4:14
12. "Wendy Miller" - 0:32
13. "Paul Russell's Piece" - 0:53
14. "Up the March Bank" - 3:24
15. "Nova Scotia Robots" ¹ - 1:47

Tracks marked with a superscript number appear on other Boards of Canada albums, albeit in a different form.

[edit] External links

• A Few Old Tunes discography by Fredd-E.
• A Few Old Tunes at Discogs.com.
• A Few Old Tunes at MusicBrainz.

[edit] See also

• Warp Records
• Skam Records
• Music70
• Matador Records
• Hexagon Sun Collective
• Boards of Canada discography

Boards of Canada
Michael Sandison | Marcus Eoin Christopher Horne
Management
Warp Records | Skam Records | Music70 | Matador Records
Studio albums
Catalog 3 (1987) | Acid Memories (1989) | Closes Vol. 1 (1992) | Play by Numbers (1994) | Hooper Bay (1994) | Twoism (1995) | Boc Maxima (1996) | Music Has the Right to Children (1998) | Geogaddi (2002) | The Campfire Headphase (2005)
Singles & EPs
Hi Scores (1996) | Aquarius (1998) | Orange Romeda (1998) | Peel Session TX 21/07/1998 (1999) | In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (2000) | Roygbiv/Telephasic Workshop 10" | Trans Canada Highway (2006)
Live Recordings
Live @ Warp10 (1999) | Live @ Lighthouse (2000) | Live @ ATP (2001)
Related articles
Discography | Hexagon Sun Collective | Music70 Old Tunes: Old Tunes Vol. 1 (1995) | A Few Old Tunes (1996) | Old Tunes Vol. 2 (1996)
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