Trans Canada Highway (EP)
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| EP by Boards of Canada | ||
| Released | May 29, 2006 | |
| Recorded | Hexagon Sun studio in Scotland | |
| Genre | IDM | |
| Length | 28:00 | |
| Label | Warp Records WAP200 | |
| Producer(s) | Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin | |
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| Boards of Canada chronology | ||
| The Campfire Headphase (2005) |
Trans Canada Highway (2006) |
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Trans Canada Highway is an EP by the Scottish IDM duo Boards of Canada. It was released on May 29, 2006 by Warp Records. According to Boards of Canada's official site, the EP was originally scheduled for release on June 6, 2006.[1] (that date being written numerically as 6/6/06, harking back to their use of the number 666 on the album Geogaddi.) The record pressing of the EP is coloured white.
The EP contains the duo's first ever music video, directed by Melissa Olson. The video begins with stock footage of Joseph Kittinger's landmark sky dive from a helium balloon that had pierced the atmosphere, effectively leaving Kittinger in free fall from space in 1960. The video shows a man (not Kittinger) landing in the ocean after his parachute successfully opens, and as he rises to the surface, he grasps a surfboard and begins to ride waves. The video pieces together various found video and film clips in order to create a short narrative to the song "Dayvan Cowboy", which also appears on Boards of Canada's 2005 album The Campfire Headphase.
The album title is perhaps a nod to electronic group Kraftwerk's album Trans-Europe Express, or a more direct reference to the Trans-Canada Highway.
The album art was taken from a 1977 Dodge Trucks parts manual.
[edit] Track listing
- "Dayvan Cowboy" – 5:01
- "Left Side Drive" – 5:20
- "Heard from Telegraph Lines" – 1:09
- "Skyliner" – 5:40
- "Under the Coke Sign" – 1:31
- "Dayvan Cowboy" (Odd Nosdam remix) – 9:19
[edit] Notes
- ^ Boards of Canada discography; retrieved on August 1, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Trans Canada Highway at the official Warp Records discography.
- Trans Canada Highway at Bleep.com
- "Dayvan Cowboy" music video.
- Hidden official microsite (no link from www.warprecords.com)
- The complete history of the Parachute Jump depicted in the first half of the "Dayvan Cowboy" music video
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| Boards of Canada |
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| 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) |
