Trans Canada Highway (EP)

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Trans Canada Highway
Trans Canada Highway cover
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 Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin
Professional reviews
Boards of Canada chronology
The Campfire Headphase
(2005)		 Trans Canada Highway
(2006)

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 retail vinyl release of the EP is pressed on white vinyl.

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 art was taken from a 1977 Dodge Trucks parts manual.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Dayvan Cowboy" – 5:01
  2. "Left Side Drive" – 5:20
  3. "Heard from Telegraph Lines" – 1:09
  4. "Skyliner" – 5:40
  5. "Under the Coke Sign" – 1:31
  6. "Dayvan Cowboy" (Odd Nosdam remix) – 9:19

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Boards of Canada discography; retrieved on August 1, 2006.

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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)
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Live @ Warp10 (1999) | Live @ Lighthouse (2000) | Live @ ATP (2001)
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