Play by Numbers

EP by Boards of Canada

Released

1994

Recorded

Genre

IDM, Shoegaze

Length

26:21

Label

Music70 AOMC43

Producer

Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin

Boards of Canada chronology

Closes Vol. 1
(1992)

Play by Numbers
(1994)

Hooper Bay
(1994)

Play by Numbers is an EP produced and created by Boards of Canada. Most of Boards of Canada's early works were made in very small runs and Play by Numbers is no exception. Believed to have had a press run of around 100 copies, Play By Numbers is considered one of the hardest to find Boards of Canada releases.

A small excerpt of "Wouldn't You Like To Be Free" was hosted on a website that held a large amount of things related to Boards of Canada but has since gone down. The excerpt lasted in total about fifty-six seconds and curiously shows an unusual kind of shoegazing strummed guitar-driven melody similar to My Bloody Valentine. The sample can be found on YouTube.

Track listing

"Remmy Kid" – 0:58
"Wouldn't You Like To Be Free?" – 5:40
"Infinite Lines Of Colourful Sevens" – 9:18
"Numerator" – 4:37
"Echelon" – 5:48

Boards of Canada

Michael Sandison Marcus Eoin

Studio albums and EPs	Hi Scores (1996) Music Has the Right to Children (1998) Geogaddi (2002) The Campfire Headphase (2005) Trans Canada Highway (2006) Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

Live album	Peel Session TX 21/07/1998 (1998)

Singles	Aquarius (1998) In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (2000) Reach for the Dead (2013)

Limited release studio albums and EPs	Catalog 3 (1987) Acid Memories (1989) Closes Vol. 1 (1992) Play by Numbers (1994) Hooper Bay (1994) Twoism (1995) Boc Maxima (1996)

Live bootleg recordings	Live @ Warp10 (1999) Live @ ATP (2001)

Record labels	Warp Records Skam Records

Related articles	Discography Hexagon Sun Old Tunes

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