Boards Of Canada - Boc Maxima (1996)

The Boards Of Canada first came to most people's attention with the release of their 'Music Has The Right To Children' album in 1998, but Scottish brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin had been recording their electronic music for some years before that album appeared, and quite a few of these tracks have leaked out in recent years. Their first EP 'Twoism' was recorded in 1995 and was privately pressed in a limited quantity, mostly for family and friends. A few copies were available to the public, and these now command extremely high prices on the collectors market, even though the EP was repressed in 2002. In 1996 the duo released a cassette album entitled 'Boc Maxima', which was a semi-private release and was notable for being a full-length album, and was the precursor to 'Music Has the Right to Children', with which it shares a few tracks. Of the early tapes that I've heard from the band, this one seems most like an actual album, and so it's worth posting so that you can hear the fledgling band coming up with pieces that would later define their sound.  

Track listing

01 Wildlife Analysis
02 Chinook
03 Rodox Video
04 Everything You Do Is A Balloon
05 Boc Maxima
06 Roygbiv
07 Nova Scotia Robots
08 June 9th
09 Niagara
10 Skimming Stones
11 Sixtyniner
12 Red Moss
13 Concourse
14 Carcan
15 Nlogax
16 M9
17 Original Nlogax
18 Turquoise Hexagon Sun
19 Whitewater
20 One Very Important Thought