Boards of Canada: reissue announced for the 30th anniversary of the EP "Hi Scores"

After years spent sifting through the ghost frequencies of analogue memory and chasing the chiaroscuro of a past never truly lived, the sensory universe bearing the name Boards of Canada returns to cast its beams of faded light onto the present. The reissue of "Hi Scores", exactly thirty years after its original release on Skam Records, isn't just an exercise in nostalgia for collectors, but a journey back to the original blueprint of a sound that has since become myth.

Even before the Warp imprint pressed the pastoral, melancholic geometries of "Music Has the Right to Children" onto vinyl, the 1996 EP had already sketched out with striking clarity the aesthetic coordinates of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin. Across the six tracks that make up the record, one can sense that primordial alchemy in which downtempo psychedelia fuses with IDM cadences, synthesizers tuned to crepuscular frequencies, and samples with an analogue, documentary-like texture.

On tracks that have since become genuine cornerstones, like "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" and "Everything You Do Is A Balloon", the Scottish duo weren't simply codifying a formula: they were building an entire emotional imaginary, made of visual overexposure, valve-tube warmth and subterranean rhythms destined to influence decades of electronic music and chillwave to come.

The new edition, due out on 20 November on CD, black vinyl and a limited Coke Bottle Green colored vinyl edition, finally brings back to light a fundamental and long out-of-print piece of their discography, enriched with a 12-inch gatefold sleeve accompanied by four archival prints and new dedicated merchandise.

Full tracklist below:

1. Hi Scores

2. Turquoise Hexagon Sun

3. Nlogax

4. June 9th

5. Seeya Later

6. Everything You Do Is A Balloon

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