Boards Of Canada - Hi Scores
Label:
Catalog#:
SKA008
Format:
Vinyl, 12", EP, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country:
UK
Released:
Dec 1996
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Downtempo,
Ambient
Tracklist
Notes
This is the first pressing. Characteristics for this pressing are:
- back sleeve has a clear sticker affixed (under "skam") with BOARDS OF CANADA on it in braille.
- back sleeve has a barcode: 5 021904051061
- centre labels: blue text on white background
- centre labels: written + produced by mike + marcus
- centre labels: made in england.
- centre labels: no "recorded at hexagon sun 1996" printed.
- insert: A4 on blue (cyan) paper with black printing, showing photographs where faces are in black and the background in blue
Some copies also had a 2nd insert: a Skam Information A4 on white paper with black printing, containg the text "No information at this moment in time"
The second pressing from 1999 also has the sticker but does not have the barcode on the back.
The third and fourth pressings from 2002 and 2005 have stamped braille instead of a sticker on the sleeve and contain the barcode again.
- back sleeve has a clear sticker affixed (under "skam") with BOARDS OF CANADA on it in braille.
- back sleeve has a barcode: 5 021904051061
- centre labels: blue text on white background
- centre labels: written + produced by mike + marcus
- centre labels: made in england.
- centre labels: no "recorded at hexagon sun 1996" printed.
- insert: A4 on blue (cyan) paper with black printing, showing photographs where faces are in black and the background in blue
Some copies also had a 2nd insert: a Skam Information A4 on white paper with black printing, containg the text "No information at this moment in time"
The second pressing from 1999 also has the sticker but does not have the barcode on the back.
The third and fourth pressings from 2002 and 2005 have stamped braille instead of a sticker on the sleeve and contain the barcode again.
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Reviews & Discussion
"Nlogax" is one of my favourite Boards tracks ever, despite being a bit more up-beat than normal. Really spacey acidey techno on this track, which along with the brooding and the darkly beautiful "Everything you do is a ballon" make Hi-Scores an essential purchase.
Timeless EP, with the last track Everything you do is a ballon being one of my all time favourite tracks, sounds really old, like music you would play after world war 11, or after a hard nights clubbing......Music to get lost inside. Had to score a copy of this on CD as well for long car journey's. Released before the label starting going pear shaped