Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children

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Label:	Warp Records – warplp55, Skam – skalp1
Format:	2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	UK
Released:	Apr 20, 1998
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	IDM, Ambient, Trip Hop

Tracklist

A1	Wildlife Analysis	1:17
A2	An Eagle In Your Mind	6:22
A3	The Color Of The Fire	1:45
A4	Telephasic Workshop	6:35
A5	Triangles & Rhombuses	1:49
B6	Sixtyten	5:48
B7	Turquoise Hexagon Sun	5:08
B8	Kaini Industries	0:59
B9	Bocuma	1:36
B10	Roygbiv	2:30
C11	Rue The Whirl	6:40
C12	Aquarius	5:57
C13	Olson	1:29
D14	Pete Standing Alone	6:07
D15	Smokes Quantity	3:07
D16	Open The Light	4:25
D17	One Very Important Thought	1:15

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warp Records Limited – warplp55
Copyright © – Warp Records Limited – warplp55
Pressed By – EMI Records – warplp55

Credits

Design – Boards Of Canada
Lacquer Cut By – F.A.*
Producer, Written-By – Marcus Eoin, Michael Sandison

Notes

Gatefold jacket. Some copies have clear Braille sticker attached to the vinyl sleeve.

Tracks listed sequentially on labels.

Track durations obtained manually.

In the USA, Matador distributed this version with a barcode sticker over the original one. This sticker has a Matador catalog number of ole 299-1.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 5 021603 055117
Barcode (Scan): 5021603055117
Barcode (Sticker): 7 44861 02991 5
Matrix / Runout (Side A): SKAM / WARPLP 55 A-1-1-1 F.A.
Matrix / Runout (Side B): SKAM / WARPLP 55 B-1-1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side C): SKAM / WARPLP 55 C-1-1-1
Matrix / Runout (Side D): SKAM / WARPLP 55 D-1-1-1
Label Code: LC2070

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	Music Has The Right To Children (CD, Album, Stereo, DOCdata)	Warp Records, Skam	warpcd55, skald1	UK	1998
Recently Edited	Music Has The Right To Children (CD, Album)	Matador, Matador	OLE 299-2, 7 44861 02992 2	USA & Canada	1998
	Music Has The Right To Children (CD, Album)	Rough Trade, SKAM, Warp Records	rtd 126.3460.2	Germany	1998
Recently Edited	Music Has The Right To Children (CD, Promo, Album)	Skam, Warp Records	skald1, pwarpcd55	UK	1998
Recently Edited	Music Has The Right To Children (2×LP, Album, Promo)	Warp Records, Skam	WARP LP 55, SKALP001	UK	1998

Reviews

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Ewan_Hoozami Aug 18, 2022
I sold a mint copy of this for £3 once... fml
chowder_ Jun 29, 2022
My 2013 repress has a different matrix/runout code. is this a different variant or a different issue not listed here?
arievandam Jun 2, 2022
Yep, all the other comments here are correct. The sound on this first press is stunningly good. Everything is so rich, deep and textured. One of the best sounding records I’ve had the experience of hearing and reminds me why I collect vinyl in the first place.
freddyfresh Oct 8, 2021
Edited 4 months ago
My first experience hearing this album was quite special. I was on the motorway in England on the way to perform my first and last set at the famed Glastonbury festival (can't believe I even got to actually DJ there) I was with the crew from Eye Q records as I was an artist on that label in 1998. Right as we passed an open field I glanced out the window and saw Stonehenge. I was in shock as there it was just sitting in an open field, the most mind blowing thing about this moment is that on the car stereo the song Roygbiv was playing. Changed my life forever.
Battle Sep 21, 2021
It's now 23 years after I bought this album and it sounds still amazing as then in '98. There was nothing comparable and there is nothing today. BoC invented a totally new sound aesthetic and over the years it became a milestone in music history - not more , not less - a Top10 electronic album of the century.
Doomguy13 Sep 6, 2021
even a dusty, beat up copy like mine sounds amazing... not to sound like one of those philosophizing old men, but the noise and clicks totally just add authenticity to the beautiful collages on display. it's like looking through a photo album.
leo_de_padua May 12, 2021
How bad is this album musically, boring to no more power, I have had it for many years I want to give it a chance, I just heard it and I think exactly the same as 20 years ago
2001greedo Mar 28, 2021
I have this version but with the matrix as
Warplp55a2 DAMONT
reTcon Aug 21, 2020
Edited 2 years ago
All of the THREE (!) copies of this vinyl edition I bought and returned in 2020 were very noisy in the quieter parts, but side B of the second record particularly so. A "gust-of-snow-like" surface noise (sssSSSht.....sssSSSht.....sssSSSht...) can be heard on all the quieter tracks, which is really irritating. The problem must have occured in the process of pressing the record, otherwise it wouldn't be audible on every copy of side B. I'm happy for the people whose copies were "excellent pressings". With three tries, I can't consider myself so lucky. I'll stick to my CD with this one.
teknologika Apr 1, 2020
IMO, the best damn album that BoC has ever done.