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2013 single by Boards of Canada
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"------ / ------ / ------ / XXXXXX / ------ / ------" is a song by the Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada. It was created as part of a promotional campaign for their fourth studio album, Tomorrow's Harvest (2013). It was exclusively released as a limited-edition single-sided 12-inch vinyl record. While the release of the single coincided with 2013's Record Store Day, the record was hand-delivered to record stores by employees of Warp Records.[3] While six copies of the single are confirmed to exist,[4] only three have been actually found.[5]
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| Single by Boards of Canada | ||||
| Released | 20 April 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
| Studio | Hexagon Sun (Pentland Hills, Scotland) | |||
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| Length | 0:40 | |||
| Label | Warp | |||
| Producers | Marcus Eoin, Mike Sandison | |||
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Background
After the release of The Campfire Headphase (2005) and Trans Canada Highway (2006), Eoin and Sandison "took some time out, and spent some time travelling".[6] They had also taken time to expand their studio space. In February 2012, a BBC radio personality noted that a new album from Boards of Canada was "on the way".[7] A fan asked the duo on Facebook about this comment, to which they responded with "yes".[8]
Release
On 20 April 2013, the same day as Record Store Day, one person was able to find a copy of the single in Other Music.[9] The release was packaged in a basic cardboard sleeve, with the group's logo and the title of the single on the front. The audio on the record itself consisted of a distorted snippet of music,[10] coupled with a vocoded voice reading the numbers "9-3-6-5-5-7".[11]
Fans realised that the numbers likely formed a code when put together.[12] Other pieces of the sequence were found in various places, such as a Boards of Canada fan forum, a video found on the duo's YouTube account, and two audio clips aired on BBC Radio and NPR Radio.[13][7][3] Eventually, the code could be entered on a cryptic website, to which the release date and name of their new album, Tomorrow's Harvest, was revealed.[8]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "------ / ------ / ------ / XXXXXX / ------ / ------" | 0:40 |
| Total length: | 0:40 | |
