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Trans Canada Highway 
EP by Boards of Canada Released 29 May 2006 Recorded Hexagon Sun studio in Scotland Genre Ambient techno Length 28:00 Label Warp Records WAP200 Producer Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin Boards of Canada chronology The Campfire Headphase
(2005)Trans Canada Highway
(2006)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Twisted Ear [2]Pitchfork Media (6.0/10)[3] Trans Canada Highway is an EP by the Scottish IDM duo Boards of Canada. It was released on 29 May 2006 by Warp Records. According to Boards of Canada's official site, the EP was originally scheduled for release on 6 June 2006.[4] (That date being written numerically as 6/6/06, harking back to their use of the number 666 on the album Geogaddi.) The retail vinyl release of the EP is pressed on white vinyl.
The EP contains the duo's first ever music video, directed by Melissa Olson. The video pieces together various found video and film clips in order to create a short narrative to the song "Dayvan Cowboy", which also appears on Boards of Canada's 2005 album The Campfire Headphase. The video begins with stock footage of Joseph Kittinger's landmark sky dive in 1960, from a helium balloon that had pierced the atmosphere, effectively leaving Kittinger in free fall from space. The video then shows footage of Laird Hamilton landing in the ocean after his parachute successfully opens. As he rises to the surface, he grasps a surfboard and begins to ride waves.
The album art was taken from a 1977 Dodge Trucks parts manual.
Track listing
No. Title Length 1. "Dayvan Cowboy" 5:01 2. "Left Side Drive" 5:20 3. "Heard from Telegraph Lines" 1:09 4. "Skyliner" 5:40 5. "Under the Coke Sign" 1:31 6. "Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix)" 9:19 Notes
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Twisted Ear review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review
- ^ Boards of Canada discography; retrieved on 1 August 2006.
External links
- Trans Canada Highway at the official Warp Records discography.
- Trans Canada Highway at Bleep.com
- "Dayvan Cowboy" music video (download).
- music video on YouTube
- "Skyliner" at the official Warp Records site
- The complete history of the parachute jump depicted in the first half of the "Dayvan Cowboy" music video
Boards of Canada Michael Sandison · Marcus EoinManagement Purported early albums Catalog 3 (1987) · Acid Memories (1989) · Closes Vol. 1 (1992) · Play by Numbers (1994) · Hooper Bay (1994)Studio albums Twoism (1995) · Boc Maxima (1996) · Music Has the Right to Children (1998) · Geogaddi (2002) · The Campfire Headphase (2005)Singles & EPs Hi Scores (1996) · Aquarius (1998) · Orange Romeda (1998) Roygbiv/Telephasic Workshop 10" (1998) · Peel Session TX 21/07/1998 (1999) · In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (2000) · Trans Canada Highway (2006)Live recordings Related articles Old Tunes Categories:- Boards of Canada albums
- 2006 EPs
- Warp (record label) EPs
- 2000s techno album stubs
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