Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo comprised of brothers Michael Sandison (b. 14 July 1971) and Marcus Eoin (Sandison) (b. 27 May 1973). They have released a number of works, most notably Music Has the Ri

Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo comprised of brothers Michael Sandison (b. 14 July 1971) and Marcus Eoin (Sandison) (b. 27 May 1973). They have released a number of works, most notably Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, with little advertising and few interviews. Their sound has frequently made reference to sounds of the 1970s and the 1980s. It recalls, amongst other things, the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970s television, and indeed, band members Eoin and Sandison admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada. The duo have recorded a few minor works as Hell Interface.

Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin experimented with creating music together through their teens. Part of a musical family, they began playing instruments at a young age, and experimenting with recording techniques at around 10-years-old. Using tape machines they experimented with laying cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. Although they had made music together as children, "Boards of Canada" did not exist until much later.