I don ' t think anyone is interested in kickers having any more influence on the outcome of a game than they already do . Except maybe kicker agents . <| sep |> Boards of Canada artist picimg 2 . akamaized . netiu 2526 c 40 ctel 8 b 1 cc 2 d 1 ee 9 b 138 e 6 . png Boards of Canada are an electronic music duo from Edinburgh , Scotland , UK , formed in 1986 and comprised of brothers Mike Sandison born 1 June 1970 and Marcus Eoin born 21 July 1971 . They have released a number of works , most notably the studio albums Music Has the Right to Children 1998 , Geogaddi 2002 , and The Campfire Headphase 2005 on the pioneering electronic music label Warp . Their fourth album Tomorrow ' s Harvest was released in June 2013 . Boards of Canada have had an enormous influence on the ambient , downtempo and IDM scenes . They have frequently made reference to the warm , scratchy , artificial sounds of 1970 s television . Indeed , the Sandison brothers admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada , from which they take their name . The duo have recorded a few minor works under the name Hell Interface . Boards of Canada ' s music has been used in several CSI episodes and on Cartoon Network ' s Adult Swim interlude shorts small bits of their music have been used on the BBC program Top Gear for transitional music . Early Boards of Canada 1970 s 1995 Growing up in a musical family , brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin began playing instruments at a young age . They experimented with recording techniques at around the age of 10 , using tape machines to layer cutup samples of found sounds over compositions of their own . In their teens they participated in a number of amateur bands , however , it wasn ' t until 1986 when Marcus was invited to Mike ' s band that Boards of Canada was born . By 1989 , the band had been reduced to Sandison , Eoin and Christopher Horne . In the early 1990 s , a number of collaborations took place and the band put on small , fairly regular shows among the Hexagon Sun collective . In early 2000 , the official website for the band , Music 70 . com now boardsofcanada . com removed the early discography of Boards of Canada , although some information has been preserved by fans . Early tape releases by Boards of Canada include Play by Numbers , Acid Memories , Hooper Bay , and the earliest known release by the band is titled Catalog 3 . None of the material from those days is readily available , and since official Boards of Canada sources ignore the existence of this material , there seems to be little chance for this early material to ever resurface . Boards of Canada from Twoism 1995 present In 1995 , the band released the first work from the Hexagon Sun studio , the EP Twoism . Like earlier Music 70 releases , it was produced in a selffinanced limited run and was privately distributed , primarily to friends and labels . Unlike previous releases though , a small number of copies were also released to the public through the IDM mailing list . Though not a widespread commercial release , it was considered of such high quality to be subsequently repressed in 2002 and serves as a demarcation point into more professional releases . The precursor to Music Has the Right to Children was released in 1996 . Titled Boc Maxima , it was a semiprivate release that is notable for being a fulllength album . Boc Maxima ' s work was later used for Music Has the Right to Children , with which it shares many tracks . Boards of Canada ' s first commercial release occurred after attracting the attention of Autechre ' s Sean Booth of the English label Skam Records , one of many people sent a demo EP . Skam released what was considered Boards of Canada ' s first findable work , Hi Scores , in 1996 . Music Has the Right to Children was released in 1998 . Many fans consider this record to be a masterpiece . The popularity of the record was substantial enough to start a wave of soundalikes . John Peel featured Boards of Canada on his BBC Radio 1 program in January of 1998 . The session featured two remixes from Music Has the Right to Children PlayAquarius Version 3 and PlayOlson Version 3 along with the tracks Happy Cycling and XYZ . Excluding XYZ , the set was released on a Warp Records CD titled Peel Session TX 21071998 . Though never an actively touring band , Boards of Canada did perform a handful of shows . Early shows saw them supporting Warp labelmates Seefeel and Autechre in a scattering of UK dates . They also participated in a few festivals and multiartist bills , including two Warp parties Warp ' s 10 th Anniversary Party in 1999 and The Incredible Warp Lighthouse Party almost one year later . They made their most prominent showing in 2001 as one of the headliners at the Tortoisecurated All Tomorrow ' s Parties festival . They have not performed a live show since . Boards of Canada released a fourtrack EP , In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country , in November 2000 , their first original release in two years . The fulllength album Geogaddi was released in 2002 . It was described by Sandison as a record for some sort of trialbyfire , a claustrophobic , twisting journey that takes you into some pretty dark experiences before you reach the open air again . Throughout most of their career , Mike and Marcus chose not to publicize their brotherhood and were simply portrayed as childhood friends . Their kinship was finally revealed in a 2005 Pitchfork interview . Mike explained that they concealed the fact to avoid comparisons to Orbital , another wellknown UK electronic group composed of two brothers . Their third album for Warp Records , The Campfire Headphase , was released on 17 October 2005 . The album covers much of the same musical territory as their previous works and featured fifteen tracks , including Peacock Tail , Chromakey Dreamcoat , and Dayvan Cowboy . Two versions of Dayvan Cowboy the original and a remix by Odd Nosdam are on the sixtrack EP , Trans Canada Highway , which was released on 26 May 2006 . Sound and methods Brief songs or vignettes feature prominently in their music . Such songs are often weaving melodies or speech accompanied by atmospherics to capture a specific moment or mood . They often last less than two minutes , but , as Sandison says , those short tracks you mention , we write far more of those than the socalled ' full on ' tracks , and in a way , they are our own favorites . Boards of Canada have written an enormous number of song fragments and songs , most of which will never be released . It does not appear that music is made exclusively for commercial release . Rather , albums seem to be the result of selecting complementary songs from current work , which is a compositional technique shared by many electronic or experimental artists such as Nightmares on Wax , Canabrism and King Crimson . Geogaddi ' s development involved the creation of 400 song fragments and 64 complete songs , of which 23 were selected , one of which is silence . Subliminal messages , symbolism , and religion Marcus and Mike have both expressed a strong interest in the power of subliminal messaging and their work is full of cryptic messages . Some critics refuse to listen to their music on account that they are positive the band is trying to brainwash their listeners for unknown motivations , citing references to David Koresh and occult symbols as proof . Others approach these facts from the skeptical angle , saying it is nothing but a bunch of cute tricks and an ironic gesture towards people who take such things seriously and some would say , as a bit of a similar gesture towards their own body of work in later releases , such as Geogaddi . Read more on Last . fm . ofCanada 1 , 236 , 999 listeners , 85 , 214 , 305 plays tags ambient , electronic , idm , electronica , chillout Please downvote if incorrect ! Selfdeletes if score is 0 .