Unreleased Boards of Canada Seven-Inch Discovered Beneath Feces At Dog Park

EDINBURGH — Since the secretive release of a new Boards of Canada 12″ record was discovered at a record store in New York, the cryptic electronic duo have been releasing bits and pieces of mysterious material, including a password-protected website and snippets of music on BBC and NPR. The duo recently confirmed that they are indeed releasing a new full length, entitled Tomorrow’s Harvest, on Warp Records in early June.

In the most recent development in the ever-growing saga of futuristic marketing engineered by BoC and Warp, they have taken things one step further.

“I would say I’ve been a Boards of Canada fan since about 1998,” says David Baxter, the Scottish fan responsible for discovering another piece of the Boards of Canada puzzle.

Baxter was walking his dog on a crisp May morning when something surprising caught his attention.

“I was waiting for my dog to finish and while averting my eyes from her general direction, I noticed a reflection of sunlight caught on what appeared to be some type of vinyl record.”

Baxter, after politely waiting for his dog to complete her business, skeptically approached the reflective glimmer.

“I walked towards the object, and as I got closer I saw that it was indeed a chunk of a record sticking out from a pile of dog feces,” he explains.

“Immediately Boards of Canada came to mind, so I started to clear the poop away with a stick. After about thirty seconds, I uncovered a Warp logo…but there were no other markings on the record.”

Baxter carefully removed all of the feces from the record and carried it home, pinching it between his thumb and index finger. When he returned to his apartment, he ran the record under cold water to remove any remaining excrement.

“At this point I was extremely excited, nothing like this has ever happened to me,” says Baxter.

“The time it took to clean the record felt like an eternity, and when I finally dropped the turntable’s needle on it, all it took was five seconds of sound for me to confirm that it was indeed a Boards of Canada release.”

Warp Records declined to comment on Baxter’s discovery; answering his emails, but stating that they could “neither confirm nor deny” playing any role in the record’s release or placement.

At press time, Baxter had place the record on eBay and bidding was already approaching the $3,500 mark.

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