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Boards of Canada, otherwise known as the Scottish duo of Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison, make the sort of burbling headphone techno that's really worth laying down for: beats that rattle like loose ball bearings, and keyboard melodies that resemble kindergarten records slowed down to eight revolut...

2002 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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The Scottish duo of Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, Boards of Canada took the often-impenetrable formula known as IDM (intelligent dance music) popularized by Autechre in the mid-'90s, and softened the form's rough edges by adding austere atmospheres that were often as chilly as they were beautiful. Their debut album, Music Has the Right to Children, coupled eerie, foreboding walls of sound with...

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