Hooper Bay (album)

Hooper Bay
EP by Boards of Canada
Released	1994
Recorded	Unknown
Genre	IDM, ambient
Length	22:11
Label	Music70 THS012
Producer	Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada chronology
Play by Numbers (1994) Hooper Bay (1994) Twoism (1995)

Hooper Bay was purportedly an EP by Boards of Canada, issued in both vinyl and cassette formats. The title refers to the small city of that name in Alaska, and all track titles on the album share a similar Alaskan theme.^[1] Only 200 copies were said to have been produced and although none have publicly surfaced, an excerpt roughly 35 seconds long of the track "Circle" was held on a website hosting material from group, showcasing a melancholy kind of ambient music similar to that of the band's following release. The site has since gone down, though the sample has since been upload to YouTube.

Mislabeled MP3 files claiming to be copies of Hooper Bay are in wide circulation on peer to peer networks, but are understood to be fakes. As with other rare Boards of Canada releases, some of these fakes are mostly mislabeled tracks by other musicians and bands. For example, "Geiser" is actually the experimental Icelandic group múm's "Smell Memory", and "Seward Leaf" is "Slow Bicycle", another múm track.

Track 7 from the Live @ ATP performance is often believed to be Noatak, due to a process voice saying something sounding phonetically similar throughout the song, a latter half containing dark ambient sounds akin to that of "Circle", as well as a similar track length.

Track listing

1. "Seward Leaf" - 7:02
2. "Geiser" - 5:15
3. "Circle" - 2:37
4. "Noatak" - 8:40
5. "Point Hope" - 7:15

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