Boards Of Canada-Peel Session (12"LP)
$24.00
Label: WARP
Listen: Link
Year (release): 2019
Genre, primary: Ambient
Genre, secondary: Experimental electronica
Catalog number: WARPLP300-3
Country of origin: Canada
On the summer solstice of 2019, Warp took over the online radio station NTS for an entire weekend to kick off its 30th anniversary celebrations. Over 100 hours of programming with mix sets, documentaries, live performances and sessions of the entire Warp artist roster from Aphex Twin to Brian Eno to Kelela including guests such as Ryuichi Sakamoto were watched live by hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide. Now Warp is following up on this event with the release of the "WXAXRXP Sessions", a series of ten 12" vinyls with radio sessions from 30 years of label history, from early peel sessions to this year's WXAXRXP x NTS weekend, all in the highest audio and design quality. Feat. Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Bibio, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mount Kimbie, u.v.a.
Back in 1998, Boards Of Canada headed down to John Peel’s radio show to record a session of tracks. While three of the tunes they taped there - ‘Happy Cycling’, ‘Aquarius’ and ‘Olson’ - were all packaged up as a Warp Records EP a year later, bar ‘XYZ’. It’s a real treat, then, that Warp have managed to include the previously-unreleased ‘XYZ’ on this new pressing of the Peel Session, released as part of Warp’s WXAXRXP birthday series.