Do you think the early 'private' releases really exist??

[Vostok]

if boc gives you unreleased tracks they force you into a contract which states if you leak it to anybody they have permission to lynch you

[Flory]

That is why I think they might be exaggerating the truth. Maybe 50-200 of these were indeed pressed, perhaps because it's a minimum for anything(?), but only few of them were actually handed out. If I wanted to be even more sceptical about it, I would also question the authenticity of the Hooper Bay and Acid Memories samples, because anybody could have come up with those. I think however that 'Wouldn't You Like to Be Free' is a very legit one. And I'm sure the background of all these samples has been checked anyway, so I am not challenging the truth here, just playing mindgames.

A funny and maybe also relevant quote on how protective Boards is about their music:

"We actually gave him Chris Cunningham an hour and a half's worth of music, of which he used one 20 second fragment. He was just really excited to have new Boards of Canada tracks that no one else has heard, that's why he likes working with us. But we trust him. We know he wouldn't do anything else with it. He also knows we'd break both his legs if he did."

http://bocpages.org/wiki/Quiet

"They can't jump through thin air," says Mike. "I'm really paranoid about security," adds Marcus. "We've got all these tapes and discs going back 15 years or so. I've got this really complicated solar alarm on my house so that it's impossible to switch it off without cutting five different wires in different places simultaneously."

http://bocpages.org/wiki/Boards_of_The_Underground

[MadMaz]

Good topic !
" last time we played live, it was a disaster." "The monitors exploded in the middle of the set," " seems to be the Lighthouse Party

[MadMaz]

Another reflections about number of copies. On one of their first interview "Hardware Addicts" Mike said that still have 70 copies of Twoism and the other 30 were sent to label and record shops. Twoism is indicate as 100 copies on the old website but with this fact there was only 30 copies on circulation. The number of copies of the 5 lost albums can be like Twoism.