Initially limited to 100 copies on
Boards of Canada's own Music70 label, 1995's
Twoism EP set a high standard for future
BoC output -- though only the few willing to pay silly money for it were able to hear for themselves until Warp quietly reissued it on CD at the tail end of 2002. For those trying to compare it to the full-length debut (
Music Has the Right to Children), it holds up surprisingly well (granted, two tracks here were only slightly reworked for later release). Excepting only the rigid drum monster "Basefree" (which sounds a bit like
Aphex Twin circa 1992),
Twoism features the same exquisitely spooky, textured emotronica that fans will want to hear, all at as high a level as the brilliant
Music Has the Right to Children to boot. [An LP version was released in 2013.] ~ John Bush