Trans Canada Highway is an
EP by the
Scottish IDM duo
Boards of Canada. It was released on 29 May 2006 by
Warp Records. According to Boards of Canada's official site, the EP was originally scheduled for release on 6 June 2006. (That date being written numerically as 6/6/06, harking back to their use of the number 666 on the album
Geogaddi.) The retail
vinyl release of the EP is pressed on white vinyl.
The EP contains the duo's first ever
music video, directed by Melissa Olson. The video pieces together various found video and
film clips in order to create a short narrative to the song "
Dayvan Cowboy", which also appears on Boards of Canada's 2005 album
The Campfire Headphase. The video begins with stock footage of
Joseph Kittinger's landmark sky dive in 1960, from a helium balloon that had pierced the atmosphere, effectively leaving Kittinger in free fall from space. The video shows a man (not Kittinger) landing in the ocean after his parachute successfully opens. As he (footage of
Laird Hamilton) rises to the surface, he grasps a surfboard and begins to ride waves.
The album art was taken from a 1977
Dodge Trucks parts manual.
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