Hexagon Sun is an artistic collective based in the
Pentland Hills
The Pentland Hills are a range of hills southwest of Edinburgh, Scotland. The range is around in length, and runs southwest from Edinburgh towards Biggar and the upper Clydesdale.
Etymology
The hills take their name from the hamlet of Pe ...
,
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
. The confirmed members are Mike Sandison, Marcus Eoin, Peter Iain Campbell (a.k.a. "PIC"), Simon Goderich (a.k.a. "goderich"), Mark David Garrett (a.k.a. "mdg"), Rachel Stewart, Alan Mackenzie, and Andrew Wilson.
The most well-known venture of the collective is the
electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
project
Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of the brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin. Signing first to Skam Records, Skam followed by Warp (record label), Warp Records in the 1990s, they received recognition following th ...
, of whom Eoin and Sandison are the sole members;
Chris Horne was previously a member and departed amicably following the release of ''
Twoism
''Twoism'' is the debut EP by Scottish electronic duo Boards of Canada, released through their own Music70 label in August 1995 as a limited run of approximately 100 copies.
The EP was out of print until it was re-issued by Warp Records on ...
'' in 1995. The band has used the Hexagon Sun name for their recording studio and has released songs with the title "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" and "Orange Hexagon Sun"; the former has been featured on ''
Boc Maxima'', ''
Hi Scores'', and ''
Music Has the Right to Children
''Music Has the Right to Children'' is the debut studio album by Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada, released on 20 April 1998 in the United Kingdom by Warp (record label), Warp and Skam Records and in the United States by Matador Rec ...
'', and the latter on the bootleg ''
Old Tunes, Vol. 2'' tape.
Hexagon Sun's presence on the Internet has been limited to its website, hexagonsun.com, which — until 2005, when it was redirected to boardsofcanada.com — was simply a small graphic of mirrored turquoise-color text on a blue background. When reflected, the text reads "the internet is evil. wake up."
In 2013, hexagonsun.com forwarded to cosecha-transmisiones.com (the URL translates from Spanish to "harvest transmissions"), a simple logon page made by
Boards of Canada
Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of the brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin. Signing first to Skam Records, Skam followed by Warp (record label), Warp Records in the 1990s, they received recognition following th ...
, that was used as part of the unveiling for the album ''
Tomorrow's Harvest
''Tomorrow's Harvest'' is the fourth studio album by Scottish electronic music duo Boards of Canada, released on 4 June 2013 by Warp. The duo began composing and recording following the release of '' The Campfire Headphase'' in 2005 and the exp ...
''. If one is to look at the source code for the page of cosecha-transmisiones.com, the image of a hexagon in ASCII fashion is revealed.
See also
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Music70
References
External links
Official Hexagon Sun site
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Boards of Canada