Special Note: The 2020k review of Tomorrow’s Harvest by Boards of Canada is available here. Below is our coverage of the viral marketing campaign which lead up to the announcement of this record.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A DRILL.
It seems as though Warp Records took to National Record Store day today to let us know that Boards of Canada’s follow up to their 2005 release The Campfire Headphase is well on its way!
Hidden throughout several record stores today was a 12 inch vinyl for sale. We’re not sure how many of these have been pressed, or what’s on them. However, information will be edited into this post, equipped with edit tags on them, as we sift through the details that are being provided.
Currently, we know that @Imnopandabear from New York City, known as Lilcakey on Reddit found and purchased one of these promotional vinyl from Other Music. His account of the product lets us know that the packaging dates this as a Warp 2013 release and contains 20 seconds of audio on one side of the vinyl that says a six digit number one time, then cuts out.
This purchaser goes on to describe more information that he gathered from the store itself. “Clearly I have one of six similar Boards of Canada records released today and distributed “randomly” around the world (Other Music said they received the record with no word / acknowledgement of its existence, it was just there in a shipment they received). I think that if all of the numbers are gathered and arranged in a proper order, we might be able to figure something out, so we just need the other 5 people who found the record (or maybe they haven’t been found yet) to reveal their numbers and where they fit in the sequence, and then of course, have to decipher what the numbers together mean.”
Regardless, the devil is in the details right now, guys. So if you happen to have acquired one of these vinyl records, please leave a comment below with what’s on them so we can compile all the information we can! Everything is pure speculation at this point, but this does seem very legitimate and we are piecing together the puzzle…on the date of the fifteenth anniversary of Music Has a Right to Children, no less!
Keep the 2020k Twitter page on check, too. We’re following information closely and retweeting as necessary. All information will ultimately be reported on this blog.
EDIT #1: Youtube video of the vinyl playing is up. Watch it here. 936,557 is the number on this copy. The music is beautiful. Thank you, Lilcakey for posting in our comments. Please keep us posted!
EDIT #2: Boards Of Canada do have a page on Recordstoreday.com.
EDIT #3: This one is to be taken with a grain of salt. A YouTube video on Boards Of Canada’s official playlist show “Julie and Candy,” from Geogaddi, with a strange video description. Click here to see the full playlist. The video is number eight. While this playlist compiles fan made videos, for the most part, the video description is interestingly “——/——/——/——/——/—–-“.
EDIT #4: The video description to edit #3 seems to have changed again. It now reads “1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer”. But, YouTube user wentingtonful left it as a comment on the video. Presumably just to note that it was there at one point in time. Please keep in mind that the “Julie and Candy” video was uploaded by user Ataalantafugiens, who only has this video on their channel. The version of this song seems to be a soundboard recording from one of Boards of Canada’s only live performances. We’re still unsure, since its upload, how this user got a hold of it.
For notes: The year in the description has also altered several times in the last few minutes. 1976, 1977, 1978. Seem to be staying on ’77 now. However, the dashes are back. Go to 4:20 on the video and pause. No, wait. The placement has changed. Go to 4:19 and pause. (A rumored, possible countdown?)
It is also noteworthy that the description of the video used to read “1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer salopette endtimes uaevuon yera”
EDIT #5: Album out in June according to Tweet from Iain Stewart, who is a friend of a friend of the band. Tweet dated 4/11/13.
EDIT #6: Warp Records has just followed Other Music on Twitter.
EDIT #7: The record is number stations influenced (The Conet Project is a good place to start for beginners at this). So, there are a few number theories floating around. They’re only theories, but the number 6 keeps popping up quite a bit, and with the Tweet from Iain Stewart mentioning a possible June release, I will keep all number theories inside this edit.
Theory 1: The Julie and Candy video. Presumably, the position of the dashes and slash marks started at 4:20 on 4/20. Today, they were moved down to 4:19. Tomorrow, if they move to 4:18, this could possibly be a countdown of some sorts to something. This positioning has not moved. Theory debunked.
Theory 2: The full video description on the “Julie and Candy” video and the six set of numbers correlate:
——/——/——/——/936557 /——
1977/snow/computing/amateur footage/beards/synthesizer
Theory 3: Each of the vinyl records will contain a different set of numbers. So far, we have the fourth set since this looks like the fourth copy of the vinyl made, judging by the X’s. So far only one vinyl has been found. A second set of numbers came from a YouTube video. See Edit #12
EDIT #8: krs from the Twoism.org message board spoke to Other Music who confirmed that there is only one Boards of Canada Record Store Day vinyl released in the United States. A Warp Rep brought in the vinyl to the store. This has been obtained. The rest of them? Apparently they’re in other countries. Get searching. Update in the comments section if you obtain one. You can listen to the phone conversation here. Voice in the phone recording isn’t board member krs.
“Just got off the phone with the guy from Other Music again, and he said they DID INFACT have it at the store!!!!!! He said a warp representative brought it in at 3pm the day before record store day. He also said that the one found in their store is THE ONLY ONE IN THE U.S.!!!!! THE OTHERS ARE IN FACT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!!!! He didn’t specify, but they way he said it, I imagine this is what the representative from warp told him.”
EDIT #9: Pitchfork (twice!) & The Consequence of Sound have linked 2020k as a main source in their articles for this Boards of Canada mystery. I am a huge follower of both publications. Thank you for spreading the word, guys. A thank you to bocpages.org as well. Updates to this article will continue as information rolls in. Pitchfork has apparently confirmed that this is a legitimate Warp release. The Guardian has picked up this article. Shout out to Jakub over at Tycho’s blog. Thank you. Thanks to FACTmag too (check your Tweets). SPIN has also reported.
4/22/2013
EDIT #10: The “Julie and Candy” video has not been altered today, debunking the rumor that the annotations were a countdown to something. The source of the video and affiliation with Boards of Canada to the user is still noteworthy, as the video is reportedly a backdrop used for their ATP performance, and the version of the song is presumably the soundboard recording of the live performance (or a live, studio version of the track).
EDIT #11: Also relevant, Other Music tweets out that they did receive a copy of this vinyl, finally confirming that this is an official Record Store Day release by Warp and Boards of Canada
EDIT #12: The official Hell Interface Youtube channel (which is the name Boards went under before they were Boards of Canada) posted this three second video, which links to this video that plays a new jingle. The video is called “csch” by tarekeys. More numbers. This time, the numbers are: 717228
Edit #13: Hellinterface YouTube account just posted a comment under an “Everything You Do Is A Balloon” YouTube video. Points to the same hellinterface YouTube account video as the numbers in edit #12. Also, Youtube Video name is CSCH. Well look what happens when you add a .ca after it. The link is speculation at this point and seems more coincidental at this point, than anything. The 3 second video shows images when you hover over the timeline and drag. click for pic!
Edit #14: The new placement for the 717228 number seems to be the following: ——/——/717228/936557/——/—— The reasoning behind this being that the text “—— / —— / XXXXXX / —— / —— / ——” appears on the csch video at approximately 0:40 for exactly two frames.
An enhanced picture from the 3 second YouTube video can be seen below. Thank you to the Boards of Canada (unofficial) IRC for figuring this edit out. Also, it seems as though the stills are from The Little House On The Prairie, Episode 69 68, “Times of Change”, aired Sept 19 1977. [Source needed for airing date].
EDIT #15: The order of the videos on the Boards Of Canada YouTube playlist has been changed. The Felix Baumgartner “Dayvan Cowboy” video used to be the starting video. Now, three others are on top of it. The “Julie and Candy” video which contained the first hint, the “Everything You Do is a Balloon” video which contained the second hint, and below those two videos is a video for “Trails”. Speculation is that “Trails” will contain the next hint.
4/23/2013
EDIT #16: Rough Trade reports a second vinyl has been sold from their store. Posts three pictures. We don’t know the numbers. I playfully yelled at them on Twitter. The xxxxxx’s are in the same spot as the first vinyl sold.
Rough Trade has tweeted the number: 936557 and the audio from their copy. The same number as the vinyl found in New York.
Edit #17: Looks like BBC Radio 1 is in on it too! Here’s a screencap taken at 3:20PM EST by us. It was played on the Zane Lowe show. Did anyone tune in? Playlist reads: Unknown —— / ——- / —— / —— / —— / XXXXXX
The clip is now DOWNLOADABLE on BBC’s website. Click here for the MP3. New numbers: 519225
So, now we have ——/——/717228/936557/699742/519225
EDIT #18: NPR have posted a string of numbers on All Things Considered. These numbers are 699742.
——/——/717228/936557/——/519225
Theory: All of the numbers, except the NPR number have a double digit in the last three numbers. 717228, 936557, 519225 However, if you reverse the NPR number completely backwards so that it reads 247996 instead of 699742, it follows suit with the double digit theory.
Then, after the NPR number is reversed, take a look at the last number following the double digit. 717228, 936557, 519225, and if we reverse the NPR number we get 247996. With this theory, the string of numbers would be ——/——/717228/936557/699742 (or, reversed 247996)/519225. So, the first set of numbers should theoretically end in a double digit, followed by a 0 (or possibly xxx110). The second set of numbers should theoretically end in a double digit, followed by a 9.
No word on what this all means or if this theory is legitimate in the long run. Extraordinary thanks to @cydoniac for this! If anything, it’s good thinking. After finding the Soundcloud numbers, unfortunately this theory seems void.
EDIT #19: Background on Boards of Canada’s Youtube page has changed to a snowy/sky blue background and the annotations have changed on the “Julie & Candy” video. At 4:19 and 4:20, where the annotations are, there are now boxes. You cannot click them, but they are small, new editions.
4/26/2013
EDIT #20: Looks like Twoism.org is in on the fun! On Youtube, the infamous playlist on Boards of Canada’s profile updated so that a video for “Twoism” was in the number one spot. The website’s banner altered, leaving six hints:
“GIF89a
csch,hexagon sun,boc,hell interface,boards of canada,music70,boctransmission,hexagonsun,fyt,twoism
http://snd.sc/11W7vpv
http://snd.sc/11W726Q
there is another…
GIF89ai”
which lead to a Soundcloud page which held two audiofiles (Audiofile #1 called “∑” & Audiofile #2 entitled the same thing).
The album art shows a diagram of a signal mixer which sums two inputs. By summing the two Soundcloud files we’ve received the new number: 628315.
EDIT #20.5: It look as though when viewing the ID tags of the .WAV files on these uploads, we find some great information. Audio#1 is entitled “AAAA.wav” and the second being “BBBB.wav”. However, what’s even better is that in the description it mentions these files being clues for “Cosecha,” which is spanish for the word harvest and is being speculated as the album’s title. This would make sense, seeing as though the Youtube “csch” links to a video called “neuvas,” which is spanish for new seeds.
The website’s banner on Twoism.org also linked to .gif files that, when manipulated, will display where the new number from the Soundcloud files will go. Click for the picture.
699742/628315/717228/936557/——/519225
EDIT #21: Rough Trade, the record store in which one of the vinyl releases was found has been posting some cryptic Twitter status updates, including a “Boards of Canada loop” playing outside a building across the street at the Loading Bay Art Gallery. A video has been posted, along with a time stamp of “20:35?”, but no more information has been released as of yet beyond the loop. Video has also been posted, but while it showed a sunny desert, only X’s have been broadcasted so far, no number. There is audio that is being broadcasted as well, changing once, but nothing new.
The #BoC loop from outside Rough Trade East is here >>> youtube.com/watch?v=uZXFSn… Thank you @aertime!!
— Rough Trade (@RoughTrade) April 26, 2013
EDIT #22: Adult Swim aired an advertisement in the United States. No new number, but confirms the 699742, which is the number NPR also gave on their broadcast a few days ago.
EDIT#23: http://www.boardsofcanada.com currently redirects to http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/ and is asking for a password. Viewing the page source displays the code in a huge Hexagon with X’s where the missing numbers in our string of code is.
EDIT #24: Your password, thanks to Noby at Twoism.org (how he obtained this is to be determined):. 699742628315717228936557813386519225. Upon entering the password, you see a video that confirms a June 10th, 2013 release date for a new Boards of Canada album titled “Tomorrow’s Harvest”, which you can pre-order on Bleep.com (CD or Vinyl) by clicking here.
EDIT #25: The missing numbers seem to have been coded into the header of the source code on Boardsofcanada.com. The missing numbers? 7813386.
699742/628315/71722/893655/7813386/519225
All information on the release can currently be seen via the new entry, which you can see by clicking here.
5/21/2013
EDIT #26: Coverage continues. Boards of Canada have just updated their Facebook with a status! Let the more traditional promotion begin? Or is this some more cryptic goodness? The status reads: “May 22nd 24:00 @ 1-23-10 Jinnan Shibuya-ku Tokyo”
EDIT #27: A new song and some visuals from Tomorrow’s Harvest was debuted in Jinnan Shibuya-ku Tokyo on a large screen. Unofficial Ustream captured it live for us. Upload and song title are pending.
EDIT #27.5: Video is up.
EDIT #28: Zane Lowe premiered “Reach For the Dead” at 2:55 EST PM on BBC Radio 1, which is the same track featured in the aforementioned YouTube video!
EDIT #29: Warp Records has put up a stream of the song. Boards of Canada have uploaded the video to their YouTube channel. Click here to see and listen.
5/26
EDIT #30: Boards of Canada tweeted this, which lead to an Abandoned Water Park in SoCal, here. 5PM PSD, which is 8PM EST.
EDIT #31: Boards of Canada Transmission in Detroit, Michigan at the Movement Electronic Music Festival. A new song! An amazing sounding new song that’s rumored to be “Cold Earth”. A Tweet from Warp confirms this.
5/27
EDIT #32: New Hell Interface YouTube video confirms the location in EDIT #30.
EDIT #33: The California Tweet/Hell Interface video location is a place which held an official listening party for Tomorrow’s Harvest. The attendees? Just those who could make it. An introductory speaker asked the individuals to please only record audio of the first three songs. So, we have “Gemini,” “Reach For The Dead,” and “White Cyclosa” over at this unofficial uStream.
Oh, “Jacquard Causeway” is also on the stream. “Reach For The Dead” didn’t count, right? 😉
2020k 
Why don’t you post more material concerning that record ? Sorry but the lack of proofs that your record is legit makes me feel a bit skeptical
“His account of the product lets us know that the packaging dates this as a Warp 2013 release and contains 20 seconds of audio on one side of the vinyl that says a six digit number one time, then cuts out.”
Look at the images of the actual record, most of the 12″ is glossy which would be the case if there’s only 20 seconds of audio on it. That’s all of it.
Also, Pitchfork apparently confirmed the info with Warp, plus a dude from twoism.org forum called the record shop (after Lilcakey had picked up the vinyl) and confirmed the delivery of the mystery vinyl from a Warp representative.
I’m curious, though, as to why Lilcakey didn’t post better audio/video of the record playing. That would have been my first order of business. Albeit he mightn’t have the gear to do so.
@Lilcakey, were you contacted by anyone, labels, publishers, agents etc, after posting this story and the video?
didn’t hear anything from anyone, reached out to warp, silence…
I’ll put up a video this evening to show y’all the grooves and stuff, and the record is gonna be played on fm 89.1 WNYU tues 6pm est for everyone looking for hi-fi version
Cool. I appreciate all the work you’ve been doing on this. Thanks!
oh well this clears things up
#12: stop the video at 0.40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQEmaj9C6ko&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2 Can ANYONE define the object on 1.41? And just hope that they will release new stuff and not an album with the hint-numbers.
The words “Radio Silence” appear very briefly at the end of this video at 1:05. Any thoughts?
well look at the picture. the “xxxxxx”‘s is where the numbers go. We find all the records and put the numbers in order! Or was that obvious? 😦
Well that is the obvious part of the enigma. The not-so-obvious part is how it all fits together to give it some meaning. What do we do when they are in order? What does it mean? You have left out a huge part of the mystery!
There might very well be just one record. ——/——/——/——/——/—— is the video.
—–/——/——/XXXXXX/——/—— is the record. PErhaps the others in the sequence are other clues, locations, a massive carving on the fjords of norway, ,etc.
Maybe it has something to do with the music? Key? Chords? Intervals? Beats?
release date?
oh wait. price…..
http://thepluralofvinyl.com
It’s the hex code for 🙂 Turquoise.
or date of release could be 13-10-13 😉
In hex colors its a brownish color, but this is the complementary color to Turquoise 🙂
http://www.colorhexa.com/936557
Then it means, that those six combinations stands for hexagon and it names colours of it’s corners.. : )
XYZ?
What if we plot these on a colour hexagon?
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this is going to keep me up at night
eheh! me too!
It’s a prime number! (73945th prime)
nice.
Blogged about it on my Spectoral page. http://www.facebook.com/spectoral.music — as rabidly psyched as can be. Not hacker-worthy enough to figure out what it means, but I like the idea it’s somehow related to a hexagon.
Is it me, or does the picture look fake? Looks like the words are on the sleeve at an angle
I’m playing a high quality rip of the record on WNYU this Tuesday at 5 pm. Y’all can hear those six numbers in all their glorious detail
Okay this is really interesting — the suspected account of BoC that posted the soundboard audio of Julie and Candy changed the description to this
I’m thinking this might be legit…
This is a video uploaded in 2009. The top comment indicates that this a legit BOC upload. Now read the description. FAMILIAR?!
Go to 4:20 on the video. Dashes have relocated there now.
Here is the top comment.
“Hey. I was at the ATP show and those were the exact same visuals projected behind them during their performance. It was pretty hard to tell what they were doing behind all their banks of kit but i got the impression one of them was manipulating the video stuff live, but i couldn’t really say for sure. But this is definitely either the same video feed or done using the same method and identical footage of skiers, etc. In either case this has been uploaded by BoC rather than being “fan-made”
The account in question was made in 2009 and never uploaded another video in it’s existence.
That annotation has just been added and a coment has been made.
Ok guys, this is obviously a very elaborate hoax, or the real deal. I am going with the latter.
The account was made Dec 22, 2009 and the video was uploaded on Dec 22, 2009/ Presumably this account was created just to upload this one video.
The account name means:
Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens was first published in Latin in 1617. It was a most amazing book as it incorporated 50 emblems with epigrams and a discourse, but extended the concept of an emblem book by incorporating 50 pieces of music the ‘fugues’ or canons. In this sense it was an early example of multimedia.
I was just about to post about it – here’s the website:
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/atalanta.html
Scriabin tried to do a multimedia event (Mysterium) mixing colour and music, among other things.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin
see section “Influence of colour”)
Might be a starting point to guess what the other colours are.
Applying an hexagon to this picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scriabin-Circle.svg starting with B (as 936557) you get red, yellow, light blue, dark blue, light purple (the colours of the video, btw). The resulting hex colours aren’t pure numbers, though.
I may also be an insane person.
Here’s a screenshot of the 4:19 segment. (i dunno why everyone keeps saying go to 4:20 when it’s 4:19 for me, at least)
http://imgur.com/6ZtBcN5
4:19 ‘One Got Fat’ ?
People should read the edits to the original article…
i agree. it’s getting too confusing on here now!
I didn’t see the “One Got Fat” when I watched this yesterday, but there it is today… hmmmmmmm……
YouTube user platinumdynamite just pointed out that “One Got Fat” is the name of that bicycle safety film sampled in the fan video for Everything You Do Is A Balloon.
the description was originally “1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer”
does anyone have a picture of the description saying “—–/—–/, etc.”?
I wish. I didn’t have enough time to get a screen cap. But, if you go to 4:20 on the video, you’ll see that the uploader posted the dashes there as an annotation. Someone grab one.
Twoism user “plasselb” took this shot of the description
also now on their own website their discography area has a space for a tenth item.
Black square at the moment though…
the black square has been there for two years dude
Has been like that for ages I think
apologies!
lol 🙂
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Am I the only one thinking these are clues:
—–/—–/—–/—–/—–/—–
and
1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer
is
1977/snow/computing/amateur footage/beards/synthesizer
As in these are huge clues. THIS vinyl is ‘amateur footage’, and the video is amateur footage!!!
So what do we have? We have that the vinyl the guy got hold of is the fourth of 6, and plays a 20 second track that plays the number 936557, so we understand that to be the fourth code in a sequence of 6 codes.
If my understanding is correct, the description on the Julie and Candy video means that this vinyl is called Amateur Footage, or for the time being that is the clue. Therefore the other clues are those words posted in the description.
Also, 6 codes = 6 sides/points to a hexagon. Hexagonal kaleidoscopic visuals in the Julie and Candy video, with a focus on colours. 6 is important. Colours are important – Hex code = hexagonal code. 936557 is turquoise, what are the other colours and how do they make sense?
This is incorrect. It is not turquoise. Turquoise is blue this is brownish. Turquoise is, however, a complimentary color to the one the hex shows.
snow / computing / amateur / footage / beards / synthesizer
Do not group amateur and footage and you have 6 separate words.
Also true, but why get rid of 1977? may be a clue in itself I guess, considering it’s a 4-digit number…
Just a heads up re: these words/tags (“1977/snow/computing/amateur footage/beards/synthesizer”). They’ve been used since at least 1/2/12, the date of this post on the Twoism board: http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=160569&sid=88dce029e0d490de2bd27b20c179564e
Makes me think the words themselves don’t relate directly to the new “quest” the guys have sent us on…
Personally I think that these words just describe the Julie&Candy work, 1977 (raw image of parachutists?) snow computing amateur (the video render) footage beards synthesizer (the audio render). And not really more ..
The numbers are a Hex code for turquoise.
incorrect.
http://www.colorhexa.com/936557
In the handheld video, look at the guy in the reflection. He’s holding a camera to film the video in one hand. he’s holding something else in the other. Recorder? Audio player?
edit: on the mixer that you see briefly at around :06, it appears that the cross fader is all the way left but the volume for the turntable on the left is at 0. Am I seeing that correctly?
Warp Records just followed Other Music on twitter.
How do you know if they “just” did? Is there a way to know when the follow began?
It was the last person they followed:
https://twitter.com/WarpRecords/following
Have a look.
A link to a picture of vinyl #2 was posted at last.fm, I have no idea of its source though:
This was confirmed to be photoshopped.
Source? Seems likely to be fake though, yeah…
It was posted in the original 4chan thread, along with the 8 minute ambient song that is also confirmed as fake. The 4chan thread has since been deleted, as 4chan often does. I’m not sure how they confirmed it..something about the reflections and the hand. If anyone else could please follow up with this, it’d be a great help to put this fake piece of information to rest.
I was a part of the thread, the guy was actually a troll, he posted both the shopped and non shopped pics I still have them on my computer.
I’m the actual guy who posted the picture on facebook that was linked on last.fm, I wrote after in the comments of my own post that the record was fake.
all boc’s tweets were posted 11th or 22th day of the month. new tweet tommorow?
well spotted
The tweet is from Iain (iain) Stewart, not Lain Stewart.
Just sayin’
Not sure if this has been noticed yet or if it’s important, but since we’re hunting after every scrap of information…
The description for the ‘Julie and the Candy’ video only has six words/phrases visible, but when I copied the link to facebook, the smaller description box on my page displayed this:
‘1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer salopette endtimes uaevuon yera’
So, four more words on the end…maybe this is the tracklist for the new album?
1977 :
1 + 9 = 10
1 + 0 = 1
1 + 7 = 8
8 + 7 = 15
1 + 5 = 6
here’s the third 6
no matter which way you try to add the digits, you’ll always end up having 6
BoC’s location on twitter listed as Hexagon Sun, UK. Not a real place. Colours and Hexagons are definitely related.
Post on the Twoism forum:
HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT OKAY!!! IT’S DEFINITELY LEGITIMATE GUYS!
Just got off the phone with the guy from Other Music again, and he said they DID INFACT have it at the store!!!!!! He said a warp representative brought it in at 3pm the day before record store day. He also said that the one found in their store is THE ONLY ONE IN THE U.S.!!!!! THE OTHERS ARE IN FACT IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!!!! He didn’t specify, but they way he said it, I imagine this is what the representative from warp told him.
GET THE FUCK OUT THERE AND START SEARCHING YOU GUYS!!
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
Here’s the recording of the phonecall
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1MtpWh3ymcT
(from reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1cry5b/i_got_a_really_weird_record_today/)
anyone see these extra words in the description? vanished when i opened it!?
Salopette is a french word. Does that mean that the 5 other records can be found in france and in those other countries from which originate the remaining unknown words ?
uaevuoN, is backwards for Nouveau, which mean “new” in french
if thats where the next record comes from i think we are on to something
Look, if the video has this:
——/——/——/——/——/——
There are 6 spaces.
They could be the code for the records.
——/——/——/936557/——/——
We just need the other 5, and it could mean something.
I googled the old description of the July and Candy video and apparently it was changed somewhere in May 2012. Before that it was “80’s City Hot Soundtrack” ( http://www.last.fm/user/PixelEater/shoutbox ) But I see that this was already known on the watmm forum. But it seems they have been planning this for a long time
im now hearing that was the description from last year so it would have been something like overalls(dungarees) endtimes new year, does this mean it was saying the time for the album was next year last year?, someone in the comments from way back says the twitter of marcus eion is set in new zealand like this youtube account so maybe its connected
But also this isn’t a known version of Julie and Candy, I don’t think. This version didn’t show up on their discography. The original version was very different.
people are saying its a live version, or a studio version of a live version
uaevuon = nouveau (backwards)
“Someone in the /mu/ thread theorized that the other 5 records are in the other Geogaddi listening party locations.
London, New York, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin”
saw this comment on boc pages, could be couldnt it
I like this theory! How cool would that be?
I don’t like this theory cos my city misses out 😉
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NS936557 on the UK Ordnance Survey website shows you a field near Climpy, Lanarkshire. Just sayin…
Here’s a link to where that is on streetmap http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=293650&y=655750&z=0&sv=NS936557&st=5&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf – hexagon going around southern scotland based on numbers sent to each continent?
Someone go there! The next vinyl may be buried in that field!
Of course, it’s been rumoured that A Beautiful Place In The Country is in the Pentland Hills somewhere, not far from this spot (there are no buildings on google maps at this spot so it can’t be its location…)
huh? A Beautiful Place In The Country was David Koresh’s Waco compound
On their myspace, I’m sure their location was noted as “a beautiful place out in the country” and it has be mentioned elsewhere I’m sure.
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Anyone noticed that Everything You Do Is a Balloon is the sixth track on High Scores? Maybe the other pieces of music will be similarly positioned on their releases?
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if the 12″ found at other music is, in fact, the only one that was available in the US, i feel strongly inclined to believe that the other five are located in relatively popular record stores in other countries, e.g. rough trade in the UK.
Well, I just tried Polyester and JB Hifi in Melbourne, Australia and no dice. It was a slim chance to begin with. But nothing here… (yet)
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Are all 6 records the same?
A friend of mine pointed out that this is all very similar to “numbers stations”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Might be relevant somehow.
boc has been known to do things related to number stations. listen to the track “aquarius”,
I noticed that too – it definitely sounds like a typical shortwave ‘numbers station’, and the sideband distortion effect sounds very legit. The radio noise itself suggests AM (medium wave) frequencies, but I know that higher shortwave freqs start sounding more like AM radio as you increase wavelength.
It would be pretty trivial to set up a low-power AM transmitter, broadcast your sound snippet over that frequency as you record it off the air – although I’m sure Mike and Marcus wouldn’t have had any trouble with reproducing that effect either.
One of the things that I immediately considered though… was that maybe the numbers corresponded with sw frequencies… but there’s too many digits, and any fractional frequency would have a “5” at the end for channel spacing.
i.e. 717228 wouldn’t work, it would need to map to 7 Mhz, and the following digits would max out at 3, and would need to end in “5”: 7.175.
I’m pretty sure there are 6×6 cryptographic grids.
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
936557
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
The axis can be inverted, of course.
xxx9xx
xxx3xx
xxx6xx
xxx5xx
xxx5xx
xxx7xx
——/——/——/——/–—-/——
1977/snow/computing/amateur footage/beards/synthesizer
Haha scroll through the comments and you’ll see I already suggested that theory…
> It doesn’t look like there are any grooves on that record
> It doesn’t look like anything is coming out of the right channel when you get glimpse
> The audio is just “Everything You Do is a Ballon”
The audio isn’t just “Everything You Do Is a Balloon”. The first note does strike the resemblance, but how many of us out here know that song by heart. The melody is different, and the texture is different.
Skepticism is cool and understandable. But no meter lights on the dj mixer suggests absolutely nothing, as I pointed out here:
http://en.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1cry5b/i_got_a_really_weird_record_today/c9jozdy?context=3
And the song is not EYDIAB, though it resembles it in tone and colour.
Grooves are there, but only 20 sec of it so naturally the rest (most of the record) looks blank.
Since “uaevuon” is “nouveau” spelt backwards in French, it may (or may not) be interesting to note that “Hexagone” is a common nickname for “France” because of the shape of the country. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagone_(France)
I can’t help solve anything… I just want answers… and new BoC music!!! :0)
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Wait a minute. The Julie and Candy video was a projection BoC used at a live show. It appears to contain AMATEUR FOOTAGE of skiers in SNOW, likely filmed in 1977. The footage was then manipulated using COMPUTING at a live performance performed on SYNTHESIZERS by Scottish men with BEARDS.
Very nice
I personally think those words are just describing the video/performance and don’t have anything to do with this next album.
——/——/——/——/–—-/——
1977/snow/computing/amateur footage/beards/synthesizer
The first of six slots revealed was number four, which lines up with the forth phrase in the random words on the Julie And Candy video. The first clue appeared as amateur footage.
Also,
Six records
Six Slots
Six Phrases
666
Six records?
1 MHTRTC / Boc Maxima (more or less the same album IMO)
2 Twoism
3 Geogaddi
4 Campfire Headphase
5 ??? –this next one– ???
Where does their official LP collection begin?
Also, what happens if this imminent release ends up being a double LP (which is highly possible given the 8 year absence). Is that still one album, or does it complete their “six album” theory?
the 5th and 6th album theory is a possibility – comedian Peter Serafinowicz mentioned last year their next was going to be a double album…I assume he met them at some point as I know he’s a huge fan of them (in particular Music Has The Right To Children)
I think MR is referring to the 6 teaser records labeled “xxxxxx/——” that were theorically distributed around the world and not the actual BoC discography. Also, I don’t expect a double LP of new material (but who knows)
Yes, I was referring to the six ‘hint’ albums, not their LP’s. Sorry.
I have an awesome beard right now, perhaps I am BOC?
erm…already suggested that, read post above that I made? they could be key words yes
Properties of the number 936557
Factorization 936557
Divisors 1, 936557
Count of divisors 2
Sum of divisors 936558
Is prime? YES (73945th prime)
Is a Fibonacci number? NO
Is a Bell number? NO
Is a Catalan number? NO
Is a factorial? NO
Is a regular (Hamming) number? NO
Is a perfect number? NO
Binary 11100100101001101101
Octal 3445155
Duodecimal 391ba5
Hexadecimal e4a6d
“—— / —— / —— / XXXXXX / —— / ——” is THE cryptically-recorded clue of the year! With 13 seconds of haunting ambiance proceeded by six mysterious numbers, Boards of Canada have set a new standard in cryptically-recorded clues.
Something to add to your updates. I’ve made a connection with the groups of numbers and a cover artwork that was posted on BOC facebook pages. This was the cover https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150719225903927&set=a.10150606666958927.38…813926&type=1
Basically, this is a confirmation about the ——/——- being a code? The cover artwork in the above link shows aerials and antennae which were used in the cold war for sending messages via the ‘numbers stations’, always in groups of numbers. And its been noticed that the voices appearing in the audio found on the mystery vinyl so far sound very much like the numbers station voices. So, this could well be the actual cover artwork for the album – or somebody has cooked all of this up based on the cover….
It’s been their Twitter background for awhile, so I’m not sure
Well, if that Julie in Candy video is actually a part of this, that video was uploaded in 2009. That background’s been there for just a year. I’m sure BOC didn’t just plan this (if it’s real) last week. It’s probably been going on for years. I think they’ve spread out several clues throughout a few years for us to go back and find.
Well, if it is based on a similar premise, the code is impossible to break without some extra clues that they’ll have to supply, so I guess this isn’t the end of the mystery vinyls/objects
it’s all gone a bit willy wonka
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I don’t know if anyone has noticed this yet and I have not seen anyone mention it, but this is amazingly interesting. The youtube video of Julie and Candy was uploaded by someone calling them selves AtalantaFugiens, and it turns out that “Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens was first published in Latin in 1617. It was a most amazing book as it incorporated 50 emblems with epigrams and a discourse, but extended the concept of an emblem book by incorporating 50 pieces of music the ‘fugues’ or canons. In this sense it was an early example of multimedia.
An English translation exists in the British Library MS. Sloane 3645. Clay Holden was kind enough to allow his transcription of emblems 1 to 10, and Hereward Tilton has transcribed 11 to 34, and Peter Branwin has completed the work by transcribing 35 to 50. Peter Branwin is currently working on a new translation of the discourses from the original Latin. [There is another English translation in Mellon MS. 48 at Yale in the USA.]” (source – http://www.levity.com/alchemy/atalanta.html ) This is going deeper into the rabbit hole…
“Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens was first published in Latin in 1617″
1+6+1+7=15
1+5=6
http://musicians4freedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Michael-Maiers-Atalanta-Fugiens-Sources-of-an-Alchemical-Book-of-Emblems.pdf Why would an ancient book like this have a website name musicans4freedom? I should get back to work, but this is far more interesting.
Didn’t think this was important enough to include, but:
The username is AtalantaFugiens.
Atalanta (Ancient Greek: Ἀταλάντη, Atalantē) is a character in Greek mythology, a virgin huntress, unwilling to marry, and loved by the hero Meleager.
Fugiens means fleeing, or hastening.
This relates directly to the footrace story about Atalanta.
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oh god I could cry, I am so happy
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There’s also http://missingnumbers.webuda.com/ where numbers are updated apparently.
if someone could update the article with this link, it’d be good
It seems the Second Code was found: https://twitter.com/montycantsin_/status/326314547554168833
Nope……
lol, I got trolled so hard
Nope, I called the recordshop and they had no idea what was going on and had never received any BoC vinyl.
A video titled 936557 on youtube that features kaleidoscopes… a coincidence?
Interesting to know why it was called that. Posted a few years ago, but why those particular numbers?
I don’t see how it would be hard to believe that BOC like this particular video?
It could possibly be renamed lately, we can’t be sure that it is offical BoC material
I’m not so sure with this one, the account holder ‘lordfrumpleton’ has another account, very similar with only one video. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru4eIldXktM )
I see that video is unlisted. Could you tell me how you were able to find it?
this is what I was curious about, either that person was given the link previously, or it’s the owner of the youtube channel lavishing in the hype, coll video though..
Ha. Viewer # 666.
This CAN’T be a coincidence… Good find
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The youtube account is located in New Zealand, so I googled “ski footage new zealand” got this: http://newzealandguides.blogspot.fi/2012/07/skiing-in-nz-history-ski-film-footage.html
Maybe the new record is on top of one those holy peaks. Go get em boys.
come on everyone get out to the record stores! times like these i wish i lived in a bigger city!
Okay, as I do programming for a living I noticed that these numbers could be microseconds. I made a microseconds converter to date and these are the results (which are very interesting):
Date (America/New_York) Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:15:36 PM EST
Date (GMT) Thursday, January 1, 1970 12:15:36 AM GMT
Date (short/short format) 12/31/69 7:15 PM
Notice that the date is 1969, New York time (where the record is found).
This is interesting because Boards of Canada has a song called 1969.
Also, in GMT time (Scottish time) it’s the year 1970. The year when one of the brothers were born.
You can also try out the conversion by yourself:
http://www.fileformat.info/tip/java/date2millis.htm
That’s just because timestamps start in 1970 GMT and 6 digits doesn’t add on very much.
Isn’t 4/19 2014’s Record Store Day? If the “Julie and Candy” video isn’t counting down, that is.
If they’re counting down to the next mysterious record release, and going to release one per year for 6 years . . . I’m out. But I doubt that’s what’s happening.
If you put 936557 in to MS Excel and convert the cell to “date” it gives…
…14/03/4464. I hope we’re not waiting that long for the new album…
I wanted to be the first to find a Golden Ticket, Daddy!
l’Hexagone is France and IP Address 93.6.5.57 is from Dax in France.
I wonder if 175726 would not show up as a sequence of numbers in this trail.
would there be truth in following article? maybe they are linked with each other. featuring a possible title and tracklisting of the new album:
https://2020k.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/boards-of-canada-distribute-new-vinyl-releases-out-for-national-records-day/
srry guys had the wrong link copied before, this is the right one:
This is a known april fools hoax.
Notice the article date
The last link of in the article points to a “Fooled you!” gif.