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 
he just posted this on his twitter
I bet the guy who found the original record above had a heart attack when he saw an unknown Boards of Canada vinyl 😉
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also: https://twitter.com/othermusic/status/326359929466269696
in case you don’t want to click: its a tweet by Other Music records and it says,
“Yes, we received 1 copy of a mysterious Boards of Canada 12″ from @WarpRecords & put it out for sale on RSD. That’s all we know, thanks!”
so it confirms what the guy who called them said.
June release?
6th June 2013 = 06/06/2013 = 6/6/6
(2+0+1+3 = 6)
thoughts?
Only problem is that 6/6/2013 is a Thursday and records are usually released on a Tuesday. Considering its BOC and they don’t seem to ever follow the “rules”, It’s still a possible scenario.
already done with Trans Canada Highway, I don’t think BoC is the kind to recycle idead
True, although MHTRTC was released on 4/20 1998, and this new vinyl release of sorts surfaced on 4/20 2013 (record Store day and 15 year aniversary of MHTRTC) so it’s probably not out of the question if they are indeed considering releasing june of this year.
I think the guy is missing now and BoC are Reptilians.
6 more weeks till june
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Interesting comment from Heliosphane about IP Address 93.6.5.57 is from Dax in France. I googled Dax and it showed that the city gained some reputation after the visit of the daughter of Emperor Octavius Augustus. Her name is Julia (a nod to Julie and Candy?). Dax is also the place of birth of a mathematician called Jean-Charles de Borda. Upon the introduction of the metric system in France, Borda was in charge to build a Table of Logarithms for measuring the angles in the new units for navigation (keep that in mind). There is an asteroid named after him – it is number 175726. If you google 175726, Streetmap.co.uk will tell you that, along with 507168, 175726 is the location of Heathrow Airport (did you kept that Borda was in charge of adapting navigation to the metric system in mind?). The mystery only adds up, but it is really interesting – it is like I am one of the characters in Eco’s “Foucault’s Pendulum”.
That is just amazing
Reblogged this on Can I kick it? and commented:
Respect to BOC, can’t wait for the new album to come out!
Yes, you can!
The Julie And Candy video has not been edited today, and the symbols remain at 4-19. Might not be a countdown after all.
it now says ‘one got fat’ at 4:21
Not sure if anyone has done this yet, but the corresponding letters in the Alphabet are: ICFEEG. Maybe the rest of the records will spell out more?
Noteworthy observation.
Did that, not really anything in english except cee fig. But if you take ‘ce fige’ it translates to ‘it freezes’ in French, according to Google translate. Just a thought.
And typing in Google there’s a file: 01323230001212.kmz for Sgurr Thuilm (963 meters high) and it’s about 70 miles from Redpoint (from The Beach on Redpoint) and Redpoint has postcode are IV21 as the date – one day after the info and IV21 is a date of my birthday. And I was born in 1984 and
9 3 6 5 5 7
-1 7 5 7 2 6
————–
8 4 1 2 3 1 (absolute values) and it’s 31/12/1984
And it’s so cool! And it’s so ridiculous but great fun! Haha 😀
Sorry: It should be “And typing there’s a file…
Once again sorry: It should be” And typing: 175726, Streetmap.co.uk – there’s a file…
936557 not 175726 (sorry once again)
uaevuon yera = nouveau year = new year?
nice work, I like this. But they removed it? It’s gone from the vid descr. now?
Theres a home listing with MLS# 936557 only blocks away from the Other Music record store. LOL!
Seriously tho, has anyone figured out why the record was placed in that specific record store?
It’s about kilts? http://old.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=936557&sid=67678e0e15781bba1f0b9ec81fec5af9
reference hueristic “occam’s razor”
Here’s next 936557 video on YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDw9_AxEfNY LOL
description says One Very Important Thought. Was uploaded almost 2 years ago. What the hell
Double coincidence. WTH indeed
Days not over here it could still change
This is insane…It’s pretty difficult to make conclusions based on one number so far & I’m in the U.S. so all I can do right now is speculate. Do you think the choice of record store has any meaning? I think the numbers, once all found, shouldn’t add up to a date of a release…that’d be sort of pointless. It must all add up to a geographic location. If we map out each record store on the globe I wouldn’t be surprised to find a Hexagon. Maybe in the center there’s buried treasure o_o
In which case, the proper interior angles of a hexagon is 120 degrees…so based on Other Music in NYC, maybe we can figure out where the next Record Store is. A little too much?
I just looked at a map and tried doing that nevermind ridiculous idea
This is the best news ever! I’ve written up about it and linked back to you here: http://biggsounds.co.uk/post/48559469009/new-and-upcoming-releases-from-boards-of-canada
I still like the theory of the other five being in the Geogaddi listening party locations
Ok. Seriously now. I think that we can expect the new album soon, but the point of this mess is that BoC are laughing at us now somewhere in Scotland.
Most definitely…although I think it’s really friggin cool that they’re doing this. Linking their aesthetics with their sound and creating something puzzling for us to be in awe at…I bet they are at least having fun.
I was thinking about that six-word description on the Julie and Candy video and took a guess: what if it the description is for the footage only, not related to anything else? I googled “skiing footage 1977” and came across some photos of Nicholas DeWolf. A former computer reseacher, Mr. DeWolf developed test equipments for semiconductors that opened room for the transistor revolution and computers. After selling his company Teradyne, Mr. DeWolf settled in Aspen and shoot a series of photos of Aspen’s 1977 Ski Competition. To the extent of my research on Google, 1977 hosted no significative ski competitions.
Im really happy with this… cant stop reading and pushing the f5 button with this web…
Part of our fascination with boc is this type of mind games that they always try to play.
But the best will come soon, with their music…. !!!
I am wondering how it is that no one reported finding another BoC vinyl in London. My first post to this thread mentioned Heathrow Airport. Actually, the coordinates I mentioned on that posting (175726, 507168) are precisely Terminal3’s. And there is a record store at that Terminal: HMV’s. I know it is a huge, not-independent chain and all that stuff, but why not speculate that one copy might be there? P.S.: Obviously I am not in London, otherwise I would have this checked myself and my English would be better…
That’s cool!
One problem with this: HMV went bust and closed down earlier in the year. Some are still open I think, but a lot have closed. I be the Sandersons didn’t see that one coming in their grand scheme!
Actually, there are 140+ HMV stores open in England due to a deal with some other company called Hilco celebrated in the beginning of April.
Actually, my local HMV and numerous others I’ve seen have closed down so I don’t know if the one at Heathrow terminal 3 has closed, actually.
You should edit the post noting the significance of the number 4:19, the number that the text appears in the youtube video:
David Koresh died april 19, David Koresh of the Branch Dividians, from song 1969 by Boards of Canada. That song is listed as 4:20 minutes long on wikipedia, but it may have been meant to be 4:19.
phonecall proof of the confirmation http://vocaroo.com/i/s1MtpWh3ymcT
This was posted to You Tube in the last hour or so…
they messed with the contrast from the video I posted and flipper/inverted it, needle is in the same spot
Nah, tone arm in the now deleted vid is different: http://i.imgur.com/GWbEsWZ.jpg
Ah crap, is it fake then?…
it just got removed
4:19 – 20th anniversary of Koresh’s death
4:20 – 15 th anniversary of MHTRTC release day
and 32.3564N -95.3675W is the resting place of David Koresh (Memorial Park Cemetery). 95.3675 is a combination of 936557.
That video “936557” posted by some lordfrumpleton has music from Daniel Eaton.
Record found in France, awesome!
?????
The 735673 video was uploaded by a guy in France. Jus sayin, i think somebody called it in previous comments
Any source? Where was it uploaded?
Went to YouTube and the video was removed by the user.
Somebodys fucking with us. I just looked at his page and it said France under his country, but if its gone already I bet somebody was just messing with us… This is making me so impatient!
fwiw – the username who posted that video was Nicolas Barnaud
it was also a historic figure: the wikipedia entry => http://en.wikipedia….Nicolas_Barnaud – mentions him being an alchemist,etc.. might have some relation with that other video with the Julie & Candy vid ?
someone on WATMM has a backup of said video: http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/735673.mp4
735673 is another prime number and the first prime number before 735673 is 735659 – another combination of 936557.
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if it turns out to be a double album perhaps one is all new material and the other is remixed?
Ha, or one is A Few Old Tunes 😉
I wonder if it’s this year because their heroes m b v released a new album this year…
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I really hope this is how the aliens make first contact with us.
I was recommended this blog by my cousin. I’m not sure whether this post is written by him as no one else know such detailed about my difficulty. You’re incredible!
Thanks!
Hey, has anyone tried looking up the photo on the AtalantaFugiens youtube to see what that thing is? Might be something.
it’s just metropolis the movie
another user on youtube has the same image:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCineLady
and also a user on myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/priscilladomopak
but yea, nothing special, its just a snapshot from metropolis
Is it true that 936557 converted into ASCII spells “summer”? I read this here (http://afterpop.tv/2013/04/breaking-boards-of-canada-libera-vinil-de-12-sorpresa-posible-nuevo-album-en-junio/ — in Spanish) and to be honest, it does not make much sense to me. But what I know? So, can someone confirm?
Hex -> ASCII = ?EW
Try here: http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/
Thanks!
If that’s the case then I can see the 6 codes translating to “NEW / BOARDS / OF / CANADA / SUMMER / 2013” …that’d be anti climactic for sure.
On the Consequence of Sound website, someone posted a comment saying that 936557 translates into M when converted to Hexadecimal. As there are 6 spots and being M in the 4th spot, then the guy thought it would spell SUMMER. Hence the text in the Mexican website and then my questioning.
You would just hope the codes would translate into something more unpredictable than the estimated release date, haha
That’s bunk. ASCII codes only go up to 127. What probably happened:
936557 modulo 128 = 109 = ASCII code for ‘m’
Thanks Chris Clark 😉
In hex, 936557 is E4A6D
DRINK / YOUR / OVALTINE
Best laugh I’ve had all day, thanks! 😉
17th – was the release day of The Campfire Headphase
18th – was the release day of Geogaddi
19th – it’s Monday in August (summer) 2013
20th – was the release day of MHTRTC
I’d like to point out something I think is key here.
The ONLY indication we’ve had thus far that there are 6 of these promos floating around is a stray thought from the guy in NYC who bought the only known copy. He makes a fair assumption, “Clearly I have one of six similar Boards of Canada records released today and distributed “randomly” around the world,” but no one’s confirmed this. No way of telling that the other 5 clues won’t come from other sources/formats entirely, such as the “Julie & Candy” youtube annotation. Or a tweet. Or another “easter egg” somewhere else.
Point being, there aren’t *necessarily* 5 more records floating around the rest of the globe, from what I can deduce.
This makes sense, but still leaves us with more doubts than conclusions. Some questions popping out of my mind are what is the point of the whole exercise, then? And why the indication in the NYC copy sleeve?
Well, I still believe that the cover “art” of the discovered promo indicates that 5 more numeric codes are to be found… all I’m suggesting is that there’s nothing that directly suggests they’ll be found on add’l copies of vinyl from around the globe.
it might not be all numbers, if you look closely at the six individual segments 2 of them are solid lines as opposed to dashes, the first segment also has a longer dash at the start.
Sorry mate, all segments have dashes. Look at the pic at Consequences of Sound website to check it out: http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/04/boards-of-canada-tease-new-music-with-surprise-record-store-day-release/
Actually, the long time for someone to find another copy (I was positive that a copy would surface today somewhere in London) is adding some credibility to your idea, Sixty10.
..just a few obversations of my own.
The ——/——/——/——/——/735673 video that was uploaded and then removed on YouTube was roughly a minute long. It was uploaded by a user named Nicholas Barnaud, who Wikipedia tells us was a French Protestant writer, physician and alchemist, from Crest, in Dauphiné, from which he took the name Delphinas (or Delphinus). He was a member of the Monarchomaques and is associated with a number of mysteries. The user was created and apparently deleted today. The video title included the description “OS.NG”.
The YouTube profile picture for the user AtalantaFugiens I reverse photosearched using TinEye. It is the face of the robot from the 1927 film Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Specifically interesting to me that the Wikipedia notes include: “The film was met with a mixed response upon its initial release, with many critics praising its technical achievements and allegorical social metaphors with some deriding its “simplistic and naïve” presentation.”
Interesting to me because the initial tweet from @ImNoPandaBear is:
synthesized fun @ImNoPandaBear 20 Apr
@WarpRecords this was a bit shocking, but I don’t like the new sound its too minimal pic.twitter.com/ZRhSYgZf81
Man, the things you learn by being a BoC fan.
Wow he gets the only priceless BoC vinyl of it’s print run in the entire world and still he decides to be a dick and criticise the sound??
I read it as him being facetious ha
Unconfirmed and with no pics of the cover, but this could be a second record:
[video src="http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/735673.mp4" /]
numbers are 735673
How did you find it, Kevin?
Via tweets by @ListenB4YouBuy. goes here : http://www.listenbeforeyoubuy.net/news/boards-of-canada-release-mysterious-vinyl-tease-new-music/ : & @Lone.
wait, just read a little higher that this vid was removed. so its probably a fake….
Yeah, someone posted that this is the same audio from the removed video posted by Nicolas Barnard…
This seems new:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/3c62EIy.png[/IMG]
Ugh dumb comment system. Basically go to 4:20 on Julie and Candy video. New annotation appeared, “One Got Fat:” http://imgur.com/3c62EIy
go to the EYDIAB video
newest comment is from ‘hellinterface’ linking to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4
this video says ‘——/——/XXXXXX/——/——/——/ at the end
Right. “One Got Fat” is the name of the film for the EYDIAB video. So it is legit!
Posted further down, but there is a 6 digit number @6:14 = 119129 on the front of the steam roller?!
Brilliant! If this is legit, then we have a new number: 757228 (if I get it right) in the second segment. Liked the snippet too.
717228
Thanks!
sounds like 717228 to me…
It is definetely 717228. My bad.
http://www.sciops.esa.int/sun_monitor/archive/helios/halpha/2012/201205/20120524/
Pictures of the sun?
if you hover over the time bar in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDKGVd7B7Sk&feature=youtu.be this video, theres a strange image which you can’t actually see in the video itself
?????
never mind, looks like its been covered
I don’t know about you but I still see it
oh no i just meant like someone had beat me to it as it was already mentioned in update 13 of the original post up there
also, notice how the video was uploaded on August 23, 2011
at 4:20 directly after the ‘——/——/——/——/——/——‘ annotation, another annotation reading ‘ ONE GOT FAT’ pops up for less than half a second. One got fat? One got figured out?
it’s the name of the film the everything you do is a balloon video comes from. the link to the two new hellinterface videos was posted on that video’s page.
One Got Fat is the film from which a video for “Everything You Do Is A Ballon” was made. If you go to that video, you’ll see that BoC posted a link to another video that features the second number, which is 717228.
Nuevas semillas stands for “new seeds” in Spanish.
One Got Fat is the name of a bike safety video that a fan made a BoC video from. the first few notes sound EXACTLY like the music on the Mystery Record:
Heres the original:
In the “Julie and Candy” Video you posted, the strange interrupted lines (that went missing from the description) appear on 4:19 which is an essential number in BoCs work (explained in the comments) a few seconds later, another annotation appears, that reads “one got fat” which is the title of a bicycle safety video from 1963 that was sampled for a Video for “Everything you do is a Balloon” There, a link to video was posted, which was pitch black. in the description of that video was another link to this video, which seems to be a new clue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&hd=1 the same pattern as on the vinyl, but a new number!
Scoured all the record stores here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada today to no avail.
Since BOC said they spent part of their childhood here, I thought there was a (very slim) chance. If there is one in Canada, my guess would be Toronto.
Well, if it is a consolation, there is a new number to the enigma: 717228, which appeared on a video some hours ago.
None in Toronto, maybe at Rotate This but they didn’t give me a straight answer
I’m starting to think they’re just f***in with us….
They made a serious game : ) so, well played to BoC by making their fans minds blowing
Totes. 🙂 I’m loving it.
I think this is a hoax : http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=973787Capture.png
no its not, its part of the video. it just flashes very quickly
It is not a hoax- I just grabbed this http://imgur.com/QfEGF6z
The hidden footage in the CSCH video is from the opening credits to the TV Show Little House on the Prairie: http://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZiu5fmkdtACo59y0UfNb4OfN0O_1br4p0ucWKXTX92RJYxYtp5UNFsKJ-VZ4VaKgv8k9rbNtq7WdKzRvbaZeFI9GBGZtfUd-k5bxkxE2Hbdyftbau9RJQzYHTp_1X0mdRM8ktangkmJhC0Nk5Pr86-JHUVrfpmdCC7yuJC3VwTVsFpMXjTTeFfuHSruYH9uITO3PL1Kge2p02mefIGBzZxWi_1er4y557l_15U48OUIe2Y3iaTzrqvRsCgU5aan2VJDFMd4zIu1JEkqJYVTe9o47s2NugNyy2T1KFVrfYNRnxTKIBuWjlvLtna3aDB3Nc53UbBgrQ-8pfW-AaRaefbo4ZYoXH4JbC9aJje0cuoJrGYucEzA_1oRRPnAdQNwIq47DfcaieL1OC7LA6tbhJyEBlfN6fJ0fUBbbUsZIeIdoihf-ZsFXRwsB841Fz1uXhl-Mx3KqGAKqwuxWK_1LptpKVXCSaqtnEjYc4VpacldzGuX3EHVMaKLQqcRwEBM8a8se6v7izU-QyB88M_13Esjg8RrNpIHNueqJXuLxuqb8QzWNKURE41eR3efU3g3k16JunO7gNlHibhIocV-gJVvHXG13NOQCk2Qswv52ynpe8I9kzqacnW0rL7uRqGpWe0UGksu2jryMJeZoX7hTlwSY_1CmCaph5uPruFQdy9vDkTyRMclrAi7tvRM3SVglIFk4E3XOhomypNGkfoiJECzp3DNmgZyx4iZk2K36sb-6PmhKsAG5Ee9_1oMopJWVjF_1aIOtCdx6NJOfSDQzbj400qBGI11pUyJUzcQ-jEf8Ppq44Um7gLC-O9r2Z9zb4yV38lovlQlKT0mXWOt7mUc9hfyz7E_1Ubx4maWddSSscCy1wGFTywYYA9ZJcd3BSuF6F2InTTs0P4DmYkkgkVTwnE187AAByvjWwV2mrsgdEDbOwRkceyGhTATP559IApx9NfK0KasvJ5FWaS3ASPTTllrE5nAoUdCEIJ-DpDfXLoFDdGHTBdjwdOQqtBF49cKMGCIT7xK1Zw0Kr3qedUsL6zMh9gocX_1fqXG9up52o41T1QxNKI7tCgLQHAhvV0btIUzOzZ-CucQ_1bh62xvCVjoo9110NA9WhReA1th0ml5L69bm8WLYiLk5gP4u9jczji7lDx-m3Xe_1vs2O59-DnzMeD7BSKIN99jp50Wt7uXCPaebz5E34GF5QOV6ds_16cA7k-4ZAkbrAnI0voopi9ibIEOOeA_1kzTVvhUPiAceqEq_1DnOpmffrmvFIkpgA2i0GoUP3LdLBt460OnTvXnG2PYRxAVCZ4Sz75HnqSA&bih=625&biw=667
How in the world…?
The “nuevas semillas” video, that is…
ha, no i know. but how the f**k did you figure out what the image was from? lol
Just took a screen cap and ran it thru google image search
WordPress theme of http://csch.ca/ is “alchemist”
Here’s something-
The CSCH video was posted by tarekeys.
tarekeys recently ‘discussed’ the code 717228 to another user- pimlottc
See here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/tarekeys/discussion
Also, does it seem to anyone else that the author of this blog seems a bit too good at solving these puzzles? Hmm…
So, the “Little House On The Prairie” images were matched to an episode that was run on Sept 19, 1977. I guess that matches up with the 1977 in the earlier desciption for the “Julie & Candy” video.
The images are the normal opening credits; how was it matched that that particular episode?
The names in the opening credits often vary from episode to episode based on episode to episode but this intro sequence seems to match the names we can make out in the stills:
Searching for the names that are at least partially legible returns 17 possible episodes, all from 1978-1980: http://tinyurl.com/boc-lhotp
BTW, you can see slightly higher resolution version of the LHOTP stills from the hellinterface video:
http://i4.ytimg.com/sb/sDKGVd7B7Sk/storyboard3_L2/M0.jpg?sigh=Tr0wa0WRUEeCx2D6w_BwPn_kqRc
http://i4.ytimg.com/sb/sDKGVd7B7Sk/storyboard3_L2/M1.jpg?sigh=Tr0wa0WRUEeCx2D6w_BwPn_kqRc
http://i4.ytimg.com/sb/sDKGVd7B7Sk/storyboard3_L2/M2.jpg?sigh=Tr0wa0WRUEeCx2D6w_BwPn_kqRc
http://i4.ytimg.com/sb/sDKGVd7B7Sk/storyboard3_L2/M3.jpg?sigh=Tr0wa0WRUEeCx2D6w_BwPn_kqRc
where are these stills coming from? when I play the nuevas semillas video, I get only one image (well, two, but the last image is just a brighter version of the initial image), which is just the FIRST still from your list with absolutely no identifying features. fill me in?
So, there is this new video up on youtube:
It’s a follow up on lilcakey’s original video.
There seems to be a message in chinese or japanese, I’m not quite sure what language it is, in the beginning of the video.
There was this: 頑張ろう in the description. It’s japanese for Harambee.
Now, I found out harambee meant communal work, so I got this Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_work
Y’all should check it out, especially the “harambee” part of the article.
“Harambee events may range from informal affairs lasting a few hours, in which invitations are spread by word of mouth, to formal, multi-day events advertised in newspapers. These events have long been important in parts of East Africa, as ways to build and maintain communities.”
… To build and maintain communities. Might be something!
“Following Kenya’s independence in 1963, the first Prime Minister, and later first “President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta adopted “Harambee” as a concept of pulling the country together to build a new nation. He encouraged communities to work together to raise funds for all sorts of local projects, pledging that the government would provide their startup costs” From the wiki article…
Pulling a country together to build a new nation; this is interesting!
Raise funds for all sorts of local projects; this might be a link to the csch.ca project website!
Lilcakey is (at least supposedly) the person who found the record in NYC. They already indicated speaking Japanese on the original reddit post – not sure what their note says in the beginning (anyone speak Japanese?) but since it’s the same record as the one we originally saw, I don’t think this is another clue. It’s the finder of the first record posting another video about it.
I’m sure I just got hooked with the general euphoria…
Thats japanese. Surely we can get someone to translate it.
This “harambee” japanese symbol must mean something!!!
頑張ろう
And what about the text? It’s all in japanese except for the initial at the end: J R
What is that supposed to mean?
Not looking to unnecessarily point fingers at anybody but the author’s initials of this post are RJ…
In the video, it’s JR
Coincidence?
Shit, I might just be in too deeply 😛
From what I’ve gathered around other places, the message roughly means “I think there might be another record in Japan, so check there.” Or something to that effect. That would also explain the “Harambee” lead, as he or she just meant to work as a team to find the next record.
The message at the beginning translates to this:
“Everybody,
I am thinking that this record exists in Japan too. If possible, please search for it.
JR”
How’d you find out?
I asked reddit. It would appear that that video was uploaded by lilcakey with a different username. I don’t think there are more than one record. I think this is the only one, especially considering the second clue came in the form of an online video.
What you’re saying makes a whole lot of sense.
Still, let’s not shut our minds as this always a possibility.
The comment on the video page: 頑張ろう, is the verb ‘to persevere’ 🙂
My Japanese is not too hot, and the image is blurry, so it’s difficult to read the note in the video:
mina san – Everybody,
kono reco-do ha nihon ni mo o to omoitteimasu
this record in japan also I’m thinking.
ga shite onegaiitashimasu
doing could you please.
JR
I guess you all know by now what it says.. But a direct translation is:
“I believe this record should be in Japan as well. Please find it if you can.”
He can use kanji which is cool, but it’s a little off…
THEY ARE UPDATING THE CLUES SO QUICKLY!!!!!
csch / cosech [ˈkəʊsɛtʃ -sɛk] noun
(Mathematics) hyperbolic cosecant; a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of sinh
By the way, Tarekeys = Turkeys. ;^)
Don’t know if its the same for others but videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&hd=1 seem to be stuck at 301 views. Which in web server terms is “301 Moved Permanently” and is used for permanent redirection.
that’s just an extremely common thing youtube does to accurately count views on new videos.
This Discography section of the Music70 website has an added box after Trans Canada Highway that brings up nothing (yet). Magic Window?
This was there at the time of the FACT magazine hoax on April 1st, I pointed this out, but no one took notice…
Heads up: The box next to “Trans Canada Highway” has been there for at least two years. I’m not sure of when it was originally incorporated into the layout, but it’s been quite some time.
Since 2009.
SCREENSHOT OF THE NEWEST VIDEO.
http://minus.com/lbmEQ3kk5kDgce
So, uh, on the csch video, it sounds like there are more numbers being said in the background.
It might just be background noise, but I can makeout “166” at the end of the video.
I’m pretty sure it is just part of the ‘number station’ atmosphere.
i heard that also, to me it sounded like there was something being said in the background even while you hear the 717228, but thats just me
i was looking for a hex decimal to text converter to try to check out this new set of numbers and one of the converters had this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=htVj_AY1zwQ video on its page for no apparent reason (the page is here: http://www.swingnote.com/tools/texttohex.php) something about the name “Markus Boc” is aaaawwfully suspicious
like srsly guys wtf
i guess this is probably a serious stretch but the coincidence really really surprised me
also the length of the video is tomorrow’s date, but again, this is probably just a wacky lil coincidence
this is getting to be very trippy
That’s amazing!
yeah but that’s in crazy american backwards date format.
more like normal
yea its not like the vinyl was found in nyc or anything
but really i totally get it cause obviously boc aren’t from merica
again, this is probably not really anything related at all; the other videos on that channel are so unrelated it’s ridiculous
OMG I feel such a n00b lol
Mark my words : 06/03/13
——/——/717228/936557/——/——
717228th digit of Pi = 0
936557th digit of Pi = 3
Why Pi? And if this is true, can you reverse engineer the other six-digit digits of Pi that equal 0, 6, 1 and 3?
what do you mean why pi?? its always pi..
and no i reckon there’s be about 10,000 possible six digit numbers numbers that could be in each of those positions. think about how many 6 digit numbers there are, and how many digits there are that could fill each slot of pi.
If there is any credence in the Pi theory and my finding of a six digit number in the Balloon video (119129), then another number might be “8”?! No idea which one though.
Oughtn’t it be ? The videos have the third and fifth slots marked, not the fourth and fifth.
I was trying to say – – / – – / 717228 / – – / 936557 / – –
(I put it in chevrons initially, and so the sequence was swallowed.)
what about the last slot, the 735673 one?
735673rd digit of PI = 1
_ _ _ _ _ _ / 735673 / 717228 / 936557 / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _
So we got: X/1/0/3/X/X if the last number is legit
But that’s just a blunted theory
I feel like I’m missing something where did 735673 come from?
[video src="http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/735673.mp4" /]
Not confirmed.
actually, 735673 should be in the last slot.
This number came from this particular video:
[video src="http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/735673.mp4" /]
Apparently I had the right slot order. It’s – – / – – / 717228 / 936557 / – – / – -.
So it can still be X/X/0/3/X/X according to the Pi theory.
Yeah you’re right. I need to take a break!
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WAIT WAIT WAIT.
Where was the record for the 735673 found?
I have a theory.
please share
it’s from:
[video src="http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/735673.mp4" /]
and it miiiight be a fake
i mean like, geographically, because, the whole 1977/snow/comput… etc thing could have backing to it, depending on where it was found.
ohhhh; well from what i could tell the video was posted on youtube without any real information before it was removed? so i don’t think there was a location given with it;
also it’s pretty likely that its a hoax, although i’m not sure why it was removed from youtube;
regardless, what’s your theory if you did know where it was from?
someone suggested a worldwide hexagon of some sort, which i guess is pretty much guaranteed if there’re six records unless that person meant like a regular hexagon or whatever
Mentioned this yesterday, but no one seemed to pay attention. The youtube tags, “1977 / snow / beards” etc., were mentioned in this thread, on 1/2/12: http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=160569&sid=88dce029e0d490de2bd27b20c179564e
…. leading me to believe those words don’t have as much to do w the current “search” as we may think.
well it definitely makes sense that those would be unrelated because of that; but it’s also worth considering that nuevas semilllas (which is almost definitely a legitimate factor) was posted a year and a half ago.
I’m not reporting this because it does not seem legitimate to me. The video was taken off YouTube after it was uploaded, correct? No further information has been posted on it. No sleeve. Etc. If there’s more information that leads this to not be a hoax, I will include it in the updates. For now, we have two sets of numbers. Not three. And one vinyl found. Not two.