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 
Purely speculation, but the video entitled csch is pretty intriguing to me since csch is short for the hyperbolic cosecant, which is important in math/trig and is one of 6 functions of the hyperbolic funtions (6 being an important number obviously.) BoC are known for being very fond of math…
What are the other 5 hyperbolic functions, and what do they do?
cosh, sinh, tanh, cosech, sech, coth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_function
I wish I knew more about that, I just happened upon it when doing a search for csch.
these are transcendental numbers:
sinh(936557) = transcendental
tanh(936557) = 1
coth(936557) = 1
cosh(717228) = transcendental
sinh(717228) = transcendental
tanh(717228) = 1
csch(717228) = transcendental
sech(717228) = transcendental
coth(717228) = 1
cosh(519225) = transcendental
sinh(519225) = transcendental
tanh(519225) = 1
csch(519225) = transcendental
sech(519225) = transcendental
coth(519225) = 1
cosh(699742) = transcendental
sinh(699742) = transcendental
tanh(699742) = 1
csch(699742) = transcendental
sech(699742) = transcendental
coth(699742) = 1
I don’t think we’re thinking outside the box enough…I believe all this recent video play is them trying to lead us in the right direction. It seems obvious now that the words (1977/snow/computing…etc.) in the Julie and Candy video were foretelling of a new release, even a year and a half or whatever it was ago. “New seeds”, “end times” “new year” “salopette”–> “overall”….It’s all pointing to new material and/or the end of the group. And I doubt it’s just a release date, there’s something more, a message or maybe even the date of a special event, which is what the LHOTP bit made me consider.
I think “Trails” is the clue in itself and if we don’t seem to get it, I’m sure they’ll post something up to send us in the right direction. Actually, I think they’ll do that regardless, but they’re prob still curious to see if anyone pieces it together in the end. But we def have to look towards diff mediums other than vinyl…the recent vids made that clear.
Alright, so I took the audio from the CSCH video and loaded it into Ableton Live so I could replay it, reverse it, and do what I want with it. I failed to remove the static, but there seems to be a voice saying something before the melody part. There also seems to be more voices and numbers apart from the 717228.
Before the melody I hear “3 13 10″, although instead of 13 it might say tarekey, which is the username of the person who uploaded the CSCH video. Also, right before it says “7″, it sounds like it says “1″, and after the numbers the “717228″ part, you can kind of hear “8 6 6″. I’m still unsure about the last 6, or any of these numbers for that matter.
I also reversed other parts and it sounds like it says “13″ again, or “tarekey”. Any thoughts on this or am I reaching a state of psychosis?
there’re 3 numbers in czech or slovak, starting at 0:36. these numbers are ctyri – 4, tri – 3, tricet – 30. not sure if it means anything, but you never know. 🙂
yep, its in czech
I think these are just samples from a numbers station. Mean nothing.
Also, I did some googling on “tarekey” and “tare”. “Tare” apparently means “the seed of the VETCH”. As you know the video uploaded by hellinterface was titled “nuevas semillas” which translates to “new seeds”. So… new vetch seeds? This must be the “key” in “tarekey”. All this might mean is that there is new music coming, but I can’t help but connect all the dots and think it means something else, perhaps a clue to another video with more numbers.
Ok, this is getting ridiculous. I know these guys are crytic, but remember, they’re just dudes 2 from Scotland with wives and kids. They even mentioned how annoyed they got at all the bullshit hidden meanings people were putting into Geogaddi that weren’t there (mentioned in a pitchfork interview).
This is certainly a brilliant way to build hype about an album, and let the fans have fun, but I seriously doubt they were connecting the dots between hyperbolic functions and hints via greek and latin roots.
They like the mysterious aesthetic of numbers stations, and are playing with codes, but we have a grand total of TWO clues. Stop drawing insane conclusions and just be goddamn patient.
amen to that.
Och, let people have their fun 🙂 wild speculation is part of the adventure/intrigue after all. You don’t need to be drawn into it, if you don’t want to. 🙂
exactly. this is fun! just plain old fun. unlike that goddamn daft punk campaign which was an ad for an ad for an ad for a big announcement at coachella (which was another ad) for their new album.
Interesting re csch http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Csch.html
apparently julie and candy video annotation has changed
Unrelated to this scavenger hunt, I just want to point out that in edit #12 of this post you mention Felix Baumgartner as the man in the dayvan cowboy video. Please, correct this, the man that did that jump is Joseph Kittinger in 1960, the first man to ever attempt such a jump. Baumgartner broke this record,
It’s a new video. The poster states it was intended as a spiritual successor to the original.
So, one set of numbers on a record, the next on a video, I think it might be worth looking to other forms of media.
http://www.travellerspoint.com/guide/The_Wilder_Trail/
Feels like we’re all on a wilder trail here.
Perhaps someone has mentioned this already and I’ve missed it, or maybe it’s nothing, but…
That Little House on the Prairie episode is apparently from Sept 19 1977.
1977 was one of the words in the description on the Julie and Candy video.
So (possibly) we have:
‘amateur footage’ : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4UCjjyr8U
‘1977’ : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDKGVd7B7Sk
reverse csch (cosecant hyperbolicus) i.e. acsch
acsch(717228)=0.0000014 ; 14th letter is N
acsch(936557)=0.0000011 ; 11th letter is K
——/——/——/717228/936557 /——
-/-/-/N/K/-
obviously the new BOC album is called C/R/A/N/K/Y 😉
? / ? / N / K / ? / S
Just sayin…
yeah one got fat appears after the dashes now on julie and candy, unless people already know this
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In a correction to the edits in the original article, the correct position for the numbers as dictated by the csch video (–/–/XXXXXX/–/–/–) and the vinyl found by lilcakey (–/–/–/XXXXXX/–/–) is –/–/717228/936557/–/–. Just to eliminate the confusion between it being third or fourth or fifth…
word
i was gonna say
trails = 20 18 1 9 12 19 from the alphabet, that mean nothing. Cool info, don’t you think?
Nuevos Semillas = New Semen in english
Anybody tried to link that with the events ?
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this game remind me this film
From Rough Trade East, London, UK:
Having stood in the racks for a couple of days, we just sold this @RoughTrade East… pic.twitter.com/ntKbdV7uGl
Two vinyls and same number given in USA and in UK … ?
that let me thought that the 6 are identical, the other Xs have an enigma each
Yep. I agree. That pretty much confirms it. The numbers are all going to come from different media or sources. But who knows…
And look this, https://www.facebook.com/Discogs?group_id=0 the cover picture (from March) let view a lot one particular vinyl … with explicit title!
And on discogs, if I join the change of youtube playlist who said ‘trails’ is new info, the only song relayed wit BoC is this collaboration http://leadacidgymnastics.bandcamp.com/track/follow-you-down-the-flower-trails ! hmm …
also this coincide with the place of Geogaddi tour
“-London-,-New York-, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin”
Well it might relate to the 6 locations of the 6 records (if that theory is still viable) and I’m going to Tokyo in a couple of weeks so if it’s still not found by then (HA! I WISH), I’ll try and hunt it down
goodluck!
DVD or CD? Looks a bit like it’s not a vinyl (at least judging from the scan format).
not sure, that can be a portrait picture
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RJ on your post you wrote the ‘code’ like this “——/——/——/717228/936557 /——” but it should be on these positions “——/——/717228/936557 /——/——” !!!!!!
arf just seen that was posted, thanks sundog.
Yep, I’m a pedant too 😀
haha, confusion isn’t friend with researches
Jeaaaaaaalous :((((((((
So Bjork’s got it.
lol
They played it on the stereo. In the shop. What were the numbers? Soeone must know.
Funny how the face is done exactly like MHTRTC?
https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=RoughTrade&tw_i=326678063599456257&tw_p=tweetembed
For what it’s worth (probably nothing)… taken from the Hell INterface linked YouTube “Everything You Do Is a Balloon” video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQEmaj9C6ko)
@ 5:55, the number “3” appears and
@ 6:14, on the front of the steam roller = “119129”.
If this is of significance (which I doubt), that would be third 6 digit number:-
—— / —— / 119129 / 717228 / 936557 / ——
Scrub the significance of the “3”. In my excitement, I hadn’t actually noticed that the following also appear: –
@2:20 = “9” , @2:58 = “8” , @3:57 = “7” , @4:34 = “6” , @5:08 = “5”
@5:11 = “4” , @6:14 = “3” , @6:18 = “2” , @6:55 = “1”
Nevermind.
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Anybody scanning for new numbers stations trying to find if BoC have set one up?
This is a good idea. Any idea how to do that?
Just a shortwave radio receiver (so any old radio) and a bit of pot luck…
Maybe they could have worked something out with the Conet project? Might be a good place to look into.
And btw, I didn’t think the CONET folks were doing their own broadcasts – do you have info that they are?
Not necessarily, but the whole idea there is to provide an audio archive of broadcasts, so if they were to receive a set of numbers they could potentially have it there without BoC actually having to get the equipment and broadcast it over the airwaves… Just a thought.
That’s a lot of territory to cover on shortwave, and no guarantee that you’ll be able to hear anything at certain times of the day, due to how shortwave works. If there was a way to suss out a shortwave frequency from one of the releases… then maybe. But doubtful.
I’m disturbed by the cover pic of discogs’ facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Discogs
This would be pretty ingenious – the 6 numbers by 6 numbers would make a perfect “one-time pad”, which is a key for an uncrackable cipher. BUT, if the numbers are the one-time pad, where is the cipher that they decode?
Just gunna put this out there… to some of us it’s old news. But… the WHOIS record for the site http://www.newcleardawn.com is Hexagon Sun…. PO Box in Edinburgh. Phone number all 66666666s. … http://www.whois.com/whois/newcleardawn.com
…and the domain is registered through to 29th October 2013.*
(*NOT suggesting this is a release date for new material, that’s not how URL registration year periods work. Just saying that they still need it now, even though it’s been renewed/created since 2005.
Masonic imagery on the site, lambda symbol within the owl, all a bit shifty in a lot of our opinions. Been discussed on the WATMM forums at length before, but may as well bring it to light here again as it might, over time, prove useful or become involved in the internet puzzle, much like the blank space in the BoC discography could be utilized in future to point to a clue.
More info: http://forum.watmm.com/topic/73725-newcleardawncom-registered-to-hex-sun/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h-y8HNhJkyM 4:20… one got fat
I think the one got fat reference is to take you to the Hellinterface link that takes you to the Nuevas Semillas page.
YO,
according to this website: the numbers are the same as the first record
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=19580
I don’t think I can take much more WANT…….i might just pee mys……oh……well that’s that then.
FFS
..some quick references I’ve collected together via the YouTube and Facebook activity that make for some interesting and fun reading.
Michael Maier
– Atalanta Fugiens
– Fugues
Atalanta and Hippomenes and the 3 Golden Apples
Metropolis (1927)
-The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)
Pythagorean Philosophy of Numbers (and studies of Music/Number relationships)
-csch
you !! are good!!!
“Unfortunately, it looks like we’ve lost the bit of paper the numbers were written on…”…………..wut…………i mean, WUT?
That’s like saying “oh by jove look, i appear to have lost my entire family and car and arm and and……golly gosh, i have lost everything important, EVER!”
who said that?
rough trade, they apparently found another copy of the first mysterious 12″ record.
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ONE GOT FAT
Julie and Candy video at 4:20 only for two frames
Its been there past few hours. interesting thing about it is that the second and second to last sets or dashes aren’t dashes any more……
Really? It still looks the same to me
It appears that way for some reason in the smallest video setting, but if you fullscreen it or go to the larger player it’s still the same as it has been.
Played the vid in browser and got this;
https://soundcloud.com/roughidea/boc-wav
Looks like the Rough Trade record had the same numbers on it…
This was posted on the iso50 blog earlier today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-zOsnqSG8c
The ending contains another quick clue. but there are no spaces filled in for this one. so confusing!
It says csch, which was the video with the second code found yesterday.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34579572/Screen%20Shot%202013-04-23%20at%2019.05.37.png if this helps
Also, it’s written csch just on top of it.
i think this one might be a fake.
Voice says 19661 in the end and then there are few frames with ‘csch’ http://imgur.com/yLjAG6U
anyone else think there might be significance in releasing the numbers in the style of a ‘numbers station’ broadcast, and that those numbers need decrypting into text?
the traditional method for encrypting messages into numbers for broadcast on numbers stations is explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad …i’m thinking we might be looking for a 36+ character text/letter string that we’re meant to use as the ‘key’ to decrypt the string of 36 numbers
just a thought anyway.. i’m keeping my eyes peeled for anything to adds up to 36 characters
Good point – I mentioned that above in response to an older comment. The 6 x 6 cube that the numbers would create is a perfect one-time pad. But then you have to find the cipher that they are supposed to decrypt… Perhaps yet to come?
Just to say. The Hell Interface black screen/not a black screen really You Tube video has disappeared, although the channel is still up https://www.youtube.com/user/hellinterface/videos?view=0
It’s still there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDKGVd7B7Sk just not listed as public so nothing appears on their profile, so somebody would only find it from the comment left on the “Everything You Do Is A Balloon” video. There might be hundreds of videos uploaded, just hidden. 🙂
D’oh. I just realised that when I couldn’t get the tarkeys video to appear either. Private video of coourse. I feel such an idiot. Been doing this all day so am going to have a wee break before wading back in. Think I’m going slightly mad. Bet it all kicks off while I’m away. Have fun everyone. And good luck.
For me it’s still up. It’s an unlisted video, so it wont show up on the channel page.
djmachy beat me to it, nvm
A couple of interesting pieces of information I haven’t read anywhere in this thread and perhaps some of you might know:
1) Samples from Conet Project recordings, most identifiably that listed as Tcp D1 3 Counting Control Irdial are famously used by Scottish electronic music outfit Boards of Canada on their 2002 album Geogaddi, most conspicuously on the track “Gyroscope”
2) This refers to the Slavic-language counting some have heard from the “csch” video (which now seems to me as a variation of “Czech”): Although most number stations have various nicknames which usually describe some aspect of the station itself, M. Gauffman of the E.N.I.G.M.A. number stations monitoring group[32] originally assigned a code to each known station. This takes the form of a letter followed by a number (or, in the case of some “X” stations, more letters). The letter indicates the language used by the station in question: S indicates a station broadcasting in a Slavic language.
Interesting and useful, I hope.
Also, the 5-note melody on the record and the csch video sounds very similar to the “5-note version Czech Lady” recording from the Conet Project. May be in a different key, but it is almost the exact same intervals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwcokX7Fc8E
They do sound very much alike. Nice catch.
If we take the pitches of the chimes and translate them to the musical language of Soleresol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol — and a dictionary at http://bit.ly/SolresolDictionary ) then we translate into: “Elevating you, your wonder, your wonder.”
More specifically, we have an intro chord of “Do-Mi” (effectively a melody note of “mi”) followed by Fa-Sol-Re-Mi, then repeated twice: Do-Fa-Sol-Re-Mi.
Looking at the dictionary, if we divide this into 2 words, we get Mifasol (“raise/elevate/uplift/high”) and Remi (“your”), then we get repeated 2 times Dofasol (“marvel/wonder”) and Remi (“your”)
Granted, I subdivided each 5-note phrase in the middle (3 pitches/2 pitches) to make distinguishable words — but hey, it’s something.
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If this is actually happening….well I may just have to freak out.
Look at the likes for the official Boards Of Canada channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/boardsofcanada/videos?view=15&flow=grid
They have liked the “Everything you do is a balloon” with the kids cycling,
and the “Julie and Candy” video that shows the ATP visuals.
Both videos have had clues posted on them so far 😉
Might be worth monitoring their “Likes” for more clues.
Did AtalantaFugiens change their profile picture?
https://i3.ytimg.com/i/6Fy-OrwRIz1bAVRu6B-NMw/1.jpg?v=857fb4
It looks similar to the aliens in the movie “Fantastic Planet”, which also happens to have another fan video matched up with the album version “Julie and Candy”. I’m unsure if this really has anything to do with anything, but it’s worth checking out for now.
I also noticed that two of the same videos for “Twoism” show up in the BOC video playlist, one at #6 and one at #65. Two videos for twoism. heh. AND MORE SIXES.
Its the robot from metropolis. http://www.jeffbots.com/maria-large.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/listen/ —— / ——- / —— / —— / —— / XXXXXX – Unknown
Seems as though a new set of numbers was recently played on the Zane Lowe Radio 1 show. I missed it but hopefully someone heard it?
Did you actually listen to that? What are the numbers?
OH MY GOD.
PLEASE TELL ME THAT A FAN WAS LISTENING.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/#objects/d876b620-087b-430c-b3d0-a3289f774d4d/TIMELINE/2013-04-23T19:51:49+01:00 Further proof that they played…something. 🙂 Haven’t found anyone that heard the #s yet, but don’t they archive their shows?
yeah and the track would be at 00:52 I think
DID SOMEONE LISTENNED? hahah that was 41min ago (I’m 21:33 gmt+1)
I don’t see the track on the playlist you linked to…was it removed or something?
it was definatly there i saw it, it got over wrote by newer tracks
It looks like they screencapped it after I posted this…look at Edit #17 above.
If we get the number from the recently sold record and the BBC one, does that mean we have 4 numbers total?
The one sold in London was the same that was sold in New York. We would have a third sequence of numbers.
Did BBC Radio 1 play the next clue? Did anybody catch the broadcast?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/listen/
who in their right mind listens to radio 1
Guess that explains Radio ‘One Got Fat’
check this post right now
Feh. That’s totally trivial. REGISTER.COM handles a gazillion websites, actually.
Check NME out tomorrow 😉 Could possibly be a code in print, they have already used Vinyl, Youtube and Radio… so paper might be next.
what do you think would be left after print? Television? Jools Holland is on tonight at ten…..
Haha I’d love to see BoC on Jools, but I seriously doubt that would happen.
As to what else, not sure…but I guess we shall find out soon enough.
just as unlikely as them playing on radio 1? I’m not suggesting an appearance. but maybe more code
I know someone already posted this but MY JIMMIES ARE RUSTLED.
That whole damn account is just freaky.
Seriously what even is this
https://www.facebook.com/ReforestationArea
ahahahahah effectivement c’est effrayant ! (I can’t even say that in english)
its fucking awesome though!
at 1:04 – 1:05 there is another hint : “Radio Silence” is written
the directors that made V/H/S
I.m guessing that’s it until tomorrows clue? time to eat, shower and finally dump for the first time in 2 days haha
Here the link on the playlist. Something from WARP!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ryg1q
scroll down and there it is….. WARP
I refuse to believe this is real since the other two used the same jingle.
It is however unlisted, and the facebook page for “reforestation area” has been posting links to BOC songs.
They also subscribed to a VERY random Arabic-language music channel. Just bizarre.
They’ve posted this video https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=436060333113772 on their FB page on november 27 2012 and just recently (april 21) on their YT channel. Pause that video on 1:26… coincidence?
Also their first post on FB on november 1st 2012 is “SO IT BEGINS” (https://www.facebook.com/ReforestationArea/posts/426230687430070) wich is a fairly common expression for a first post but decided to share this anyway.. might be intersting
Anyone else noticed where the numbers lead you when you use themas a grid reference? 😀
http://gridreferencefinder.com/?gr=NG7270068700%7CNG727687%7C1&z=17&v=h&t=NG727687
Hah, The beach at Redpoint…
someone had to of listened
zane lowes show will be available on iplayer after show
Unfounded.
727687 !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WCkmP-1FhHc
if this is a real rip of the unknown http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ryg1q
we have ______/______/717228/936557/______/727687
this points back to the one ‘csch’ video
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today’s zane lowe show will be archived tonight or tomorrow, at which point we can listen to that mysterious track and confirm that the last set of numbers is indeed 727687 (same as that unlisted video which is currently a bit suspect but could turn out to be real)
update: that third video is not real appraently, but still we will have that last set of numbers as soon as the zane lowe show is up (hopefully any time now)
i think we have a teaser from BOC from the “reforestation area” youtube-channel. I think the album is gonna be named “reforestation area”. its to well created on facebook and youtube.
i doubt it. you can tell the original video was a dslr or something, with vhs effects added afterwards. the drums and synth sounds are kinda meh too
Really far-fetched, why should this be the name of the album. The facebook page doesn’t look legit either, those are some other people from Germany (you can see this in the comment section of some uploaded pictures).
I really want this to be true, while it does sound like it could be BoC, and has that feel, I think the use of the VHS bumps and the corresponding audio bumps are too many, and not subtle enough….having said that, it does sound very good.
and in this video you’ll find similarities with the number-station tune of the previous posts. enjoy, I’m pretty sure this is the new album “reforestation area”
i meant this video, copy paste is stuborn :D. enjoy ———-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYWR-bkbrE&feature=share&list=UUZuhXGO5v1qG-MGW6wCBsuQ
OMG, the video i posted above is suddenly dissapeared from the “reforestation area”-channel on youtube. 5 minutes after posting the above message. i am sooooo on the right trail 😀 you can still find the video using the link.
grrr every time i paste the link i get the grand opening video. :S
this is the right video:
The “Reforestation area” video is not BOC.
Same intro and outro as the volscp video (The number you dialed is not in service tone slowed down…) though…
If you watch the first three videos in this playlist, there are two private ones. More BoC-sounding tunes, more Reforestation Area footage.
I”m pretty sure it’s not the new album from BoC. Crappy name, uninspiring track.
Phone number on the Trevor Applebaum video: (985) – 486 480.
486480 the next code number?
The next number should be in the BBC Radio 1 broadcast once the archive is up. These videos have nothing to do with BoC. Just some Germans that mimic the sound and make weird videos.
Refreshing the iplayer every 30 seconds… come on BBC!
This is all very Hex-iting !!
Im not sure if this has been said, but remember their release dates in the past With MHTRTC being released on 420, and Trans, being released on 6,06,06… also keep in mind the guys Bdays and their past song titles. There is alot on our plates people.
anyone given any thought to the idea that maybe the numbers don’t need to be decoded at all? maybe they need to be entered somewhere. for instance, based on the formatting, as part of URL?
do we have it?
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/snippets/isrc/z3/p01836z3_noisrc_unknown_xxxxxx.mp3 There it is.
519225 is what I hear…
Yep, 519225. Out of curiosity, how did you find this?
519225