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? 😉
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The BoC favicon has always been this way, right? http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8405/8682750745_1b3795af22_o.jpg
Yes. Since a year or so.
5 down. 1 to go. http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident
So on http://352015.tumblr.com/ the numbers at the bottom are hexadecimal for “talk to poacher” (try putting them in here and you’ll see: http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/)
The third clip is from The Conet Project (track 15 here: http://archive.org/details/ird059)
The second clip I have no idea about.
The first clip (the most recent) has a somehow distorted piece of music which seems to sound more and more to me like bells – Big Ben or something. The woman speaking German says the following numbers:
0/3/12/4/6/x/1/6/3/8/1/4/6/x/1/4/7/y/1/y/3/x/12/6 (the Xs and Ys are where I can’t understand what she’s saying). She seems to repeat that pattern several times and then switch to a new one at the end, which goes:
0/3/12/4/6/x/1/6/0/3/12/4/6/x/1/6/6/9/7/3/12/6/0/7/3/12/7/0/1/9/0
I don’t have any idea what to make of it, but I thought I’d put it out there.
Ignore this – all the clips are from The Conet Project.
“talk to poacher” meaning “check out the lincolnshire poacher” …googled it and the # listed there includes: 766490
thoughts on that? i’d assume a troll but I dunno… btw what ever happened w the projection at the record store?
CSCH is COSECHA, Right?
we believe so, yes… why they removed the vowels we still don’t know. 🙂
I think it’s odd that nothing has been released on the BoC website…or on Warp. I would be a great place to release the last series of numbers 🙂
maybe it just means they are hiding the same clue in multiple locations to make it easier for us to find it (as there was more than one copy of the vinyl that started all of this).
496756
596746
?
Did anyone ever figure out that “HDEuthanasia” clue? Not sure why that would randomly be in the code for the Twoism header if it wasn’t relevant.
When you google HDEuthanasia you find this:
The Hare virus activates when the machine is booted on the 22nd of August and 22nd of September. At this time it displays this text:
“HDEuthanasia” by Demon Emperor: Hare Krsna, hare, hare…
This particular virus pops up on the 22nd of the month. BOC tweets are ONLY on the 22nd or 11th of the month. Lots of double numbers in the clues here. What does it all mean?!?!
yeah a few of us have been talking about this also… but yeah… what does it all mean? 🙂
Maybe that virus uses a particular Hex-to-Text decoder, and we need to use the same decoding format to figure out what the numbers mean? That’s the best guess i’ve got haha
woah woah woah
HDEuthanasia is the same as the hare krisna virus???
i posted a couple days ago a video of a news report about the hare krishna virus by a newscaster named “Markus Boc” that i found on a text-to-hex site; i didn’t think much of it then but it almost HAS to be relevant now, right????
i know why that video was embedded on the text to hex site. The guy who runs the site is the same guy being interviewed in the video. It still doesn’t explain why HDEuthanasia was in the gif though.
well maybe they somehow saw that video and wanted to work it in cause of the similarites (i.e. the name markus boc)????
idk i’m just conjecturing here but the fact that people were mentioning something i had seen the other day from a completely unrelated source really got me thinkin there was a connection
there probably isn’t
http://pitchfork.com/news/50489-boards-of-canada-reveal-album-title-in-new-clues/
You’ve seen this, right?
cool!
So I’m guessing the last code must get released via twitter, but not directly from @boctransmission as it would be too easy and I can’t see them messing up their tweet dates just because of this. 😉
personally, i think there will be a clue on @boctransmission that will lead us to a new recording (but will require some sleuthing).
Or do they have a Vine account? (i hate vine)
doubt it
I imagine it will be from their personal account. All of the others have been from their personal accounts, which is a great tool to drive traffic to the otherwise dead accounts.
I’m pretty sure the code will reveal the phrase, “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”!
You’re too late. Read thread.
Shit, I’ve been following this thread since Sunday. How could I have missed such a witty comment!?!
I just watched the “Julie and Candy” video on the BoC youtube page. Not sure if it’s still there, but after the box that shows up @ 4:19, the message “ONE GOT FAT” appears. Has anyone else noticed this? I think we all need to pool all our information together and be wary about interpreting it all until we have all the facts maybe. I don’t know.
That has been there for days now, referring to the name of the film used for the EYDIAB video
Ah, okay. Thanks.
Try reading the post text first. All developments are listed there. It would be useful if people read it first then come to the comment section for questions and theories and “findings”.
I did read the post and found nothing relating to the clue, which is why I posted it. Maybe I missed. In the mean time, don’t forget to enjoy the puzzle. We don’t have to be dull fascists about it. No one’s going to die if we don’t figure it out speedily due to possible redundancies stemming from lack of updates. I think the whole point is cooperation, not snobbery. Surely you won’t get a handjob from BoC for taking it so seriously.
all the info is already pooled and vetted. http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident#Messageboard
Thanks, Jonny. That’s helpful.
Just checked out the URL, thanks for that. Incidentally, have you read anything about the clues being treated as Hex Color Codes? When you input the numbers on any color code website, you get something of a rough gradient, mostly shades of green. I tried this idea out given the whole Hexagon Sun reference and color motifs (i.e. chakras one of their first EP’s, etc.). Maybe this might help give us a clue as to the placement of the most recent clue?
Rough Trade just tweeted:
Wonder what this is going on opposite Rough Trade East?… twitpic.com/cm4gg3
http://twitpic.com/cm4gg3
woah
someone is going down there to check it out right now
And now they’ve just tweeted “20:35 | #BoC | ?”
Roughtrade also just tweeted “20:35 | #BoC | ?”
8:35 est might be the time of the next hint. Someone who lives near Rough Trade needs to go see what’s up.
they are
Why oh why do I have to be in Aberdeen.
new pic: https://twitter.com/jescoby/status/327874095138107392
Oh wow, I’m not going to be able to sleep until this is resolved now.
so I guess that means the NPR numbers go in the 5th slot
exactly paper
i found a new number on the rough trade twitpic-account: http://twitpic.com/clem2o
9-3-6-5-5-7 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REAL?
That was the very first number that was found.
those were the first numbers
we already have this number dude
it was the first number that came out
that doesn’t look like their real account. but remember we are looking for a RECORDING of the number. not the number.
And the last piece???
lol flipped a little cozz of anticipation 😛
I would have done the same. 🙂
rough trade is about to post a video
its happening @roughtrade atm https://twitter.com/RoughTrade/status/327878504286937088/photo/1
and notice the time here in NYC. 4:20 🙂
Good grief…..can it really be happening?
well we are getting the last number, yes… but that doesn’t mean there won’t be more work to do. 🙂
lets get to it boys and girl, lets put our heads together 😀
the devil is in the details! 😀
i agree… there are so many lingering clues. woohoo!
next clue is happening!
also, that would put the npr clue in 5th place
yes we know 🙂
feeling pretty slow right now…
if you always check here you’ll be updated: http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident#Messageboard
I wonder if they’ll show up….I wish I were there!
That would be awesome (but also annoying as I live in Aberdeen and have no chance of getting down there!)
you’re closer than I am 😉 I can’t wait until the video is finally posted!
I’m constantly refreshing the page for rough trade’s twitter account.
Me too…what’s taking them sooo long!?! 🙂
same. this is so aggravating. it’s been 40 minutes lol.
was looking for some livecam’s in the area (brick lane), with no results 😥
good thinking though
Apparently, a live stream may pop up here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/robboc?utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=14173299&utm_medium=social Not sure if its legit though
For anyone that wants to play around with one time pads, heres my Python code that subtracts a pad from a key, scroll all the way down:
http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user10_W85qi1BlZTEra8X_0.py
print old_decrypt_key(‘boards’,[5,1,9,2,2,5]) will remove the pad “boards” from the code ” 5 1 9 2 2 5″ and print the answer
Exciting as it is…I can’t help but feel that as the title may, may be COSECHA…(Harvest), we won’t get a new album until Autumn (Fall)
But who knows…with all the detective work, and the ID3 WAV tag debacle, we may get to hear some new BoC stuff sooner….
All I do know is, I haven’t been this excited since Christmas Eve as a kid……
they wouldn’t create all this momentum and then wait five months, trust me. 🙂
Yeah, that would be terrible.
We’re definitely going to solve this, guys.
the ustream video chap on twitter…
@aeiouer
I’m here! No audio i can hear. Video’s of a desert, very sunny. Only shows the Xs in the code, 1st block
I found this…can’t seem to open it though…
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89353972/Video%2026-04-2013%2020%2050%2009.mov
Too many of us clicking it I think. 🙂
LOL! So who’s going to be the one to stop? 😉
Maybe they are broadcasting a weak radio signal from inside the shop?
from the ustream video guy again…
@aeiouer 1m
There’s sound inside. Can’t hear it well at all. Callsign then numbers.
maybe it’ll be played at the end of the film screening that’s posted on rough trade’s events page for tonight.
Sound is on the inside of it apparently, he can hear the call sign then numbers but cant make it out, according to @aeiouer who is there (also apparently).
from @aeiouer 3m ago
NOT ACCURATE: Sounds LIKE 59342_? Recording audio for later
From Rough Trade:
Ok, someone’s currently trying to upload elsewhere. FYI, we had NO idea this was happening. This whole operation’s being done by mobiles.
so cool!
http://www.twitch.tv/lhdlovebooh
Live stream from Rough Trade I think….
maybe not….it’s gone. ARRGH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqtCUiPlsZw
http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=EqtCUiPlsZw
no numbers…..just position….hmmm. Will we get the numbers elsewhere?
numbers will always be in a recording… they said they can hear them coming from inside but can’t make them out (read above)
All I can make out is what looks like a desert, and a quick blue flag? I started googling about blue flags in deserts, and I get this: ‘ “The Bonnie Blue Flag”, also known as “We Are a Band of Brothers” ‘– HAHAHA. I can’t 100% confirm that is even what I saw, but that’s too funny. Okay… now what?
Just announced!
BOARDS OF CANADA
NEW 2XLP
“PICTURE OF DONALD RUMSFELD WITH A DICK IN HIS MOUTH”
JUNE 6 2013
Will upload video soon!
where?
In your mouth!
LOL! nice…I meant where did you get the info :p
Oh um Rough Trade employees. Yeah Rough Trade employees…
he takes one day off and this blog has fallen so far behind
FROM @aeiouer 12m ago
Field recorder goes in the mail box to the building
FROM @aeiouer 1m ago
Think it’s safe to say nothing’s happening tonight. Busy street on friday night, hard to hear
aeioru @aeiouer 32s
But there are numbers coming from the building
don’t have time to read all the posts, but i’ve been trying to keep up since Saturday (damn I was in that OM line not too far from the front, wish I’d’ve snagged the mystery vinyl 🙂 )
so…. has anyone else noticed that the first chord played on the mystery vinyl is almost exactly the same as the first chord from Everything You Do Is a Balloon? Seems a little too coincidental to me.
Yeah, you should’ve read the posts. Did you hear someone shot Lincoln in the head?
You mean it’s not coincidental. I’m convinced that the ‘call sign’ we have heard on the transmissions this week is an old track they pulled up which appears as a sample on the opening notes of ‘Everything You Do’. And furthermore I think this is a deliberate sign of its authenticity.
Yea I wrote that earlier but no one gave a shit,lol
Gads, I thought we were going to have it solved an hour or so ago, darn! If anyone fancies it, the show I do on a community radio station in Aberdeen is on and I’ve made it a Boards of Canada special, if you fancy it you can stream it from http://www.shmu,org.uk, its called the Rave Relax Show (1 hour of dance music, 1 hour of chilled stuff). Hopefully we’ll have it solved soon!
You mean it’s not coincidental. I’m convinced that the ‘call sign’ we have heard on the transmissions this week is an old track they pulled up which appears as a sample on the opening notes of ‘Everything You Do’. And furthermore I think this is a deliberate sign of its authenticity.
It’s 578223
huh? Where did that come from?
How did you work that out?
can this be acknowledged?
yes
HA you are full of shit. 😉
no
i heard the new code is 123456
578223
Ha, same as my luggage!
Someone says it’s 599742.
https://twitter.com/Question47/status/327903628507623425
they’re wrong
578223 / 628315 / 717228 / 936557 / 669742 / 519225.
http://www.atomless.com/projects/boc/site/ here is a link to their old site in case no one has it. I feel like I should be checking it along with the main ones that they have so I wanted to share.
JUST GIVE US THE F£$%ING NUMBERS GODDAMN IT!!!
new tweet….who knows if it’s true:
If you’re anywhere near Rough Trade on Brick Lane I’m hearing rumours of “doors being opened at 12”. Get there quick! #BoC #BoardsofCanada
rough trade is getting a whole bunch of free advertising it would seem
a well … i’ll read it in the morning, im off to bed …
wait for me to solve it eh 😀 lol
Rough trade just quoted close encounters https://twitter.com/roughtrade/status/327914374717120512
exciting!! Something is about to happen…I HOPE!
He says the sun came out last night.
He says it sang to him.
Tweeted by Rough Trade. Close Encouters of the 3rd Kind. (1977).
Anyone any ideas?
Shall we start making mash potato mountains? 🙂
I am looking a videos now. My first thought was “You could feel the sky”
What was the description for Julie and Candy again? I think it’s all coming together….
Oh yeah, the release date of close encounters, 1977!
1977: Close Encounters….Someone referred to RobBOC as Rob Beards….and if he streams whatever happens tonight that would be amateur video of them playing synthesizers….is that enough reaching for one night?
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/robboc?utm_campaign=t.co&utm_source=14173299&utm_medium=social
I’ll be staring at a black screen waiting for video just in case 😉
Ridiculously excited now!
From @RoughTrade FYI, we aren’t opening at midnight. Thanks.
@RoughTrade
FYI, we aren’t opening at midnight. Thanks.
not their doors…but maybe doors across the street.
Yeah, your right, it technically isn’t there building.
Hmmm I dunno, it’s a clothes shop opposite.
I think it’s just down the street. Someone posted an aeral shot of the street on twoism.org
There are a couple of bars on dray walk where rough trade is.
Know the names of those bars? I know Old Truman Brewery, any others? Am looking each up on Instagram, etc, to see if I can find any random people posting anything…
Should we be looking at addresses? Instead of what stores there are?
It looks similar to Cafe 1001.
is this new? http://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/yum
Was just away to post that, no idea.
So what. The codes are 8 characters including a dash. Can’t see how to make that from the numbers sequence
I just read that the numbers we have won’t work…darn! something has got to happen…I need to start dinner 🙂
/yum will go to a download page for ANY bandcamp page. It’s, unfortunately, nothing.
Opposite Rough Trade East store in London http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZXFSngACXo Note Warp record label sticker on the door too
Ah right. Gotcha. 🙂
What the hell happened to the bocpages page for a few minutes? There was a defacing of the Record Store Incident page? Everything seems normal again now though…
Nevermind, wasn’t the real url (http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident) but http://bocpages.org/wiki/Talk:Record_Store_Day_incident … still weird though
Guys, check out this new BoC Bandcamp page: http://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/yum
Thanks to Twoism.org for finding this: http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10490
since there seems to be no audio to go with the projection is it at all possible the projection would be the match for the npr audio?
sctratch that, seems pretty clear there was indeed an audio transmission there…
This appears to be audio from tonight’s pop-up….https://soundcloud.com/cydoniac/voice-002-mp3
Sounds like 255742
What pop up? Someone fill me in! How did you find this vid / audio?
Can somebody please explain to us WHERE this sound came from?? There is apparently no audio on the Rough Trade projection loop.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=uZXFSngACXo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DuZXFSngACXo%26feature%3Dyoutu.be
2 5 5 7 4 2?
I’m not sure the first one is a ‘2’. If it was a ‘2’, it should sound exactly like the last ‘2’, but it doesn’t.
I agree, i’m not completely convinced, thought it could be a 6 maybe, but doesn’t seem to sound sibilant enough… The more I listen the more it sounds like a 3.
Uh oh.
“Just to clarify, someone synced the NPR and field recording, they seem to be identical
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0K5jhoqs6Xt
Thus, it does seem this confirms a code position, we have another to wait for.”
I, reluctantly, agree, even just listening to the two of them seperately, they sound the same. I thought we had them all for a second!
Sixty10 I can’t reply to your question, but the two bars are called The Big Chill Bar and Cafe 1001
is it not just telling us where the npr number goes?
It seems that way, yes
We should organize ourselves somehow in order to solve this? Any ideas?
Maybe start our own page?
If a one time pad is meant to be used, as numbers stations are commonly thought to be used with, there is no solving that can be done until someone finds the one time pad to use with it. I tried the “1977 snow computing amateur footage beards synthesizer” and it doesn’t work by the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
IF a one time pad is to be used. It’s a great theory, and probably even the right one. I just want to keep the fresh ideas flowing. Here’s an interesting resource, though: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/otp.php
that one doesn’t work with numbers, only letters. try my Python code instead. it subtracts a pad from a key, and works with mixtures of numbers and letters, press the play button at the top left and scroll all the way down for instructions:
http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user10_W85qi1BlZTEra8X_0.py
print old_decrypt_key(‘boards’,[5,1,9,2,2,5]) will remove the pad “boards” from the code ” 5 1 9 2 2 5″ and print the answer
how about using cosecha as the key?
the pad has to be the same length as the code it is being applied to.
I think that although there are 6 numbers in each part, numbers should be paired up, that way each pair can represent a letter (26 letters in the alphabet), while one digit cannot represent the entire alphabet
I know the tumbler page is considered to be fake but there is that string on it : 74 61 6c 6b 20 74 6f 20 70 6f 61 63 68 65 72
Dear guy running this,
You’re missing everything! We need you to sort everything out!
ok kids posting this here for the 20th time. we’re all sorted out. 🙂
http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident#Messageboard
My apologies! I’m on vacation out of the city until Sunday. I am tweeting everything over at @Twenty20k! Follow me there in the meantime for updates.
I’ll be updating here when I can! x