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 
Remember we should look for another .GIF
why?
i think that was only referring to the 2nd gif within the gif (the one that gives the placement)
Ummm…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHt_wkY40ew
yeah we saw this a while ago
Damn.
Is this a legit “message”, if you will, regarding this whole thing? The user name of the accound on Youtbue seems almost too juvenile to be BoC butif this is legit, as always, it sounds excellent! It almost sounds like Farewell Fire at a higher octave, perhaps with some elements removed, or turned down on the mix.
WE APPRECIATE IT ALL
TWITTER.COM / 425668
ok
What’s the deal with that?
nonsense
ive been filtering the noise of the recording of rough trade east and came up with the following number 599802
correction its definitely 699802
699742. There’s a link above that plays the shop audio with the NPR audio to confirm that.
nice filtering but it seems that the pop up projection was to show the placement of the NPR numbers… check out the updated banner here: http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident#Messageboard
hey, you spelled aphex twin wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHt_wkY40ew
So what’s your opinion on this, guys?
I think there’s less elaborate ways to suck your own dick.
I found this as a link on the “Everything You Do Is A Balloon” video. I wanted to know if you guys thought that it was legitimate or not.
it’s been posted a few times… the consensus is it’s fake.
Well the uploader’s username is ‘nog6x6h’. Could that mean something? Or am I being too enthusiastic?
Wow. Hostile.
if it’s the releasedate we know that 699742 represents 1 and 519225 ought to be 3 (assuming they’ll release it in 2013), haven’t found a valid algorithm tho’
699742 is in the front slot, see the bocpages for confirmation http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident#Messageboard. We still don’t know what’s in slot 5
I’m trying to work and listen in as much as pos, but BOC and this code keep side tracking me! ah ha!!
😀
I think he’s suspecting YYMMDD.
Oh I guess he did say slot 6’s number there. Nevermind…
ah got it wrong thanx. let’s hope for another clue today
255742/628315/717228/936557/699742/519225
255742 is a misheard 699742. It’s not a valid code, sadly.
699742/628315/717228/936557/——/519225
Here I fixed it for you, read twince what is written by officials, stop faaling for any bullshit that is mentionned in the comments
The recording I have sounds like the first part i put in, but the recording wasn’t great so seems why I ended up with this…I hope the next clue is out soon as I’ve got fck all work done today!! ah ha.
It’s a Hexagram.
Please refer to the I Ching
eheh very strange; just take a look at the front cover of this site; look the computer screen, theres an hexagram 🙂
interesting thought… how do we apply these numbers to a hexagram though?
Okay, ready?
I’ve taken the simplest route to getting a I Ching Hexagram. Taking the last number of each digit gives us either an odd or even number. Or an open or closed line. I’ve done this from the incomplete line up so the missing number is either odd or even. Taking an even number as a closed (complete) line and building the hexagram up gives us
__ / _ _ / __ / _ _ / ?? / _ _
My guess is the missing line will be a closed line ( a six digit number which ends in a even number ).
This gives us the hexagram __\ _ _ \ __ \ _ _ \ __ \ _ _
Which, by the by, is a particularly lovely hexagram.
Now, here’s the reading for this Hex. (From The Richard Wilhelm definitive translation)
“63. Chi Chi / After Completion
This hexagram is the evolution of T’ai, PEACE. The transition from confusion to order is completed, and everything is in its proper place even in particulars. The strong lines are in the strong places, the weak lines in the weak places. This is a very favourable outlook, yet it gives reason for thought. For it is just when perfect equilibrium has been reached that any movement may cause order to revert to disorder. The one strong line that has moved to the top, thus effecting complete order in details, is followed by the other lines, each moving according to its nature, and thus suddenly there arises again the hexagram P’i, STANDSTILL.
Hence the present hexagram indicates the conditions of a time of climax, which necessitate the utmost caution.
THE JUDGEMENT
AFTER COMPLETION. success in small matters.
Perseverance furthers.
At the beginning good fortune,
At the end disorder.
The transition from the old to the new time is already accomplished. In principle, everything stands systematized, and it is only in regard to the details that success is still to be achieved.
In respect to this, however, we must be careful to maintain the right attitude. Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. Symptoms of decay are bound to be the result. Here we have the rule indicating the usual course of history. But this rule is not an inescapable law. He who understands it is in a position to avoid its effects by dint of unremitting preserverance and caution.
THE IMAGE
Water over fire : the image of the condition
In AFTER COMPLETION.
Thus the superior man
Takes thought of misfortune
And arms himself against it in advance.
When water in a kettle hangs over a fire, the two elements stand in relation and thus generate energy.(cf the production of steam). But the resulting tension demands caution. If the water boils over, the fire is extinguished and its energy is lost. If the heat is too great, the water evaporates in the air. These elements here brought into relation and thus generating energy are by nature hostile to each other. Only the most extreme caution can prevent damage. In life too there are junctures when all forces are in balance and work in harmony, so that everything seems to be in the best of order. In such moments only the sage recongises the moments that bode danger and knows how to banish it by means of timely precautions.”
So, there you have it. Make of it what you will. I think anyone looking for a release date in the ‘codes’ is barking up the wrong tree just as this esoteric gobblegigook may be also.
Who knows? I like to think that the simple fact that this hexagram is simply ‘Chi Chi – After Completion’ may simply be BOC saying ‘the record is done’, the proviso being, ‘now for the tricky bit’
Anyway, that’s my take. Of course if the missing number ends in an odd number then it gives us a completely difference hexagram. (Namely 36. Ming I, Darkening of the light)
All the best Leerf.
Its the npr number again
Heard this guy’s gonna broadcast the final set of numbers in his set, wtf
http://mixlr.com/smash-fm/chat/
how did you hear this?
well, that´s one cheap way to get everyone to tune in. boc have done the radio broadcast before, and the podcast so i see it extremely unlikely to happen again.
yeah i figured it was another fake
The broadcaster said that he’s going to release it for the people that stays for his entire 10 hour broadcast
so it’s just a cheap ploy, then. pretty lame.
This was posted on bocpages today http://imgur.com/a/onf37 someone’s been doing their homework and located the buildings just in the video last night. Not too sure what it means. Is the zip code the final piece? 92398
People are on their way to Yermo right now. Updates should be available on what they find in the next few hours.
sadly i think this is simply where they shot that video… no a clue. but who knows 🙂
actually i don’t think they are even the right buildings upon closer inspection
boc most likely just chose it due to the aesthetics. they´ll know they have a lot of fans when a bunch of people descend on a random location on the pretty much no chance of a clue being there. honestly, i doubt they were expecting people to figure out where the building was.
i totally agree.
They probably never even chose it, it would have been done by a film crew for Warp.
so nothing is going on now? damns
Hey, been at work all day just caught up. Whats our best bet at the moment?
someone got to the gas station…
seems kind of far fetched.
agreed. the clue ‘should’ be audio, as all the others have been.
who knows .
Well, at least we are all having fun, right?
Yes! This is so goddamned fun. Sincerely.
Amazing. Even if this has no connection – I love this.
I was outside Rough Trade today to check it out and its 699 I think. I practically had my ear against The glass… there was another guy outside on the phone who appeared to be listening. Anyways that installation is big. Bigger than the video lets on. Its loud as well, although in a busy brick lane it has to be
Went into rough trade, to scour, Couldn’t find anything.
Although, I pressed the shop assistant who served Me for a tip.
‘One will be heading north’
That’s your clue guys.
Best
Luka
I will also be going past tonight on a night out so I will Let you know if anything changes
Noooo head south goddamit BoC, I’m in Melbourne, Australia! XD
Hahah feel your pain Andrew, I’m in Sydney..
http://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/yum
know the code?
not that shit again… you guys are exhausting
what does that mean?
It means that if you read the comments – you’ll learn that anyone who has a bandcamp account have a / Yum page. It’s for free downloads or press stuff. Here is mine: http://tprcrdr.bandcamp.com/yum
Every bandcamp has a designated /yum page, but what makes this interesting is that it is simply “boardsofcanada”, so it could very well be official, and what actually makes it interesting is that when you go to the normal bandcamp page, it’s totally blank, but when you go to the /yum page, you can see that they’ve designed and installed a banner. That banner wouldn’t automatically be there, like the /yum page. If it’s an official account, then it means they’ve decorated their page, just haven’t put anything up for the public.
I’m feeling a bit like this LOL!
Downloaded and posted to my blog-slog. Awesome! Thanks!
I disagree. I am loving this treasure hunt!
who said they weren’t loving it?
I didn’t say I didn’t love it….I’m just getting impatient 🙂
I hear ya.
guys, it has been solved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BO-9go5gdk
Hahahahah
haha
ha
Would be funny / frustrating if we get the final number but no other clues on how to use it and the new album doesn’t get released until we crack the six codes, which could take months.
I dunno know, the clues so far have been getting solved quickly.
We have a WORLDWIDE team who aren’t sleeping.
Yup, I’ve got Australia covered, lol 😉
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Word floating about that Adult Swim just aired a bump with a BoC number in it. Anybody happen to catch it?
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I heard 699742 for adult swim
Hey, the final number was just released on Toonami! First there was about 30 seconds of some old looking footage of a desert. XXXXXX/——/——/——/——/—— was overlayed on top of it and then the numbers 699742 were heard! I’ll see if I can post a video of it.
699742 are the same numbers as the NPR code, which are the same numbers as the Rough Trade projection, in the same spot: XXXXXX/——/——/——/——/——
If Adult Swim and/or Toonami have aired the 699742 numbers, then it’s weird, because that’d be the 3rd and 4th time different places have broadcast the same code. Why all the doubling up, Warp?
I take that back. It makes perfect sense: this is BoC’s way of advertising to non hardcore fans that they’ve awakened. Marketing geniuses.
Dammit! I got so excited I didn’t even notice it was a code we already have. Well I posted the video anyway. It’s a pretty cool little clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a5lpC9_ek0&feature=youtu.be
says you removed it
My bad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gztG4jybE&feature=youtu.be
nice thanks
Yeah, we need the 5th set of numbers
I got super excited when I heard the adult swim one also
Could someone explain to me how the guys on the Twoism forum predicted this Adult Swim thing?
BoC music has played in the bumpers for adult swim in the past… it was an educated guess by a few folks
HD version of the Adult Swim promo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Bj9DvhBMw
Can confirm the shop installation opposite rough trade has been taken down! The space was massive behind the paper. still has the warp logo on it. Looking forward to seeing where the toonami link leads us. North I hope.
“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”
bit of a typo there. considering we didn’t know about 699742 at the point in time this was posted.
RTFT
The start of the tv Skit is backwards has anyone reversed it yet?
the adult swim promo looks like footage of the salton sea.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290906942215?var=&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
gonna get me 1, as a memento. 😀
^want^ definatly getting one of these
^ boc fan who can’t spell lol!
Sorry your mum was distracting me
By teaching you what a dictionary was?
Well this is childish and sort of embarrassing.
^ BOC Fan who doesn’t capitalise acronyms.
It’s a clue!
you´re a clue
I’ve got such a raging clue right now
I am readying a brute force crack of the BoC code via a One Time Pad approach assuming the pad is re-used across the 6 keys and that the output generates recognizable words (in the Oxford dictionary).
I am also checking against a list of BoC exclusive words that are not found in a dictionary like [‘cosecha’,’csch’,’nuevas’,’semillas’,’atalanta’,’fugiens’,’npr’,’bbc’,’watmm’,’ogf’]
It would be greatly appreciated if anyone wants to add to the list of BoC related words here:
https://www.stypi.com/amoryamory/BoCWords
this is exactly my approach… i’m looking for a one time pad used across the 6 keys, but who knows. 🙂 don’t forget: VOLSCP ! (which happens to be six letters) 🙂
What about “HDEuthanasia”? Seems like it’s been forgotten.
Canada
Boards
If a One Time Pad is reused, then it’s no longer an OTP. What makes it so cryptographically sound is the very fact that it’s not reused and can’t be analyzed on that basis. So hoping that an OTP has been reused is not consistent with the numbers station theme that seems to be being crafted here.
yea, I get how it violates the ONE TIME aspect of the OTP, but that is exactly how the Russian’s messages got compromised by the venona project (by reusing pads), so that’s where I got the idea.
Anyway, got my results in: it is highly unlikely that BoC are reusing a 3 member OTP on the 36 digit code (unlikely because the 36 digit code is not completely known yet). the most legible results of my brute force crack are here:
http://pastebin.com/PpFCN6tP
Basically I assumed that every 2 digits of the 36 digit code constituted 1 member of the final message (to represent every letter of the alphabet with a number in you have to use at least 2 digits), and I tried all combinations of 3 member pads (00,00,00 to 26,26,26 [no more is needed, bunch of redundancy if you do until 99,99,99]) repeating throughout the BoC code, and then searched the fragments of each of those outputs against the Oxford dictionary and a little BoC list.
(for the unknown 5th BoC code portion i just assumed 01,01,01 – so I tested: [69,97,42,62,83,15,71,72,28,93,65,57,01,01,01,51,92,25])
you wouldn’t necessarily need 2 digit numbers to represent the whole alphabet if you were reverse engineering and creating the OTP at the same time as the encryption. ie if your deciphered message is ‘MONDAY’ you could make the one time pad ‘TROKFF’ and transmit a cipher of ‘7 3 1 7 2 7’, whereby the letters cycle through (..X,Y,Z,A,B,C..)
obviously coming up with the cipher and the OTP at the same time defeats the purpose for real world use, but for the sake of a marketing game it works fine.
There’s so much buzz about this I might have missed someone else having this theory, but my bet is that the number sequence is uncrackable without a one time pad (like a numbers station, which they’re emulating with the callsign/short wave radio sound/# sequence). My theory is that they will release the one time pad in the album art when it’s released.
Or maybe not. Either way I’m excited.
6 music just then 575225 I think
Showing up on the playlist as sixth number, which would make it 519225
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s5cdx
same code that was on Radio 1?
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Has anyone layered all those clips on top of each other, those background noises are pretty interesting. Just a thought….
If you reverse the adult swim video, the video says other numbers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzSN0KFwIs8 “347996”
All the sounds are Numbers stations layered on top of each other. Check this page for some of the sounds on the clips
http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/enigma2000/
it is highly unlikely that BoC are reusing a 3 member OTP on the 36 digit code (unlikely because the 36 digit code is not completely known yet). the most legible results of my brute force crack are here:
http://pastebin.com/PpFCN6tP
Basically I assumed that every 2 digits of the 36 digit code constituted 1 member of the final message (to represent every letter of the alphabet with a number in you have to use at least 2 digits), and I tried all combinations of 3 member pads (00,00,00 to 26,26,26 [no more is needed, bunch of redundancy if you do until 99,99,99]) repeating throughout the BoC code, and then searched the fragments of each of those outputs against the Oxford dictionary and a little BoC list.
(for the unknown 5th BoC code portion i just assumed 01,01,01 – so I tested: [69,97,42,62,83,15,71,72,28,93,65,57,01,01,01,51,92,25])
Heh, we need a Venn diagram of where cryptography nerds and boc fans overlap. Has anyone transcribed the notes in the little call sign jingle yet? Might be interesting to throw that into the mix.
I’m just a dabbler with codes and stuff so I wasn’t aware of having to use the two digits in a otp, that makes more sense to me now. I was thinking it was more like a substitution where you had a sequence of letters with values like, a=1, b=2, c=3 etc and then you add the numbers in the numerical code to the values of the alphabet code to get a new number which would represent an entirely different letter of the alphabet. But I’m in way over my head and I think others are better equipped for this kind of stuff 🙂
Has anyone mentioned Saturn’s hexagon? This may be viewed, tonight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon
This is really fun. Not sure it has any relevance, but I learned something. 🙂
The clue from Rough Trade was “One went north” or something along those lines. If I’m not mistaken, didn’t the projection at Rough Trade mention “One got fat”? Is there possibly a bike store north of where Rough Trade is?
Maybe there’s a “One ___ _____” for each section of 6 numbers.
guys that’s not a clue… it’s called “taking the piss”
“One took piss”
I think the staff member meant there’s one vinyl going north, as we were talking about who picked up the vinyl, and how I couldn’t get down there fast enough. She didn’t state it within a numerical/code context, more in a physical object.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-pMpryGvPQ
this looks like it might be something
how do you figure?
pretty fun but doesn’t seem relevant
looks like mayo in your mouth
Sorry in advance:
We know “newcleardawn.com” was registered in 2009 by Hex Sun, right? And that the initials of the shit beneath it spell “Fnord” right? And apparently there’s Fnord shit relating to “Magic Window”? Was there anything else interesting about that thread, besides the owl?
You realize what a Fnord is, right? “Fnord is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a worldwide conspiracy.” For that reason, I say look elsewhere.
yeah we are aware of the new clear dawn registration and the fnord acronym… definitely something to keep an eye on just in case. (and yes, ben, we know what fnord means…)
Hahaha…if you know what Fnord means, why are you looking into a Fnord! 🙂
*farts*
I chuckled 😛
Okay so 100% of us who have read these posts is completely and utterly aware of what Fnord is, Jonny? The “we” should perhaps be replaced with an “I” as you do not speak on behalf of me, or for that matter, most people observing the progress of this monumental achievement in love for a musical group that is unfolding in front of us. I think all posts are as relevant as the most sophisticated to the most mundane as not everyone is in the loop and cannot decipher everything that has ever been put in front of us on 2020k.
I think I speak on behalf of everyone when I say that regardless of how many times we all read about something we have already established, or for those who perhaps have not been following this since day one, we must acknowledge the fact that not everyone knows everything; especially when it comes to the cryptic nature of this whole Record Store Day incident.
Thank you and please, no belittling or incivilities on here, we’re all fans and should be treated as such.
wow daniel i just meant “we” like me and my friend here… but if you look at my response i was doing exactly what you are advocating — i was defending someone’s theory against ben’s belittling response. relax man it’s just a fun game. 🙂
That’s not what you were doing at all. Ben was contributing and you weren’t.
—> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfceBq-j9Y
Okay so 100% of us who have read these posts is completely and utterly aware of what Family Guy is, Andrew? The “we” should perhaps be replaced with an “I” as you do not speak on behalf of me, or for that matter, most people observing the progress of this argument about a musical group that is unfolding in front of us. I think all posts are as relevant as the most sophisticated to the most mundane as not everyone is in the loop and cannot fight about everything that has ever been put in front of us on 2020k.
I think I speak on behalf of Jonny and myself when I say that regardless of how many fights we have already established, or for those who perhaps have not been following this fight since day one, we must acknowledge the fact that not everyone argues everything; especially when it comes to the cryptic nature of this whole Record Store Day incident.
Thank you and please, no attempts at the prevention of belittling or incivilities on here, we’re all fans and should be treated as such.
Boards of Canada’s wikipedia already has the whole series of codes as 699742 / 628315 / 717228 / 936557 / 843361 / 519225. But anyone could’ve entered that.
what is everyone waiting for?
Where did the second to last set come from?
Yes!
843361 this is it Monday is the day
It’s from boc youtube wait for link
race you to the link! 843361!!!
8 4 3 3 6 1 my daughter’s pussy is gonna get it tonnnnnnnniiiiiight
you tube ! ! 843361 legit legit legit
I agree
now that we know them, what do we do with them?
We wait for Warp Records to solve it for us! Duh!
*grabs mother’s hand, forcefully puts it on his dick, makes her jerk it*
It’s here!! Eight Four Three Three Six One!
If you force it, she might not buy the new record for you
Fuck, you guys are funny cunts
I note that its been edited back and forth a couple of times without any corroboration and bocpages are still declaring the fifth slot as unknown so I’m not convinced.
I’m following this blog since the very beginning and I’m really thrilled. As I’ve published some milestone results on my facebook accounts some of my friends started to get interested in this. One of them gave me the idea to check whether the codes might be connected to Pi. So I let the codes be checked on http://www.angio.net/pi/bigpi.cgi and these are the results:
699.742 occurs at position 376.544
628.315 occurs at position 3.713.747
717.228 occurs at position 2.566.268
936.557 occurs at position 412.808
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519.225 occurs at position 450.564
Looking at these numbers they don’t tell me anything more than the original codes. But maybe one of you recognizes something I have overseen.
The odds of any of those numbers showing up in pi is pretty high, pretty much any 6 digit number sequence any of us could come up with on the spot are probably in pi. The numbers from Lost are in there too. I think it’s probs a dead end.
Yeah, absolutely true. So, I didn’t want to come up with the fact that the codes can be found in Pi. What might(!) be interesting are the positions of them within Pi. As stated – I can’t see anything, but someone else might see something.
Has anyone thought that maybe they won’t release the last number…..because we may already have it? it just occurred to me that perhaps the last number, or maybe the code to crack the cypher, is the order of release for the numbers. that would make it: 43612(5).
just throwing it out there. maybe it’s too easy. or maybe they made everything else so intricate that this would be a curveball.
interesting theory, could be it
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ok pardon my stupidity but where exactly was the 843361 number found? im on the youtube channel and cant seem to spot it…
I think it has only appeared on the wikipedia page, then got edited back out, then put back in, then edited out again. At present it reads “When referred to, they are formatted as 699742 / 628315 / 717228 / 936557 / —— / 519225 (The numbers filled in are numbers that have been confirmed so far.)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_of_canada
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I’m loving the way that this time last week it was all peace, love and excitement…. now everyone has got PMS
Yeah, so true… NOW STICK IT UP YOUR ASS!
whoa.
boardsofcanada.com now redirects to cosecha-transmisiones.com/
soooo…. http://cosecha-transmisiones.com
need a password.. text says:
“Last interactive login on Thursday, 22-AUG-1996 02:57”
Looks like a reference to that hdeuthanasia virus mentioned in the gif code..
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/hare.shtml
HOLY CRAP!!!
http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/
CHECK OUT THE PAGE SOURCE…..
cosecha-transmisiones.com redirect is irrelevant. ignore.
and these numbers will NOT be the password there.
I agree. As cosecha-transmisiones.com has been registered today(!) it’s unlikely part of the game. What annoys me is the fact that someone hacked boardsofcanada.com for redirection.
I doubt if even boardsofcanada.com was the official site this whole time!
Not created today, DomainTools says it was registered on 23 April (ie last week). Also the DNS has been set to CloudFlare – whoever set this up is expecting a *lot* of traffic and to be hit with the equivalent of a DDoS attack, eg if anyone tried to brute force the password… so don’t even try. I’d say this is in-game.
Ups – of course you’re right: Last week. Nevertheless I still doubt that this is legit.
I don’t understand why you think that it’s a hack.
If you do a backtrace on the Google Analytics ID, it traces back to Warp. It won’t let me post the URL here for some reason, but search on the ID code then look at the “websitelooker” link in the Google search results – you’ll see the Analytics code is common to other Warp sites. So it should be legit.
so.. the last number can be found with the numbers we already have, then that new number is the password, maybe?
Is anyone, you know, typing in the 8—— number?
The name of the website http://cosecha-transmisiones.com is ‘harvest transmissions’, transmissions referring to the sound clips they have been releasing, which we must harvest information from. The website is asking for a password, which I guess is what the information from the transmissions will give. So the numbers could be the password as they are, or help solve what the password may be… !
When you check the page source you get this 🙂 https://www.dropbox.com/s/j5t165cxoqu1qkw/ScreenCap%202013-04-29%20at%2012.21.29%20PM.jpg
In the source code, part of the the .js file reads “function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogram
i got excited when i saw that, too.. but i think its just for google analytics..
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/advanced
You’re definitely right. Looks like it’s common in Google Analytics scripts.
http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/
redirecting from boards of canada .com
I’m gonna clue my goddamn pants
Boards of Canada are the INXS of electronica
The password is officially not ‘password’. I’ll try another one.
The album: “Frank Sinatra: The Complete Capitol Singles Collection” was released 22-Aug-96 and one of it´s songs “I Can’t Stop Loving You” lasts 02:57. Just a Coincidence?
http://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra/Frank+Sinatra:+The+Complete+Capitol+Singles+Collection
It’s a clue!
The HDEuthanasia virus has to have something do to with this..
Looks like Aug 22nd 1996 would have been the first day it activated..
Some people are reporting that if you copy text from the redirected site and then paste it you get 909398. I can’t confirm that as it doesn’t work for me (maybe because I’m on a mac) but I thought I’d share http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/29/boards-of-canada-drop-their-most-matrix-esque-clue-yet-via-new-website/
someone probably just had that in their copy buffer.. trying to copy from the site does’t seem to do anything.. doesn’t even overwrite the last thing you copied.
Check where boardsofcanada.com is redirecting to…
RAOWROAWORAWR
Other passwords I tried:
hdeuthenaisa, cochesa, boardsofcanada, twoism, 699742/628315/717228/936557/XXXXXX/519225, 699742, one got fat, onegotfat, password, admin, guest, 662013
all i can tell you is it only accepts lower case, likes spaces charaters and numbers and isn’t anonymised
699742 / 628315 / 717228 / 936557 / 813386 / 519225
THIS IS THE PW (written as one number without slashes/spaces)
source: http://boards.4chan.org/mu/res/35611414
tried that & got invalid password
try again, it’s working!!
https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest
I tried it right and it worked! 😀 thanks.