Boards of Canada: Classic or Dud?

i like the idea of record store day being like willy wonka and the chocolate factory btw. a few golden bars of chocolate scattered here and there.

dj food actually did that this year.

into some random copies of a special vinyl press they inserted 10 pieces of exclusive art that kev sorted out.

Jesse says:
April 22, 2013 at 8:10 pm
In the “Julie and Candy” Video you posted, the strange interrupted lines (that went missing from the description) appear on 4:19 which is an essential number in BoCs work (explained in the comments) a few seconds later, another annotation appears, that reads “one got fat” which is the title of a bicycle safety video from 1963 that was sampled for a Video for “Everything you do is a Balloon” There, a link to video was posted, which was pitch black. in the description of that video was another link to this video, which seems to be a new clue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&hd=1

the same pattern as on the vinyl, but a new number!

adketiata says:
April 22, 2013 at 8:26 pm
The hidden footage in the CSCH video is from the opening credits to the TV Show Little House on the Prairie

adketiata says:
April 22, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Just took a screen cap and ran it thru google image search

judging by how L O S T turned out i can safely say we're in for a classic lp

i wonder if the secret plan to sell the 6 separate pieces of the code to places around the world backfired when the owners of 5 of the 6 places they sent it to decided not to sell it, and instead to keep it, say nothing, and later sell it for several hundred dollars?

― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, April 22, 2013 12:05 PM (6 hours ago)

yeah, the fact that other music (apparently?) stocked this like any old record and sold it to joe blow random customer is both mind-boggling and heartening. always dug that store.

not half so much as academy, but still...

the same pattern as on the vinyl, but a new number!

adketiata says:
April 22, 2013 at 8:26 pm
The hidden footage in the CSCH video is from the opening credits to the TV Show Little House on the Prairie

adketiata says:
April 22, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Just took a screen cap and ran it thru google image search

― r|t|c, Monday, April 22, 2013 8:04 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can someone explain all this shit to me. i'm confused, pleasantly.

I dot know, but I hope the ghost of Michael Landon guests on a track!

holy shit boards of canada vinyl goes for a pretty penny

if they reissued their records I'd buy a few

Rough Trade in London sold one just an hour ago apparently...

https://twitter.com/RoughTrade/status/326660433845051392

I like the fact that it was there in the racks and you had to come across it by browsing, rather than stand in line hoovering up all the advertised RSD doohickeys. Makes you realize how little actual crate-digging there must have been on RSD itself. Maybe I should swing by my local record store on the way home, check out the IDM section.

Radio 1 just played another piece... https://twitter.com/NowOnRadio1/status/326770540813631488

so it's xxxxxx/xxxxxx/717228/936557/xxxxxx/727687 at the moment

Maybe they've gone all sudoku and it's some kind of grid

. . . . . .
. . . . . .
7 1 7 2 2 8
9 3 6 5 5 7
. . . . . .
7 2 8 6 8 7

The BBC thing was 519225 I think?

Oh, that other one was fake - this is the sequence right now:

xxxxxx/xxxxxx/717228/936557/xxxxxx/519225

what could it mean

the x's...they have to MEAN something!

there's also the disturbing possibility that the number sequence is as meaningful as the one on "Aquarius"

don't know if this is legit but i like it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=f-zOsnqSG8c

i'm sorry i went through this shit in 1994 with the publius enigma. never again.

holy shit boards of canada vinyl goes for a pretty penny

ooh I have In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, I'm gonna get so rich.

yeah i couldn't find any of their EPs or LPs on vinyl for under $150... the big albums were more like $400.

I have a spectacular 3xLP copy of Geogaddi...that was shipped to me, brand new, with a giant rip across the top of the cover. Still sounds great, though!

i have music is the right, got it in 06 at bleecker in nyc.....would never sell it thou

+campire headphase and trans canadian ep, but those aren't worth anything especially high right?

does any living person actually own a copy of "boc maxima"

i'm fascinated by the provenance of the "a few old tunes" comps that have been floating around on filesharing/blogs for years. where could they possibly come from?

yeah i couldn't find any of their EPs or LPs on vinyl for under $150... the big albums were more like $400.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:55 (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

recent sales on ebay are like $100 for the lps? uk at least

i think i might even have two mhtrtc but tbh i'd probably pay whatever i'd make just to not have to look through my records again

so it's xxxxxx/xxxxxx/717228/936557/xxxxxx/727687 at the moment

I used the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences to search for each sequence and a few permutations—nothing stood out.

discogs:

MHTRTC: NM copy will run you $130
GEOGADDI: same, $140
CH: $143
IABPOITC: $75
TCH: $65

so not as expensive as the other sites I was looking at, but still damned pricey

damn i should sell my BOC vinyl

Check the most recent couple of pages of these two twoism.org threads for the latest - the fifth code was discovered by combining two audio files that contained noise cancelling waveforms.

http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7374
http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10469

Those two files also contained mp3 ID type fields that said "Cosecha fan teaser 2" btw.

BoC changed the top video in their Youtube playlist to Twoism - which people took as a hint that the next clue lay on this forum perhaps

Someone looked at the code buried within the GIF banner at the top of this forum

The code revealed the links to the two Soundcloud files

The two Soundcloud files when played together revealed the next set of numbers

well it all seems rather obvious when you lay it out like that

the devil is in the details

holy shit boards of canada vinyl goes for a pretty penny

if they reissued their records I'd buy a few

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist)

Warp have repressed a few albums in the last couple of years on vinyl, Aphex Twin, LFO and Flying Lotus so far. I'm sure they'll get round to Boards of Canada soon. I'm desperate for them to reissue Broadcast albums on vinyl which is apparently happening fairly soon.

it just occurred to me that Boards of Canada is doing almost exactly what we told dog latin would be a terrible promotion idea for his band only ramped up by 100

I just downloaded this... beautiful.. once again BOC prove to be masters of radiant divine joy... breathtaking... simply breathtaing... a religious experience.... fuck cutty and all the other techno haters... BOC are gods!

-andrew

― andrew b, Thursday, September 8, 2005 2:27 PM

so many ellipses

simply breathtaing

it's funny listening to MHtRtC now since some of the trip-hoppy beats which kind of anchor some of the songs in some conception of I/EDM seem superfluous now.

yeah the beats are the one part that haven't really aged all that well

http://twitpic.com/cm4gg3 ?

more like boreds of can'taduh

hilarious.

the beats are the main thing I love about MHtRtC and why it's still my fave BoC album

Hello

https://twitter.com/RoughTrade/status/327868488175714305

clarify, ned

Fuck if I know.