Boards of Canada: Classic or Dud?

Don't fear the tweeper.

Give him some time, he's on a train to London and will stream as soon as he can (not sure if serious btw)

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

― frogbs, Friday, April 26, 2013 2:41 PM (1 hour ago)

i pretty much hate sampled drums but for some reason they don't bother me on mhtrtc

You know what would also be hilarious? If the coded message was T H E E N D (We've split up. Goodbye.)

https://mobile.twitter.com/RoughTrade

324 mb video that doesn't download on my phone.

it looks like the last numbers are hidden in the looped footage itself somehow, like one of the numbers was taken from code inside a GIF?

"There's sound inside. Can't hear it well at all. Callsign then numbers." - ah well forget that idea then

http://youtu.be/uZXFSngACXo also not available on mobile devices

Anyway. Looks like we'll know all the numbers but still have no clue to what they mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqtCUiPlsZw

?

ok. what now.

PHASE TWO

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/xmjIZRTyju1wgqxRA2Cprw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/ymusic-awards/beyonce-illuminati-super-bowl-jpg_184026.jpg

Did anybody hear that?

I would kill for a Beigel Bake right now.

I've had that UStream link open for 20 mins or so, then I hear this weird voice speaking in a foreign language for like 6 seconds. I'm scrambling through my tabs to see if I've got a page open with an ad on it (I hadn't) so I'm sure it came from the UStream link, now the channel is offline. I am spooked.

Now RT are tweeting quotes from Close Encounters

http://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/yum

Bastards.

That link might be hinky, RT not opening at 12 as rumored.

xxpost : /yum is a standard feature on bandcamp, its mere presence doesn't mean BoC is using it.

At the moment. this whole Rough Trade London thing appears to have been set up just to confirm that the NPR code is to be placed first. I wonder if this part was planned all along.

Building and desert scene in the projection has been found (already, this internet sleuthing thing is quite something isn't it?)(when they don't point out the wrong bombing suspect)

http://imgur.com/a/onf37

I don't know, but I don't think it's significant in the search though.

Google Earth

Uploaded on April 26th by "nog6x6h" whose only activity so far was uploading this and putting a comment on the Everything You Do Is A Balloon BoC video linking to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHt_wkY40ew

Probably contains the final clue (if this is official, but it smells like it) - download and open in notepad ?

as much as I'm excited by a new BoC album and as much as I'm a sucker for a long-winded tease of a campaign, I can't get into this thing. I mean we already know this is coming out in June, so whats the point really.

i literally have no idea what you people are going on about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boards_of_Canada -> http://bocpages.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day_incident -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd

i hope they can decipher the code before the ants begin building structures

How do we know the June date btw? I've seen a bunch of people referencing June 9, I wasn't sure if that was cos of the Hi Scores tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BO-9go5gdk

Okay something just happened

https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/328362689913036800

Jason DeMarco ‏@Clarknova1 1m
Hm, did @adultswim and #toonami just run a new BOARDS OF CANADA thing??
...yep, we did. :)

Wyatt Abernathie ‏@WyattAbernathie 1m
@Clarknova1 I won't be able to sleep thanks to that music video. I guess you got my ratings. Well played, Mr. Nova.

Hmm...

699742, first slot, ok, that's the NPR/Rough Trade projection code again.

/699742/628315/717228/936557/xxxxxx/519225/

intriguing - still with that Yermo gas station, but do they want someone to go find that building in the middle of the desert?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW2-rstKvuE

HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Bj9DvhBMw

This could be the only one of the 5 clips that say something meaningful when played backwards - listen to clip at this link: http://www.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1d9j38/we_believe_weve_found_the_last_code/

/699742/628315/717228/936557/347996/519225/ ?

(there's still no clear idea what we're supposed to do with the numbers - are they a path that should work on some site somewhere? Are they to be put into a square/triangular/hexagonal number grid (then what?)? Do they decode to letters? I bet that says something like UNERDS or 6YR2GO for "6 years to go to our next release")

are those nines or ones in the reversed audio?

Reversed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzSN0KFwIs8

(I presume the vinyl edition is being pressed by the Fact-magazine related Vinyl Factory?)

Doesn't help with the number quest, but the desert teaser video was by Neil Krug : https://twitter.com/honeybadgerco/status/328565498096807937
(he also made the one for http://www.honeybadgerco.com/directors/neil-krug/archive/boards-of-canada-in-a-beautiful-place-out-in-the-country/ )

^ tweet was deleted

theories aside, considering the chosen imagery of desolation and the desert, BoC is likely one of the only (hold on: the only) band i confidently feel could put the feeling of geography in music form... i can hear wind being a pervasive theme in between songs, the crackle of heat, the continual slamming of screen-door on an abandoned and sun-beaten midhouse

do you feel me

topological depth = kick

judging by the gif info, the album is going to be called Cosecha (spanish for harvest).

Also tbe title of one of the video codes used to read 'nuevas semillas' ( spanish for new seeds). By a user called "csch".

the new album is inspired by a recent trip to spain, the southern deserted points, and one of the tracks is titled "ibiza" and features the sound of copulating girls in foreground of a child counting backwards

this promotional "campaign" is kind of nuts, i love it

the new album is inspired by the warm smell of carnitas rising up through the air.