http://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/yum
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Bastards.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 26 April 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
That link might be hinky, RT not opening at 12 as rumored.
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Friday, 26 April 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost : /yum is a standard feature on bandcamp, its mere presence doesn't mean BoC is using it.
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
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
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know, but I don't think it's significant in the search though.
Google Earth
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
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
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
Probably contains the final clue (if this is official, but it smells like it) - download and open in notepad ?
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
i literally have no idea what you people are going on about
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 27 April 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
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
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
i hope they can decipher the code before the ants begin building structures
― clouds, Saturday, 27 April 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Brakhage, Saturday, 27 April 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BO-9go5gdk
― StanM, Saturday, 27 April 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Okay something just happened
https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/328362689913036800
Jason DeMarco @Clarknova1 1mHm, did @adultswim and #toonami just run a new BOARDS OF CANADA thing??...yep, we did. :)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 April 2013 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 April 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
699742, first slot, ok, that's the NPR/Rough Trade projection code again.
/699742/628315/717228/936557/xxxxxx/519225/
― StanM, Sunday, 28 April 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
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
― StanM, Sunday, 28 April 2013 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Bj9DvhBMw
― StanM, Sunday, 28 April 2013 08:43 (eleven years ago) link
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")
― StanM, Sunday, 28 April 2013 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
are those nines or ones in the reversed audio?
― koogs, Sunday, 28 April 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
Reversed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzSN0KFwIs8
― StanM, Sunday, 28 April 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
(I presume the vinyl edition is being pressed by the Fact-magazine related Vinyl Factory?)
― djh, Sunday, 28 April 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
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/ )
― StanM, Sunday, 28 April 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
^ tweet was deleted
― StanM, Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
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
― kelpolaris, Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
topological depth = kick
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
judging by the gif info, the album is going to be called Cosecha (spanish for harvest).
― Moka, Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
Also tbe title of one of the video codes used to read 'nuevas semillas' ( spanish for new seeds). By a user called "csch".
― Moka, Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
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
― kelpolaris, Monday, 29 April 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
this promotional "campaign" is kind of nuts, i love it
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 29 April 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
the new album is inspired by the warm smell of carnitas rising up through the air.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 29 April 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
I think the guitars on the campfire headphase are pretty sweet, geogaddi no matter how good is way too fucking scary... v excited though, this should be the album of the year.
― i wouldn't mistake myself for anyone. (wolves lacan), Monday, 29 April 2013 07:20 (eleven years ago) link
this should be the album of the year.
i love BoC, but this is based off of...a few 20 second clips?
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
wait nm, just read this, and now i also agree that it will be album of the year
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
Is it me or does the small snippet sound like something straight off Music/Children or Geodaddi, rather than something that could have fit on Campfire?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 April 2013 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
lol did you read the Daft Punk thread?
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Monday, 29 April 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha, i know i know, but from THOSE 30 second clips it was pretty easy to tell that the song was going to be a classic slice of modern disco (the rest of the album remains a mystery of course). whereas the BoC clips don't suggest much except that it's going to be scary again. btw, two thumbs up to the possibility of scurry BoC!
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
I heard the full version of that in a bar last weekend and it was pretty striking how much better those 30 seconds were than the whole rest of the song though
― frogbs, Monday, 29 April 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
which in retrospect is not surprising in the least
― frogbs, Monday, 29 April 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
if i was in charge of PR, i would choose the very worst section on the entire album. people would get really pumped up, and then literally everything they heard from it afterward would be even BETTER!
i would also distribute the album as a giant jpg that needs to be converted to mp3.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
if i was in charge of PR and had an assistant, i would delegate all questions regarding the conversion of the jpg to mp3 to them. it would be great practical experience for the asst, and it's also important to learn how to delegate.
― your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
oh I haven't heard the 20 sec clip and tbh don't care. it's better to read ilxor talk about it! I'm also convinced that the BOC's PR guy has the best job in all marketing.
― i wouldn't mistake myself for anyone. (wolves lacan), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
each section of the jpg contains an encrypted version of the flac for every song and let's hire people, as in actually paying them (because fuck unpaid internship and crowdsourcing musicians), to make an "interesting" number of apocryphal new albums and
― i wouldn't mistake myself for anyone. (wolves lacan), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Are people under 30 even ~interested~ in BoC?
Asking for a friend.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
under 30 what?
― StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, under 30 seconds...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
like less than one minute of age.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
is this gonna hit number one on teh US tween charts?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link