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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

http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link

just heard Stuart Maconie play one of the tiny bits during The Freak Zone (on iplayer, from sunday night). 519225. Didn't say what it was, just pointed people at the 6music forums, which was odd.

koogs, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link

From the source code of that page:

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Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link

Argh, screwed that up

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link

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Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link

http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/terminal.js

koogs, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link

orange hexagon sun

controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link

is this gonna hit number one on teh US tween charts?

no, but will prob do well w designer and/or lucite bong holders between the ages of 18 and 35

controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link

that space seems to suggest the password is the number that goes in 5th place.

i'll start with 1111111... and work my way up (seems easier than deciphering that obfuscated javascript)

koogs, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link

Asking for a friend.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, April 29, 2013 12:00 PM

lol why

am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link


wget "http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/password.php?attempt=11114"; ...

{"error":true,"url":""}

koogs, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link

ineed to know my pasward

am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link

Don't get it.

MikoMcha, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link

brute force

am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link

699742 628315 717228 936557 813386 519225

Type that in as the password.

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

still awaiting the explation of the code though, but that gets you what we wanted to know

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link

(keep watching at least 4 minutes)

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link

no, i think it's just the 6 digits for the 5th number, based on the hexagon clue

koogs, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link

try it. type in all those numbers in one row. You'll get a video with release date & album title.

Preorder link: https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-tomorrows-harvest

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link

Gemini
Reach For The Dead
White Cyclosa
Jacquard Causeway
Telepath
Cold Earth
Transmisiones Ferox
Sick Times
Collapse
Palace Posy
Split Your Infinities
Uritual
Nothing Is Real
Sundown
New Seeds
Come To Dust
Semena Mertvykh

r|t|c, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link

http://d2z73vh7cr79ry.cloudfront.net/tomorrows_harvest_transmission.mp4

am0n, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link

StanM wins!

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link

seems like they've gone x-files

bit of a regression from wicker man steez but at least its not blissed out earth hippy guff i guess

r|t|c, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link

ah, yes.

"Due to the current high level of demand we are staggering preorders."

yeah, and whose fault is that?!

koogs, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link

xxpost: only found it somewhere else, haven't heard the explanation of why it's that number yet.

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link

some of those track titles are p lol on the nose, as silby might put it

r|t|c, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link

Ahh so we don't know where this 813386 suddenly came from?

MarkoP, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link

I really hope opening the CD case will be easier than this.

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link

Oh there will probably be a wiki article explaining how to do it.

MarkoP, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link

We couldn't have figured it out. Someone on WATMM says (about that cosecha-transmisiones.com site I think?)

"found this in the header of the index.php : aHR0cDovL2Qyejczdmg3Y3I3OXJ5LmNsb3VkZnJvbnQubmV0L2Nvc2VjaGEubXAz"

That is (paste that long code into the Base64 field and click Decode) http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ -> " http://d2z73vh7cr79ry.cloudfront.net/cosecha.mp3 "

Which is another one of those mp3s, this one says 813386.

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/U0AK3sX.png

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

re: people under 30 liking BoC - if the live in a male-dominated house and smoke too much weed, then yeah, they like them.

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 29 April 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

How do you get to see these fields in your browser?

http://i.imgur.com/zd0H1Gd.png

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link

Why I'll be damned. If you input http://cosecha-transmisiones.com here you can see the nuevas-semillas field for yourself:

http://web-sniffer.net/

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link

So, new thread?

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (2013)

Moka, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link

i'll see you all on this thread in 2019 as we try to solve the next BoC album mystery

your holiness, we have an official energy drink (Z S), Monday, 29 April 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link

I almost thought they'd go "since you're all to dumb to figure out our code, we won't be releasing anything until 2019. Goodbye."

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link

curious as to whether they'll do the month-in-advance digital download thing for pre-orders like they did for autechre. which would mean it's only a couple of weeks.

koogs, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link

The preorder page says they'll transfer the mp3s to your bleep account on the release date.

StanM, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link


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