New Boards of Canada

[Cupe]

As confirmed by a message board member over at Twoism.org, Warp Records dropped a secret Boards of Canada 12” off at Other Music last Friday afternoon, a Record Store Day release that’s the New York piece of a six-part puzzle that points towards the duo’s first album since 2005′s The Campfire Headphase. (Five other one-of-a-kind 12-inches are reportedly floating around other cities.)

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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!

[OxyKon]

fuck yeah i gotta get my hands on that, love boards of canada

[russell]

Doubt there will be one of these kickin about Newman.

[eggssell]

check record store website. dude was saying all their record store day shit would roll in this week

[russell]

http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/23/a-sec ... rade-east/

The second part of Boards of Canada’s 12″ single mystery has been found in London’s Rough Trade East.

The Brick Lane store has confirmed the news on Twitter, and has posted pictures of it here, here and here. The single was sold to a customer two hours ago today (April 23), hidden in the store’s racks in a similar fashion to the first single, which was found in New York’s Other Music this weekend gone.

As with the copy found in Other Music, its sleeve reads “—— / —— / —— / XXXXXX / —— / ——” (note: with both this single and the last one, the XXXXXX occupies the fourth spot in the pattern, meaning that the theory that there has to be six of them placed around the world, in a similar fashion to the listening parties for past Boards of Canada album Geogaddi, doesn’t necessarily ring true). The single was played once over the Rough Trade counter, but to our knowledge the music has not been uploaded anywhere yet, so we’re not sure whether the music contained on the 12″ is the same 20 seconds as on the first single or different.

Meanwhile, BoC obsessives continue to theorise. The 2020k blog, which has been following the mystery since the start, points to a YouTube channel called Hell Interface (a past alias of Boards of Canada), who recently used this video (which is blank, but does feature an image if you hover your cursor over the timeline) to link to this one, which features a new number being read in the same style as the 12″ discovered in Other Music, followed by a brief flicker of some text: ”—— / —— / XXXXXX / —— / —— / ——”. On top of that, the video is titled ‘csch’. csch.ca is the website for the Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health. Crikey!

Update: Looks like the third piece of the puzzle (—— / —— / —— / —— / —— / XXXXXX) was played on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show tonight, with no comment from the host. It reads out another number: 519225 (evidence here and here, audio here). So far then, the code is ‘—— / —— / 717228 / 936557 / ——/ 519225′. 2020k deserves a bloody medal at this point.

To read up on the intriguing story of Boards of Canada’s mystery singles so far, and the possibilities of a new album from the elusive duo, click here.

2020k are all over it.

http://2020k.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/b ... cords-day/

[russell]

and never mind daft punk...

this is how you build suspense for an album drop.