/ 6 9 9 7 4 2 / 6 2 8 3 1 5 / 7 1 7 2 2 8 / 9 3 6 5 5 7 / 8 1 3 3 8 6 / 5 1 9 2 2 5 /

If this is the real thing finally, then I'm kind of fucking paranoid now.

I keep thinking "What if some deluxe edition box with all the trimmings gets put up for pre-order during the six or seven hours I normally sleep?"

By the time I wake up next morning, it's already sold out.

Takes deep breath.

ITT:

I've emailed Warp about this ............ Just to add to the THOUSANDS of emails they've probably already had.

I'm not expecting a response of any kind but you never know ;-)

  On 4/23/2013 at 7:29 AM, fumi said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 6:49 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 5:10 AM, fumi said:

From the Chicago Reader:

 

"Ignore the Troll, feed the Boards Of Canada Mystery"

 

"For an artist with only a modest-sized fan base, Amanda Palmer has an exceptionally large and passionate group of antifans. It's a diverse group of haters: professionals and amateurs, people who despise her for the disparity between her artists' rights advocacy and her blithe willingness to ask other musicians to donate their time to her profit-making ventures, and ones who simply think that she makes terrible music. One thing that we all have in common is that we're easily trolled.

 

Palmer's exploited that tendency masterfully, which is basically the only reason why anyone who's never self-identified as steampunk even knows who she is. Her latest attention-seeking gambit is a poem about suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that is one of the worst things ever written, on a number of different levels. Seriously, you shouldn't read it unless you want to get worked up over something stupid, which this poem definitely is. (Not to mention tone-deaf, solipsistic, and badly composed enough to qualify as an insult towards any potential readers.) It's already been written, it's already been read and reacted to, and if anyone else reads it and gets pissed off (which is really the only proper response to the poem), Palmer will have already won.

 

So instead, I suggest you check out what cultishly adored Scottish electronic group Boards of Canada have been up to, which is kicking off a deeply cryptic puzzle that might possibly have something to do with their long-awaited next album and definitely has something to do with a surprise mega-limited-edition Record Store Day exclusive that appears to be full of coded information. It's fun and mysterious and in no way callously exploits a national tragedy in order to feed a pathological hunger for attention that's so insatiable that it doesn't matter what kind of attention it is. Saying no to trolls is good for you, and it's good for America."

reading this confused the fuck out of me because I forgot what thread I was in. it could've been related to like 4 or 5 threads going on on WATMM right now.

Sorry. Yeah, a bit off topic.

 

Fuck Amanda Palmer and her stupid drawn on eyebrows...

l00ks familiar

i kinda like this cryptic hunt, refreshing.

Hope they do a joint live tour with autechre in the autumn. Just putting that out there...

  On 4/23/2013 at 8:28 AM, feltcher said:

i kinda like this cryptic hunt, refreshing.

 

Hope they do a joint live tour with autechre in the autumn. Just putting that out there...

Godamnit I hope so

Refreshing!? Hell, any sign of life from BOC is refreshing! Even the suggestion they're alive.....god.

Wake me up when some official announcements are made. It's been too long to enjoy these silly games.

  On 4/23/2013 at 6:34 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 6:31 AM, beerwolf said:

Morning all!! (its 5.20 am lol)

 

First time I ever checked watmm before going to work

 

*yawns*

 

*drinks tea*

 

MORNING BEERWOLF.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to daycrew, on behalf of the nightwatch, for page 31.

 

Thank you for that Breakfast Lol!

262737 63 226232

BOARDS OF CANADA

  On 4/21/2013 at 10:31 AM, delet... said:

 

So each of the records has a number sequence and it tells you where to type the numbers in the get into a folder inside a folder (etc.) on a website once you collect all the numbers ?? Well unless it's like location data or i'm sure someone has figured it out by now eh. Just need the numbers.

This would be their 4th (official) album, right? Does the artwork imply there's going to be 6 albums total? It wouldnt be unlikely they've produced enough music to fill 3 more albums since their last album.

------ / ------ / ------ / ------ / ------ / ------ /

6 keys of 6 digits each. 6*6 = 36.

Boards is 6 letters, Canada is 6 letters. 6*6 = 36.

3 + 6 = 9. Any number multiplied by 9 has a product with a digit sum of 9. Therefore, 9 is the most selfish number, ie the Devil.

There is also a beautiful symmetry.

each record that's going about has the X's in different places ( if I'm following this correctly )

X marks the spot.

  On 4/23/2013 at 9:55 AM, isaki said:

each record that's going about has the X's in different places ( if I'm following this correctly )

yep /... but what about that youtube clip with a number sequence in a different place that was in an annotation, or was that someone having a lol ..

I guess nobody will know, that Julie and Candy vid was on BoC's YouTube playlist though

  On 4/23/2013 at 12:41 AM, oscillik said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 12:36 AM, fox said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 12:18 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

this whole gimmick is already unbearable. warp should just cut their loses, say it was a hoax and rush-release the digital album tomorrow morning.

 

You apparently weren't waiting for the Ae leak, I take it

 

that was completely different. There was an official announcement made, and no dicking around beforehand.

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 12:39 AM, Ricky Downtown said:

what's so cool is how basically all of this has gone down over the internet and social media. bands/labels could never have pulled off a promotion like this just 10 years ago.

don't Boards of Canada, like, think that the internet is evil?

 

a necessary evil?

It all makes sense now!!!!

Too soon??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3xICOc13wk

  On 4/23/2013 at 9:55 AM, isaki said:

each record that's going about has the X's in different places ( if I'm following this correctly )

maybe, but there's no conclusive indication yet that there are actually any other records...

also, yeah, i can't believe that thing cost $25!

  On 4/23/2013 at 11:08 AM, Ron Manager said:

 

  On 4/23/2013 at 9:55 AM, isaki said:

each record that's going about has the X's in different places ( if I'm following this correctly )

 

maybe, but there's no conclusive indication yet that there are actually any other records...

 

also, yeah, i can't believe that thing cost $25!

 

how much does it cost to press 1 vinyl record?

Could be lathe cut.. which usually means between $15 and $25.

So now, so far, two six digit codes have been "found"?

Is that correct? Kind of losing interest in this now. Just put the pre-order page up on Warp ffs.

so it isn't ridiculously far off cost price. but yeah still a lot of money!