Post-WXAXRXP Societas X Tape Tracklist & Discussion

[Electronic Dave]

I've spent a few days updating the tracklist and adding other information based on Mexicola's original post and some other sources...I quite enjoyed compiling this and listening with fans...it does feel like a BOC broadcast after multiple listens...hopefully its accurate! Please post any errors!

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00:00 Part One Shortwave radio scan
00:34 Jasper Van't Hof - Associations
03:33 Col – This Flat Earth
06:22 Heldon - Une Drôle de Journée
07:08 ?
09:21 Killing Joke – Unspeakable (What’s This For Outtakes Cassette Version) (1981)
11:50 Dolphins Into The Future – Untitled (A3) (2007)
13:51 Victrola - Maritime Tatami
18:12 George Duke - Vulcan Mind Probe
20:56 Flayer - Wanna Get Back Your Love (1983)
24:32 My Bloody Valentine – To Here Knows When (Tremolo EP) (1991)
25:20 Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger with vocal samples from TV/Film including (in order):

Unknown voices speaking French
Excuse me but my name is Williams
Okay you said you wanted to talk - let’s talk
You have the girl…I want her
As you can imagine we’re concerned for her safety…we want her returned
How? How?
We gotta get her back
When she is safe…You will be safe
How? How?
It’s not difficult is it?
Just keep your mouth shut
We are in deep trouble
Maybe these guys are bluffing – but maybe they’re not?
That’s what you don’t know x2
Let them pull the station? What for? Let them know? Know what?
Give it a bit longer
Just follow instructions which ?
Got three hundred hot screaming kids waiting to see Leo The Lizard
Yeah…you handled this before? It happens all the time
Sounded like a crocodile – like an imitation crocodile
That’s what you don’t know
I just said you should stay in bed
One clue came when I saw in red’s atmosphere - Douglas Rain
She walked towards me – hips waiting happy ?
Then I noticed ? ever so slightly - that’s when I knew I was on the right track – Douglas Rain
?
Why don’t you quit the violin music?
Give it a bit longer

28:29 Radio scan with vignette of short TV jingle – ‘Your Choice Is 5’ (1980) a New York City TV station
28:46 Paul Hart - Prospect
31:45 M.S Subbulakshmi - Srimannarayana
33:27 Esplendor Geometrico - Regeneración
35:59 Vignette with TV advert vocal ‘Get a shot of protection - the swine flu shot’ (1976)
36:24 Slow instrumental with vocal sample ‘thank you for not smoking’
38:42 Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (instrumental) / Boards Of Canada – Aquarius (samples) / Imagination - Just An Illusion (vocals)
40:45 Radio noise then an advert vocal sample ‘hire anything from an Astra to a Merc - and no mileage charge either’
41:08 Jupiter Prophet – 35,000 ft (Challenger’s Theme)
42:14 Boards of Canada old website loop?
44:19 Francis Lai – Un homme et une femme with Minute Maid orange juice TV advert voiced by Bing Crosby
45:46 Devo - Shrivel-Up
48:43 Stefan Zauner - Billy Miller
54:06 Vignette with vocal sample ‘Here in the wind tunnel the fearful forces plot their pattern by proxy – and one day we shall know’
54:27 These Trails - Garden Botanum (song gets interrupted with man speaking 54:06 vocal line in slower tone)
57:05 Long atmospheric synth notes of a beautiful unknown track
59:20 Pauline Oliveros – Bye Bye Butterfly
59.50 Part Two Shortwave radio scan
59:54 Alan Parker- The Free Life
1:02:00 Egberto Gismonti - Jardim de Prazeres
1:04:45 Vignette with voice sample ‘Goddess of the world’ and distorted vocals
1:05:11 Burundi - Chant Avec Cithare
1:05:44 Les Maledictus Sound - L'etrange Monsieurs Whinster
1:06:42 Severed Heads - We Have Come to Bless the House
1:10:11 Morgan Page - Heartbeat
1:10:31 Casiotone 202 Demo Record (1981)
1:11:00 Filmmaker - Crow Mask
1:14:03 Indian female singing
1:16:15 Yellow Magic Orchestra - Light In Darkness
1:17:50 Hajime Tachibana - XP41 (1985)
1:18:40 Lena Platonos - Bloody Shadows From Afar (1985)
1:21:56 ?
1:22:41 80s post punk song?
1:25:33 Jean-Pierre Castaldi & Clémentine Célarié (Casta...!) - Le fou rire (1982)
1:26:20 D.A.F. - Osten Währt Am Längsten
1:29:26 ?
1:31:30 ?
1:34:02 ?
1:37:30 Christian Chevalier - Strange Pop
1:40:46 Colourbox - Tarantula (12" Version 1)
1:44:01 33.10.3402 – Kanap
1:48:10 Boards of Canada sounding interlude
1:48:51 The Elegants – Little Star (reversed and warped)
1:50:10 One Foundation – You Are My Everything (Part 2) - Dance With Us Lord (1980)
1:51:56 Boards of Canada sounding interlude with tape hiss
1:55:02 ?
1:55:34 Bruce Haack - Angel Child
1:56:34 Christian Chevallier - Sea Cathedral


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[zx81]

Heroic stuff!

[Moloch]

Can someone, somehow, post an mp3 comp of all that is believed to be new or unreleased material?

[TheStatPow]

The background track in the stuff that starts at 7:08 sounds like the kind of track they'd play on weather channels.

Some people said the text on NTS didn't change to "Boards of Canada" until 7:08 exactly. which make sthe whole thing weirder

[DW]

https://www.discogs.com/Victrola-Mariti ... se/5067743

Check the images for that release.

I can barely read that. Resolution is too low.

I can post a higher quality pic when I get home.

That would be very nice!

Also, do yourself a favor and check out the B-Side. It is phenomenal.

Will check. Thanks!

[SamuraiDrifter]

Can someone, somehow, post an mp3 comp of all that is believed to be new or unreleased material?

Already done, I posted my version back on page 13. It’s missing the track around 54m though, which I now believe to be original BoC. I’ll add it in when I get home.

[Evrox]

One more thing I have noticed is when 'This Flat Earth' from Col starts. Right there at the 3:33 mark. This made me giggle, knowing boc is into numbers and cult stuff. This is definitely not random

[TheStatPow]

1:29:26 I somehow recognise the piano from somewhere, a classic piano piece but I just can't put my finger on it. Probably just a very similar chord progression

[Moloch]

Can someone, somehow, post an mp3 comp of all that is believed to be new or unreleased material?

Already done, I posted my version back on page 13. It’s missing the track around 54m though, which I now believe to be original BoC. I’ll add it in when I get home.

Cheers man!

[Evrox]

One more thing I have noticed is when 'This Flat Earth' from Col starts. Right there at the 3:33 mark. This made me giggle, knowing boc is into numbers and cult stuff. This is definitely not random

Oh, and the mix tape was aired between 9-11pm. Adding those numbers together makes 911

[Skimming Stone]

Could someone maybe make a comparison of the ending of the Tremolo EP version of 'To Here Knows When' and the short interlude at 24:32? The segment definitely oozes mbv vibes, and I see the resemblance, but I'm not particularly convinced that these two are a genuine match. I'm happy to be proven wrong, but it doesn't feel right to put the mbv track on the WIP tracklist just yet.

[Skimming Stone]

also: is it worth mentioning that the ambient track at 25:20 to 26:00 which sounds a bit like ataronchronon has the chord progression of olson in reverse? in this sense it sounds a bit like under the coke sign

I also do think this is worth pointing out. It seems entirely plausible to me that, instead of this and the mbv section being the exact same source, BoC instead tried to emulate mbv's sound a little too closely, but ended up keeping the chord progression for later in their career without such a heavy mbv sound palette. Could be bollocks, but just throwing the possibility out there.

[SamuraiDrifter]

One more thing I have noticed is when 'This Flat Earth' from Col starts. Right there at the 3:33 mark. This made me giggle, knowing boc is into numbers and cult stuff. This is definitely not random

What’s the significance of 3:33?

[Evrox]

One more thing I have noticed is when 'This Flat Earth' from Col starts. Right there at the 3:33 mark. This made me giggle, knowing boc is into numbers and cult stuff. This is definitely not random

What’s the significance of 3:33?

It's an occultist number. You can find lots about it on the interwebs...

Since I can't stop with the numbers, here's another one. 'Crow Mask' from Filmmaker starts at 1:11:00. The number 111 could be an angel number symbolising spiritual awakening. It can also have other meanings, which you can also easily find.

Here's how Filmmaker describes the album in which this track is listed: "This album is about the earth broken by insider fire, and the rising of new dark ages."

[dohaeris]

...chinook?

[TheStatPow]

...chinook?

Can't find any ressemblance

[dohaeris]

Can't find any ressemblance

the breakdown....open your mind. 6:22

[dohaeris]

[dohaeris]

[Valotonin]

Could someone maybe make a comparison of the ending of the Tremolo EP version of 'To Here Knows When' and the short interlude at 24:32? The segment definitely oozes mbv vibes, and I see the resemblance, but I'm not particularly convinced that these two are a genuine match. I'm happy to be proven wrong, but it doesn't feel right to put the mbv track on the WIP tracklist just yet.

It almost certainly isn't a direct match. I have gone through every MBV interlude between tracks just to make sure that it wasn't another one, but as the interludes between MBV tracks were my literal favorite bits of music ever and I had each one of them recorded individually to cassette I already knew that it was pretty futile, the interludes only really appear on Tremolo EP and Loveless.

With the interlude in question between Here Knows When and Swallow, there is no way to pitch alter it etc to push it towards being a match. Also, there are flute samples present (something Boards and MBV have in common) over the entirety of the interlude that clearly aren't present in the track on Societas X.

What is there is a floating tremolo unit being used with a reverse reverb, probably a Marshall reflector (but knowing BoC it could equally be a tape delay that they have magically made to alter between backwards and forwards to emulate reverse reverb), in the style of MBV. This is pretty likely to be BoC's own creation. I noticed on Hey Saturday Sun was a guitar sounding suspiciously like a Fender Jazzmaster or Jaguar, I could be wrong on that, but those guitars have the type of vibrato (mislabeled tremolo by fender) needed to do precise pitch bending as heard. They have a certain aura about them that isn't easy to replicate on other guitars.