Post-WXAXRXP Societas X Tape Tracklist & Discussion

[Moz]

The artist name is Blue O' Clock so whoever guessed it was boc they were right

[Omikron]

The artist name is Blue O' Clock so whoever guessed it was boc they were right

Amazing find! How was the artist name found? The links in the description are unfortunately broken.

[Moz]

The artist name is Blue O' Clock so whoever guessed it was boc they were right

Amazing find! How was the artist name found? The links in the description are unfortunately broken.

We noticed that under the first Flangerina name there was a track that by another band and we searched for related stuff.

[mincer_ray]

excited to post this, i dont think this specifically has been identified yet, or at least the link isnt correct on bocpages, it comes with a small story:

#20 seems to be correctly identified as "Non Passa Piu" HOWEVER the original source of the actual sample itself is much more interesting.

in late 2015 an internet archive user uploaded a K-mart in store audio tape archive here: https://archive.org/details/attentionkm ... ?tab=about

these tapes are actual rips of real in store audio that was played in actual K-mart stores. its a super cool treasure trove of muzak mixes from the late 80s and early 90s and myself and some friends got totally obsessed listening to all of them. a online microscene also popped up of people who sampled the tapes to make albums. i ended up making this: and you can find other related stuff on bandcamp with the kmart tag: https://bandcamp.com/discover/kmart

ANYWAYS i know a lot of these tapes inside and out and there were some pretty amazing samples that i never got around to using. one of them is the exact sample that ended up as #20 on societas! blew my mind when i first listened to this tape, i couldnt believe they had picked out one of the samples i had tried to work with. its a strange dark muzak version of Non Passa Piu!

you can hear it at about 48:00 on the august 1990 tape:

and, funny enough, you can hear it isolated on this youtube video that doesnt know the name of the song (you guys did!)

it doesnt surprise me at all to learn that BOC also listened to the kmart tapes, totally in line with their style. in some ways the whole of societas is even in the style of a kmart tape (also not surprising). i encourage you all to check out the kmart tapes collection if you got the time they are totally worth it. thank you for reading!

[Moz]

Oh wow no way! Absolutely amazing find! Bocpage will be edited ASAP!

[Hellstreets]

I can't believe we had another double whammy of SxT finds, genuinely losing my mind over this

[Moz]

This discovery led us to find the source of Un Homme Et Une Femme by Fausto Papetti also included on that same KMART Tape! Found by Sixtyniner!

[mincer_ray]

hah! amazing! might even be worth another deep dive on the tapes, could find even more of the unidentified items in there

[Negamuse]

Blows my mind people are still able to find things from this. Really well done!

[Electronic Dave]

The artist name is Blue O' Clock so whoever guessed it was boc they were right

Oh my...thanks - this track begins at 07:09 on my Word file list. I don't include the NTS intro.

Interesting that the next tracks after Killing Joke - Unspeakable are by the artist Dolphins Into The Future

Also I happen to read that on Killing Joke's debut album they had a track called Tomorrow's World and this was going to be the album title's original name Tomorrow's Harvest? Seems to be a link/theme here?

[sowhereareyouliving?]

Dipping into this thread and the bocpages notes (https://bocpages.org/wiki/Societas_x_Tape) is wild! Impressive research from those here, and the depth & breadth of BOCs obscurist crate digging skills is something else...

Also pretty weird playing each youtubed track (as available) and realising I've already commited these sounds (though not the artists & titles) to memory via the NTS broadcast. It's like these tunes have always been with me.

[broke]

excited to post this, i dont think this specifically has been identified yet, or at least the link isnt correct on bocpages, it comes with a small story:

#20 seems to be correctly identified as "Non Passa Piu" HOWEVER the original source of the actual sample itself is much more interesting.

in late 2015 an internet archive user uploaded a K-mart in store audio tape archive here: https://archive.org/details/attentionkm ... ?tab=about

these tapes are actual rips of real in store audio that was played in actual K-mart stores. its a super cool treasure trove of muzak mixes from the late 80s and early 90s and myself and some friends got totally obsessed listening to all of them. a online microscene also popped up of people who sampled the tapes to make albums. i ended up making this: and you can find other related stuff on bandcamp with the kmart tag: https://bandcamp.com/discover/kmart

ANYWAYS i know a lot of these tapes inside and out and there were some pretty amazing samples that i never got around to using. one of them is the exact sample that ended up as #20 on societas! blew my mind when i first listened to this tape, i couldnt believe they had picked out one of the samples i had tried to work with. its a strange dark muzak version of Non Passa Piu!

you can hear it at about 48:00 on the august 1990 tape:

and, funny enough, you can hear it isolated on this youtube video that doesnt know the name of the song (you guys did!)

it doesnt surprise me at all to learn that BOC also listened to the kmart tapes, totally in line with their style. in some ways the whole of societas is even in the style of a kmart tape (also not surprising). i encourage you all to check out the kmart tapes collection if you got the time they are totally worth it. thank you for reading!

Amazing find!!!
Well, it looks like the boys added drums, the synth pad chords and the "thank you for smoking" sample to the track.

[Omikron]

The brothers are waiting for us to identify every track and sample in SxT before they’ll release any new music. They know we’re getting close now!

[nickchristakis]

Interesting read from the archive page for Echolocation :

Music originally made for a freshman college biology teacher with whom I was as much "in love" as with any other thing I've ever wanted to consume and control.

Her clean, make-up free face, her inviting smile, her warm contralto, the confidence of her movements, her fulsome physique; the conspiracy of remarkable elements which broke me quite in half, that is, to where my spirit grovelled for the possession of her.

Her heart, being the most occult aspect of her being, I never knew; preferring instead to abide in a blissful state of delusional idolatry of her physical and mental form.

Oh yes, the music: designed for my teacher's web page at the college website, along with multiple graphics of sparkling, laughing dolphins (her "spirit animal"). Goal being to ultimately merge our physical beings into deeper Hells from which our spirits would (eventually) emerge less intact, but refracted, dispersing our sparks across the dark cosmos.

Most aspects of the project were successful and mutually satisfied. Except for one or two options I had had, and left, in mind.

[DFD21]

I loved that version of Non Passa Piu from the Societas tape. I'd not clocked that BOC had done a mixtape until last year when I looked up "The Free Life" by Alan Parker on Youtube because I recalled it from ITV Schools programmes. Then I found out about the tape.

[outhudd]

Interesting read from the archive page for Echolocation :

Bit disturbing and creepy I thought

[mechanismj]

Wow! You all are amazing!

So friggin' happy to hear Echolocation in its entirety!

The Kmart tapes! I listened to some of those when they first popped up on there. So cool! I have one or two Kmart tape sourced vaporwave albums in my collection that were, possibly, made by someone who used to post here.


This is absolutely blowing my mind! It's like chrimbus around here right now!

[ambreakups]

Sorry if i'm late to the party or this isnt the right zone. I am not accustomed to forum etiquette, so forgive me.

me and dylemma sampled that george duke song when we found it in the crates about 20 years ago. it's a fantastic piece. very different from everything else on the record. and if you don't know who george duke is, i'm gonna let you do your homework so you feel good about it.



if you don't know who I am, I've done some songs for some guys.

[modman]

excited to post this, i dont think this specifically has been identified yet, or at least the link isnt correct on bocpages, it comes with a small story:

#20 seems to be correctly identified as "Non Passa Piu" HOWEVER the original source of the actual sample itself is much more interesting.

in late 2015 an internet archive user uploaded a K-mart in store audio tape archive here: https://archive.org/details/attentionkm ... ?tab=about

these tapes are actual rips of real in store audio that was played in actual K-mart stores. its a super cool treasure trove of muzak mixes from the late 80s and early 90s and myself and some friends got totally obsessed listening to all of them. a online microscene also popped up of people who sampled the tapes to make albums. i ended up making this: and you can find other related stuff on bandcamp with the kmart tag: https://bandcamp.com/discover/kmart

ANYWAYS i know a lot of these tapes inside and out and there were some pretty amazing samples that i never got around to using. one of them is the exact sample that ended up as #20 on societas! blew my mind when i first listened to this tape, i couldnt believe they had picked out one of the samples i had tried to work with. its a strange dark muzak version of Non Passa Piu!

you can hear it at about 48:00 on the august 1990 tape:

and, funny enough, you can hear it isolated on this youtube video that doesnt know the name of the song (you guys did!)

it doesnt surprise me at all to learn that BOC also listened to the kmart tapes, totally in line with their style. in some ways the whole of societas is even in the style of a kmart tape (also not surprising). i encourage you all to check out the kmart tapes collection if you got the time they are totally worth it. thank you for reading!

Love this, I made the album "Kmart 1989-1992" that's at the top there on the kmart tag on Bandcamp you linked! Really cool to see BoC was digging into the tapes too, It's funny too because I was so heavily inspired by BoC while making that album.

Truly full circle for me seeing any of this mentioned.

[Compound Candy]

Hi everyone!
I have lost a lot of data due to hard drive sheite! Would anyone have a link to the full Societas set with separated tracks in proper quality?
That would be just amazeballs!