LP5 - Inferno

[Omikron]

Not sure if this has been noticed elsewhere, but it looks like someone might have uploaded the original footage from the listening sessions to YouTube (which would include the unreleased video from You Retreat In Time And Space) but it was quickly taken down by Warp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7rVHU0dbpQ

It's been uploaded to archive.org

The full visuals that were shown at the listening sessions it seems.

70 minute, 720p

Actually it looks like much more than that. I had thought the listening sessions was mainly just the rotating hexagons. This has a lot more than just that. Not sure what it is.

As far as I can see, it's Robert Beatty's video for Prophecy at 1420MHz, and then continues .... ??

Do you have the link? I can't find it on archive.org

[Redd Panderson]

I love a good tape machine, but I would avoid anything new like that (though it does look nice). There's only one factory/design of cassette mechanism and they're all a bit cheap and rubbish. I certainly wouldn't pay much for a new one.
Get a vintage deck if you can, there are always people throwing them away!

Good call. I may try and hit up some second had store or garage sales to see what I can find. I kind of had the same thought in that I would be paying for aesthetics and design rather than quality.

I second this. I have that exact orange We Are Rewind tape player and was really excited about it, but it's eaten a couple of my tapes now. Ruined a rare one which was a big bummer. I don't know if that's going to happen with every one, but I'm wary of it now.

[The Other]

I love a good tape machine, but I would avoid anything new like that (though it does look nice). There's only one factory/design of cassette mechanism and they're all a bit cheap and rubbish. I certainly wouldn't pay much for a new one.
Get a vintage deck if you can, there are always people throwing them away!

Good call. I may try and hit up some second had store or garage sales to see what I can find. I kind of had the same thought in that I would be paying for aesthetics and design rather than quality.

I second this. I have that exact orange We Are Rewind tape player and was really excited about it, but it's eaten a couple of my tapes now. Ruined a rare one which was a big bummer. I don't know if that's going to happen with every one, but I'm wary of it now.

Damn. That is a bummer. I am even cautious of the old boom box I have doing the same thing. I have some old Bootleg Cocteau Twins tapes that are precious to me. Always nervous to play them for that reason. Will just have to roll the dice when the Inferno cassette shows up. I think I would have a much easier time replacing that one if something happened to it.

[outhudd]

Actually it looks like much more than that. I had thought the listening sessions was mainly just the rotating hexagons. This has a lot more than just that. Not sure what it is.

As far as I can see, it's Robert Beatty's video for Prophecy at 1420MHz, and then continues .... ??

Do you have the link? I can't find it on archive.org

I see now that it's a fan made thing, it has some old Tomorrow's Harvest video content in there too:

It's not from the listening sessions.

[Beechwoods]

My cassette arrived today. I was extremely excited to see they'd done a cassette release as it's one of my favourite formats. I have decent early 2000's Onkyo tape deck that it's currently playing on. Sounds very nice. They've done a nice job on the tape stock and recording levels. Decent inlay too. I would love to see some limited release cassette of the earlier albums. The promo cassettes for Geogaddi and Music Has the Right are something of a holy grail of mine.

While I'm here, did anyone see my earlier post about the Continuous Mix.
https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 19#p334119

[Redd Panderson]

My cassette arrived today. I was extremely excited to see they'd done a cassette release as it's one of my favourite formats. I have decent early 2000's Onkyo tape deck that it's currently playing on. Sounds very nice. They've done a nice job on the tape stock and recording levels. Decent inlay too. I would love to see some limited release cassette of the earlier albums. The promo cassettes for Geogaddi and Music Has the Right are something of a holy grail of mine.

While I'm here, did anyone see my earlier post about the Continuous Mix.
https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 19#p334119

I wasn't sure if there was any movement on that thread. Have you listened to the combined version to see if it revealed anything?

[Beechwoods]

Nothing special revealed unfortunately, just a very gradual fade to near - but not quite - silence, and then back to full volume. No artefacts. I'd like to think it was intentional. I was hoping others might look into it to see if there was more to be found.

Having now listened to the cassette though, it wouldn't surprise me if the only thing BOS were trying to do with the Continuous Mix was to encourage listening to the album as a unified whole. In my opinion that is where it excels. In this digital age it's difficult to enforce uninterrupted listening.

[Den]

I agree, it’s a way to encourage the listener. They did something similar with Magic Window in order to create space before the next CD would automatically play in car stereos.

[outhudd]

My cassette arrived today. I was extremely excited to see they'd done a cassette release as it's one of my favourite formats. I have decent early 2000's Onkyo tape deck that it's currently playing on. Sounds very nice. They've done a nice job on the tape stock and recording levels. Decent inlay too. I would love to see some limited release cassette of the earlier albums. The promo cassettes for Geogaddi and Music Has the Right are something of a holy grail of mine.

While I'm here, did anyone see my earlier post about the Continuous Mix.
https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 19#p334119

Can you explain what you did for "with the one out of phase"? Do you mean inverting the polarity of one of them? (or delaying one by some amount?)

Did you try doing the same thing with two copies of the Continuous Mix?

I had seen previously that they're almost bit-for-bit identical, the difference could be explaining by just two different exports by the mastering engineer.

[AuHr]

New background image on the Boards site!
https://boardsofcanada.com/

and saved.

there was a poster in a thread here that I saw within the last couple days that I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE saved but I didn't, the poster shared all the latest background images that they've used on their site recently. Does anyone know where I can find them?

There are some inside the New Official Website Thread.

Could you please upload the old ones?

[WATER_CAN-_-]

Earth is a cannon of love
Shame beyond Socrates ♪

[Redd Panderson]

This morning I decided to create 5 playlists, one named after each of BOC's 5 mainline albums. The idea was to skim OT1, OT2, and R35TT track-by-track and sort the tracks into each of the five playlists based on which I felt their vibe fit the most.

Looking at them all, it struck me how many of them ended up on my Inferno playlist (90 minutes compared to 20-30 for the others). This could be recency bias, but it made me appreciate how "Old Tunes" Inferno is. Among other things, it really is a masterful exploration of the final corners of their sound not yet explored in any of the other mainline albums.

A few examples--and these were very subjective and hard to place:

Sequoia and Alpha Rainbow: Music Has The Right To Children

A06 and On A Rolling Sea: Geogaddi

Rodox Video and A19: The Campfire Headphase

Mansel and A14: Tomorrow's Harvest

Statue of Liberty, Devil, House of Abin'Adab, B1: Inferno

[♄ope keeper]

[green calx]

just reversed the whole album in garage band and gave it a spin just to see if there was something to hear, and astonishingly i didn't hear jack shit

Same here. Besides Deep Time I couldn't have finda any obvious easter eggs. I'm not mad though, there were unhearable voices on TCH, TH, I'm glad finally the cards are open on this album. There could've been mysteries, but seems like we have been given just what's the best without any games, which had been a bit frustrating especially on TH where you could've tell for sure you can hear something, but will never be able to make any sense of it... The voice samples of course

[Waterbagel]

hehe I didn't even mind that necessarily, on TH - to me the point was, look, it's all gone. it's all crumbled. all we have are the scattered ashes in the wind - which you can see and feel! but you'll never know what it was

forced longing !

[Peacock Tail]

A couple of observations...

The album starts in 5/8 time presumably to announce the 5th album.

Also, the golden ratio point of this album (43.16) seems to coincide when the Collapse sample starts.

[turquoise70]

Any fans of Game Grumps' Wheel of Fortune series?

[WATER_CAN-_-]

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/20 ... te-change/

[Widmerpool]

Finally took it along on a hike across a gorgeous strip of countryside (lush vegetation, chance animal encounters) and it hit just perfect.
Some of them ambient tracks opened up in ways I hadn't conceived of.

And I decided my next listening will be on psychedelics. Should be remarkable to say the least.

[Den]

A couple of observations...

The album starts in 5/8 time presumably to announce the 5th album.

Also, the golden ratio point of this album (43.16) seems to coincide when the Collapse sample starts.

I’ve listened to the album once every day in its entirety on CD in the car. Prophecy At 1420 Mhz and Deep Time are beginning to exist in my mind in balance with the rest of the album.