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Yeah I can hear what sounds like a staticy radio voice but I can't even tell if it's reversed or not. So many sounds in this song. What a beautiful nightmare this song is. I wish I could hear it on really really good studio headphones.

Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but I think this might be the first Boards of Canada song to utilize the Locrian mode. It occurs in the section when the first bass note kicks in with that melody atop it playing the diminished fifth, minor second, minor sixth and finally the root which outlines Locrian. Props BoC!

adecentman wrote:Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but I think this might be the first Boards of Canada song to utilize the Locrian mode. It occurs in the section when the first bass note kicks in with that melody atop it playing the diminished fifth, minor second, minor sixth and finally the root which outlines Locrian. Props BoC!

Locrian mode... I had to google this and I just want to say "Thank you!" for highlighting this to a musical numpty! It makes a lot of sense when it's laid in front of you

adecentman wrote:Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but I think this might be the first Boards of Canada song to utilize the Locrian mode. It occurs in the section when the first bass note kicks in with that melody atop it playing the diminished fifth, minor second, minor sixth and finally the root which outlines Locrian. Props BoC!

Yes, I also noticed this being one of the most harmonically out-there things they've done.

Though, while it does fit in Locrian like you said, that's not how I was looking at it. I was seeing it more as just "chromatic" and dissonant. Four notes doesn't quite define a mode. Yes, there is no other mode of the major scale that would have those notes, but we don't know whether the third "would have" been minor or major, for example. It's still possible they were thinking Locrian but I'd be inclined to guess that's not how they came about it.

Either way, it's so incredibly dark. I like it a lot and was honestly disappointed not to hear anything else like it in the album. I feel like that could be a really cool new sound for them to explore. Familiar synth territory but with bizarre, cold and dissonant harmony.

this track is just huge, absolutely love it and the trio of Gemini - RFTD - White Cyclosa

don't know if someone haven't said that
but if you listen carefully in the middle of song you can hear a children's scream coming out from the left channel.

green calx wrote:don't know if someone haven't said that
but if you listen carefully in the middle of song you can hear a children's scream coming out from the left channel.

Starting at..?

figure it out at your own.
start listening at 1:40. listen carefully till end. you will find it.

it comes after the last one of the radio noises you can hear.

maybe at about 2:31, you can hear what sound like it could be a child screaming, but i think its more or less the other noise drifting off. most of those noises in the left channel toward the end sound like a drill spinning fast and tightening something into place.

2:29 - 2:30
listen carefully to the radio noise coming out from left channel. don't listen to it at full volume, because the voice will propably melt with song. hope you will find it, cause I'm starting to feel like a weirdo. (hearing voices and stuff, lol). Ah, and if you focus on radio noises for all the song long there's something like "Twenty" (female voice, much more before the scream). smoke may be helpful.

ah, and don't even try if you have no CD and good earphones/headphones. good luck guys

Hmm really hard to hear! For me the song is like the opening to a musical war between the left and right channels, with each firing off salvos of sound back and forth between each other. I think the same idea is used in Telepath.

for me it's nuclear drop.

did you hear that scream finally?

there's also a female voice hidden in radio noise. dunno what she says. it occurs before the 'big bang', like in two first minutes. hope you can find it and enjoy digging into those tracks as much as I do.

there is a lot going on in the left channel in the last few seconds. if you get away from the rumble in the right, you can more easily hear a few things. the radio squeals return before a bit of synth like that on oirectine appears around 2:54 followed by a very garbled voice in the last two seconds. it's about as distorted as the one in pete standing alone.

yep, it's very easy to hear that, but on the other hand - completely impossible to understand.
that's their freaky magic ...

I took the last 3 seconds or so, eliminated the right channel and centered the left, normalized the signal to bring it up in level, and then eqed out the low end.

without eq:

I still hear (kinda whispered)"We can make it" (com)"Ok" "Roger" "Roger that"
"Ok" might be "Take it"

randomgon wrote:I took the last 3 seconds or so, eliminated the right channel and center the left, normalized the signal to bring it up in level, and then eqed out the low end.



I still hear "We can make it" (kinda whispered) "Ok" "Roger"

Not a bad call actually, nice work.

green calx wrote:2:29 - 2:30
listen carefully to the radio noise coming out from left channel. don't listen to it at full volume, because the voice will propably melt with song. hope you will find it, cause I'm starting to feel like a weirdo. (hearing voices and stuff, lol). Ah, and if you focus on radio noises for all the song long there's something like "Twenty" (female voice, much more before the scream). smoke may be helpful.

ah, and don't even try if you have no CD and good earphones/headphones. good luck guys

Also, the same sound appears at 02:09 - 02:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8ZBT-VHrA

Just focus on left channel.

I watch Baby Einstein videos with my daughter all the time. How much do I love the opening chords of this one!

Macfuk wrote:I watch Baby Einstein videos with my daughter all the time. How much do I love the opening chords of this one!

Sweet! Thanks for the lol!!