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Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:19 pm
by Julian Candy
Bo(c)ners are raging.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:20 pm
by b0qurant
thinkdontpray wrote:im still not getting my hopes up just because if by chance this is bullshit i will seriously be devastated
I understand that this protective mindset has been valuable in the last, well, 7 years. But a Warp representative dropped this off ... and it reads "Boards of Canada" and "Warp 2013" and you know that BoC loves to do mysterious stuff like this.
I'm usually hugely skeptical myself, but this is as close to legitimate as it gets. I didn't expect a press release ( "Hey guys, new BoC album coming in June from Warp" ) I was expecting a hugely cryptic piece of information, out of the blue, that we would have to work for. And that's exactly what this is. Can't wait for the string of 36 numbers to come together.
Also, fucking loving this ambient 8 minute piece.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:25 pm
by fujee
So, will it be called New Clear Dawn?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:26 pm
by Ottomatik
b0qurant wrote:Also, fucking loving this ambient 8 minute piece.
Where does this come from?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:26 pm
by Opothecary
Ottomatik wrote:b0qurant wrote:Also, fucking loving this ambient 8 minute piece.
Where does this come from?
Not real. Someone from 4chan uploaded it, someone IDed it in another thread as being not BoC.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:29 pm
by b0qurant
Opothecary wrote:Ottomatik wrote:b0qurant wrote:Also, fucking loving this ambient 8 minute piece.
Where does this come from?
Not real. Someone from 4chan uploaded it, someone IDed it in another thread as being not BoC.
Aww goddamn. This is all moving 2fast4me. I thought it was part of the NYC numbered record. Sorry guys! Don't want to perpetuate wrong information.
Either way ... I like it.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:35 pm
by Enoch
Check the Rough Trade record store.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:40 pm
by Aesthetics
Aesthetics wrote:Fake. It all looks a bit too scripted to me.
1) A record with the bag still around it to prove it was bought in a shop.
2) An audio recording with playing vinyl as a prove it's actually is coming from the vinyl itself.
3) A song with random numbers on it.
4) Only one copy(yet)
5) A plain cover with a lot of XXXs on it in the same font style as the BoC logo, whilst most releases have their own.
All this proofs to me that someone tried very hard to make it look legit.
- 6) Phone confirmation: The record store confirms they got one copy from a Warp representative.
If you worked in the store, would you sell the record? If they knew who BoC were they certainly would have had a fight who got the copy before even showing it to the public. Imagine the value of this copy! Also, the guys at the record shop confirms it just to add fuel to the fire which give them alot of free publicity.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:40 pm
by bearhead
Ottomatik wrote:b0qurant wrote:Also, fucking loving this ambient 8 minute piece.
Where does this come from?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:42 pm
by Snufkin
Jumping on all this rabbit-hole later than most. Not sure if this has been mentioned, but a big thing that seems to debunk this whole thing anyways is the fact that the records were actually bought by customers in the store, rather than staff.
I mean, come on: you're working in a record store and ONE DAY you start stocking a Boards of Canada record on a shelf... there is *no way* you're going to leave that there for customers. Staff would have bought it. In at least one shop, somewhere, a member of staff would have grabbed it up straight away.
^^ this is why I'm not excited
...yet
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:42 pm
by bearhead
Aesthetics wrote:Aesthetics wrote:Fake. It all looks a bit too scripted to me.
1) A record with the bag still around it to prove it was bought in a shop.
2) An audio recording with playing vinyl as a prove it's actually is coming from the vinyl itself.
3) A song with random numbers on it.
4) Only one copy(yet)
5) A plain cover with a lot of XXXs on it in the same font style as the BoC logo, whilst most releases have their own.
All this proofs to me that someone tried very hard to make it look legit.
- 6) Phone confirmation: The record store confirms they got one copy from a Warp representative.
If you worked in the store, would you sell the record? If they knew who BoC were they certainly would have had a fight who got the copy before even showing it to the public. Imagine the value of this copy! Also, the guys at the record shop confirms it just to add fuel to the fire which give them alot of free publicity.
Why does that conversation sound horribly acted out?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:44 pm
by Aesthetics
bearhead wrote:Why does that conversation sound horribly acted out?
Got that, but krs also called them. I consider krs as trustful.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:46 pm
by krs
Aesthetics wrote:bearhead wrote:Why does that conversation sound horribly acted out?
Got that, but krs also called them. I consider krs as trustful.
Cheers, Rob.
And like I said before, that was the same guy I talked to this morning.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:46 pm
by Moebius
Another thing I noticed, probably nothing but:
Other Music (where the record was sold) and the Angel Orensanz (where the Geogaddi listening party was held) are less than a mile apart.
Now this, is PROBABLY JUST A COINCIDENCE; Other Music is not just same random store, it is well-known as one of the best shops in the city, if not the country. If you wanted to place a special record in NYC, Other Music would be a natural choice.
But, it couldn't hurt to check record nearby the other listening venues.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:47 pm
by Moebius
bearhead wrote:Aesthetics wrote:Aesthetics wrote:Fake. It all looks a bit too scripted to me.
1) A record with the bag still around it to prove it was bought in a shop.
2) An audio recording with playing vinyl as a prove it's actually is coming from the vinyl itself.
3) A song with random numbers on it.
4) Only one copy(yet)
5) A plain cover with a lot of XXXs on it in the same font style as the BoC logo, whilst most releases have their own.
All this proofs to me that someone tried very hard to make it look legit.
- 6) Phone confirmation: The record store confirms they got one copy from a Warp representative.
If you worked in the store, would you sell the record? If they knew who BoC were they certainly would have had a fight who got the copy before even showing it to the public. Imagine the value of this copy! Also, the guys at the record shop confirms it just to add fuel to the fire which give them alot of free publicity.
Why does that conversation sound horribly acted out?
I called them myself, you can do the same. I got the same story. One single copy, 5 others out there in the world.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:49 pm
by thepastinsidepressant
Snufkin wrote:Jumping on all this rabbit-hole later than most. Not sure if this has been mentioned, but a big thing that seems to debunk this whole thing anyways is the fact that the records were actually bought by customers in the store, rather than staff.
I mean, come on: you're working in a record store and ONE DAY you start stocking a Boards of Canada record on a shelf... there is *no way* you're going to leave that there for customers. Staff would have bought it. In at least one shop, somewhere, a member of staff would have grabbed it up straight away.
^^ this is why I'm not excited
...yet
i thought this too, thats where its a risky marketing gimmick but you'd be surprised how many people never heard of them. if theres a few people working there chances are one of them would know about them or just that one person working there had his eyes light up with $$ $$.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:51 pm
by sevenELIXIR
how could they sell something they didn't know they had? if someone put an offbrand football in a sports store, would they let a customer purchase it if it wasn't supposed to be in their inventory?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:51 pm
by Magrathea
fujee wrote:Yeah, I heard this guy is now head of communications at Warp
Alan Turing?
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:55 pm
by Bryan
Aesthetics wrote:- 6) Phone confirmation: The record store confirms they got one copy from a Warp representative.
If you worked in the store, would you sell the record? If they knew who BoC were they certainly would have had a fight who got the copy before even showing it to the public. Imagine the value of this copy! Also, the guys at the record shop confirms it just to add fuel to the fire which give them alot of free publicity.
Bingo. Was thinking the same but you helped put it into words.
Still no new response from the reddit user 'lilcakey' who supposedly has the album.
Twitter person who was immediately linked from 'lilcakey' on reddit has "iPhone: 37.455284,-122.170052" on his profile. Those are coordinates for Menlo Park, CA which is clearly not NYC.
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 8:55 pm
by Snufkin
(n.b. even though I'm completely sceptical, I think I may try and find some kinda record store here in Nicaragua... just to see... lol)