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belchmaster wrote:The copyright text was taken from an early-mid 90s Connoisseur Video screen. https://www.avid.wiki/Connoisseur_Video ... ing_Screen

That is a solid find right there.

747Music wrote:

belchmaster wrote:The copyright text was taken from an early-mid 90s Connoisseur Video screen. https://www.avid.wiki/Connoisseur_Video ... ing_Screen

That is a solid find right there.

Couldn't agree more! Thanks for pointing that out belchmaster - did not realize it had already been sourced.

747Music wrote:

belchmaster wrote:The copyright text was taken from an early-mid 90s Connoisseur Video screen. https://www.avid.wiki/Connoisseur_Video ... ing_Screen

That is a solid find right there.

Here is a sample of it's use:



Also, whaaaat is this video? Why doesn't the warning come at the beginning? It feels very relevant to the VHS tapes in theme and terrific strangeness.

belchmaster wrote:Love the recent posts here. Discord and Reddit just move to fast for me nowadays. But that's another story. I can't seem to shake the feeling that they're teasing something old here with these tapes.. Something that eventually shows up on their Hell Interface YT at some point. Then again, maybe it just seems that way because the tapes are nothing more than a wake up call. A reminder that things are still happening and slowly approaching the public.

Since were at the stage where everything is possible I hope for both old and new. That's not too much to ask for after all this time, right?

I feel similar to you. Especially as the screencaps have a similar quality to Closes Vol 1 (and they've used a medium dominant at the time that record was released to communicate with us). The TH release build-up didn't really step into the analogue world as obviously as this has. Maybe I'm reaching but a new record and the fabled BoC set would be a real gift to us all.

I said the same thing since the video kind of goes through their discography in a way. It starts with whoever that women is at the start (Music Has the Right), ventures into religion in the middle (Geogaddi et. al), and finishes with transmission towers and radio dishes (Harvest). I just hope it isn't a best of or compilation album.

Bringing up something from a few pages back— I’m of the opinion that this is not an ARG, but simply a teaser and an announcement of sorts that something is coming. I think it’s cool that the fanbase wants to comb over every frame and physical detail of the VHS, but I’m not convinced there’s anything to find that would point to the next “clue”

Something funny I haven’t seen mentioned is that on the same day this popped off, the band The Strokes used a very similar marketing campaign to announce their upcoming new album: https://theneedledrop.com/news/the-stro ... francisco/

They mailed cassette tapes with their new single to select fans, leaving the fanbase to digitize it and share the news. The similarities being outdated media formats being sent to personal addresses in order to drum up hype. In The Strokes case, fans had a chance to submit their addresses rather than how Warp secretly selected people who had ordered from Bleep. My point being that marketing agencies used similar ideas/followed the same trend.

The VHS tapes are very well done, but I feel a heavy hand from marketing and maybe less of a hand from the brothers themselves.

zeoevil wrote:I said the same thing since the video kind of goes through their discography in a way. It starts with whoever that women is at the start (Music Has the Right), ventures into religion in the middle (Geogaddi et. al), and finishes with transmission towers and radio dishes (Harvest). I just hope it isn't a best of or compilation album.

Best of/compilation albums don’t exist anymore. BOC would never.

2020k wrote:

zeoevil wrote:I said the same thing since the video kind of goes through their discography in a way. It starts with whoever that women is at the start (Music Has the Right), ventures into religion in the middle (Geogaddi et. al), and finishes with transmission towers and radio dishes (Harvest). I just hope it isn't a best of or compilation album.

Best of/compilation albums don’t exist anymore. BOC would never.

A best of fakes compilation would rule though. There's some pretty good ones out there

Sherbet Head wrote:While I never lost interest in a new album, over the past year I'd say I certainly began to not care about it so much, and I’ve generally adopted a less 'obsessive' approach to waiting. The years of countless hoaxes and speculation leading to nowhere had grown tiresome, so I distanced myself from the hype train.

However, catching up on the last 20 pages of this thread has definitely instilled me with optimism. Initially, I wasn't convinced when murmurs of a random VHS tape began to emerge, but with everything that has occurred since, it's hard not to get excited.

I think we're in for a treat!

Yeah, I kinda gave up on eagerly awaiting it. Been kinda more passively awaiting it in recent years—until a few days ago when we all snapped back into it!

I love BOC

HappyCyclist wrote:Bringing up something from a few pages back— I’m of the opinion that this is not an ARG, but simply a teaser and an announcement of sorts that something is coming. I think it’s cool that the fanbase wants to comb over every frame and physical detail of the VHS, but I’m not convinced there’s anything to find that would point to the next “clue”

Something funny I haven’t seen mentioned is that on the same day this popped off, the band The Strokes used a very similar marketing campaign to announce their upcoming new album: https://theneedledrop.com/news/the-stro ... francisco/

They mailed cassette tapes with their new single to select fans, leaving the fanbase to digitize it and share the news. The similarities being outdated media formats being sent to personal addresses in order to drum up hype. In The Strokes case, fans had a chance to submit their addresses rather than how Warp secretly selected people who had ordered from Bleep. My point being that marketing agencies used similar ideas/followed the same trend.

The VHS tapes are very well done, but I feel a heavy hand from marketing and maybe less of a hand from the brothers themselves.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... ans-59677/

pigammon wrote: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... ans-59677/

Yes…? I was pointing out that The Strokes campaign began on the exact same day as the first BOC tape was received. Meaning their agencies market research may be matching the moment as far as what will trend virally. Not that it’s a wholly new and unique idea.

Bleep is down right now

"We are temporarily offline for scheduled maintenance"

https://bleep.com



The HAMAD YT channel has been cleared out

dolochov wrote:The HAMAD YT channel has been cleared out

Doesn't even have the pfp anymore

The @ is now changed to @Unlistedpromo

HOLY CRAP it's been a minute since I last posted but I heard about BOC sending out tapes and rumors that they're making or announcing something soon and I've been freaking out over it, esp since I got into the band when Tomorrow's Harvest was only 5 years old, so to have some properly new stuff would make my whole year tbh

Something weird happened to me yesterday.
I viisited ncdsystems.com and wrote an email to the address limked in the webpage (I asked to send me a VHS tape lol). Well, since the last night the site has been changed, now it is no longer showing the mail address (1700 Fribourg, Switzerland), but only the email sysops@ncdsystems.com. Also the website graphic has been changed.
Got no response in my personal email though.

Its not just the email, the entire website seems different. I went to internet archive and things seem not as they were last year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250712105 ... stems.com/ vs now https://ncdsystems.com/

I didn't know it was changed many times over the last three years