GENERAL NEW RELEASE SPECULATION TOPIC

[john fonda]

They’re bound to be enthused after the reaction this week

Possible nudge to complete current work

[Opothecary]

It's gonna happen when it's going to happen regardless of any of this, if it's soon, this is why (I'm really thinking more like early 2019, but lets say they throw us a bone for once and this pans out):

- Peacock Tail Tweet - 2:25 timestamp, NBC logo pictured first used on 5/22/56 per Wikipedia - add them for the heck of it to get 747 or 22x5=110 or 5x22=110

- Iterations of 55 at the very beginning and tail end of the 2016 sequence and then going into 2017

- Activity on 3/28 in both 2017 and 2018 (new tweet, old tweet deletion in 2017/video playlist refresh in 2018)

- Deleted tweet on 3/28/17 was 5 years and 17 days old (3/11/12 - think 5:17 for the purpose of the next step - also, their latest video, Buckie High is 5:17 per the playlist)

- 5/22/18 is day 715 of the ARG (reverse of 5:17)

- 3/28 + 55 days = 5/22

- Weird Spotify thing had an error date of 1905-05-22

- The dead cosecha website Cloudflare error was a 522 for a long time, now its a 502

In a perfect world where we weren't trolled, you'd have had symmetry on either side of the 2016 -> 2017 gap

Beginning of 2016

6/6 +55 days (Macquarie Ridge tweet)
7/31 (Peacock Tail tweet)

End of 2016 into 2017

10/14 + 55 days (Left Side Drive tweet - video is 5:22 per their playlist)
12/8 + 110 days (Open the Light tweet - 5x22=110)
3/28 + 55 days (Dayvan Cowboy tweet)

5/22

of course, nothing happened on the date last year, but they re-used that date this year, which is the only time that's happened so far, I believe.

Cheers - but see you in early 2019, more likely than not

[Flory]

It's gonna happen when it's going to happen regardless of any of this, if it's soon, this is why (I'm really thinking more like early 2019, but lets say they throw us a bone for once and this pans out):

- Peacock Tail Tweet - 2:25 timestamp, NBC logo pictured first used on 5/22/56 per Wikipedia - add them for the heck of it to get 747 or 22x5=110 or 5x22=110

- Iterations of 55 at the very beginning and tail end of the 2016 sequence and then going into 2017

- Activity on 3/28 in both 2017 and 2018 (new tweet, old tweet deletion in 2017/video playlist refresh in 2018)

- Deleted tweet on 3/28/17 was 5 years and 17 days old (3/11/12 - think 5:17 for the purpose of the next step - also, their latest video, Buckie High is 5:17 per the playlist)

- 5/22/18 is day 715 of the ARG (reverse of 5:17)

- 3/28 + 55 days = 5/22

- Weird Spotify thing had an error date of 1905-05-22

- The dead cosecha website Cloudflare error was a 522 for a long time, now its a 502

In a perfect world where we weren't trolled, you'd have had symmetry on either side of the 2016 -> 2017 gap

Beginning of 2016

6/6 +55 days (Macquarie Ridge tweet)
7/31 (Peacock Tail tweet)

End of 2016 into 2017

10/14 + 55 days (Left Side Drive tweet - video is 5:22 per their playlist)
12/8 + 110 days (Open the Light tweet - 5x22=110)
3/28 + 55 days (Dayvan Cowboy tweet)

5/22

of course, nothing happened on the date last year, but they re-used that date this year, which is the only time that's happened so far, I believe.

Cheers - but see you in early 2019, more likely than not

I think you have gone to far with the number's

phpBB [media]

but then it could be possible.

[Flory]

It's gonna happen when it's going to happen regardless of any of this, if it's soon, this is why (I'm really thinking more like early 2019, but lets say they throw us a bone for once and this pans out):

- Peacock Tail Tweet - 2:25 timestamp, NBC logo pictured first used on 5/22/56 per Wikipedia - add them for the heck of it to get 747 or 22x5=110 or 5x22=110

- Iterations of 55 at the very beginning and tail end of the 2016 sequence and then going into 2017

- Activity on 3/28 in both 2017 and 2018 (new tweet, old tweet deletion in 2017/video playlist refresh in 2018)

- Deleted tweet on 3/28/17 was 5 years and 17 days old (3/11/12 - think 5:17 for the purpose of the next step - also, their latest video, Buckie High is 5:17 per the playlist)

- 5/22/18 is day 715 of the ARG (reverse of 5:17)

- 3/28 + 55 days = 5/22

- Weird Spotify thing had an error date of 1905-05-22

- The dead cosecha website Cloudflare error was a 522 for a long time, now its a 502

In a perfect world where we weren't trolled, you'd have had symmetry on either side of the 2016 -> 2017 gap

Beginning of 2016

6/6 +55 days (Macquarie Ridge tweet)
7/31 (Peacock Tail tweet)

End of 2016 into 2017

10/14 + 55 days (Left Side Drive tweet - video is 5:22 per their playlist)
12/8 + 110 days (Open the Light tweet - 5x22=110)
3/28 + 55 days (Dayvan Cowboy tweet)

5/22

of course, nothing happened on the date last year, but they re-used that date this year, which is the only time that's happened so far, I believe.

Cheers - but see you in early 2019, more likely than not

I think you have gone to far with the number's

phpBB [media]

but then it could be possible.

Also error 502 just means that the host stoped hosting http://cosecha-transmisiones.com/

[SamuraiDrifter]

It's gonna happen when it's going to happen regardless of any of this, if it's soon, this is why (I'm really thinking more like early 2019, but lets say they throw us a bone for once and this pans out):

- Peacock Tail Tweet - 2:25 timestamp, NBC logo pictured first used on 5/22/56 per Wikipedia - add them for the heck of it to get 747 or 22x5=110 or 5x22=110

- Iterations of 55 at the very beginning and tail end of the 2016 sequence and then going into 2017

- Activity on 3/28 in both 2017 and 2018 (new tweet, old tweet deletion in 2017/video playlist refresh in 2018)

- Deleted tweet on 3/28/17 was 5 years and 17 days old (3/11/12 - think 5:17 for the purpose of the next step - also, their latest video, Buckie High is 5:17 per the playlist)

- 5/22/18 is day 715 of the ARG (reverse of 5:17)

- 3/28 + 55 days = 5/22

- Weird Spotify thing had an error date of 1905-05-22

- The dead cosecha website Cloudflare error was a 522 for a long time, now its a 502

In a perfect world where we weren't trolled, you'd have had symmetry on either side of the 2016 -> 2017 gap

Beginning of 2016

6/6 +55 days (Macquarie Ridge tweet)
7/31 (Peacock Tail tweet)

End of 2016 into 2017

10/14 + 55 days (Left Side Drive tweet - video is 5:22 per their playlist)
12/8 + 110 days (Open the Light tweet - 5x22=110)
3/28 + 55 days (Dayvan Cowboy tweet)

5/22

of course, nothing happened on the date last year, but they re-used that date this year, which is the only time that's happened so far, I believe.

Cheers - but see you in early 2019, more likely than not

There's one important thing you're missing, Opothecary.

Byron Wallen's gamelan ensemble recently added, out of the blue, a second performance of Music Has the Right to Children.

The date? 5/22. Pretty interesting "coincidence," especially with the Spotify thing.

https://thejazzcafelondon.com/event/byr ... s-canada-2

[Opothecary]

There's one important thing you're missing, Opothecary.

Byron Wallen's gamelan ensemble recently added, out of the blue, a second performance of Music Has the Right to Children.

The date? 5/22. Pretty interesting "coincidence," especially with the Spotify thing.

https://thejazzcafelondon.com/event/byr ... s-canada-2

That's true, I'd already forgotten about that. Interesting.

Twitter count seems to have crept up to 224 - 225 being the reverse of 522 and all, going back to the Peacock Tail tweet. I'm not really expecting that to hold, I'm sure they will futz around with it up and down as part of this long troll.

Another cool thing to note is that the playlist refresh on 4/20 that pushed MHTRTC in sequence to the top also started off with 2 videos marked as Private - something you might normally see over the span of months as fan videos are taken down by their authors or whatever, but generally not just after a fresh update - videos 75 and 157.

The sum between the two numbers is 232 - split it in half into 23 days/32 days and count up from 3/28 and you've got 3/28 -> 4/20 -> 5/22 - the first 2 dates of which were when the video playlist was heavily revised. And of course, 157 itself is interesting within the context of the flipping between 517 and 715 that I mentioned in my last post.

29 days until I go back into my disappointment cocoon for a few months.

[Roswell]

Has he gone too far? or has he not gone far enough??
yeah prolly the first one but what else do we have

[Peacock Tail]

Isn't 22nd May the first day of Gemini?

[SamuraiDrifter]

May 21st is, I believe. But still... it's the day AFTER the first day of Gemini! That could mean something... right...?

[Negamuse]

Well here's the thing: I'm pretty lazy but if I could be bothered I'd look into how if you have a handful of low integers, and you allow all the mathematical operations including the non-mathematical ones like concatenation, you can turn them into dates that - if you squint at them just right, relate to an anniversary of something BoC did when they were still releasing music. But if we start letting things that are only one number away from being right count too, we can plausibly make any day of the year significant. I mean, sky's the limit really.

If all the dates are significant, none of them are. And honestly... I don't think any of them are. Especially the ones that are related to things outside of BoC/Warp's control, like remixes on other people's releases. I wish there were more to it, but I really, really don't think there is.

[Opothecary]

I get where you're coming from Negamuse - people sometimes forget (or weren't there) for the early days where it was half about numbers and subliminals, or that aspect just never mattered to them, but it is part of their "lore" like it or not.

It was already essentially proved out that they used this pattern to hint at the Mr. Mistake vinyl ahead of time, so its a little disingenuous to say that it's all made up and wish fulfillment.

If there is something to it, I think it will need to be something that gives the average layperson a "duh" moment, a moment of clarity if you will.

If it happens this summer, I'm of a mind to skip right past 5/22, I'm rather fond of a 6/18 announcement for 8/16 in terms of a simple and easy thing that former skeptics can probably finally get behind when all is said and done.

[flyinthepool]

I dont understand half of what Opothecary is writing and Im not into math but at the same time I dont get why many are so overly sceptical. BOCs music and recordcovers are competly full of subliminals and are insainly detailed so this seems like a typical thing for them to do.

[Valotonin]

I dont understand half of what Opothecary is writing and Im not into math but at the same time I dont get why many are so overly sceptical. BOCs music and recordcovers are competly full of subliminals and are insainly detailed so this seems like a typical thing for them to do.

While I agree to a certain extent, there is a question of boundaries. I am personally sitting on the fence on this one.
We have a camp that seem to be under the impression that BoC are ordinary lads you'd have a drink with down at the pub and others that assume they are on some next-level illuminati subliminal trip and everything they have ever said or done has been a coded message. The truth probably lies somewhere between the two.

[SamuraiDrifter]

Yeah. I've been pretty skeptical of the numerological theorizing in this thread in the past, but there are some things that have sort of suggested to me that there might be something to all of it. One of them is BOC's twitter followers hitting 44k on 4/4. And it does seem weird that they're always rearranging the Video playlist, unless they're doing it specifically to fuck with Opothecary, which would be hilarious.

I'm even less skeptical now with the Spotify "error" showing "1905-05-22" on 1969, and then the suddenly scheduled 5/22 performance of MHTRTC by Byron Wallen's gamelan ensemble. That seems like a really weird coincidence and I honestly don't even know what to think anymore.

I do know that MHTRTC now appears at the top of BOC's Spotify artist profile and it says "Posted by Boards of Canada," so they do appear to have been interacting with Spotify to some extent.

I'm wondering if we're going to get some kind of re-release of MHTRTC, maybe with bonus tracks or something. Maybe that's what all of this is pointing to.

[Moloch]

Man I'm getting kinda annoyed by the lack of news from the label/brothers. I know it's part of the group's identity, but still... TH was released almost 5 years ago, and I am so not ready for another 3+ years of waiting.

[Cyclosa]

Im not even that interested in when, but whatever they drop better be some shit since TH was pretty lackluster to me

[flyinthepool]

I dont understand half of what Opothecary is writing and Im not into math but at the same time I dont get why many are so overly sceptical. BOCs music and recordcovers are competly full of subliminals and are insainly detailed so this seems like a typical thing for them to do.

While I agree to a certain extent, there is a question of boundaries. I am personally sitting on the fence on this one.
We have a camp that seem to be under the impression that BoC are ordinary lads you'd have a drink with down at the pub and others that assume they are on some next-level illuminati subliminal trip and everything they have ever said or done has been a coded message. The truth probably lies somewhere between the two.

Because of all the stuff they hide in their music (and everything else: artwork, bandphotos, songtitles etc) there is off course a risk that you start seeing things that are not there just because you are allways looking for it, so yes there is a reason to be sceptical. But at the same time there is undoubtly a lot of things that really is there. They might be really ordinary as privatepersons, who knows, but BoC as a band really is "some next-level illuminati subliminal trip" ha ha. I just dont get this attitude that "well, I like BoC and all but this seemes a little farfetched". For me, even if I dont understand whats going on on twitter etc it feels like a very BoC thing to do. Its not half as crazy as all the eastereggs and hidden corridors in the music. Those who dont understand what Im talking about simply havent listened and watched closely enough.

[tonx]

Maybe the new record is already out there and we just haven’t found it yet. This is 100% true of their 5 earliest releases that we’ve so far failed to unearth.

At this point I’d settle for some Hell Interface bootlegs recorded overshortwave radio broadcast. Anything really.

[SamuraiDrifter]

BOC liked one of my FB posts. Unfortunately, or fortunately, it didn’t mention anything about a new album, so I can’t use it as grounds to speculate that said album is imminent, and thus be disappointed later. But still, cool.

[Flory]

Im not even that interested in when, but whatever they drop better be some shit since TH was pretty lackluster to me

A bit harsh but. Album was not the greatest but nor was it horrible. Nothing is Real was the greatest of them all in my opinion.