Strange Soup/The Thrift Store Tape Discussion

[Orbited insanitarium]

I've sent Filmmaker a message on Bandcamp asking for confirmation. The music on the tape honestly sounds very similar in terms of style! Hopefully we have a breakthrough with this, but I'll check back in when I get a response!

Nice! Hopefully we get a speedy response. This is painfully interesting.

All these posts are hard to keep up with.
I should really get myself a 'Evidence/Crazy Wall' That'd help me stay in the loop.

Grateful to Dan the Man!

[rodox_head]

I've sent Filmmaker a message on Bandcamp asking for confirmation. The music on the tape honestly sounds very similar in terms of style! Hopefully we have a breakthrough with this, but I'll check back in when I get a response!

Isn't Filmmaker from Colombia? How would a tape of his end up in Pennsylvania? Its possible, but I still have my doubts. It sure sounds like if he went in a much lighter direction more than anything BoC.

[Echelon]

I didn't see this mentioned yet. Look at the tags. Don't forget we have a Kevin Shields (MBV) speculation thread going on. Coincidence? Someone having a laugh at our expense?




source: https://mattw.io/youtube-metadata/?url= ... ubmit=true

I lol'd when I saw this. I'm happy this guy decided to make some humor out of this because that thread I made ended up putting a bad taste in my mouth. So any nods in the arg are fine by me XD

[Sky and Trails]

DBZ translated back to numbers is 4 2 26

42:26 was the thrift shop vid length and sprouted 2 mysterious youtube channels
Channel 4226 and Forty-two twenty-six

Don't forget Channel Onesixtyfive https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbur9JHMIM0c8fUT8nYkYsQ

This is the thing that has my interest. It says something happens live tomorrow, doesn't it?

[Dan Fingerman]

I've sent Filmmaker a message on Bandcamp asking for confirmation. The music on the tape honestly sounds very similar in terms of style! Hopefully we have a breakthrough with this, but I'll check back in when I get a response!

Isn't Filmmaker from Colombia? How would a tape of his end up in Pennsylvania? Its possible, but I still have my doubts. It sure sounds like if he went in a much lighter direction more than anything BoC.

I understand, but the production techniques sound really similar and it's pretty much the best lead I've gotten from the comment section so far. Plus, on their bandcamp page it says the following in the description of their bandcamp page

That's pretty suspicious if you ask me, but I could very well be wrong. I'll let twoism know though

[April 7th]

This might not be much to good on but the fbclid part at the end of the 3rd URL fragment in the second Channel 4226 video might suggest that it came from Facebook.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fbclid+ ... nt=gws-wiz

I don't have a Facebook account. It looks like I can't search the site without one. fbclid is apparently a tracking parameter. I had wondered if missingtrack might refer to tracking of some kind, rather than a recording.

https://www.justuno.com/blog/understand ... -audience/

[karpeggi]

I think you are right about ?fbclid, at least it seems to hint towards a facebook url.

And I did find that some facebook URLs do work with /l for example http://facebook.com/l/healthy

Rewatching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JcasYsQ234 at 0:56 I see:



Which in text is:

12/20-8-18-5-5-16-12-21-19-20-5-14-20-8-18-5-5-20-9?fbclid=l

and decoded with a1z26 yeilds:

l/threeplustenthreeti?fbclid=l

To me that looks like a truncated "three plus ten three times three" which so far has been decoded as "missingtrack" ...

And somewhat intersting is https://www.facebook.com/l/missingtrack yields "The link may be broken, or the page may have been removed."

That's notably a different result than a link that never existed, nonexistent links just redirect to the facebook home.

It's also thats similar to the other hint "qhLi2s6ss57" which as youtube url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhLi2s6ss57 yields "This video isn't available anymore"

So... are the answers actually missing links? I don't get it...there must be something else *scratches head*

[April 7th]

Facebook tracking parameters apparently include the 61 characters after the equals symbol. The complete tracking parameter would be:

?fbclid=lwAR0XLO8QB645hUQz55fTgXalWj4AHKWY_3PzjczPr3hBT05qhLi2s6ss57U

The last URL fragment is probably not a Youtube address.

Youtube seems to return the "that video isn't available anymore" error for anything you put in. Facebook might be similar. I don't think the pages we're supposed to find would have been deleted.

I hadn't noticed the tumblr URL includes a truncated form of threeplustenthreetimesthree. Tumblr recognizes the post as 680323740409741312, but in addition to that it seems that it is possible for the user to choose a custom URL.

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/setting ... 75810.html

This might have been truncated because of a character limit.

Similar customized URLs are apparently available to Facebook users. I l o v e y o u in the description for the second channel 4226 video gives 9 12 15 22 5 25 15 21. Seeburdz gives 19 5 5 2 21 18 4 26. It's a long shot but does https://www.facebook.com/9-12-15-22-5-25-15-21 or https://www.facebook.com/19-5-5-2-21-18-4-26 lead anywhere?

Sadly it doesn't seem possible to locate a Facebook post from the tracking parameters they add to outgoing links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookAds/co ... om_fbclid/

I'm less inclined to believe that this may be Boards of Canada now.

[Fredd-E]

I'm less inclined to believe that this may be Boards of Canada now.

I can imagine they’re not keen on Facebook indeed.

[hexagonFox]

Could it be an image.... don't image urls just need some dimensions and a .png or .jpeg at the end.
just spit balllinnnnnnnn

[oakmoss&amber]

I know this was mentioned before, but this seems to be slow so anything could help. I was curious about the media address for the Seeburdz Tumblr page https://64.media.tumblr.com/c7b219f9f451143f7e01d0c383856890/7421c7e997ead732-db/s128x128u_c1/66287ec23bf790244255e37d022e4a12366fd64c.pnj. It contains 4 sets of characters separated by /'s. I don't know anything about Tumblr so this could just be a fart in the wind.

I've tried every variation I can think of and I am all out of ideas.

c7b219f9f451143f7e01d0c383856890

7421c7e997ead732-db

s128x128u_c1

66287ec23bf790244255e37d022e4a12366fd64c.pnj

[hexagonFox]

https://www.facebook.com/Hell-Interface ... 955414202/


http://www.hellinterface.com/?fbclid=Iw ... UBNU2yLKYM

creepy examples of urls

the end of the hell interface webpage is
?fbclid=IwAR1Z4wZzTWp0ODbXKm6M2psyYeIRsN9s8B2X8RuzaIqHROQPPUBNU2yLKYM

[Orbited insanitarium]

https://www.facebook.com/Hell-Interface-246255955414202/


http://www.hellinterface.com/?fbclid=Iw ... UBNU2yLKYM

creepy examples of urls

the end of the hell interface webpage is
?fbclid=IwAR1Z4wZzTWp0ODbXKm6M2psyYeIRsN9s8B2X8RuzaIqHROQPPUBNU2yLKYM

All this digging around and the url turned out to be Hell Interface.

phpBB [media]

"Hidden In Plain Sight..."

[hexagonFox]

https://www.facebook.com/Hell-Interface-246255955414202/


http://www.hellinterface.com/?fbclid=Iw ... UBNU2yLKYM

creepy examples of urls

the end of the hell interface webpage is
?fbclid=IwAR1Z4wZzTWp0ODbXKm6M2psyYeIRsN9s8B2X8RuzaIqHROQPPUBNU2yLKYM

phpBB [media]

All this digging around and the url turned out to be Hell Interface.

Spoiler: show

"Hidden In Plain Sight."

I don't think so, I am not computer smart... so I'm just keeping the conversation going and prodding the more analytical thinkers on this page

[SonnyJim]

Oakmoss and amber there won't be codes in a tumblr link they are random generated not by the user.

[SamuraiDrifter]

I've sent Filmmaker a message on Bandcamp asking for confirmation. The music on the tape honestly sounds very similar in terms of style! Hopefully we have a breakthrough with this, but I'll check back in when I get a response!

I'm on Filmmaker's Discord server and have spoken with him on a couple of occasions. I can tell you pretty conclusively he is not behind the tape and if his music is on there, it was taken without his knowledge or consent.

Filmmaker is currently on a European tour and has been busy dropping tons of new music. He also does his own cover art, runs a label called Body Musick, and provides artwork for other artists on his label. On top of that, he has an already established fanbase. Based on everything I know about him, he first of all doesn't have the time for something like this, and second of all, it's not the sort of thing he would be even remotely interested in doing.

[Sky and Trails]

It seems that this particular thing has paused...

Did I miss what the following ended up being?

message board error code: A3, -H0. 0F59C90F


I noticed a the snippet of cloud footage from the original VHS tape upload.

I'm not sure what's happening.

But I am getting to the point where I listen to that badass intro from the VHS tape DAILY. It's a great little mix to get the day started.

[April 7th]

The letters in the message board error code are converted into numbers using an A1Z26 cipher. The characters after the comma provide the longitude for the thrift store where the mixtape was said to be found. The characters before the comma provide the end of the latitude. The first part of the latitude is taken from the numbers, and words which can be interpreted as numbers, in the advertisement for a performance of classical music in the Channel Onesixtyfive video.

Latitude: 40.4955466013
Longitude: -80.06593906

https://www.google.com/maps/place/40%C2 ... 80.0659391

The Channel Onesixtyfive video also alluded to something happening on April 7th. That was the date the second video was uploaded to Channel 4226, which contains screenshots of the link for the Seeburdz Tumblr post.

The numbers, Roman numerals and clues in the post seem to contain the message missingtrack. The Tumblr link includes a tracking parameter added by Facebook.

I had thought the Tumblr post might use a custom URL. It would appear to have been generated automatically from the truncated first line of the post. I think it is unlikely that there is a custom Facebook URL associated with this.

[Sky and Trails]

New video

https://youtu.be/aF4oQuZoBoE

[karpeggi]

https://youtu.be/aF4oQuZoBoE