Boards of Canada Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

[Guest bitroast]

 

I have noticed that Palace Posy is track C1 on second LP. Anyone thrown back by the abrupt into to the track can enjoy the pause on the vinyl edition^~^

Can you show me where the track position are for each side of the 2xLP? Haven't seen that yet. If you could post a link, I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to plan a detour of Jacquard Causeway, and I'm a little lost.

Not the best link, may need to google, play around with the URL...

 

https://m.facebook.com/HEADLeamingtonSpa?id=332090357656&_rdr

 

Head Records, Leamington Spa

30 April ·

NEW ALBUM - BOARDS OF CANADA - TOMORROWS HARVEST released 10th June 2013. Artcard Edition CD , Double gatefold LP (w/download code) & Regular CD versions will be available. We will have this and enjoy every second of it we hope. Available to pre-order in store from today/now/whenever you like...

 

CD tracklist

 

01. Gemini

 

02. Reach For The Dead

 

03. White Cyclosa

 

04. Jacquard Causeway

 

05. Telepath

 

06. Cold Earth

 

07. Transmisiones Ferox

 

08. Sick Times

 

09. Collapse

 

10. Palace Posy

 

11. Split Your Infinities

 

12. Uritual

 

13. Nothing Is Real

 

14. Sundown

 

15. New Seeds

 

16. Come To Dust

 

17. Semena Mertvykh

 

 

Vinyl tracklist

 

A1. Gemini

 

A2. Reach For The Dead

 

A3. White Cyclosa

 

A4. Jacquard Causeway

 

B1. Telepath

 

B2. Cold Earth

 

B3. Transmisiones Ferox

 

B4. Sick Times

 

B5. Collapse

 

C1. Palace Posy

 

C2. Split Your Infinities

 

C3. Uritual

 

C4. Nothing Is Real

 

C5. Sundown

 

D1. New Seeds

 

D2. Come To Dust

 

D3. Semena Mertvykh

 

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[lumpenprol]

Tomorrow's Harvest Is their third best album and their fifth best release.

 

Geogaddi

MHTRTC

Twoism

Hi Scores

Tomorrow's Harvest

lol

 

You're not counting the eps, though. That would make it their 7th best release.

[DorkingtonPugsly]

Is it just me or does that synth from Farewell Fire come in at the end of Transmisiones Ferox?

Edited June 5, 2013 by DorkingtonPugsly

[Alzado]

Is it just me or does that synth from Farewell Fire come in at the end of Transmisiones Ferox?

 

it's the synth loop from the Adult Swim/NPR/record store day etc. "transmissions." Including that little clip on the album is sort of a tip of the hat to the fans I suspect.

[Atop]

owl of Minerva man

[YangYing]

It was I who solved that.

 

 

glad to see that BoC like owls too

 

Edited June 5, 2013 by MIXL2

[fumi]

My photos from Tower Records, Osaka.

 

They had a huge Daft Punk display next to BOC - absolutely dwarfed them. Wrong on so many levels.

Promo lucky dip was the same as other stores except you could win a t-shirt instead of a magnet. I won a sticker. wtf.

I asked the sales girl about the record and she said that it was just the vinyl release (in a plain white sleeve).

 

Hi-res images are below.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/g36bjjxgdz6ek1y/sth6xI6Y1u

 

Looking forward to see what goodies HMV can offer on Saturday when the vinyl arrives.

[scumtron]

http://www.7digital.com/artist/boards-of-canada/release/tomorrows-harvest

Time-limited offer for Bleep haters.

[sysyphus]

From Bleep:

 

Hi D,

We're sorry you are disappointed that there is no lossless download with the Boards of Canada release. No other store is offering a lossless download with the record so this is the same as everywhere else.

You have ordered the CD which has 16-bit lossless files on it. Are you talking about 24-bit WAVs?

Our standard offering of a digital counterpart is an MP3 version. For certain projects we have offered a higher quality download than MP3 but this is by no means standard.

Looking at your order history I can see that you have received 24-bit downloads of Autechre's releases in the past so I totally understand why you would expect this with this album. However the cost of providing every Boards of Canada customer with a 24-bit download was prohibitive with the numbers involved.

I share your passion for high quality files but in this case we tried to be as clear as possible in stating that an MP3 version only was what we were offering.

Please feel free to respond and let us know if you think this is unreasonable.

Bleep Support

 

...was prohibitive with the numbers involved? I read that as "Our pitiful Amazon AWS server cannot handle that many http downloads of the 24-bit WAVs so we've decided to fuck you over"

 

Bleep = dead to me

Long live the pirated throes of Warp records

Edited June 5, 2013 by sysyphus

[oscillik]

From Bleep:

 

Hi D,

We're sorry you are disappointed that there is no lossless download with the Boards of Canada release. No other store is offering a lossless download with the record so this is the same as everywhere else.

You have ordered the CD which has 16-bit lossless files on it. Are you talking about 24-bit WAVs?

Our standard offering of a digital counterpart is an MP3 version. For certain projects we have offered a higher quality download than MP3 but this is by no means standard.

Looking at your order history I can see that you have received 24-bit downloads of Autechre's releases in the past so I totally understand why you would expect this with this album. However the cost of providing every Boards of Canada customer with a 24-bit download was prohibitive with the numbers involved.

I share your passion for high quality files but in this case we tried to be as clear as possible in stating that an MP3 version only was what we were offering.

Please feel free to respond and let us know if you think this is unreasonable.

Bleep Support

 

...was prohibitive with the numbers involved? I read that as "Our pitiful Amazon AWS server cannot handle that many http downloads of the 24-bit WAVs so we've decided to fuck you over"

 

Bleep = dead to me

Long live the pirated throes of Warp records

lol

[fumi]

I think the true issue here is as oscillik has mentioned before.

 

It's easy to scale up AWS on demand but they probably ask for some considerable dough for that service as it's a temporary thing put in place for a few hours or so.

 

Last year, I moved over a lot of stuff from Amazon AWS to Amazon Glacier and while the storage is insanely cheap, every time you request a file, there is a five to six hour delay and the costs of transfer are considerable.

 

Amazon are gonna charge more for anything that deviates from standard practices.

Edited June 5, 2013 by fumi

[Joyrex]

I know this might be hard for some of you to accept, but I've been given the impression that Boards is WARP's biggest act by far (notwithstanding Aphex being out of the scene for so long), and their statement that they couldn't meet demand is probably true - of course, if uptime was their number one priority like most online retailers, they'd expend whatever finances to ensure they could handle the demand, but apparently they're not doing that (whether or not financially it's viable for them, or technically, is unknown).

 

I personally couldn't care less whether there are 24-bit versions available, but I appreciate the expectation some here have for that, and it's disappointing that after 8 years of waiting for a new release, fans can't have the music they've craved in the formats they prefer. I suppose the only way to get 24-bit quality would be a superb vinyl rip, no? SInce the CD format is limited to 16-bit/44100kzh, right?

 

For some reason I can't quite explain, the opening track, Gemini, really appeals to me and I find myself playing it over and over - really like the overall feel and mood of this track.

[joshuatxuk]

owl of Minerva man

 

 

It was I who solved that.

 

 

glad to see that BoC like owls too

 

 

saw that on BoC pages this morning, on their FB comments - Bohemian Groove connections were brought up immediately, personally I just liked this reference:

 

"When philosophy paints its gloomy picture then a form of life has grown old. It cannot be rejuvenated by the gloomy picture, but only understood. Only when the dusk starts to fall does the owl of Minerva spread its wings and fly."

[YangYing]

 

owl of Minerva man

 

 

It was I who solved that.

 

 

glad to see that BoC like owls too

 

 

saw that on BoC pages this morning, on their FB comments - Bohemian Groove connections were brought up immediately, personally I just liked this reference:

 

"When philosophy paints its gloomy picture then a form of life has grown old. It cannot be rejuvenated by the gloomy picture, but only understood. Only when the dusk starts to fall does the owl of Minerva spread its wings and fly."

 

 

 

I posted the Owl of Minerva thing two pages ago. I'm guessing it could lead to some kind of code for the cosecha-transmisiones site, time will tell. It's definitely not a coincidence (and if it is, it's a pretty cool one).

 

 

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Edited June 5, 2013 by MIXL2

[joshuatxuk]

I personally couldn't care less whether there are 24-bit versions available, but I appreciate the expectation some here have for that, and it's disappointing that after 8 years of waiting for a new release, fans can't have the music they've craved in the formats they prefer. I suppose the only way to get 24-bit quality would be a superb vinyl rip, no? SInce the CD format is limited to 16-bit/44100kzh, right?

 

CD is that format, or in .wav if it's a digital download, which is the same quality as the CDs from bleep. When I see anything above the CD quality of 16bit/44.1 it's usually 24-bit, 192khz DVD audiophile releases in 5.1 format or vinyl rips done at 24-bit, 96khz.

 

I swear I read "24-bit .flac" somewhere in the threads too...does that exist? I always thought .flac was a more efficient lossless format that was below 16-bit .wav but above 320kbps. Only 24-bit format on Bleep is also .wav

[mcbpete]

Yeah 24-bit flac does exist (I don't think there is a ceiling to how high the bit rate can go) - I've saved the last two Ae albums as that (from the 24 bit wavs) and the file sizes come to about the same as a 16bit wav, though obviously with the quality of the original

[fumi]

I recently bought a network player and was under the assumption that they just play Flac over UPnP but what actually happens is the Flac is sent to player and effectively put back into its WAV container. What they actually output are WAV files.

 

I found this out on the Hydrogen Audio forum.

[mcbpete]

Aye they're pretty much just like .zip files but specialise/optimised in the lossless compression of audio rather than a universal compression format.

[xfxf]

enjoying the shit out of this album so far.

[sysyphus]

It just blows my mind how they can justify to have everyone flood their site and download the mp3 release but the lossless ones are deemed "too bandwidth intensive" on an already flawed download system. I'm also not a jerk when it comes to quality, I just like lossless since hard drive space isn't an issue for me and since Warp has been great about providing the 24-bit WAV masters I always liked the fact that there was the option.

 

You can convert 24-bit WAVs to 24-bit FLACs at no loss of quality to save a bit of space, although to be honest the only albums in the last few years to provide the WAVs have been Warp's artists and Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, and that's about it.

 

Bring on TH!

Edited June 5, 2013 by sysyphus

[YangYing]

I'm not hearing any stream rips/leaks till the mp3's from bleep (which I paid for), come out. I want to do this whole thing legally, really disappointed that bleep have not yet released the audio files.

[pattern recognition]

For some reason I can't quite explain, the opening track, Gemini, really appeals to me and I find myself playing it over and over - really like the overall feel and mood of this track.

i agree with this, it really sets a nice, bleak mood for the entire album. i also like the juxtaposition between the opening horn/synth chime and the dissonance in the rest of the track.

[xfxf]

I'm not hearing any stream rips/leaks till the mp3's from bleep (which I paid for), come out. I want to do this whole thing legally, really disappointed that bleep have not yet released the audio files.

 

yeah, so did i, which is why i pre-ordered the bloody thing.. but ya know

[xfxf]

bleep appear to have the album available for download now, btw - i am downloading it now (I'm in Australia and it's 2AM June 6th, unsure whether that's only for australian purchases or not)

 

and yep, mp3 only :(

 

Edited June 5, 2013 by xf

[Guest theSun]

doesn't look like its available for me in eastern us