Post-WXAXRXP Societas X Tape Tracklist & Discussion

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Listened to so much 70s and 80s musical soundtrack / religious / cult music in the last few days to try and get a hit on that fretless bass track to no luck. At this point I'm wondering if it's worth uploading it to Youtube on its own and seeing if a content ID claim goes in that gives away what it is cos it's not on Shazam that's for sure :lol:

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Negamuse wrote:Listened to so much 70s and 80s musical soundtrack / religious / cult music in the last few days to try and get a hit on that fretless bass track to no luck. At this point I'm wondering if it's worth uploading it to Youtube on its own and seeing if a content ID claim goes in that gives away what it is cos it's not on Shazam that's for sure :lol:


The results of Youtube's scan of the whole mix to find copyrighted content is already visible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXV1dsx5yfs (click on Read More and scroll down).

Also, if anyones into collecting tapes, there is an original 1985 cassette of Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger going very cheap (€9) https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/978059830

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During the stream:
*stubs cigarette out*
"Thank you for not smoking"
...w-what?

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Just noticed that the radio scan at the very start of the mix seems to include a snippet of Dance With Us Lord from later in the mix. Right after the "astrophysics, medicine, biology and technology" fade in.

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^ Great catch! One day I'll cross paths with the classical snippet that plays half a second after that during the radio scan as well.

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Negamuse wrote:Listened to so much 70s and 80s musical soundtrack / religious / cult music in the last few days to try and get a hit on that fretless bass track to no luck. At this point I'm wondering if it's worth uploading it to Youtube on its own and seeing if a content ID claim goes in that gives away what it is cos it's not on Shazam that's for sure :lol:


the only thing that we know for sure is that it was released on vinyl, as vinyl crackles are very present during the whole track.
at 1:34:56 it also sounds like something had hit the turntable during the recording.

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broke wrote:
Negamuse wrote:Listened to so much 70s and 80s musical soundtrack / religious / cult music in the last few days to try and get a hit on that fretless bass track to no luck. At this point I'm wondering if it's worth uploading it to Youtube on its own and seeing if a content ID claim goes in that gives away what it is cos it's not on Shazam that's for sure :lol:


the only thing that we know for sure is that it was released on vinyl, as vinyl crackles are very present during the whole track.
at 1:34:56 it also sounds like something had hit the turntable during the recording.

I heard that too, I think it happens 2 times. For all we know we could deal with sampled drums and vinyl crackle was there to begin with. Hi hat sounds like a drum machine and the snare sounds very suspicious.

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https://streamable.com/qvo0r

Okay, I got a bit carried away there :twisted:

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Some previous comments about the "fretless/bass" track in the last couple of pages made me go down a weird rabbit hole..."Julie and Candy"..."a musical"...my brain randomly thought there may be some link to Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) and "A Spoonful Of Sugar" (candy, obvs). Searched for some out there cover (jazz/lounge) versions of 'Spoonful' on You Tube and Discogs with no success...maybe someone else with more musical chops might have some success? Just a thought.

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Probably not much to read into, but boctransmission retweeted an article which has the line: "Rumor has it, the mix even contains as-yet unreleased BoC music."

Personally I don't think there's any.

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outhudd wrote:Probably not much to read into, but boctransmission retweeted an article which has the line: "Rumor has it, the mix even contains as-yet unreleased BoC music."

Personally I don't think there's any.

You may be right. Even that edit of Grace Jones/Aquarius could be someone's edit off soundcloud.

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I would be quite surprised if the track at 1 hour and 52 minutes is not BoC.

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Mozart wrote:I would be quite surprised if the track at 1 hour and 52 minutes is not BoC.


honestly that track doesn't really sounds like BoC in my opinion

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Time shall tell. I definitely can't say for sure. That's the magic of the mixtape, though!

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Moz wrote:You may be right. Even that edit of Grace Jones/Aquarius could be someone's edit off soundcloud.

The Aquarius samples are too clean, plus it doesn't make much sense to me to include a fan edit like that. It's most def an unreleased Boards remix, whether it's MHTRTC era or recent just for this mixtape we don't know.

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lol@edit off soundcloud.. It's a fantastic track, no way that is from a fan
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Yeah the idea that the Aquarius/Illusion/Slave to the Rhythm remix is "a fan edit from soundcloud" is fucking laughable. Come on.

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I have not seen a real solid update of the track list that has been floating around since day one. Because I am a bit anal retentive, I wanted to make one of my own.

There are a couple things worth noting about my track list:

- My recording of the tape started with the Warp30 bumper. I listed it as the first track. Every time I hear it it reminds me of how awesome that weekend was and how great the whole Societas X experience was. So, I consider it part of the set.
- Any track that is still undiscovered is listed as Unknown. I put comments in [ ] as I saw fit. My list still retains most of the descriptive aspects of the list found on BOC Pages.
- I separated the Grace Jones / Imagination / Aquarius medley into three different tracks. I may change that if I can think of a better way to tag it since it is not exactly Unknown.
- I also left the bumper at the end because I could swear I did not hear it any other time the whole weekend. I feel like it might be something they made for the event. Please correct me if I am wrong.

As I was compiling my list I was listening to the recording and keeping track of the time code in my audio editor so I could note the transition points. There were couple neat things I missed the first few times I listened to it:

- The end of Egberto Gismonti's Jardim De Prazere suddenly speeds up when the Mother Goddess bit starts. It's as if they pressed fast forward on a tape.
- Track 39 on the track list at BOC Pages is incorrectly labeled as an interlude. It is actually the start of the next track on Jean-Pierre Massiera's Horrific Child album. You can even hear it in this video. Hilariously the cutoff point in the video is pretty close to the one in Societas X. That Horrific Child album art is awesome, by the way.
- The interlude right after Dance With Us Lord sounds almost identical when you reverse it.
- The string interlude right before the Bruce Haack track almost sounds time stretched. You can kind of hear that 'pull and snap' sound that that effect tends to cause. I might be hearing things though.

Here is my version of the Societas X track list...
Spoiler: show
00:00:00 01 Warp Records - Warp30 Bumper
00:00:25 02 Unknown [Shortwave Radio Scan 01]
00:00:57 03 Jasper Van't Hof - Associations
00:03:56 04 coL - This Flat Earth
00:06:42 05 Unknown [Drone]
00:07:05 06 Heldon - Une Drole De Journee
00:07:31 07 Unknown [Garbled Commercial]
00:07:33 08 Unknown
00:09:40 09 Killing Joke - Unspeakable (Demo Version)
00:12:08 10 Dolphins Into The Future - A3
00:12:35 11 Dolphins Into The Future - B1
00:14:15 12 Victrola - Maritime Tatami
00:18:35 13 George Duke - Volcan Mind Probe
00:21:18 14 Flayer - Wanna Get Back Your Love (Mix 1)
00:24:55 15 Unknown [My Bloody Valentine-ish]
00:25:31 16 Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger
00:28:52 17 Unknown [WGBH - Your Choice 5]
00:29:09 18 Paul Hart - Prospect
00:32:10 19 M. S. Subbulakshmi - Srimannarayana
00:33:42 20 Esplendor Geometrico - Regeneración
00:36:19 21 Unknown [Swine Flu Commercial]
00:36:47 22 Unknown [Thank You For Not Smoking]
00:38:24 23 Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm
00:39:25 24 Imagination - Just An Illusion
00:39:44 25 Boards Of Canada - Aquarius (Alternate Version)
00:41:08 26 Unknown [Car Rental Commercial]
00:41:15 27 Jupiter Prophet - 35,000 Feet (Challenger's Theme)
00:42:27 28 Unknown
00:44:40 28 Unknown [Bing Crosby Minute Maid Orange Juice Commercial]
00:46:05 29 Devo - Shrivel Up
00:49:06 30 Stefan Zauner - Billy Miller
00:54:28 31 Unknown [Wind Tunnel]
00:54:49 32 These Trails - Garden Botanum
00:56:52 33 Unknown [Wind Tunnel Slower]
00:57:08 34 These Trails - Garden Botanum
00:57:28 35 Dreamers Cloth - The Coconut Pearl
00:59:45 36 Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly
01:00:03 37 Unknown [Shortwave Radio Scan 02]
01:00:17 38 Alan Parker - The Free Life
01:02:30 39 Egberto Gismonti - Jardim De Prazeres
01:05:08 40 Unknown [Mother Goddess Of The World]
01:05:16 41 Les Maledictus Sound - L’entrage Monsieur Whinster
01:07:10 42 Severed Heads - We Have Come To Bless This House
01:10:33 43 Morgan Page - Heartbeat
01:10:55 44 Unknown [Casiotone 202 Commercial]
01:11:23 45 Filmmaker - Crow Mask
01:14:25 46 Suraiya - Ek Tu Ho Ek Main Hoon
01:16:38 47 Yellow Magic Orchestra - Light Into Darkness
01:18:06 48 Hajime Tachibana ‎- XP41
01:19:03 49 Lena Platonos - Bloody Shadows From Afar
01:22:19 50 Unknown [Pink Floyd-ish]
01:23:08 51 Unknown [Post Punk]
01:25:55 52 Creed Taylor Orchestra - Heartaches
01:26:42 53 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Osten Währt Am Längsten
01:29:27 54 Unknown [Twin Peaks]
01:31:53 55 Unknown
01:34:09 56 Unknown [Fretless Julie And Candy]
01:37:42 57 Christian Chevalier - Strange Pop
01:41:01 58 Colourbox - Tarantula (12 Inch Version)
01:44:10 59 33.10.3402 - Kanap
01:48:15 60 Unknown [The Elegants - Little Star (Reversed)]
01:50:25 61 One Foundation - Dance With Us Lord
01:52:10 62 Unknown
01:55:17 63 Unknown [Time Stretched Strings]
01:55:48 64 Bruce Haack - Angel Child
01:56:40 65 Christian Chevallier - Sea Cathedral
02:00:19 66 Warp Records - Warp30 Bumper

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Haven't seen this posted here, but in case someone here doesn't check the reddit forum, there's a massive search of a mysterious song pressumably by the same band that made the "such a long time ago" song.
This is the subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong
"Boards of Canada is a unique project that got a bit out of hand."

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Negamuse wrote:Listened to so much 70s and 80s musical soundtrack / religious / cult music in the last few days to try and get a hit on that fretless bass track to no luck.


My first instinct would be to listen to every record Pino Palladino played on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pino_Palladino
But it might not be him. It doesn't quite sound like his playing, more like someone imitating his sound because it was very popular back then.

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