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| runtime=1:11<br />
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== Samples / Lyrics ==<br />
* The song heavily samples the flute melody and sound effects of "[https://youtu.be/eof_whqCvtU Lejos Te Llevas El Espejo De Tu Rostro]" from ''[https://www.discogs.com/Jorge-Reyes-Antonio-Zepeda-A-La-Izquierda-Del-Colibr%C3%AD/release/948075 A La Izquierda Del Colibrí]''.<ref>{{#ev:youtube|eof_whqCvtU||||||false}}</ref><ref>https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13222&start=160</ref><br />
* If you listen very carefully, you can hear the word 'us' repeated throughout the track.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* An Egyptian ritual [Sindawe]. ''"As the focus for offerings, the tomb was known as the "ka house"; statues of the deceased within the tomb are often called "ka statues" for the same reason. Statues of the deceased placed in the tomb serve as physical repositories for the dead person's spirit. Through the ritual of "opening the mouth," the statue was made an actual living being, able to receive offerings and live eternally as a physical container for the deceased's spirit (or "ka"). For these reasons, statues ideally were made of stone or other durable materials such as hardwood or metal."'' <br />
** [DC] was reading the book "How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphics" (Collier + Manley), and found the following on p126: ''"The front cover shows a detail of an inscribed ritual tool used in the rite of 'opening the mouth' - an obscure ceremony designed to breathe life into an embalmed corpse, a statue or an inscribed image."''<br />
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WN9FErgjOk Gatekeeper remix] of "Strawberry Skies" by Games samples this track.<ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id= _WN9FErgjOk}}</ref><br />
* The phrase "opening the mouth" also appears in Finnegan's Wake, in the chapter 15 clause "Of the Two Ways of Opening the Mouth."<br />
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[[Category:Geogaddi tracks]]</div>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=The_Process&diff=21460The Process2026-06-07T19:28:26Z<p>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75: </p>
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• "The Process" most likely refers to [[wikipedia:The Process Church of the Final Judgment|The Process Church of the Final Judgment]], which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s. [[wikipedia:The Process (collective)|The Process]] was the title of the group's self-titled magazine.<br />
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• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a female [[wikipedia:Speech synthesis|TTS]] - from what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of babble, such as "we noticed the [or 'noticeably'] acquired although they were refreshingly piped and" and "between various Phoenician Bishops, it should be vastly subducted [or 'seductive']."<br />
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• At 0:12 seconds in, the track contains a sample of the shortwave radio station UVB-76 from its broadcast on February 21, 2006.<ref>https://youtu.be/jOWExpS6q0c?si=junEtxgOldQ6Q_xL</ref> This also appears to have been sampled on the [[2026_Promo_Campaign#VHS_Tape_Mailings|VHS Tapes]] mailed to fans prior to the release of ''Inferno''.<br />
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[[Category:Inferno tracks]]</div>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=Somewhere_Right_Now_In_The_Future&diff=21459Somewhere Right Now In The Future2026-06-07T19:25:40Z<p>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75: /* Samples / Lyrics */ speculation</p>
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The track's title is potentially a reference to a quote by [[Autechre]]'s Sean Booth when asked, during a 2022 livestream, whether he had any news on [[Boards of Canada]]'s whereabouts: <blockquote>They're probably in the future somewhere, worrying about why it isn't like the past.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1pj1ity/sean_booth_from_autechre_on_the_whereabouts_of_boc/</ref></blockquote><br />
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* At 1:32, the sound of screeching tires - possibly of a car skidding off of a road - can be heard, later followed by a faint crashing sound at 1:41.<br />
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[[Category:Inferno tracks]]</div>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=Somewhere_Right_Now_In_The_Future&diff=21458Somewhere Right Now In The Future2026-06-07T19:23:56Z<p>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75: /* Comments */</p>
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The track's title is potentially a reference to a quote by [[Autechre]]'s Sean Booth when asked, during a 2022 livestream, whether he had any news on [[Boards of Canada]]'s whereabouts: <blockquote>They're probably in the future somewhere, worrying about why it isn't like the past.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1pj1ity/sean_booth_from_autechre_on_the_whereabouts_of_boc/</ref></blockquote><br />
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* Later into the track, at 1:32 the sound of screeching tires of a car skidding off of a road can be heard, later followed by a faint crashing sound at 1:41, this likely correlates to the accompanying art for ''[[Inferno]]'' which contains two photos of a severely damaged car.<br />
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[[Category:Inferno tracks]]</div>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75https://bocpages.org/w/index.php?title=Memory_Death&diff=21457Memory Death2026-06-07T19:22:57Z<p>2600:1004:A033:7CF0:8CE0:B7D:F4DE:2D75: /* Comments */</p>
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• A noise that strongly resembles a heart rate monitor beeping can be heard throughout the track.<br />
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• Sounds strongly reminiscent of the breathing sounds in [[Geogaddi]]'s ''[[Opening The Mouth]]'' can be heard in this track. On Geogaddi this was a reference to ancient Egyptian mummification practises - here it also seems to be related to the act of dying. Perhaps the 'memory' referred to by the title is the listener's memory of that track on Geogaddi, or the loss of memory during terminal illness or loss of life.<br />
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• Beginning at 1:13, a heavily time stretched sample of what sounds like a woman gasping "please" repeatedly can be heard.<br />
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