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"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25 PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 2:57 PM UTC +2

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11 AM UTC -6

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 10:57 AM UTC +2

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005)

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement (released 21/7)

12/9 - Amo Bishop Roden (2000) - 11:32 AM UTC +3

12/9 - Mike Sandison tweeted - 12:28 PM UTC +3

27/9 - An Eagle in Your Mind (1998) - 3:11 PM - UTC +7

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet.

- For 2017, we ratcheted down by halves starting with 84, followed by 42, followed by 21. An Eagle in Your Mind represents 2017's version of Macquarie Ridge; the bookend value is 36 in both cases, we multiplied to get there in 2016, we added in 2017.

- There is an overall pattern starting on June 6th 2016 through December 8th, 2017 with values incrementing by 55 or 110. They only broke this pattern early on with Nothing is Real on August 24th. Nothing is Real should be thought of as a disrupter; it's only useful purpose is the fact that it has the same timestamp as the Cosecha console:

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The pattern is as follows:

6/6/16 -> 31/7/16 (55 days)

31/7/16 -> 24/8/16 (24 days)
24/8/16 -> 14/10/16 (51 days)

14/10/16 -> 8/12/16 (55 days)
12/8/16 -> 28/3/16 (110 days)
28/3/17 -> 3/11/17 (220 days) (noting the 15 day gap between 12/9 and 27/9, the reverse of 51 days in 2016)

3/11/17 -> 28/12/17 (55 days)

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (22/5) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747. More importantly, multiply 22x5 to reach 110. 110 is a key number in the flow of the pattern between both years shown above.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 36

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

2017 was a mirror of 2016, taking advantage of the fact that the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are all divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

21/7 - 147 (84 + 42 +21 = 147 - Mr. Mistake picture disc)

9/12 - 21

9/27 - 36

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Let's take special note of the timestamps on certain tweets and talk about the mirroring aspects of the 2016 sequence vs 2017. Many of 2016s posts are "negative" and have a "positive" companion on the 2017 side.

In 2016, the sequence begins with "6/6/6", the 3:11am timestamp is hidden in Left Side Drive and can be seen at UTC -6 - the distance of time between Nothing is Real and Left Side Drive is 51 days, the same length of time as the siege in Waco, the overall 55/110 sequence is broken for the first and only time at that point.

In 2017, the 51 day length of time is reversed to 15 days using Amo Bishop Roden, 3:11pm now hides in UTC +7, the larger sequence stands unbroken in 2017 when viewed from start (28/3) to finish (28/12) (220 + 55 days)

31/7/16 - 2:25 PM (New Brunswick Canada time) - The peacock logo was first used by NBC on May 22nd, 1956. We can use that date as a clue to the time zone for this post. Aside from 522 + 225 = 747, we use 5x22 (110) as the number of days between the last post of 2016 and the first of 2017, and double it (220) for the length of time between March 28th, 2017 and November 3rd, 2017.

24/8/16 - 2:57 PM UTC +2 - The idea of this post is to tune your time zone to +2 UTC so that the post's timestamp matches the Cosecha console. This post is the "fnord" of the sequence. It breaks 2016's overall sequence, when added, it becomes 32 (the opposite of 23 for you Illuminatus! buffs), the negative connotation of "51 days" which is later reversed in 2017 down to the number 15 - however, that UTC +2 timezone becomes useful on 8/12/16.

14/10/16 - 3:11 AM UTC -6 - on March 28th, 2017 (the first day of the 2017 sequence) an old tweet from 11/3/12 was deleted from their timeline which brought this post into focus. Conceptually, the still photo of this post is in Banff National Park, which is UTC -6. In 2017, the presumed final post has a timestamp of 3:11 PM when we use UTC +7 instead.

8/12/16 - 10:57 AM UTC +2 - The final post of 2016. When tuned to UTC +2 per Nothing is Real, the time is 10:57 AM. Other than the :57 part, it's essentially a reverse of the 2:57 PM timestamp if you look at it as a 12 hour window and am vs pm. 10 x 57 is 570. If we add 570 days to 6/6/16, we land at 28/12/17, the presumed end of the sequence.

12/9/17 - 11:32 AM/12:28 PM UTC +3 - This is a tricky one. BoC tweeted Amo Bishop Roden and 56 minutes later, "Mike Sandison" tweeted again linking back to the official account. Treat these as a pair that add up to a perfect 24 hours. 28/12/17 is also the presumed end of the sequence. Remember that "Palace Posy" is the top song on their Soundcloud. We track it down to video 14 on their Youtube playlist, and it's what appears to be a very Russian video. The fact that its to date the only video published by this account makes it seem like another one of those burner accounts in the spirit of Atalanta Fugiens. Anyways, Russia is +3 UTC - when we apply UTC +3 to the tweets, we get the above timestamps.

27/9/17 - 3:11 PM UTC +7 - Conceptual mirror of the 14/10/16 post. Same timestamp, but pm instead of AM, using +7 UTC instead of -6 UTC.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

It's worth noting that given the speculation relating to date reversals elsewhere on this page, the main video playlist was heavily revised on December 8th, 2016 to coincide with the Open the Light tweet. A look at the account's "About" page says that it was originally created on August 12th, 2006. (12/8/06 -> 8/12/16)

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017. Again, a representation of the mirror between years.

Nothing is Real is video 15 - if you recall, it broke the pattern with a 51 day timespan in 2016. Another reversal when we consider the Open the Light tweet to be the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017s sequence.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April.

== References ==
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Theories

2018-06-26T16:35:32Z

Opothecary: /* SoundCloud */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25 PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 2:57 PM UTC +2

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11 AM UTC -6

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 10:57 AM UTC +2

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005)

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement (released 21/7)

12/9 - Amo Bishop Roden (2000) - 11:32 AM UTC +3

12/9 - Mike Sandison tweeted - 12:28 PM UTC +3

27/9 - An Eagle in Your Mind (1998) - 3:11 PM - UTC +7

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet.

- For 2017, we ratcheted down by halves starting with 84, followed by 42, followed by 21. An Eagle in Your Mind represents 2017's version of Macquarie Ridge; the bookend value is 36 in both cases, we multiplied to get there in 2016, we added in 2017.

- There is an overall pattern starting on June 6th 2016 through December 8th, 2017 with values incrementing by 55 or 110. They only broke this pattern early on with Nothing is Real on August 24th. Nothing is Real should be thought of as a disrupter; it's only useful purpose is the fact that it has the same timestamp as the Cosecha console:

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The pattern is as follows:

6/6/16 -> 31/7/16 (55 days)

31/7/16 -> 24/8/16 (24 days)
24/8/16 -> 14/10/16 (51 days)

14/10/16 -> 8/12/16 (55 days)
12/8/16 -> 28/3/16 (110 days)
28/3/17 -> 3/11/17 (220 days) (noting the 15 day gap between 12/9 and 27/9, the reverse of 51 days in 2016)

3/11/17 -> 28/12/17 (55 days)

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (22/5) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747. More importantly, multiply 22x5 to reach 110. 110 is a key number in the flow of the pattern between both years shown above.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 36

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

2017 was a mirror of 2016, taking advantage of the fact that the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are all divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

21/7 - 147 (84 + 42 +21 = 147 - Mr. Mistake picture disc)

9/12 - 21

9/27 - 36

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Let's take special note of the timestamps on certain tweets and talk about the mirroring aspects of the 2016 sequence vs 2017. Many of 2016s posts are "negative" and have a "positive" companion on the 2017 side.

In 2016, the sequence begins with "6/6/6", the 3:11am timestamp is hidden in Left Side Drive and can be seen at UTC -6 - the distance of time between Nothing is Real and Left Side Drive is 51 days, the same length of time as the siege in Waco, the overall 55/110 sequence is broken for the first and only time at that point.

In 2017, the 51 day length of time is reversed to 15 days using Amo Bishop Roden, 3:11pm now hides in UTC +7, the larger sequence stands unbroken in 2017 when viewed from start (28/3) to finish (28/12) (220 + 55 days)

31/7/16 - 2:25 PM (New Brunswick Canada time) - The peacock logo was first used by NBC on May 22nd, 1956. We can use that date as a clue to the time zone for this post. Aside from 522 + 225 = 747, we use 5x22 (110) as the number of days between the last post of 2016 and the first of 2017, and double it (220) for the length of time between March 28th, 2017 and November 3rd, 2017.

24/8/16 - 2:57 PM UTC +2 - The idea of this post is to tune your time zone to +2 UTC so that the post's timestamp matches the Cosecha console. This post is the "fnord" of the sequence. It breaks 2016's overall sequence, when added, it becomes 32 (the opposite of 23 for you Illuminatus! buffs), the negative connotation of "51 days" which is later reversed in 2017 down to the number 15 - however, that UTC +2 timezone becomes useful on 8/12/16.

14/10/16 - 3:11 AM UTC -6 - on March 28th, 2017 (the first day of the 2017 sequence) an old tweet from 11/3/12 was deleted from their timeline which brought this post into focus. Conceptually, the still photo of this post is in Banff National Park, which is UTC -6. In 2017, the presumed final post has a timestamp of 3:11 PM when we use UTC +7 instead.

8/12/16 - 10:57 AM UTC +2 - The final post of 2016. When tuned to UTC +2 per Nothing is Real, the time is 10:57 AM. Other than the :57 part, it's essentially a reverse of the 2:57 PM timestamp if you look at it as a 12 hour window and am vs pm. 10 x 57 is 570. If we add 570 days to 6/6/16, we land at 28/12/17, the presumed end of the sequence.

12/9/17 - 11:32 AM/12:28 PM UTC +3 - This is a tricky one. BoC tweeted Amo Bishop Roden and 56 minutes later, "Mike Sandison" tweeted again linking back to the official account. Treat these as a pair that add up to a perfect 24 hours. 28/12/17 is also the presumed end of the sequence. Remember that "Palace Posy" is the top song on their Soundcloud. We track it down to video 14 on their Youtube playlist, and it's what appears to be a very Russian video. The fact that its to date the only video published by this account makes it seem like another one of those burner accounts in the spirit of Atalanta Fugiens. Anyways, Russia is +3 UTC - when we apply UTC +3 to the tweets, we get the above timestamps.

27/9/17 - 3:11 PM UTC +7 - Conceptual mirror of the 14/10/16 post. Same timestamp, but pm instead of AM, using +7 UTC instead of -6 UTC.

==== Facebook ====

Facebook has its own unique pattern, which only utilizes certain crossposts from Twitter. This makes the fact that something is afoot a little more palatable to the average person than the more complex Twitter pattern. The main purpose of this is to clue us into 32+23 = 55, the same way the Peacock Tail tweet gave us 110 buried in its timestamp. As I mentioned in the Twitter section, for Illuminatus! fans, 32 is the fnord, 23 is what we really want.

Left Side Drive stands in the middle to represent the mirror, as it works in 2016 as 24 and 140 in 2017.

Note that of the 2 posts in 2017, the date increments by 10 each time - 17 -> 27. There is no 37th of the month, but if we add 37 days to 27/9, we land on 3/11/17.

6/6/16 (6x6) = 36

24/8/16 (24+8) = 32

14/10/16 (10+14 or 10x14) = 24 or 140

17/6/17 (17+6) = 23

27/9/17 (27+9) = 36

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

It's worth noting that given the speculation relating to date reversals elsewhere on this page, the main video playlist was heavily revised on December 8th, 2016 to coincide with the Open the Light tweet. A look at the account's "About" page says that it was originally created on August 12th, 2006. (12/8/06 -> 8/12/16)

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017. Again, a representation of the mirror between years.

Nothing is Real is video 15 - if you recall, it broke the pattern with a 51 day timespan in 2016. Another reversal when we consider the Open the Light tweet to be the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017s sequence.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Most importantly, when we stack the posting and event dates, we come up with some other interesting stuff, drawing parallels between Tomorrow's Harvest's release date and the presumed new release date. Take note that the years are each 16 away from 100, which means they both add to 100:

2/20/16

8/10/84

TH: June 10, 2013

(8-2) = 6

(2+8) = 10

6 + 10 = 16

New release: December 28th, 2017

(2+10) = 12

(8+20) = 28

28 - 12 = 16

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

September 12th - entry 85 "[[Beware the Friendly Stranger]]"

September 27th - entry 88 "[[Pete Standing Alone]]"

September 28th - entries 90-99 (likes on twitter)

November 3rd? - entry 100 - "Boards of Canada"

Most importantly, Mike Sandison's tweet arrived less than an hour after hitting 85 combined tweets and likes. This was followed by a couple more likes, and "An Eagle in Your Mind" was 88 on 27/9/17. One more like followed that day, followed by 10 more likes (all relating to a desire for a new album) on 28/9/17.

This leaves us at:

36 Tweets
63 Likes

This sum was reached exactly 36 days before November 3rd 2017. Let's think of March 28th 2017 as the beginning, September 28th as the end of the innocuous activity, and December 28th as the very end, the payoff.

28/3/17 -> 28/9/17 -> 28/12/17

Doing something similar in 2016 with the pair of Left Side Drive posts gave us Tomorrow's Harvest's release date (June 10th):

14/6/16 -> 14/10/16

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April.

== References ==
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Theories

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"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25 PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 2:57 PM UTC +2

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11 AM UTC -6

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 10:57 AM UTC +2

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005)

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement (released 21/7)

12/9 - Amo Bishop Roden (2000) - 11:32 AM UTC +3

12/9 - Mike Sandison tweeted - 12:28 PM UTC +3

27/9 - An Eagle in Your Mind (1998) - 3:11 PM - UTC +7

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet.

- For 2017, we ratcheted down by halves starting with 84, followed by 42, followed by 21. An Eagle in Your Mind represents 2017's version of Macquarie Ridge; the bookend value is 36 in both cases, we multiplied to get there in 2016, we added in 2017.

- There is an overall pattern starting on June 6th 2016 through December 8th, 2017 with values incrementing by 55 or 110. They only broke this pattern early on with Nothing is Real on August 24th. Nothing is Real should be thought of as a disrupter; it's only useful purpose is the fact that it has the same timestamp as the Cosecha console:

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The pattern is as follows:

6/6/16 -> 31/7/16 (55 days)

31/7/16 -> 24/8/16 (24 days)
24/8/16 -> 14/10/16 (51 days)

14/10/16 -> 8/12/16 (55 days)
12/8/16 -> 28/3/16 (110 days)
28/3/17 -> 3/11/17 (220 days) (noting the 15 day gap between 12/9 and 27/9, the reverse of 51 days in 2016)

3/11/17 -> 28/12/17 (55 days)

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (22/5) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747. More importantly, multiply 22x5 to reach 110. 110 is a key number in the flow of the pattern between both years shown above.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 36

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

2017 was a mirror of 2016, taking advantage of the fact that the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are all divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

21/7 - 147 (84 + 42 +21 = 147 - Mr. Mistake picture disc)

9/12 - 21

9/27 - 36

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Let's take special note of the timestamps on certain tweets and talk about the mirroring aspects of the 2016 sequence vs 2017. Many of 2016s posts are "negative" and have a "positive" companion on the 2017 side.

In 2016, the sequence begins with "6/6/6", the 3:11am timestamp is hidden in Left Side Drive and can be seen at UTC -6 - the distance of time between Nothing is Real and Left Side Drive is 51 days, the same length of time as the siege in Waco, the overall 55/110 sequence is broken for the first and only time at that point.

In 2017, the 51 day length of time is reversed to 15 days using Amo Bishop Roden, 3:11pm now hides in UTC +7, the larger sequence stands unbroken in 2017 when viewed from start (28/3) to finish (28/12) (220 + 55 days)

31/7/16 - 2:25 PM (New Brunswick Canada time) - The peacock logo was first used by NBC on May 22nd, 1956. We can use that date as a clue to the time zone for this post. Aside from 522 + 225 = 747, we use 5x22 (110) as the number of days between the last post of 2016 and the first of 2017, and double it (220) for the length of time between March 28th, 2017 and November 3rd, 2017.

24/8/16 - 2:57 PM UTC +2 - The idea of this post is to tune your time zone to +2 UTC so that the post's timestamp matches the Cosecha console. This post is the "fnord" of the sequence. It breaks 2016's overall sequence, when added, it becomes 32 (the opposite of 23 for you Illuminatus! buffs), the negative connotation of "51 days" which is later reversed in 2017 down to the number 15 - however, that UTC +2 timezone becomes useful on 8/12/16.

14/10/16 - 3:11 AM UTC -6 - on March 28th, 2017 (the first day of the 2017 sequence) an old tweet from 11/3/12 was deleted from their timeline which brought this post into focus. Conceptually, the still photo of this post is in Banff National Park, which is UTC -6. In 2017, the presumed final post has a timestamp of 3:11 PM when we use UTC +7 instead.

8/12/16 - 10:57 AM UTC +2 - The final post of 2016. When tuned to UTC +2 per Nothing is Real, the time is 10:57 AM. Other than the :57 part, it's essentially a reverse of the 2:57 PM timestamp if you look at it as a 12 hour window and am vs pm. 10 x 57 is 570. If we add 570 days to 6/6/16, we land at 28/12/17, the presumed end of the sequence.

12/9/17 - 11:32 AM/12:28 PM UTC +3 - This is a tricky one. BoC tweeted Amo Bishop Roden and 56 minutes later, "Mike Sandison" tweeted again linking back to the official account. Treat these as a pair that add up to a perfect 24 hours. 28/12/17 is also the presumed end of the sequence. Remember that "Palace Posy" is the top song on their Soundcloud. We track it down to video 14 on their Youtube playlist, and it's what appears to be a very Russian video. The fact that its to date the only video published by this account makes it seem like another one of those burner accounts in the spirit of Atalanta Fugiens. Anyways, Russia is +3 UTC - when we apply UTC +3 to the tweets, we get the above timestamps.

27/9/17 - 3:11 PM UTC +7 - Conceptual mirror of the 14/10/16 post. Same timestamp, but pm instead of AM, using +7 UTC instead of -6 UTC.

==== Facebook ====

Facebook has its own unique pattern, which only utilizes certain crossposts from Twitter. This makes the fact that something is afoot a little more palatable to the average person than the more complex Twitter pattern. The main purpose of this is to clue us into 32+23 = 55, the same way the Peacock Tail tweet gave us 110 buried in its timestamp. As I mentioned in the Twitter section, for Illuminatus! fans, 32 is the fnord, 23 is what we really want.

Left Side Drive stands in the middle to represent the mirror, as it works in 2016 as 24 and 140 in 2017.

Note that of the 2 posts in 2017, the date increments by 10 each time - 17 -> 27. There is no 37th of the month, but if we add 37 days to 27/9, we land on 3/11/17.

6/6/16 (6x6) = 36

24/8/16 (24+8) = 32

14/10/16 (10+14 or 10x14) = 24 or 140

17/6/17 (17+6) = 23

27/9/17 (27+9) = 36

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

It's worth noting that given the speculation relating to date reversals elsewhere on this page, the main video playlist was heavily revised on December 8th, 2016 to coincide with the Open the Light tweet. A look at the account's "About" page says that it was originally created on August 12th, 2006. (12/8/06 -> 8/12/16)

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017. Again, a representation of the mirror between years.

Nothing is Real is video 15 - if you recall, it broke the pattern with a 51 day timespan in 2016. Another reversal when we consider the Open the Light tweet to be the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017s sequence.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Most importantly, when we stack the posting and event dates, we come up with some other interesting stuff, drawing parallels between Tomorrow's Harvest's release date and the presumed new release date. Take note that the years are each 16 away from 100, which means they both add to 100:

2/20/16

8/10/84

TH: June 10, 2013

(8-2) = 6

(2+8) = 10

6 + 10 = 16

New release: December 28th, 2017

(2+10) = 12

(8+20) = 28

28 - 12 = 16

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

September 12th - entry 85 "[[Beware the Friendly Stranger]]"

September 27th - entry 88 "[[Pete Standing Alone]]"

September 28th - entries 90-99 (likes on twitter)

November 3rd? - entry 100 - "Boards of Canada"

Most importantly, Mike Sandison's tweet arrived less than an hour after hitting 85 combined tweets and likes. This was followed by a couple more likes, and "An Eagle in Your Mind" was 88 on 27/9/17. One more like followed that day, followed by 10 more likes (all relating to a desire for a new album) on 28/9/17.

This leaves us at:

36 Tweets
63 Likes

This sum was reached exactly 36 days before November 3rd 2017. Let's think of March 28th 2017 as the beginning, September 28th as the end of the innocuous activity, and December 28th as the very end, the payoff.

28/3/17 -> 28/9/17 -> 28/12/17

Doing something similar in 2016 with the pair of Left Side Drive posts gave us Tomorrow's Harvest's release date (June 10th):

14/6/16 -> 14/10/16

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T14:40:47Z

Opothecary: /* YouTube */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 12:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum provided by the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This ultimately gives us 18+14 (break 12+6 down to 9+9 instead) and 14 (11+3)

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th) and well within the typical announcement/release window for most Warp releases - for contrast, it was a 51 day window between the announcement of Tomorrow's Harvest and its release (4/20/13 -> 6/10/13)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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Reflecting back, this odd post was likely a subtle hint that the number 7 or even 14 (7+7 given the retweet date, or 7x2 given the original date) would be important down the road, just not right then.

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

We multiplied on 2 different dates last year, with the number 8 linking the two posts (192 -> 96) - this year, we can steal the 3 from the first post to figure out where it goes in the last post (84 -> 14)

August 24th
December 8th

March 28th
November 3rd?

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

It's worth noting that given the speculation relating to date reversals elsewhere on this page, the main video playlist was heavily revised on December 8th, 2016 to coincide with the Open the Light tweet. A look at the account's "About" page says that it was originally created on August 12th, 2006. (8/12/06 -> 12/8/16)

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T14:25:05Z

Opothecary: /* Multiplication chain progression */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 12:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum provided by the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This ultimately gives us 18+14 (break 12+6 down to 9+9 instead) and 14 (11+3)

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th) and well within the typical announcement/release window for most Warp releases - for contrast, it was a 51 day window between the announcement of Tomorrow's Harvest and its release (4/20/13 -> 6/10/13)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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Reflecting back, this odd post was likely a subtle hint that the number 7 or even 14 (7+7 given the retweet date, or 7x2 given the original date) would be important down the road, just not right then.

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

We multiplied on 2 different dates last year, with the number 8 linking the two posts (192 -> 96) - this year, we can steal the 3 from the first post to figure out where it goes in the last post (84 -> 14)

August 24th
December 8th

March 28th
November 3rd?

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T14:17:45Z

Opothecary: /* Twitter */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 12:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum provided by the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This ultimately gives us 18+14 (break 12+6 down to 9+9 instead) and 14 (11+3)

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th) and well within the typical announcement/release window for most Warp releases - for contrast, it was a 51 day window between the announcement of Tomorrow's Harvest and its release (4/20/13 -> 6/10/13)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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Reflecting back, this odd post was likely a subtle hint that the number 7 or even 14 (7+7 given the retweet date, or 7x2 given the original date) would be important down the road, just not right then.

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T14:10:15Z

Opothecary: /* Broken Drum */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 12:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum provided by the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This ultimately gives us 18+14 (break 12+6 down to 9+9 instead) and 14 (11+3)

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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Reflecting back, this odd post was likely a subtle hint that the number 7 or even 14 (7+7 given the retweet date, or 7x2 given the original date) would be important down the road, just not right then.

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:59:18Z

Opothecary: /* Twitter */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 12:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum provided by the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This ultimately gives us 18+14 (break 12+6 down to 9+9 instead) and 14 (11+3)

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T13:51:28Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 12:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting for another reason as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:48:03Z

Opothecary: /* Twitter */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 12:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:43:03Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T13:42:40Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

?9/9? = 18

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225. It's also interesting because 23 is the reverse of 32, and 9/9 is the visual reverse of 6/6.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:40:42Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:40:14Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, so it seems to be setting up a separate but similar goal.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s in the sequence:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12+58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5x14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to hash out the solution. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T13:37:02Z

Opothecary: /* SoundCloud */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

Putting 10 and 11 out front is slightly suspicious since we seem to be working in iterations of 7 this year and counting down from 84, and they happen to add up to 21. However, when we cross reference these entries to the Youtube video playlist instead (the same as we did to hash out the date of the Mr. Mistake announcement using tweets) these two songs are entries are 14 and 126 which add up to 140, a recurring number buried in the sequence.

This means that we may be counting down like this: 84 -> 42 -> 14 instead of assuming 21 as the final entry. This makes November 3rd an interesting date, especially considering the March 11th tweet (opposite date) which was wiped out on the first day of proceedings of the 2017 pattern.

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:29:22Z

Opothecary: /* SoundCloud */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place. Additionally, Geogaddi was published to Soundcloud as being released in 2007 rather than 2002.

We pair these two mistakes together (2007 rather than 2002, track 21 replaced with an Aphex Twin track) and we end up with the release date of the Mr. Mistake vinyl (7/21)

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:24:55Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicate October 11th or November 10th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (8/24 = 32 when added together rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T13:20:33Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal. When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) or even just 9/9. The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtle solution could be looking up the playlist entries for the top two tracks, Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:17:16Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)

Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 34 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 9/9 or 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtie solution could be looking up the playlist entries for Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than multiplied)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:13:21Z

Opothecary: /* Twitter */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far which are unrelated to the Mr. Mistake vinyl release. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

We can speculate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will add up to 140 (again, omitting anything specific to Mr. Mistake), since 140 seems to keep popping up all over:

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and we say that 12+6 = 18, 32 is the overall sum of the Nothing is Real post (8+24). This gives us 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between the Left Side Drive and Open the Light postings on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted to their social media accounts, once they got started in June.

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)
Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 9/9 or 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtie solution could be finding the playlist entries for Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than subtracted)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T13:10:45Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)
Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 9/9 or 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtie solution could be finding the playlist entries for Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than subtracted)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T13:10:10Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

17/6 = 23

If we add all entries except Left Side Drive (multiply) the sum is currently 207. If 9/9 (18) is the next update, this number gets bumped to 225.

Noteworthy 225s:

Macquarie Ridge (posted to FB at 22:05 using Macquarie Ridge's time zone)

Peacock Tail (Twitter - NBC logo first used 5/22/56, posted to FB at 2:25pm in New Brunswick, Canada time)

Mr. Mistake vinyl (posted to FB at 12:25pm GMT)

While we're at it, lets figure out the timestamps on the two remaining FB posts which don't have 225s hidden in them:

Nothing is Real (12:58 GMT) = 70

Left Side Drive (5:14 EST) = 70

I feel that these entries in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem. See the Twitter section for more information.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)
Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 9/9 or 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtie solution could be finding the playlist entries for Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than subtracted)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T02:47:00Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

I feel that these posts in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem.

We can extrapolate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will sum up to 140 (I've omitted anything specific to Mr. Mistake):

28x3 = 84

7x6 = 42

?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy

126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and 12+6 = 18, 32 is the sum of the Nothing is Real post. This gives 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd? Note that there is a 55 day gap between these dates. This is the same length of time between Left Side Drive and Open the Light on Twitter last year. (October 14th -> December 8th)

Lastly, note that September and November are the only months last year where nothing was posted, once they got started in June.

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)
Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 9/9 or 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtie solution could be finding the playlist entries for Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than subtracted)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
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Theories

2017-08-24T02:42:27Z

Opothecary: /* Facebook */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016

6/6 = 12

24/8 = 32

14/10 = 140

I feel that these posts in particular were the only ones crossposted to Facebook from Twitter, because they ultimately carry all the raw data needed to solve the problem.

We can extrapolate that the sum of all relevant posts in 2017 at Twitter will sum up to 140 (I've omitted anything specific to Mr. Mistake):

28x3 = 84
7x6 = 42
?11+3? = 14

84 + 42 + 14 = 140

Additionally, the top 2 songs listed on their Soundcloud account (Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities) are playlist entries 14 and 126 at Youtube:

14 - Palace Posy
126 - Split Your Infinities

Same as above:

14 + 126 = 140

If we break Palace Posy down to 3+11 = 14, and "split infinities" and 12+6 = 18, 32 is the sum of the Nothing is Real post. This gives 18 (break it down to 9+9 instead) and 11+3.

September 9th and November 3rd?

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)
Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 9/9 or 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtie solution could be finding the playlist entries for Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than subtracted)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T02:34:42Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

17 x 6 = 102

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. The deletion of this tweet is interesting for a couple of reasons - first of all, it is the only post that has been deleted thus far. If we think of 2017 as somewhat of a reverse of last years sequence (even though its actually 6s vs 7s), perhaps this means November 3rd (opposite of March 11th) is a relevant date down the road.

The drop to 78 ("Hey Saturday Sun") is worth noting as well. You can isolate either 3 letter word and the remaining characters in the song title add up to 11:

Hey/Saturday Sun (3/11)
Hey Saturday/Sun (11/3)

The deleted tweet was soon replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

July 5th? - entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 9/9 or 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well. (10 and 11 being Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities)

Ignoring the more in your face possibilities of October 11th or November 10th, a more subtie solution could be finding the playlist entries for Palace Posy and Split Your Infinities - they are 14 and 126 respectively. Sure enough, both are divisible by 7 and add up to 140 (the same as the Left Side Drive post, when multiplied instead of added):

Video 14 (Palace Posy) - (11 + 3)

Video 126 (Split Your Infinities) - (12 + 6) or (9 + 9)

What's interesting here is that when broken down like this, we can add the top number (14) to the bottom number (18) and we get 32, which is the sum of the Nothing is Real post (when added rather than subtracted)

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-08-24T02:20:06Z

Opothecary: /* Multiplication chain progression */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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Image:subpattern1.png
</gallery>
</div>

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? 3 x 11 ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

17 x 6 = 102

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

<gallery>
Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
</gallery>
Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" - video 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]". When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well.

Lastly, if we add 522 days (think of the Peacock Tail tweet explanation elsewhere on this page) to the first post of the campaign (6/6/16), we land on November 10th, 2017.

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Missingsky.png
</gallery>
</div>

The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-07-05T22:11:46Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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<gallery>
Image:Cosecha-console.png
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</div>

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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Image:subpattern1.png
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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

17 x 6 = 102

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number was holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]" until June 7th 2017.

<gallery>
Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
</gallery>
Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" - video 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]". When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well.

Lastly, if we add 522 days (think of the Peacock Tail tweet explanation elsewhere on this page) to the first post of the campaign (6/6/16), we land on November 10th, 2017.

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Missingsky.png
</gallery>
</div>

The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-07-05T21:54:09Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Cosecha-console.png
</gallery>
</div>

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:subpattern1.png
</gallery>
</div>

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

17 x 6 = 102

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number has been holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]"

<gallery>
Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
</gallery>
Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th = 21 - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" - video 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]". When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well.

Lastly, if we add 522 days (think of the Peacock Tail tweet explanation elsewhere on this page) to the first post of the campaign (6/6/16), we land on November 10th, 2017.

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Missingsky.png
</gallery>
</div>

The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-07-05T21:52:57Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Cosecha-console.png
</gallery>
</div>

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:subpattern1.png
</gallery>
</div>

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

17 x 6 = 102

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number has been holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]"

<gallery>
Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
</gallery>
Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th = 21 - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

Presumably, their next tweet will be the final goal of this "campaign" - video 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]". When this will happen is the big question at this point. If we treat 2017 as a proper reversal of how we counted things in 2016, the campaign began on 6/6/16 - if we visually reverse the first post of the campaign starting with the year, that could be 19/9 (think of the sample from Tomorrow's Harvest Track 7, Transmisiones Ferox, 19-9-9-9...) The SoundCloud account's listing for Tomorrow's Harvest has the album's tracks sorted in the following order - 11-10-17-2-14 (Remember that Track 14, Sundown is an audio "companion" to Transmisiones Ferox) - this could indicated October 10th or November 11th as potential dates as well.

Lastly, if we add 522 days (think of the Peacock Tail tweet explanation elsewhere on this page) to the first post of the campaign (6/6/16), we land on November 10th, 2017.

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Missingsky.png
</gallery>
</div>

The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-07-05T21:42:47Z

Opothecary: /* 2017 */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

On June 7th, 2017 they announced that a new run of their green t-shirts had been released for sale. They liked a fan's post about the topic from the same day.

They announced the release of a picture disc for their Nevermen remix for Mr. Mistake on June 17th. They retweeted the same information about the release from an online publication on the same day as their own post. The picture disc will be released July 21st.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 2:25PM ATZ

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement

- There was a Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date (June 7th)

- A retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet (June 17th)

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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<gallery>
Image:Cosecha-console.png
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</div>

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc.

- The still photo for the Peacock Tail video (NBC Peacock logo) was first debuted on May 22nd, 1956 (5/22) - the tweet was posted at 2:25 AZT (or, New Brunswick, Canada time) - add 522 and 225 together to get 747.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

17/6

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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<gallery>
Image:subpattern1.png
</gallery>
</div>

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

17 x 6 = 102

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number has been holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]"

<gallery>
Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
</gallery>
Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

The Mr. Mistake picture disc was announced on June 17th. If we look at the playlist entries of each tweet in 2016, ignoring Peacock Tail (not in the playlist) and Nothing is Real from 24/8, we have the following:

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(6/17)'''

These are the entries from 2017, and correlating the sum of tweets and likes at the time that they were posted in relation to the video playlist. We currently stand at 33 tweets and 50 likes. Note that the overall count incremented by 2 on two separate occasions - June 7th and June 17th. In the case of June 7th, they liked a fan's post that was in response to their initial June 7th posting, and June 17th, one tweet was a retweet, one was their own tweet about the same topic (the Mr. Mistake picture disc). I feel that this is what they were hinting at with the repeating Twoism videos - 80 and 81 are a pair, and 82 and 83 are a pair.

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

June 7th (7x6) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

June 17th = 21 - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

June 17th - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]"

This only leaves entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]" to figure out.

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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The Aphex Twin track he remained in place of You Could Feel the Sky since April. Since then, Tomorrow's Harvest was added as an album. In the case of this album, take note of the sequence of the first few tracks under the "All" view - 10-11-2-17-14

== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-07-05T21:39:47Z

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Theories

2017-07-05T21:14:03Z

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Theories

2017-07-05T21:12:06Z

Opothecary: /* SoundCloud */

Theories

2017-07-05T21:08:41Z

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Theories

2017-07-05T21:07:03Z

Opothecary: /* Twitter */

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2017-07-05T21:04:35Z

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Theories

2017-07-05T20:49:38Z

Opothecary: /* YouTube */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 5:25PM GMT

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement**

* Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date
** Retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Cosecha-console.png
</gallery>
</div>

- The multiplication sum halves with each subsequent step, while alternating with the added/subtracted 24s, and de-increments by 4 hours each time it happens. (12:57 -> 08:57 -> ??:??)

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc. As of 2017, the first post (28/3) indicates that we may be reversing last year's rules (84 instead of 48, multiplying in odd months instead of even)

- They specify the year of release for "[[Peacock Tail]]", "[[Nothing Is Real]]", "[[Left Side Drive]]" and "[[Open the Light]]" in the title of the respective tweets. If treated as two pairs, they are both separated by 8 years. A look back at their discography determines that 2001 and 2009 as the only other remaining pair of year that functions this way.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:subpattern1.png
</gallery>
</div>

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017 (3+4=7). Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place. It should be noted that "146" could be read as 14x6=84 (posted one week after the Dayvan Cowboy tweet, which was March 28th (28x3=84)

Playlist entries 85 and 43 are worth noting, as they are both "Beware the Friendly Stranger" - subtract them from each other to reach 42. Aphex Twin had a countdown running that was meant to end on July 6th (6x7=42) before it was altered to finish at a later date toward the end of the countdown (apparently now ending July 20th, as of this writing)

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number has been holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]"

<gallery>
Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
</gallery>
Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

June 15th has been predicted as the next tweet for 2 reasons - put together the playlist entry numbers for their last few tweets like this:

Video '''15''' - Nothing is Real (24/8/16)

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(15/6/17)'''
:
Additionally, you can examine the timestamp of the Macquarie Ridge tweet, treat it like you're in Norway (as pictured in the video) and it's 15:06 CET.

This brings us to our next point, many of the entries in this section revolve around the concept of the sun. The next total solar eclipse will be August 21, 2017. I don't think they will actually do anything on this date as part of their posting sequence, but it does give us an important number - 168 (21x8). I believe that 168 will be the sum of all posts, if they opt to follow this projected timeline, similar to last year, which revolved around 24 instead of 21):

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 15th (15+6) = 21 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

July 6th (6x7) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

August 13th (13+8) = 21 - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

September 9th (9-9) = 0 - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]" (check out playlist entry 99 for some compound eyes)

= '''168''' (21x8)

This only leaves entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]" to figure out. Could it be an October 6th announcement with a release on December 8th? Wouldn't it be funny if we've been looking at that date from 2016 for a year and that's what they turned out to be?

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Missingsky.png
</gallery>
</div>
== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-07-05T20:43:32Z

Opothecary: /* Twitter */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 5:25PM GMT

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

7/6 - Green T-Shirt announcement*

17/6 - Mr. Mistake Picture Disc Announcement**

* Like related to t-shirt announcement on same date
** Retweet of the picture disc announcement accompanied their own tweet

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now).

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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Image:Cosecha-console.png
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- The multiplication sum halves with each subsequent step, while alternating with the added/subtracted 24s, and de-increments by 4 hours each time it happens. (12:57 -> 08:57 -> ??:??)

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc. As of 2017, the first post (28/3) indicates that we may be reversing last year's rules (84 instead of 48, multiplying in odd months instead of even)

- They specify the year of release for "[[Peacock Tail]]", "[[Nothing Is Real]]", "[[Left Side Drive]]" and "[[Open the Light]]" in the title of the respective tweets. If treated as two pairs, they are both separated by 8 years. A look back at their discography determines that 2001 and 2009 as the only other remaining pair of year that functions this way.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 may like a mirror of 2016, but in actuality, the 2016 numbers are divisible by 6, the 2017 numbers are divisible by 7.

28/3 - 84

7/6 - 42

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017. Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place.

As of May 14th, 2017 (14x5 = 70) the "official Music" section of their YouTube account was updated to include 74 official full tracks. It is unknown when this section was created specifically, but it was last edited on this date. It has been noted that this playlist may not be viewable in certain regions (similar to their Soundcloud content)

The most interesting entries here are again 24 and 42, both evocative of the sun, described further in the "Over the Horizon Radar" section.

Official Music Entry 24 - "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx0PzSeNQac&index=24&list=PL0fSIHcxJhEAN1QTb75cyDiNTSYCqWc7N]

Official Music Entry 42 - "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjuiJwa3dl0&index=42&list=PL0fSIHcxJhEAN1QTb75cyDiNTSYCqWc7N]

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number has been holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]"

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Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

June 15th has been predicted as the next tweet for 2 reasons - put together the playlist entry numbers for their last few tweets like this:

Video '''15''' - Nothing is Real (24/8/16)

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(15/6/17)'''
:
Additionally, you can examine the timestamp of the Macquarie Ridge tweet, treat it like you're in Norway (as pictured in the video) and it's 15:06 CET.

This brings us to our next point, many of the entries in this section revolve around the concept of the sun. The next total solar eclipse will be August 21, 2017. I don't think they will actually do anything on this date as part of their posting sequence, but it does give us an important number - 168 (21x8). I believe that 168 will be the sum of all posts, if they opt to follow this projected timeline, similar to last year, which revolved around 24 instead of 21):

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 15th (15+6) = 21 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

July 6th (6x7) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

August 13th (13+8) = 21 - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

September 9th (9-9) = 0 - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]" (check out playlist entry 99 for some compound eyes)

= '''168''' (21x8)

This only leaves entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]" to figure out. Could it be an October 6th announcement with a release on December 8th? Wouldn't it be funny if we've been looking at that date from 2016 for a year and that's what they turned out to be?

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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== References ==
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Theories

2017-05-15T02:04:56Z

Opothecary: /* YouTube */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 5:25PM GMT

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now). I'm going to defer to Video Playlist entry 66 - Constants are Changing and say that we should subtract, not add or multiply these numbers.

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
<div align="center">
<gallery>
Image:Cosecha-console.png
</gallery>
</div>

- The multiplication sum halves with each subsequent step, while alternating with the added/subtracted 24s, and de-increments by 4 hours each time it happens. (12:57 -> 08:57 -> ??:??)

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc. As of 2017, the first post (28/3) indicates that we may be reversing last year's rules (84 instead of 48, multiplying in odd months instead of even)

- They specify the year of release for "[[Peacock Tail]]", "[[Nothing Is Real]]", "[[Left Side Drive]]" and "[[Open the Light]]" in the title of the respective tweets. If treated as two pairs, they are both separated by 8 years. A look back at their discography determines that 2001 and 2009 as the only other remaining pair of year that functions this way.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 will function like a mirror of 2016. The first post indicates that we may be targeting divisors of 84 (as opposed to 48 last year) and multiplying in odd months instead of even:

28/3 - 84

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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<gallery>
Image:subpattern1.png
</gallery>
</div>

==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017. Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place.

As of May 14th, 2017 (14x5 = 70) the "official Music" section of their YouTube account was updated to include 74 official full tracks. It is unknown when this section was created specifically, but it was last edited on this date. It has been noted that this playlist may not be viewable in certain regions (similar to their Soundcloud content)

The most interesting entries here are again 24 and 42, both evocative of the sun, described further in the "Over the Horizon Radar" section.

Official Music Entry 24 - "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx0PzSeNQac&index=24&list=PL0fSIHcxJhEAN1QTb75cyDiNTSYCqWc7N]

Official Music Entry 42 - "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjuiJwa3dl0&index=42&list=PL0fSIHcxJhEAN1QTb75cyDiNTSYCqWc7N]

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number has been holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]"

<gallery>
Othr.png|YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78 - 84
</gallery>
Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

June 15th has been predicted as the next tweet for 2 reasons - put together the playlist entry numbers for their last few tweets like this:

Video '''15''' - Nothing is Real (24/8/16)

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(15/6/17)'''
:
Additionally, you can examine the timestamp of the Macquarie Ridge tweet, treat it like you're in Norway (as pictured in the video) and it's 15:06 CET.

This brings us to our next point, many of the entries in this section revolve around the concept of the sun. The next total solar eclipse will be August 21, 2017. I don't think they will actually do anything on this date as part of their posting sequence, but it does give us an important number - 168 (21x8). I believe that 168 will be the sum of all posts, if they opt to follow this projected timeline, similar to last year, which revolved around 24 instead of 21):

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 15th (15+6) = 21 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

July 6th (6x7) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

August 13th (13+8) = 21 - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

September 9th (9-9) = 0 - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]" (check out playlist entry 99 for some compound eyes)

= '''168''' (21x8)

This only leaves entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]" to figure out. Could it be an October 6th announcement with a release on December 8th? Wouldn't it be funny if we've been looking at that date from 2016 for a year and that's what they turned out to be?

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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== References ==
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Theories

2017-05-15T02:03:14Z

Opothecary: /* YouTube */

"(With) a grain of salt", (or "a pinch of salt") is an idiom of the English language, which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt</ref>

== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 5:25PM GMT

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now). I'm going to defer to Video Playlist entry 66 - Constants are Changing and say that we should subtract, not add or multiply these numbers.

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication sum halves with each subsequent step, while alternating with the added/subtracted 24s, and de-increments by 4 hours each time it happens. (12:57 -> 08:57 -> ??:??)

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc. As of 2017, the first post (28/3) indicates that we may be reversing last year's rules (84 instead of 48, multiplying in odd months instead of even)

- They specify the year of release for "[[Peacock Tail]]", "[[Nothing Is Real]]", "[[Left Side Drive]]" and "[[Open the Light]]" in the title of the respective tweets. If treated as two pairs, they are both separated by 8 years. A look back at their discography determines that 2001 and 2009 as the only other remaining pair of year that functions this way.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 will function like a mirror of 2016. The first post indicates that we may be targeting divisors of 84 (as opposed to 48 last year) and multiplying in odd months instead of even:

28/3 - 84

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

Playlist entries 24 ("[[New Seeds]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc3VwlZlW2Q&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=24] and 42 (
"[[csch]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lub89YirmC4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=42] are interesting as the first represents "Seeds" and the latter represents "Harvest" - this lines up with the fact that noteworthy entries incremented by 24 last year, and 21/42/84 in 2017.

Video 146 "[[Echus]]" was added to the video playlist on April 3rd, 2017. Echus appears elsewhere in the playlist at position 140 with a different video. The new video ends in a plane crash and has a description of "8/10/84" - presumably when the crash took place.

As of May 14th, 2017 (14x5 = 70) the "official Music" section of their YouTube account was updated to include 74 official full tracks. It has been noted that these may not be viewable in certain regions (similar to their Soundcloud content)

The most interesting entries here are again 24 and 42, both evocative of the sun, described further in the "Over the Horizon Radar" section.

Official Music Entry 24 - "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx0PzSeNQac&index=24&list=PL0fSIHcxJhEAN1QTb75cyDiNTSYCqWc7N]

Official Music Entry 42 - "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjuiJwa3dl0&index=42&list=PL0fSIHcxJhEAN1QTb75cyDiNTSYCqWc7N]

==== Over the Horizon Radar Theory ====

A particular section of the YouTube video playlist is slightly suspicious. If we add together the current number of tweets and likes at their Twitter account and correlate that to a numbered playlist entry, we see a possible roadmap to future posts. Over the past few months (since the playlist re-order) that number has been holding steady at 79 - "[[Over the Horizon Radar]]"

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Wikipedia says:

''Over-the-horizon radar, or OTH (sometimes called beyond the horizon, or BTH), is a type of radar system with the ability to detect targets at very long ranges, typically hundreds to thousands of kilometres, beyond the radar horizon, which is the distance limit for ordinary radar.''

The sum briefly dropped to 78 "[[Hey Saturday Sun]]" on March 28th, 2017 when they opted to delete a tweet from March 11th, 2012. It was quickly replaced with a tweet of the official "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video, bringing the sum back to 79.

June 15th has been predicted as the next tweet for 2 reasons - put together the playlist entry numbers for their last few tweets like this:

Video '''15''' - Nothing is Real (24/8/16)

Video '''6''' - Left Side Drive (14/10/16)

Video '''1''' - Open the Light (8/12/16)

Video '''7''' - Dayvan Cowboy (28/3/17)

'''(15/6/17)'''
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Additionally, you can examine the timestamp of the Macquarie Ridge tweet, treat it like you're in Norway (as pictured in the video) and it's 15:06 CET.

This brings us to our next point, many of the entries in this section revolve around the concept of the sun. The next total solar eclipse will be August 21, 2017. I don't think they will actually do anything on this date as part of their posting sequence, but it does give us an important number - 168 (21x8). I believe that 168 will be the sum of all posts, if they opt to follow this projected timeline, similar to last year, which revolved around 24 instead of 21):

March 28th (28x3) = 84 - entry 79 "[[Over The Horizon Radar]]"

June 15th (15+6) = 21 - entry 80 "[[Korona]]"

July 6th (6x7) = 42 - entry 81 - Twoism Sunset

August 13th (13+8) = 21 - entry 82 "[[Twoism]]"

September 9th (9-9) = 0 - entry 83 "[[Tears from the Compound Eye]]" (check out playlist entry 99 for some compound eyes)

= '''168''' (21x8)

This only leaves entry 84 "[[Ready Lets Go]]" to figure out. Could it be an October 6th announcement with a release on December 8th? Wouldn't it be funny if we've been looking at that date from 2016 for a year and that's what they turned out to be?

==== SoundCloud ====

In April 2017, they updated their official SoundCloud page with most of their official content, as separate lists of tracks and a list of albums. The number of total songs is 69, but should be 70, because there is a "broken" track. On April 17th (4+17=21) followers received a notification that a Geogaddi playlist had been created. Later that day, the playlist was deleted. No other albums have a "playlist" per se, so this was unique. Examining the tracklist of Geogaddi further, it showed that track 21 (You Could Feel the Sky) was not present, but had Aphex Twin's Jynweythek Ylow in it's place.

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== References ==
<references />

Theories

2017-05-15T01:46:22Z

Opothecary: SoundCloud info

File:Missingsky.png

2017-05-15T01:45:22Z

Opothecary: Geogaddi tracklist from SoundCloud showing that You Could Feel the Sky is missing.

Geogaddi tracklist from SoundCloud showing that You Could Feel the Sky is missing.

Theories

2017-05-15T01:04:01Z

Opothecary: /* Over the Horizon Radar Theory */

Theories

2017-04-04T14:13:44Z

Opothecary: /* YouTube */

File:Othr.png

2017-04-04T13:41:53Z

Opothecary: YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78-84 (Over the Horizon Radar Theory)

YouTube Video Playlist Entries 78-84 (Over the Horizon Radar Theory)

Theories

2017-04-04T00:05:05Z

Opothecary: /* YouTube */

Folklore

2017-03-29T02:37:46Z

Opothecary: /* Multiplication chain progression */

== Artwork Allusions ==
=== Incredible String Band ===
Allusions in the artwork. Particularly referring to the [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Incredible+String+Band,+The Incredible String Band], for whom [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] have a great deal of respect, and whom they apparently see from time to time. The lyrics section reveals that they have sampled the ISB occasionally; there's the old track "ithcus sound", a possible reference to the ISB track "ithkos". There's a general similarity in mood between Geogaddi and such ISB songs as "Waltz of the new moon" (HBD). It has also been observed that the title "Geogaddi" might in part refer to the ISB song "koeeaddi there" (HBD again).

One interviewer comments that the front covers of the ISB's "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" and [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]'s "Music Has The Right To Children" would make "a nice pair":
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However, but there is a far more striking similarity between the back cover of the ISB album, and some of the pictures of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] available elsewhere; if this is any more than coincidence, and it may be no more than that, it makes a nice tribute to the ISB:
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The next pair aren't all that similar, except in their mood, but here they are anyway:
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=== Geogaddi Cover ===
[Roger B] has pointed out something about the cover art of the [[Geogaddi]] album: In the scene in the film "The Wicker Man" that features dancing around a maypole, a figure is seen in silhouette (by his shadow on the grass). The pose is very similar to that in the picture used to make the album cover. (Thanks, Roger). Below, is a frame from that film. To the right, the photo on which the [[Geogaddi]] cover is based (the picture was taken by Peter Iain Campbell, as is noted on the back of the album).
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However, [Tonamel Rhysthal] has another suggestion, that the pose mirrors that of Leonardo da Vinci's famous "Vitruvian Man". Wikipedia, always a good resource, has an article on [[wikipedia:Vitruvian_Man|Vitruvian Man]]. The link between this figure and the relation between art and mathematics fits in very well with some of the other images [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] had on their site (see below), and also with one of the themes of Geogaddi (religious iconography and geometry).

=== My Bloody Valentine ===
The following information has been given by [7seals].
The front covers of both albums. Note the very similar font used (Bauhaus). Faces obscured. (in [[Music_Has_the_Right_to_Children|Music Has the Right to Children]], it seems artificial whereas in [http://www.discogs.com/release/217169 isn't anything] it seems to be intentionally caused by overexposure).
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=== The Campfire Headphase ===
[Khov] made a post on the watmm forum about one of the small artwork pictures on [[The Campfire Headphase]] cover which obviously has been taken from [[http://www.iit.edu/alumni/updates/yearbook/1970s/images/campus%20and%20student%20in%20computer%20center%201979.jpg this 1979 yearbook picture]].
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=== Trans Canada Highway Cover ===
[Damien] made a post on the [http://fredd-e.narfum.org/formerboc/guestbook/page11/#id714 old guestbook] about the striking resemblance between the [[Trans Canada Highway]] cover and a 1977 Dodge operation manual. No coincidence.
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=== Various ===
[DC] stumbled across this purely by accident: one of the little images in the artwork of the [[In_a_Beautiful_Place_out_in_the_Country_(release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]] single comes from [http://www.healthy.net/rainbowstress/chakras.htm here] (where the image is explained).

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== Numbers & Patterns ==
=== Pascal's Triangle ===
An older version of the [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] website briefly had some black-and-white drawings on a page, which contained Pascal's Triangle. Alas, the page at [http://web.archive.org/web/20010606214250/http://www.boardsofcanada.com/misc.phpl web.archive.org] is dead.

Some of the pictures that were accessible on that page (and reproduced below) have interesting references that might not be apparent at first glance. Putting his interest in mathematics to use, [DC] submitted the following section about the images; he adds that, while he is interested in maths, and the mathematical patterns to be found in nature, he does not personally believe in the merits of numerology. As former maintainer of this site, he requests that that section, below, be left just as it is as his own lasting personal contribution to the site.

Firstly, there's [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PascalsTriangle.phpl Pascal's Triangle] itself. Each number is the sum of the two diagonally above it.
If you start at the top and follow it down diagonally:
* the first column consists only of 1's (a single zero-dimensional point),
* the next has the positive integers 1,2,3,.... (dots arranged in a 1D line),
* then triangular numbers: 1,3,6,10,15,21,... (dots arranged in 2D triangles),
* then the tetrahedral/pyramidal numbers : 1,4,10,20,35,56... (dots arranged in 3D tetrahedrons);
* then: 1,5,15,35,70,126... (dots arranged in 4D '4-simplex' arrangements);
and so in, into ever higher-dimensional analogues of the triangle.

Another example - tossing coins: take the row "1,4,6,4,1". If you toss a coin 4 times, the chances of getting 0,1,2,3, and 4 heads (or tails) are, respectively: 1/16, 4/16, 6/16, 4/16, 1/16. If you toss it 5 times, the chances of 0,1,2,3,4,5 heads (or tails) are: 1/32, 5/32, 10/32, 10/32, 5/32, 1/32 (from the next row). And so on.

The total of the numbers in each row is a power of two. There are many more relations - a whole page could be devoted to Pascal's Triangle alone - but I'll let readers pursue this themselves. There's a Dr Math article on it, and another [http://ptri1.tripod.com/ site devoted to Pascal's Triangle] even explains how you can get the Fibonacci numbers from it, among other things.

=== Various Math Related Pictures ===
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A visual illustration depicting a facet of Einstein's theory of relativity.
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The Pioneer 10 plaque: it shows the location of the earth relative to distant pulsars (lower-left of picture), and the height of the woman relative to the space-craft. The two spheres beside each other (top-left) represent the reversal of spin of an electron in a hydrogen atom, which results in the emission of 21cm radio waves. Therefore, all distances on the plaque are indicated in terms of 21cm units.
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A demonstration that the maximum number of regions into which you can divide a plane using 6 lines is 22.
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The formula 3n(n-1)+1. This gives the sequence 1, 7, 19, 37, 61, 91, .... These are the centered hexagonal numbers. The nth centered hexagonal number is 1 more than 6 times the (n-1)th triangular number. You can make a series of hexagons of different sizes using coins (or indeed small hexagons). The first degenerate case is a single coin = 1. You can place six more coins around this one to make a hexagon with 7 coins. You can place twelve more coins around the outside of this hexagon to make a larger hexagon with 19 coins. And so on, adding another eighteen to get 37, then another twenty-four to get 61. My own illustration of this is below.
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Whereas centered hexagonal numbers make filled-in hexagons, the "cornered" hexagonal numbers {1, 6, 15, 28, 45, ...} make the outlines of hexagons. They are given by the formula n(2n-1), or every other triangular number (starting with 1 which is by convention the zeroth).
The centered and cornered hexagonal numbers are related by the following formula. Let x be the nth centered hexagonal number and y be the nth cornered. Then x = y + n²
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A graph of changes in life expectancy.
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Possibly, a poem by the Saucepan Man from an Enid Blyton book - from the "Magic Faraway Tree" series of books, I think!
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Presumably making the point that the ratio of the gematria for "Jesus Messiah" and "Holy Wisdom" in Hebrew, namely 116/37 or 3 + 5/37, is a good approximation to π.
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The Greek Sphinx was said to have "the bust and head of a lady, the wings of an eagle, the body and legs of a lioness, and the tail of a snake or dragon".
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A pyramid or triangle of 703 dots made up of 296 dots on top, and a further 407 dots below. The Hebrew words in the picture are the last two words of Genesis 1:1, namely, the word for "and", and the word for "the earth" (Hebrew is written from right to left). The gematria for the words for "and" and "the earth" are 407 and 296, respectively (400+1+6, and 90+200+1+5; for further details on gematria, you can do your own research). The total for these two words is 407 + 296 = 703. As it happens, 703 is a triangular number, meaning simply that 703 dots form a triangle, as shown in the image. Triangular numbers can be expressed in the form 1+2+3+...+n-1. 703 is the 38th triangular number, 1+2+...+37 = 703. The number 38 is the sum of the rows of the magic hexagon; this sum is known as a magic constant.

Triangular numbers have the general formula n(n-1)/2. E.g. the 37th triangular number is 37×36÷2 = 666. Combinatorially, the triangular numbers are the "choose-two" numbers because they count the number of ways to pick 2 objects from a set of N objects (not counting the order by which you pick them).

37 crops up a lot here. Note that 407, 296, and 703 are all divisible by 37. Also note that if, against convention, you were to count 1 as being the first triangular (instead of the zeroth), then 703 would be the 37th triangular number.
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Anatomical diagram with many Fibonacci numbers, powers of two, and so on. Perhaps relates to the work of medieval artists, relating ideal proportions of the body in art to the Golden Section, and so forth.
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A clockface flanked by angelic figures. Perhaps taken from the frontispiece of a book.
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A square, with a dedication to the "Hyperborean Apollo" (in transliterated Greek, which I find more confusing to read than Greek itself, since I expect the letters to have their Greek values). Pythagoras was regarded by some as the incarnation of the Hyperborean Apollo. 296, the figure in the box, is four times 74, the figure at each edge. Pythagoras and his followers: saw a connection between music and mathematics, and discovered that notes in the scale were connected by mathematical ratios. For example, the ratio of the frequencies of two notes separated by a major third (e.g C and E) are 5/4. For a fourth (e.g. C and F), it is 4/3, and for a fifth (e.g. C and G), it is 3/2. Of course, they were quite correct about the mathematical underpinnings of harmony - see Jean-Philippe Rameau's classic text, "A Treatise on Harmony". In that sense, music is, indeed, math.
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An unrelated point I noticed when thinking about hexagonal numbers: a [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] track is called "Triangles and Rhombuses". You can make each hexagonal number from a triangular number plus a square (which can be drawn as a rhombus).I don't know whether [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] had this in mind when they named the track, but I just mention this for interest anyway. Examples of "triangular number" + + square" = "hexagonal number"

0 + 1 = 1, 3 + 4 = 7, 10 + 9 = 19, 21 + 16 = 37, 36 + 25 = 61, and so on.

If you want to work it out for yourself, use: Triangle(n) = n(n+1)/2 ♦ Rhombus(n) = n2 ♦ Hexagon(n) = 3n(n+1)-1
and show that: Triangle(2n-2) + Rhombus(n) = Hexagon(n)

Here's a picture, using some frames from one of my own animation sequences, to show how this works, geometrically:
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== Future Releases Theories ==
=== 2016 ===
[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] began 2016 by breaking their silence after "[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]" by releasing two new remixes one month apart from each other, [[NEVERMEN_-_Mr_Mistake|Mr Mistake by NEVERMEN]] and [[Odd_Nosdam_-_Sisters|Sisters by Odd Nosdam]]. The latter was accompanied by a video <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjoArxwW2E</ref> which was formally released on February 22nd. This led to some speculation that some new material could be in the works.

After a few months passed, they recaptured the attention of their fanbase with an innocuous post to their generally dormant [[Websites|social media accounts]] on June 6th, 2016, linking to an existing fan made video for "[[Macquarie Ridge]]". A month later, on July 7th they retweeted another fan video of the "[[Beck_-_Broken_Drum|Broken Drum by Beck]]" remix that had been posted to Twitter on July 2nd.

They tweeted once again, this time a Youtube link to "[[Peacock Tail]]" on July 31st. The last post raised some uncertainty as to whether they would continue posting in a 6/6, 7/7, 8/8 type frequency.

Around this same time, ASCAP entries for a release entitled "Harvest Ritual" and Untitled (Machinedrum reconstruction) were discovered <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437</ref>, but quickly disappeared after they were noticed and the former subsequently waved off <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13437&p=264601#p264601</ref> as an old ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' related entry by someone <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4155</ref> making their first (and still only) post on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]]. After 8/8 came and went, the next known date of interest was 8/22 (the 20th anniversary of the system date on the [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|Cosecha-transmisiones console]]) but this date also passed without incident.

With 8/8 and 22/8 eliminated as possibilities, what's the next date that would make sense for them to make another appearance out from the ether?

They finally posted a fan video for "[[Nothing Is Real]]" on August 24th which didn't seem to follow any type of previously speculated upon date related logic.

They posted again on October 14th, this time for the song "[[Left Side Drive]]".

Over the span of the few months described above, they had begun liking various fan posts on Twitter, seemingly at random, many of the fan posts including pleas for new material or involving the liking of tweets that included their own music. This activity slowed down as time went on, briefly peaking at 49 likes before dropping back down to 48 likes, before going up to 49 likes again in February 2017 - the original 49th liked post was deleted by its author, so keeping the tally set to 49 likes seemed important to them at this stage.

They posted a new fan video for "[[Open the Light]]" on December 8th, alongside a simultaneous heavy revamp of their [[Websites|Youtube channel]] playlists, which had been in need of some upkeep as by that time, as there were multiple broken or delisted videos from over the years. What was interesting about the "[[Open the Light]]" post is that it wasn't cross-posted to Facebook, the same as "[[Peacock Tail]]" back on July 31st. I feel that these omissions from their Facebook account weren't an accident but rather, those 2 entries were only relevant to a pattern that they were establishing at their Twitter account, but more on that in the Posting Details section.

Rather than a new release announcement at the end of the year, the Youtube video channel revamp seems to have joined the campaign midway to serve as a map of sorts, providing vague hints to assist in navigating the numeric trails being blazed at both their Facebook and Twitter accounts for those who were trying to pay attention. I'll go into more detail on that as the timeline continues to progress.

After the playlist revamp and the "[[Open the Light]]" posting on December 8th, they went silent for the rest of 2016.

=== 2017 ===

[[Boards of Canada|BoC]] returned to Twitter on March 28th, 2017 with a posting of the "[[Dayvan Cowboy]]" video. Shortly before this (sometime within the several hours prior to the Dayvan Cowboy post) they deleted an old tweet from March 11th, 2012.

=== Posting Details ===

==== Twitter ====

Now that the events have been summarized, it's time to get to the details. As described above, each social media network account seems to have its own unique pattern, but the same crucial end points. Twitter is the most plentiful (and therefore easiest to pick out a method to the madness) so it's best start to start there with a list of the dates and posts so far:

2016

6/6 - Macquarie Ridge - 3:06 AM CET

7/7 - Retweet of Broken Drum from 7/2 - 12:19PM ET (original tweet)

31/7 - Peacock Tail (2005) - 5:25PM GMT

24/8 - Nothing is Real (2013) - 12:57PM UTC

14/10 - Left Side Drive (2006) - 3:11AM MT

8/12 - Open the Light (1998) - 8:57AM UTC

2017

28/3 - Dayvan Cowboy (2005) - 6:56 MT

- The main pattern to follow for 2016 involved multiplying the date and month together for the posts when both numbers are divisible by 4. We add up to 24 in other even numbered months. We subtract down to 24 in odd numbered months, the odd months are also preceded by a retweet. For 2017, we may be multiplying in odd numbered months instead.

- "[[Macquarie Ridge]]" is unique (for now). I'm going to defer to Video Playlist entry 66 - Constants are Changing and say that we should subtract, not add or multiply these numbers.

- The other hint to multiply is when the timestamp ends in :57. The timestamp on the Cosecha console was 2:57 - potential nod to the number 70 2x(5x7)
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- The multiplication sum halves with each subsequent step, while alternating with the added/subtracted 24s, and de-increments by 4 hours each time it happens. (12:57 -> 08:57 -> ??:??)

- The multiplication steps for 2016 included a number from the previous multiplication based step, and carries over the number to the next step (ie. 24 - 8 - 8 - 12) meaning that the month of the current tweet will be part of the subsequent tweet's date. ie. August 24th means the 8 carries to December, giving us December 8th, etc. As of 2017, the first post (28/3) indicates that we may be reversing last year's rules (84 instead of 48, multiplying in odd months instead of even)

- They specify the year of release for "[[Peacock Tail]]", "[[Nothing Is Real]]", "[[Left Side Drive]]" and "[[Open the Light]]" in the title of the respective tweets. If treated as two pairs, they are both separated by 8 years. A look back at their discography determines that 2001 and 2009 as the only other remaining pair of year that functions this way.

- Based on the rules above, omitting any retweets, the main numeric pattern for 2016 should be read like this:

6/6 - 0

31/7 - 24

24/8 - 192

14/10 - 24

8/12 - 96

These are the posts for 2017 so far. I believe that 2017 will function like a mirror of 2016. The first post indicates that we may be targeting divisors of 84 (as opposed to 48 last year) and multiplying in odd months instead of even:

28/3 - 84

==== Broken Drum ====

All recent Twitter posts have specifically been part of this assumed large pattern, or have been related to promotion of a remix or physical release of some kind. That initial Broken Drum post didn't seem to make much sense in the scheme of things when it first came about, other than being a red herring that initially hinted toward a potentially more straightforward series of posts such as 6/6 7/7, 8/8, etc.

Going back to 2016, the Broken Drum retweet set up its own sub-pattern starting in July 2016. The original posting date (7/7) is obfuscated on Twitter because it's a retweet, but it was mentioned on the [[Twoism (messageboard)]] <ref>http://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=263668#p263668</ref> on the day that it was first posted. This means that there were posts on 7/7, 31/7, and 24/8 - the commonality is that the posts were separated by 24 days each. The retweet approach seems as if it was intentional, to separate it from the main pattern and hide the existence of the smaller pattern.

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==== Multiplication chain progression ====

Following the logic described previously, the multiplication related posts chain together like this. Think of it as a mirror, we stopped at 48 last year and now we're picking up at 84: If we follow last year's logic, we would pick up the 3 from March and use it as the date next time around.

24 x 8 | 8 x 12 < > 28 x 3 | ? x ?

==== Facebook ====

Much of the chatter from Twitter is omitted, but it seems that it has a potentially identical end goal, even if some of the same numbers are utilized in a different way. Note that only a single entry per "pair" makes it over to their Facebook account. This is what we know so far.

2016 - sum = 48

6 + 6 = 12

24 + 8 = 32

14 - 10 = 4

2017

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

? ? ? = ?

==== YouTube ====

Their approach to their [[Websites|YouTube playlist]] structure has been thoughtful and at times playful. Try subtracting the numbers of some of the entries from the overall number (145) to se what type of "companion" you end up with (for example, 72 and 73 are "[[Satellite Anthem Icarus|SATellite ANthem ICarus]]" and "[[XYZ]]", interesting after they spelled out L-M-N-O-P with their first few social media posts) You can also add some of the duplicate song values together to see where you end up. They might ask you to do something like "[[Split Your Infinities]]" when you find a third instance in the list of the first 2 songs that you added together, for example.

Example of a playlist easter egg:

* 7 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=7]

* 47 ("[[Dayvan Cowboy]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES02mWIJ2Tk&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=47]

* 74 ("[[A Is To B As B Is To C]]") [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3fsTjEY5c&list=PL221B13914A7EF3A2&index=74]

In the end, it's impressive to witness the care that went into assembling these playlists as a companion to what they have been establishing at their [[Websites|Twitter and Facebook accounts]]. It provides information that leads one to speculate on future posts. The only drawback to the playlist assembly is that due to the number of repeats, and the proximity of some of those repeats to each other, it detracts a bit from being able to appreciate the playlists at face value. The playlist construction definitely prioritizes the subliminal/easter egg aspects over providing a good flow for the everyday casual listener.

== References ==
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