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ATP-07

2026-04-29T11:36:05Z

SpartaYoshi:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=ATP-07
| runtime=8:12
| appearson=[[Live @ ATP]]}}

''ATP-07'' is an unreleased track that was played as part of a live set at All Tomorrows Parties ([[Live @ ATP]]). Its official title is unknown.

A soundboard recording of the live performance is available, while its original mix remains unheard.

== Comments ==
* It is mainly believed to be an outtake demo from the "[[Geogaddi]]" sessions, performed live as a teaser on the gig among other (then) unfinished demos like "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" (track 4) or "[[Julie And Candy]]" (track 8). The track was likely later discarded for the final project release, in favor of other tracks that made it to the album.
* It has also been speculated that this track is a live performance of "[[Noatak]]" from Boards of Canada's unheard 1994 album ''[[Hooper Bay]]''. This is due to it being of a similar length to the ''Hooper Bay'' track, similarities between the high-pitched drone in the track's second half and the droning found in "[[Circle]]" (the only ''Hooper Bay'' track heard outside the band's friends and family), as well as the vocoded voice starting at 2:23 sounding like the word "Noatak" spoken in received pronunciation. However, there is no hard evidence to support this theory.
* [[ATP-07]] is structurally similar to "[[Nlogax]]" from [[Boards of Canada]]'s 1996 EP ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'', with a more straightforwardly techno-oriented first half followed by a gradual transition to a darker second half. The band stated in a [[A Bunker Full of Memories|1998 interview]]:
<blockquote>
"We sometimes make a tune metamorphose as it plays. An example is "[[Nlogax]]" from the ''[[Hi Scores]]'' EP on [[Skam]], which begins like an old electro or disco track but halfway through it suddenly becomes something nightmarish, like your brain is starting to malfunction in the middle of the tune. Psychedelics make music sound entirely different. Tiny details become massive, a five-minute track can feel like it's five hours long on psychedelics.
</blockquote>

== Samples/Lyrics ==
* 0:34 - A child saying "Louder!".
* 2:23 onward - A vocoded voice repeating an unintelligible phrase. Theories of what it says include the voice saying "Nowhere to talk", "Glow in the dark", "Electric Star" or "Noatak".
* 3:50 onward - A heavily processed and time-stretched sample of "Galactic Travel" by Peter Howell, which appears on ''[https://youtu.be/xw1vKPqOtO4?si=xEpAnNJ4jlPfS-QZ&t=73 Out of This World]'', a 1976 album by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop] which compiled various ambient pieces and sound effects used in BBC programmes.
* 5:20 onward - A woman saying "See the rainbow" or "Sing a rainbow". The latter option implies it may be a reference to a popular american nursery rhyme called "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Sing_a_Rainbow I Can Sing a Rainbow]".

Alternatively, the child at 0:34 could be saying "Robert". This may have been taken from an early episode of ''The Cosby Show'' in which the Cosby family meets Stevie Wonder. (not confirmed)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIm6xmOyO6Q</ref>

== Crowd noise ==
Before April 2026, only a few audience recordings were available. As an audience recording, there is constant noise throughout the recording from the crowd. As [[Boards of Canada]] has used vocal samples, including recordings of groups of people talking (perhaps most prominently in "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]"), many fans feel the ambient noise actually adds to the recording. At any rate, since the live version is the only known recording, listeners have become used to the noise as part of the track.

[[Twoism forum]] poster zeitgeist offers some interpretations of what's being said:

<blockquote>
so, i remember a similar thread awhile ago about distracting noises in the atp/warp live sets. i couldn't find it using search, so apologize if i'm retreading here. there's a hilarious (although fucking-annoying) moment in ATP track 7 where in my copy it sounds like someone getting hit in the face and the noises afterwards... i hope that's not a sample in the background?.... anyway, i just heard it because i'm baked for the first in awhile. figured i'd transcribe it. maybe you can hear it too?

(w=woman, m=man)

4:09 - [(W) "Oh fuck!"] 
4:11-4:13 - [(M) "Stop that, .....don't..put..that in her eyes!"] 
4:15 - [(W) "shit, man!"] 
4:32-4:36 - [(M) mumbling], [(W) "....shit...right in my eye!"], [(M) "it's ok."] 
4:38 - [(M) "it's only 'cuz it's used to the dark, that's all."] 
4:39 - [(W) "yeah, but it still hurts!"] 
4:45 - [(M) "You'll live.....it's only cuz your eyes are not used to the dark....your eyes are so (protected?)...your eyes...")

...or on second-thought, maybe the woman is tripping balls and is scared of the light. yea, that's definitely it.

the drama never stops.

EDIT: @ 8:22 - man says amongst clapping, "i wanna die!". hope that's in a "good" way.
</blockquote>

== Video ==
{{#ev:youtube|Il83Igqr6XM}}
{{#ev:youtube|SDAglAOcqy8}}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Unreleased tracks]]
[[Category: Live tracks]]

ATP-07

2026-04-28T11:20:55Z

SpartaYoshi: /* Comments */ Added geogaddi outtake comment

{{Infobox Song|
| name=ATP-07
| runtime=8:08
| appearson=[[Live @ ATP]]}}

''ATP-07'' is an unreleased track that was played as part of a live set at All Tomorrows Parties ([[Live @ ATP]]). No other recordings of this song are known to exist.

== Comments ==
* It is mainly believed to be an outtake demo from the "[[Geogaddi]]" sessions, featured as a teaser on the gig among other (then) unfinished demos like "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" (track 4) or "[[Julie And Candy]]" (track 8). The track was likely later discarded for the final project release, in favor of other tracks that made it to the album.
* It has also been speculated that this track is a live performance of "[[Noatak]]" from Boards of Canada's unheard 1994 album ''[[Hooper Bay]]''. This is due to it being of a similar length to the ''Hooper Bay'' track, similarities between the high-pitched drone in the track's second half and the droning found in "[[Circle]]" (the only ''Hooper Bay'' track heard outside the band's friends and family), as well as the vocoded voice starting at 2:23 sounding like the word "Noatak" spoken in received pronunciation. However, there is no hard evidence to support this theory.
* [[ATP-07]] is structurally similar to "[[Nlogax]]" from [[Boards of Canada]]'s 1996 EP ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'', with a more straightforwardly techno-oriented first half followed by a gradual transition to a darker second half. The band stated in a [[A Bunker Full of Memories|1998 interview]]:
<blockquote>
"We sometimes make a tune metamorphose as it plays. An example is "[[Nlogax]]" from the ''[[Hi Scores]]'' EP on [[Skam]], which begins like an old electro or disco track but halfway through it suddenly becomes something nightmarish, like your brain is starting to malfunction in the middle of the tune. Psychedelics make music sound entirely different. Tiny details become massive, a five-minute track can feel like it's five hours long on psychedelics.
</blockquote>

== Samples/Lyrics ==
* 0:34 - A child saying "Louder!".
* 2:23 onward - A vocoded voice repeating an unintelligible phrase. Theories of what it says include the voice saying "Nowhere to talk", "Glow in the dark", "Electric Star" or "Noatak".
* 3:50 onward - A heavily processed and time-stretched sample of "Galactic Travel" by Peter Howell, which appears on ''[https://youtu.be/xw1vKPqOtO4?si=xEpAnNJ4jlPfS-QZ&t=73 Out of This World]'', a 1976 album by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop] which compiled various ambient pieces and sound effects used in BBC programmes.
* 5:20 onward - A woman saying "See the rainbow" or "Sing a rainbow". The latter option implies it may be a reference to a popular american nursery rhyme called "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Sing_a_Rainbow I Can Sing a Rainbow]".

Alternatively, the child at 0:34 could be saying "Robert". This may have been taken from an early episode of ''The Cosby Show'' in which the Cosby family meets Stevie Wonder. (not confirmed)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIm6xmOyO6Q</ref>

== Crowd noise ==
As an audience recording, there is constant noise throughout the recording from the crowd. As [[Boards of Canada]] has used vocal samples, including recordings of groups of people talking (perhaps most prominently in "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]"), many fans feel the ambient noise actually adds to the recording. At any rate, since the live version is the only known recording, listeners have become used to the noise as part of the track.

[[Twoism forum]] poster zeitgeist offers some interpretations of what's being said:

<blockquote>
so, i remember a similar thread awhile ago about distracting noises in the atp/warp live sets. i couldn't find it using search, so apologize if i'm retreading here. there's a hilarious (although fucking-annoying) moment in ATP track 7 where in my copy it sounds like someone getting hit in the face and the noises afterwards... i hope that's not a sample in the background?.... anyway, i just heard it because i'm baked for the first in awhile. figured i'd transcribe it. maybe you can hear it too?

(w=woman, m=man)

4:09 - [(W) "Oh fuck!"] 
4:11-4:13 - [(M) "Stop that, .....don't..put..that in her eyes!"] 
4:15 - [(W) "shit, man!"] 
4:32-4:36 - [(M) mumbling], [(W) "....shit...right in my eye!"], [(M) "it's ok."] 
4:38 - [(M) "it's only 'cuz it's used to the dark, that's all."] 
4:39 - [(W) "yeah, but it still hurts!"] 
4:45 - [(M) "You'll live.....it's only cuz your eyes are not used to the dark....your eyes are so (protected?)...your eyes...")

...or on second-thought, maybe the woman is tripping balls and is scared of the light. yea, that's definitely it.

the drama never stops.

EDIT: @ 8:22 - man says amongst clapping, "i wanna die!". hope that's in a "good" way.
</blockquote>

== Video ==
{{#ev:youtube|SDAglAOcqy8}}
{{#ev:youtube|t82xzjJl2m8}}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Unreleased tracks]]
[[Category: Live tracks]]

ATP-07

2026-04-28T11:10:01Z

SpartaYoshi: /* Samples/Lyrics */ Mentioned nursery rhyme theory by u/nomis_j + few corrections after new rip

{{Infobox Song|
| name=ATP-07
| runtime=8:08
| appearson=[[Live @ ATP]]}}

''ATP-07'' is an unreleased track that was played as part of a live set at All Tomorrows Parties ([[Live @ ATP]]). No other recordings of this song are known to exist.

== Comments ==
* It has been speculated that this track is a reworked version of "[[Noatak]]" from Boards of Canada's unheard 1994 album ''[[Hooper Bay]]''. This is due to it being of a similar length to the ''Hooper Bay'' track, similarities between the high-pitched drone in the track's second half and the droning found in "[[Circle]]" (the only ''Hooper Bay'' track heard outside the band's friends and family), as well as the vocoded voice starting at 2:23 sounding like the word "Noatak" spoken in received pronunciation. However, there is no hard evidence to support this theory.
* [[ATP-07]] is structurally similar to "[[Nlogax]]" from [[Boards of Canada]]'s 1996 EP ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'', with a more straightforwardly techno-oriented first half followed by a gradual transition to a darker second half. The band stated in a [[A Bunker Full of Memories|1998 interview]]:
<blockquote>
"We sometimes make a tune metamorphose as it plays. An example is "[[Nlogax]]" from the ''[[Hi Scores]]'' EP on [[Skam]], which begins like an old electro or disco track but halfway through it suddenly becomes something nightmarish, like your brain is starting to malfunction in the middle of the tune. Psychedelics make music sound entirely different. Tiny details become massive, a five-minute track can feel like it's five hours long on psychedelics.
</blockquote>

== Samples/Lyrics ==
* 0:34 - A child saying "Louder!".
* 2:23 onward - A vocoded voice repeating an unintelligible phrase. Theories of what it says include the voice saying "Nowhere to talk", "Glow in the dark", "Electric Star" or "Noatak".
* 3:50 onward - A heavily processed and time-stretched sample of "Galactic Travel" by Peter Howell, which appears on ''[https://youtu.be/xw1vKPqOtO4?si=xEpAnNJ4jlPfS-QZ&t=73 Out of This World]'', a 1976 album by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop] which compiled various ambient pieces and sound effects used in BBC programmes.
* 5:20 onward - A woman saying "See the rainbow" or "Sing a rainbow". The latter option implies it may be a reference to a popular american nursery rhyme called "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Sing_a_Rainbow I Can Sing a Rainbow]".

Alternatively, the child at 0:34 could be saying "Robert". This may have been taken from an early episode of ''The Cosby Show'' in which the Cosby family meets Stevie Wonder. (not confirmed)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIm6xmOyO6Q</ref>

== Crowd noise ==
As an audience recording, there is constant noise throughout the recording from the crowd. As [[Boards of Canada]] has used vocal samples, including recordings of groups of people talking (perhaps most prominently in "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]"), many fans feel the ambient noise actually adds to the recording. At any rate, since the live version is the only known recording, listeners have become used to the noise as part of the track.

[[Twoism forum]] poster zeitgeist offers some interpretations of what's being said:

<blockquote>
so, i remember a similar thread awhile ago about distracting noises in the atp/warp live sets. i couldn't find it using search, so apologize if i'm retreading here. there's a hilarious (although fucking-annoying) moment in ATP track 7 where in my copy it sounds like someone getting hit in the face and the noises afterwards... i hope that's not a sample in the background?.... anyway, i just heard it because i'm baked for the first in awhile. figured i'd transcribe it. maybe you can hear it too?

(w=woman, m=man)

4:09 - [(W) "Oh fuck!"] 
4:11-4:13 - [(M) "Stop that, .....don't..put..that in her eyes!"] 
4:15 - [(W) "shit, man!"] 
4:32-4:36 - [(M) mumbling], [(W) "....shit...right in my eye!"], [(M) "it's ok."] 
4:38 - [(M) "it's only 'cuz it's used to the dark, that's all."] 
4:39 - [(W) "yeah, but it still hurts!"] 
4:45 - [(M) "You'll live.....it's only cuz your eyes are not used to the dark....your eyes are so (protected?)...your eyes...")

...or on second-thought, maybe the woman is tripping balls and is scared of the light. yea, that's definitely it.

the drama never stops.

EDIT: @ 8:22 - man says amongst clapping, "i wanna die!". hope that's in a "good" way.
</blockquote>

== Video ==
{{#ev:youtube|SDAglAOcqy8}}
{{#ev:youtube|t82xzjJl2m8}}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Unreleased tracks]]
[[Category: Live tracks]]

Inferno

2026-04-28T10:59:42Z

SpartaYoshi: Removed unconfirmed trivia theories about number and track length significance. The theories and connections are too much of a stretch to be presented as trivia.

{{Infobox Release|
| name=Inferno
| cover=Inferno cover.jpg
| release_date=29 May 2026
| format=Gatefold 2xLP Deluxe 2xLP CD Digital
| label=Warp Records
| catno=WARP496
| runtime=69:51 70:00 (Continuous Mix)
}}

'''''Inferno''''' is the upcoming fifth studio album by [[Boards of Canada]], scheduled for release on 29 May 2026 via [[Warp Records]]. It is the long-anticipated follow-up to their 2013 album ''[[Tomorrow's Harvest]]'' - a gap of nearly thirteen years preceded its release, the band's longest to date between albums.

__TOC__

{{WIP}}
== Tracks ==

# "[[Introit]]" – 0:36
# "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" – 5:04
# "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" – 4:44
# "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" – 3:52
# "[[Father And Son]]" – 3:24
# "[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" – 2:26
# "[[Naraka]]" – 5:01
# "[[Acts Of Magic]]" – 1:18
# "[[Memory Death]]" – 2:37
# "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" – 5:20
# "[[Into The Magic Land]]" – 4:35
# "[[Blood In The Labyrinth]]" – 4:55
# "[[Deep Time]]" – 3:18
# "[[All Reason Departs]]" – 6:14
# "[[Arena Americanada]]" – 5:22
# "[[The Process]]" – 3:01
# "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" – 5:25
# "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" – 2:39

== Leadup ==

''Main article: [[Road to Inferno]]''

Speculation for the album's release preceded its official announcement by over a decade, with the band and its associates sparsely giving out new information. Activity notably increased in 2025, including the band's Instagram account [[Road_to_Inferno#Instagram_Likes|liking comments related to a new album]], a [[Tomorrow's Harvest]]-era [[Cosecha-transmisiones.com|website]] [[Road_to_Inferno#Cosecha_Transmisiones|coming online once again]], and [[Road_to_Inferno#New_Merchandise|new merchandise being put on sale]]. For a more detailed look on the band's activities during this period, see the article [[Road to Inferno]].

== Promotional Campaign ==
''Main article: [[2026 Promo Campaign]]''

In early April 2026, multiple fans received unmarked VHS tapes through the mail, with sender addresses related to [[Warp Records|Warp]] and their online storefront [[Bleep.com|Bleep]]. About a week after, posters with imagery reminiscent of the band started appearing in multiple places around the UK and US. For an in-depth look at the days preceding the album's announcement, see the article [[2026 Promo Campaign]].

== Title and Themes ==

As a word, ''Inferno'' references hell and places reminiscent of it. It is the most explicit reference to religion and the occult since their 2002 album ''[[Geogaddi]]'' and 2000 EP ''[[In a Beautiful Place out in the Country (release)|In a Beautiful Place out in the Country]]''. The album's titles also heavily refer to concepts in cosmology and physics.

* An "[[Introit]]" is a song or psalm that is sung or recited at the beginning of a Christian mass.
* "[[Father And Son]]" could reference the Holy Trinity, which consists of the two and The Holy Spirit.
* "[[The Word Becomes Flesh]]" is a quotation from [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:14&version=NIV verse 1:14] of the Gospel of John.
* "[[Naraka]]" references the realm of hell seen in Indian religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
* "[[The Process]]" could refer to the Process Church of the Final Judgement, a new religious movement which briefly existed in the 1960s and 70s. ''The Process'' was the title of their magazine.
* "[[Prophecy At 1420 MHz]]" references the hydrogen line, a specific wavelength of radiation emitted by hydrogen as it undergoes a quantum transition. It has been used to investigate the properties of the universe, and search for extraterrestrial life.
* "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" refers to the first three elements of the periodic table and the mythical sea creature.
* "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" refers to the tenth sign of the astrological zodiac, and is the astrological age that follows the Age of Aquarius.
* "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" could refer to a concept by Julian Barbour of a realm called Platonia, which contains every possible configuration of the universe.

== Trivia ==

* ''Inferno'' has been assigned the catalog number WARP496. This seems to be a deliberate request from the band themselves, as preceding Warp releases such as Squarepusher's [https://warp.net/releases/576448-kammerkonzert/ Kammerkonzert] and Oneohtrix Point Never's [https://warp.net/releases/552598-tranquilizer/ Tranquilizer] have catalog numbers of 417 and 411, respectively.
** 496 is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number perfect number] and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_number hexagonal number].
* The Continuous Mix version runs for exactly 70 minutes. This seems to be deliberate, as 70 has carried meaning in the band's past releases. For example:
** [[Music70]] is the name of [[Mike Sandison|Mike]] and [[Marcus Eoin|Marcus]]'s own label.
** [[Sixtyten]] from [[Music Has the Right to Children|MHTRTC]] reads out as 70.
** [[The Smallest Weird Number]] from [[Geogaddi]] directly refers to 70, which is the smallest [[wikipedia:Weird number|weird number]]. Even though the track runs for 1:17, it cuts out at exactly 1:10, which is 70 seconds.

== Release Notes ==

== Quotes ==

== See Also ==

* [[Road to Inferno]]
* [[2026 Promo Campaign]]
* [[Discography]]
* [[Timeline]]
* [[Statements from Hexagon Sun]]

== External Links ==
=== Forums ===
* [https://forum.keyosc.com/topic/1980-inferno-may-29-2026/ Keyosc discussion: "Inferno" May 29 2026]
* [https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15631 Twoism discussion: General New Release Speculation Topic Part II]

=== Press ===
* [https://www.asatunews.co.id/en/boards-canada-announces-new-album Boards of Canada Announces New Album Inferno for May Release] (Asatunews)
* [https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/boards-of-canada-new-album-inferno-1236229593/ Boards of Canada set new album 'inferno'] (Billboard)
* [https://www.clashmusic.com/news/boards-of-canada-announce-new-album-inferno/ Boards Of Canada Announce New Album ‘Inferno’] (Clash Magazine)
* [https://consequence.net/2026/04/boards-of-canada-inferno-new-album/ Boards of Canada Announce New Album Inferno] (Consequence Sound)
* [https://djmag.com/news/boards-of-canada-announce-new-album-inferno Boards Of Canada announce new album, ‘Inferno’] (DJ Mag)
* [https://www.nme.com/news/music/boards-of-canada-announce-inferno-their-first-album-in-13-years-3941899 Boards Of Canada announce ‘Inferno’ – their first album in 13 years] (NME)
* [https://opus.ing/p/boards-of-canada-announce-new-album-titled-inferno Boards of Canada Announce New Album Titled Inferno] (Opus)
* [https://pitchfork.com/news/boards-of-canada-announce-new-album-inferno/ Boards of Canada Reveal New Album Inferno] (Pitchfork)
* [https://nl.ra.co/news/85026 Boards of Canada confirm new album, Inferno] (Resident Advisor)
* [https://rockshotmagazine.com/boards-of-canada-announce-long-awaited-new-album-inferno/ Boards Of Canada Announce Long-Awaited New Album ‘Inferno’] (Rockshot Magazine)
* [https://stereogum.com/2496646/boards-of-canada-announce-new-album-inferno/news Boards Of Canada Announce New Album Inferno] (Stereogum)
* [https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/boards-of-canada-reveal-details-of-inferno-first-new-album-in-13-years Boards of Canada reveal details of Inferno, first new album in 13 years] (The Line of Best Fit)
* [https://thequietus.com/news/boards-of-canada-announce-new-album-inferno/ Boards Of Canada Detail New Album, ‘Inferno’] (The Quietus)
* [https://weraveyou.com/2026/04/boards-of-canada-inferno-album-2026/ Boards of Canada announce new album ‘Inferno’ after 13-year break] (We Rave You)

=== Shops ===
* [https://www.crashrecords.co.uk/products/boards-of-canada-inferno-pre-order Crash Records]
* [https://www.hhv.de/en/records/item/boards-of-canada-inferno-1392710 HHV]
* [https://www.jumborecords.co.uk/music-single.asp?product_id=WARPCD496 Jumbo Records]
* [https://www.normanrecords.com/records/215515-boards-of-canada-inferno Norman Records]
* [https://www.roughtrade.com/en-de/artist/boards-of-canada Rough Trade]
* [https://thevaultcollectiveltd.co.uk/products/boards-of-canada-inferno The Vault Collective ltd]

=== Various ===
* [https://warp.net/artists/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Warp Records]
* [https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada Boards of Canada on Bleep]

== References ==
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== Artwork ==
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ATP-07

2026-04-12T16:09:04Z

SpartaYoshi: /* Video */ Replaced v1 with v2 of HQ restoration

{{Infobox Song|
| name=ATP-07
| runtime=8:08
| appearson=[[Live @ ATP]]}}

''ATP-07'' is an unreleased track that was played as part of a live set at All Tomorrows Parties ([[Live @ ATP]]). No other recordings of this song are known to exist.

== Comments ==
* It has been speculated that this track is a reworked version of "[[Noatak]]" from Boards of Canada's unheard 1994 album ''[[Hooper Bay]]''. This is due to it being of a similar length to the ''Hooper Bay'' track, similarities between the high-pitched drone in the track's second half and the droning found in "[[Circle]]" (the only ''Hooper Bay'' track heard outside the band's friends and family), as well as the vocoded voice starting at 2:23 sounding like the word "Noatak" spoken in received pronunciation. However, there is no hard evidence to support this theory.
* [[ATP-07]] is structurally similar to "[[Nlogax]]" from [[Boards of Canada]]'s 1996 EP ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'', with a more straightforwardly techno-oriented first half followed by a gradual transition to a darker second half. The band stated in a [[A Bunker Full of Memories|1998 interview]]:
<blockquote>
"We sometimes make a tune metamorphose as it plays. An example is "[[Nlogax]]" from the ''[[Hi Scores]]'' EP on [[Skam]], which begins like an old electro or disco track but halfway through it suddenly becomes something nightmarish, like your brain is starting to malfunction in the middle of the tune. Psychedelics make music sound entirely different. Tiny details become massive, a five-minute track can feel like it's five hours long on psychedelics.
</blockquote>

== Samples/Lyrics ==
* 0:34 - A child saying "Louder!".
* 2:23 onward - A vocoded female voice possibly saying "Electric Star", "Glow in the dark", or "Noatak".
* 3:50 onward - A heavily processed and time-stretched sample of "Galactic Travel" by Peter Howell, which appears on ''[https://youtu.be/xw1vKPqOtO4?si=xEpAnNJ4jlPfS-QZ&t=73 Out of This World]'', a 1976 album by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop] which compiled various ambient pieces and sound effects used in BBC programmes.
* 5:20 onward - A woman saying "See the rainbow".

Alternatively, the child at 0:34 could be saying "Robert". This may have been taken from an early episode of ''The Cosby Show'' in which the Cosby family meets Stevie Wonder. (not confirmed)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIm6xmOyO6Q</ref>

== Crowd noise ==
As an audience recording, there is constant noise throughout the recording from the crowd. As [[Boards of Canada]] has used vocal samples, including recordings of groups of people talking (perhaps most prominently in "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]"), many fans feel the ambient noise actually adds to the recording. At any rate, since the live version is the only known recording, listeners have become used to the noise as part of the track.

[[Twoism forum]] poster zeitgeist offers some interpretations of what's being said:

<blockquote>
so, i remember a similar thread awhile ago about distracting noises in the atp/warp live sets. i couldn't find it using search, so apologize if i'm retreading here. there's a hilarious (although fucking-annoying) moment in ATP track 7 where in my copy it sounds like someone getting hit in the face and the noises afterwards... i hope that's not a sample in the background?.... anyway, i just heard it because i'm baked for the first in awhile. figured i'd transcribe it. maybe you can hear it too?

(w=woman, m=man)

4:09 - [(W) "Oh fuck!"] 
4:11-4:13 - [(M) "Stop that, .....don't..put..that in her eyes!"] 
4:15 - [(W) "shit, man!"] 
4:32-4:36 - [(M) mumbling], [(W) "....shit...right in my eye!"], [(M) "it's ok."] 
4:38 - [(M) "it's only 'cuz it's used to the dark, that's all."] 
4:39 - [(W) "yeah, but it still hurts!"] 
4:45 - [(M) "You'll live.....it's only cuz your eyes are not used to the dark....your eyes are so (protected?)...your eyes...")

...or on second-thought, maybe the woman is tripping balls and is scared of the light. yea, that's definitely it.

the drama never stops.

EDIT: @ 8:22 - man says amongst clapping, "i wanna die!". hope that's in a "good" way.
</blockquote>

== Video ==
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== References ==
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[[Category: Unreleased tracks]]
[[Category: Live tracks]]

Whitewater

2026-02-28T15:07:11Z

SpartaYoshi: /* Videos */ Added 2026 hq version

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Whitewater
| runtime=6:09
| appearson=[[Boc Maxima]]}}

__TOC__

== Comments ==
* [Plaster] mentions several possible references: whitewater as in white water rafting.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*From the ''"I feel proud"'' speech from [[Sesame Street]]:
<blockquote>
"When I'm with a friend / then I feel proud, and there's a Proud Me, too. / When I'm with a friend / then I feel proud, and there's a Proud Me, too. / - Me, too. / Right now, I'm the Loving Me; isn't he cute? And after I've done a real good job - I've cleaned my room, or something like that - then I feel proud, and there's a Proud Me, too. And when I'm with a friend, and we're having a good time, then I'm the Happy Me. But when my friend has to go home, then I feel a little sad, so I turn into the Sad Me. Anyway, there sure are a lot of different Me's, just like you have a lot of different You's. Well, we're going outside to - outside to play now, I hope all the different You's have fun, too! Bye!"
</blockquote>
* The voice has been distorted so that it no longer sounds like a child. Vocals come in at 1'57", and begin again at 2'56", 3'55", 4'54". The last time the vocals come in, they fade out at 5'40", at ''"anyway, there sure are a lot -"''.
** The original vocals found in the [[Sesame Street]] clip: MP3 sample.<ref>[[File:Different-mes-orig.mp3]]</ref>
** Modified to make it sound (marginally) more like the vocals as they are heard in [[Whitewater]]: MP3 sample.<ref>[[File:Different-mes-modified.mp3]]</ref>
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* From 2:40 to 5:09 there is looped sample that is analogous to sharp nasal breathing or rushing water.
* Furthermore, from 2:40 to 5:09, there is a persistent drum pattern overlaying the background percussion that resembles a beating heart.

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==
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== References ==
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[[Category: Released tracks]]
[[Category: Boc Maxima tracks]]

Echus

2026-02-01T13:24:21Z

SpartaYoshi: Corrected runtime

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Echus
| runtime=6:17
| appearson=[[ATP]]}}

== Comments ==

* The opening tune from the [[ATP|ATP festival]] is relatively slow-paced when compared to the rest of the brothers' discography. It features deep, warm sounding synths that are played very slowly and segue into each other. This track may be an early precursor to [[Dayvan Cowboy]], as the harmonic progression is very much the same, and the upper line often resembles the cello melody heard in the later track.

* A 20 to 30 second snippet<ref>https://soundcloud.com/user-481929878/boards-of-canada-echus-snippet</ref> of this track is played in the [http://www.facebook.com/pages/All-Tomorrows-Parties-Film/49909573410 All Tomorrow's Parties Film]. It's played over footage of concert goers walking around the holiday homes at dawn. The songs listed at the end credit this song as "[[Echus]]", written by [[Marcus Eoin]] and [[Michael Sandison]] and performed by [[Boards of Canada]].

== Notes ==
* An accurate cover has been made by Mansin.<ref>{{#ev:youtube|8WCIVoXy34o|480|||||false}}</ref>

== Videos ==
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== References ==
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[[Category:Unreleased tracks]]

Wouldn't You Like To Be Free

2026-01-31T11:09:34Z

SpartaYoshi: /* Videos */ Added restoration by IcarusTCH

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Wouldn't You Like To Be Free
| runtime=5:40
| appearson=[[Play By Numbers]]}}

== Comments ==
* Based on a Yahoo Groups post from an associate of the band, the title is likely pulled from a lyric from [https://youtu.be/kCbMjaoiOOA?t=86 Golden Avatar - Bhagavad-Gita] off their album [https://www.discogs.com/master/71070-Golden-Avatar-A-Change-Of-Heart A Change of Heart].<ref>https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10529&p=285420#p285420</ref>
* A minute-long snippet from this track is the only known sample of ''[[Play by Numbers]]'' to be heard outside the brothers' friends and family.
* About 25 seconds into the sample, a drumbeat very similar to the one used in "[[Triangles and Rhombuses]]" is heard.

== Samples / Lyrics ==
*The snare sample used in this track is taken from Zero G's 1992 CD-ROM sample library [https://www.discogs.com/release/4438093 Datafile 3].<ref>https://youtu.be/H4DG5CEn36E?si=Xs47tLPCwbg37a4J&t=1077</ref> It is also present in "[[R35TT B09]]" from the [[Random 35 Tracks Tape]] as both tracks use the same drum beat.<ref>https://on.soundcloud.com/vRyC8x1TYtKe8L4eaY</ref>

== Trivia ==

== Videos ==
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== External links==

== References ==
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[[Category: Unreleased tracks]]
[[Category:Play By Numbers tracks]]

Echus

2026-01-31T00:11:46Z

SpartaYoshi: /* Videos */ Added HQ restoration

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Echus
| runtime=6:24
| appearson=[[ATP]]}}

== Comments ==

* The opening tune from the [[ATP|ATP festival]] is relatively slow-paced when compared to the rest of the brothers' discography. It features deep, warm sounding synths that are played very slowly and segue into each other. This track may be an early precursor to [[Dayvan Cowboy]], as the harmonic progression is very much the same, and the upper line often resembles the cello melody heard in the later track.

* A 20 to 30 second snippet<ref>https://soundcloud.com/user-481929878/boards-of-canada-echus-snippet</ref> of this track is played in the [http://www.facebook.com/pages/All-Tomorrows-Parties-Film/49909573410 All Tomorrow's Parties Film]. It's played over footage of concert goers walking around the holiday homes at dawn. The songs listed at the end credit this song as "[[Echus]]", written by [[Marcus Eoin]] and [[Michael Sandison]] and performed by [[Boards of Canada]].

== Notes ==
* An accurate cover has been made by Mansin.<ref>{{#ev:youtube|8WCIVoXy34o|480|||||false}}</ref>

== Videos ==
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== References ==
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[[Category:Unreleased tracks]]

ATP-07

2026-01-25T21:52:37Z

SpartaYoshi: Corrected runtime

{{Infobox Song|
| name=ATP-07
| runtime=8:08
| appearson=[[Live @ ATP]]}}

''ATP-07'' is an unreleased track that was played as part of a live set at All Tomorrows Parties ([[Live @ ATP]]). No other recordings of this song are known to exist.

== Comments ==
* It has been speculated that this track is a reworked version of "[[Noatak]]" from Boards of Canada's unheard 1994 album ''[[Hooper Bay]]''. This is due to it being of a similar length to the ''Hooper Bay'' track, similarities between the high-pitched drone in the track's second half and the droning found in "[[Circle]]" (the only ''Hooper Bay'' track heard outside the band's friends and family), as well as the vocoded voice starting at 2:23 sounding like the word "Noatak" spoken in received pronunciation. However, there is no hard evidence to support this theory.
* [[ATP-07]] is structurally similar to "[[Nlogax]]" from [[Boards of Canada]]'s 1996 EP ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'', with a more straightforwardly techno-oriented first half followed by a gradual transition to a darker second half. The band stated in a [[A Bunker Full of Memories|1998 interview]]:
<blockquote>
"We sometimes make a tune metamorphose as it plays. An example is "[[Nlogax]]" from the ''[[Hi Scores]]'' EP on [[Skam]], which begins like an old electro or disco track but halfway through it suddenly becomes something nightmarish, like your brain is starting to malfunction in the middle of the tune. Psychedelics make music sound entirely different. Tiny details become massive, a five-minute track can feel like it's five hours long on psychedelics.
</blockquote>

== Samples/Lyrics ==
* 0:34 - A child saying "Louder!".
* 2:23 onward - A vocoded female voice possibly saying "Electric Star", "Glow in the dark", or "Noatak".
* 3:50 onward - A heavily processed and time-stretched sample of "Galactic Travel" by Peter Howell, which appears on ''[https://youtu.be/xw1vKPqOtO4?si=xEpAnNJ4jlPfS-QZ&t=73 Out of This World]'', a 1976 album by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop] which compiled various ambient pieces and sound effects used in BBC programmes.
* 5:20 onward - A woman saying "See the rainbow".

Alternatively, the child at 0:34 could be saying "Robert". This may have been taken from an early episode of ''The Cosby Show'' in which the Cosby family meets Stevie Wonder. (not confirmed)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIm6xmOyO6Q</ref>

== Crowd noise ==
As an audience recording, there is constant noise throughout the recording from the crowd. As [[Boards of Canada]] has used vocal samples, including recordings of groups of people talking (perhaps most prominently in "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]"), many fans feel the ambient noise actually adds to the recording. At any rate, since the live version is the only known recording, listeners have become used to the noise as part of the track.

[[Twoism forum]] poster zeitgeist offers some interpretations of what's being said:

<blockquote>
so, i remember a similar thread awhile ago about distracting noises in the atp/warp live sets. i couldn't find it using search, so apologize if i'm retreading here. there's a hilarious (although fucking-annoying) moment in ATP track 7 where in my copy it sounds like someone getting hit in the face and the noises afterwards... i hope that's not a sample in the background?.... anyway, i just heard it because i'm baked for the first in awhile. figured i'd transcribe it. maybe you can hear it too?

(w=woman, m=man)

4:09 - [(W) "Oh fuck!"] 
4:11-4:13 - [(M) "Stop that, .....don't..put..that in her eyes!"] 
4:15 - [(W) "shit, man!"] 
4:32-4:36 - [(M) mumbling], [(W) "....shit...right in my eye!"], [(M) "it's ok."] 
4:38 - [(M) "it's only 'cuz it's used to the dark, that's all."] 
4:39 - [(W) "yeah, but it still hurts!"] 
4:45 - [(M) "You'll live.....it's only cuz your eyes are not used to the dark....your eyes are so (protected?)...your eyes...")

...or on second-thought, maybe the woman is tripping balls and is scared of the light. yea, that's definitely it.

the drama never stops.

EDIT: @ 8:22 - man says amongst clapping, "i wanna die!". hope that's in a "good" way.
</blockquote>

== Video ==
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{{#ev:youtube|SDAglAOcqy8}}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Unreleased tracks]]
[[Category: Live tracks]]

ATP-07

2026-01-25T21:50:57Z

SpartaYoshi: /* Video */ Provided HQ clean restored version

{{Infobox Song|
| name=ATP-07
| runtime=8:26
| appearson=[[Live @ ATP]]}}

''ATP-07'' is an unreleased track that was played as part of a live set at All Tomorrows Parties ([[Live @ ATP]]). No other recordings of this song are known to exist.

== Comments ==
* It has been speculated that this track is a reworked version of "[[Noatak]]" from Boards of Canada's unheard 1994 album ''[[Hooper Bay]]''. This is due to it being of a similar length to the ''Hooper Bay'' track, similarities between the high-pitched drone in the track's second half and the droning found in "[[Circle]]" (the only ''Hooper Bay'' track heard outside the band's friends and family), as well as the vocoded voice starting at 2:23 sounding like the word "Noatak" spoken in received pronunciation. However, there is no hard evidence to support this theory.
* [[ATP-07]] is structurally similar to "[[Nlogax]]" from [[Boards of Canada]]'s 1996 EP ''[[Hi Scores (release)|Hi Scores]]'', with a more straightforwardly techno-oriented first half followed by a gradual transition to a darker second half. The band stated in a [[A Bunker Full of Memories|1998 interview]]:
<blockquote>
"We sometimes make a tune metamorphose as it plays. An example is "[[Nlogax]]" from the ''[[Hi Scores]]'' EP on [[Skam]], which begins like an old electro or disco track but halfway through it suddenly becomes something nightmarish, like your brain is starting to malfunction in the middle of the tune. Psychedelics make music sound entirely different. Tiny details become massive, a five-minute track can feel like it's five hours long on psychedelics.
</blockquote>

== Samples/Lyrics ==
* 0:34 - A child saying "Louder!".
* 2:23 onward - A vocoded female voice possibly saying "Electric Star", "Glow in the dark", or "Noatak".
* 3:50 onward - A heavily processed and time-stretched sample of "Galactic Travel" by Peter Howell, which appears on ''[https://youtu.be/xw1vKPqOtO4?si=xEpAnNJ4jlPfS-QZ&t=73 Out of This World]'', a 1976 album by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop] which compiled various ambient pieces and sound effects used in BBC programmes.
* 5:20 onward - A woman saying "See the rainbow".

Alternatively, the child at 0:34 could be saying "Robert". This may have been taken from an early episode of ''The Cosby Show'' in which the Cosby family meets Stevie Wonder. (not confirmed)<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIm6xmOyO6Q</ref>

== Crowd noise ==
As an audience recording, there is constant noise throughout the recording from the crowd. As [[Boards of Canada]] has used vocal samples, including recordings of groups of people talking (perhaps most prominently in "[[Turquoise Hexagon Sun]]"), many fans feel the ambient noise actually adds to the recording. At any rate, since the live version is the only known recording, listeners have become used to the noise as part of the track.

[[Twoism forum]] poster zeitgeist offers some interpretations of what's being said:

<blockquote>
so, i remember a similar thread awhile ago about distracting noises in the atp/warp live sets. i couldn't find it using search, so apologize if i'm retreading here. there's a hilarious (although fucking-annoying) moment in ATP track 7 where in my copy it sounds like someone getting hit in the face and the noises afterwards... i hope that's not a sample in the background?.... anyway, i just heard it because i'm baked for the first in awhile. figured i'd transcribe it. maybe you can hear it too?

(w=woman, m=man)

4:09 - [(W) "Oh fuck!"] 
4:11-4:13 - [(M) "Stop that, .....don't..put..that in her eyes!"] 
4:15 - [(W) "shit, man!"] 
4:32-4:36 - [(M) mumbling], [(W) "....shit...right in my eye!"], [(M) "it's ok."] 
4:38 - [(M) "it's only 'cuz it's used to the dark, that's all."] 
4:39 - [(W) "yeah, but it still hurts!"] 
4:45 - [(M) "You'll live.....it's only cuz your eyes are not used to the dark....your eyes are so (protected?)...your eyes...")

...or on second-thought, maybe the woman is tripping balls and is scared of the light. yea, that's definitely it.

the drama never stops.

EDIT: @ 8:22 - man says amongst clapping, "i wanna die!". hope that's in a "good" way.
</blockquote>

== Video ==
{{#ev:youtube|xlIFUtqXvnk}}
{{#ev:youtube|SDAglAOcqy8}}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category: Unreleased tracks]]
[[Category: Live tracks]]