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		+	"[[Somewhere Right Now In The Future]]" is the sixth track on [[Boards of Canada]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[Inferno]]''.
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	== Comments ==		== Comments ==
−	* A deliberately paradoxical phrase: "right now" and "in the future" collapsed into a single moment. In Christian, Hindu and Buddhist theology, God is often characterised as seeing all times simultaneously (the doctrine of divine eternity; in scholastic Latin, the ''nunc stans'' — the "standing now").	+
−	* Pairs with "[[You Retreat In Time And Space]]" and "[[I Saw Through Platonia]]" as the album's trio of time-transcendence titles &mdash; all three dismantling the listener's ordinary sense of duration.	+	The track's title is potentially a reference to a quote by [[Autechre]]'s Sean Booth when asked, during a 2022 livestream, whether he had any news on [[Boards of Canada]]'s whereabouts: <blockquote>They're probably in the future somewhere, worrying about why it isn't like the past.<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/boardsofcanada/comments/1pj1ity/sean_booth_from_autechre_on_the_whereabouts_of_boc/ "Sean Booth (from Autechre) on the whereabouts of BOC"], u/CraziestBoyEver, r/boardsofcanada on Reddit</ref><ref>{{#widget:YouTube|id=OdZv1PNxDcs|start=3305}}</ref></blockquote>
−	* Adjacent to the eschatological tradition: the Christian "Kingdom already, and not yet" &mdash; the future is already happening somewhere.	+
		+	* The track shares some similarities with the track "[[Statue Of Liberty]]" from ''[[Old Tunes Vol. 2]]''.
	== Samples / Lyrics ==		== Samples / Lyrics ==
−		+	* At 1:32, the sound of screeching tires - possibly of a car skidding off of a road - can be heard, later followed by a faint crashing sound at 1:41.
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		+	== Audio ==
		+	<spotify width="100%" height="380">track/2YOORTqQSXyjlo3Yvtk9F4 </spotify>
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		+	== See Also ==
		+	* [[Autechre]]
	== External links ==		== External links ==

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Somewhere Right Now In The Future
Running time	2:26
Appears on	Inferno (2026)
Next	Naraka
Prev	Father And Son

"Somewhere Right Now In The Future" is the sixth track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno.

Comments[edit]

The track's title is potentially a reference to a quote by Autechre's Sean Booth when asked, during a 2022 livestream, whether he had any news on Boards of Canada's whereabouts:

They're probably in the future somewhere, worrying about why it isn't like the past.^[1][2]

• The track shares some similarities with the track "Statue Of Liberty" from Old Tunes Vol. 2.

Samples / Lyrics[edit]

• At 1:32, the sound of screeching tires - possibly of a car skidding off of a road - can be heard, later followed by a faint crashing sound at 1:41.

Trivia[edit]

Videos[edit]

Audio[edit]

See Also[edit]

• Autechre

External links[edit]

References[edit]

1. ↑ "Sean Booth (from Autechre) on the whereabouts of BOC", u/CraziestBoyEver, r/boardsofcanada on Reddit
2. ↑