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Prophecy At 1420 MHz
Running time	5:04
Appears on	Inferno
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"Prophecy At 1420 MHz" is the second track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno. It was released alongside "Introit" on May 7th, 2026, as the album's lead single.

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Samples / Lyrics

The vocal heard over the track is sampled from "In the Beginning Was Consciousness", a lecture by Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr at Harvard Divinity School on May 1, 2003. ^[1] The lyrics are spliced together from different parts of the lecture and Q&A.
Timestamps in the table below correspond to the referenced youtube video of the lecture. Words and phrases from the lecture may have been combined to create new phrases, or the exact source of a lyric may not have been discovered yet. Words/phrases shown in parentheses below are assumed and have not had exact samples discovered.

Timestamp	Lyric	Notes
Multiple	End
1:17:26	Nothingness
1:08:17	Comes to the greater awareness of itself
0:04:32	Divine intellect
1:01:17	I am the truth
1:16:56	Extinction
0:41:53	(A vision) of reality	"a vision" precedes "of reality" in the lecture but may not match the lyrics
Multiple	Consciousness
1:01:11	I am god
0:31:30	The ultimate
1:24:36	Resonance
1:26:15	Spirit and the soul, or the psyche
1:26:49	(Conscious) transcendent source	"Conscious" does not precede "transcendent source" and may be sourced elsewhere
1:27:24	Seat of consciousness
Multiple	Power
1:04:05	It is in a sense the religion of the modern world
1:22:07	The scientific view of nature
1:24:49	Synchronicity
1:24:54	Consciousness has operational effect
1:25:02	Cause and effect
1:17:26	Nothingness
1:23:05	The absolute truth

Trivia

1420 MHz is the resonance frequency of hydrogen, the most commonly-occurring element in the universe. This frequency is part of a "protected spectrum", reserved for astronomical/extraterrestrial research; terrestrial transmissions on this frequency are forbidden. The frequency is often mentioned in the context of the "Wow! signal", an unexplained signal (with this frequency) that was detected on August 15th, 1977.^[2]

Videos

The split music video for the song was released on May 7th, 2026, through the band's official YouTube channel.
It is directed by Robert Beatty and produced by Greg Burne of Big Active.

Audio

External links

References

[1] ↑

[2] wikipedia:Wow!_signal

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 | [https://youtu.be/oJbASTsjxE8?t=272 0:04:32] || Divine intellect ||
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-| [https://youtu.be/oJbASTsjxE8?t=3677 1:01:17] || I am the truth (and so forth) || "and so forth" were the following words in the lecture, though not audible in the song. Possibly spliced from a different part of the lecture or otherwise modified
+| [https://youtu.be/oJbASTsjxE8?t=3677 1:01:17] || I am the truth ||
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 | [https://youtu.be/fIjW1z-ZAX8?t=4616 1:16:56] || Extinction ||
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-| [https://youtu.be/oJbASTsjxE8?t=2513 0:41:53] || (A vision) of reality ||
+| [https://youtu.be/oJbASTsjxE8?t=2513 0:41:53] || (A vision) of reality || "a vision" precedes "of reality" in the lecture but may not match the lyrics
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 | Multiple || Consciousness ||
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 | [https://youtu.be/fIjW1z-ZAX8?t=5175 1:26:15] || Spirit and the soul, or the psyche ||
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-| [https://youtu.be/fIjW1z-ZAX8?t=5209 1:26:49] || (Conscious) transcendent source || "Conscious" does not proceed "transcendent source" and may be sourced elsewhere
+| [https://youtu.be/fIjW1z-ZAX8?t=5209 1:26:49] || (Conscious) transcendent source || "Conscious" does not precede "transcendent source" and may be sourced elsewhere
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 | [https://youtu.be/fIjW1z-ZAX8?t=5244 1:27:24] || Seat of consciousness ||