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Societas x Tape is a 2 hour mixtape by Boards of Canada broadcast Sunday 23rd June 2019 on NTS Radio as part of WxAxRxP, Warp Records 30th anniversary celebration event. Mostly consisting of tracks by other artists, the mix was described by NTS as "a two-hour selection of mind melting offbeat psychedelia".

Tracks

1. Intro (short wave radio scan, "astrophysics, medicine, biology and technology") (0:00)
2. Jasper Van't Hof - Associations (0:32)
3. coL - This Flat Earth (3:31)
4. Heldon - Une Drôle de Journée (6:27)
5. Interlude (7:06)
6.  ? (piano, drums, synth, choir) [U1] (7:09)
7. Killing Joke - Unspeakable (Demo) (9:20)
8. Dolphins Into The Future - Dolphins Into The Future (A3, B1) (11:47)
9. Victrola - Maritime Tatami (13:49)
10. George Duke - Vulcan Mind Probe (18:10)
11. Flayer - Wanna Get Back Your Love (Mix 1) (20:53)
12.  ? (distorted electric guitar, Olson, Under The Coke Sign) [U2] (24:30)
13. Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger (25:14)
14. Interlude (WGBH Boston TV Logo, "your choice, five") (28:26)
15. Paul Hart - Prospect (28:44)
16. M. S. Subbulakshmi - Srimannarayana (31:44)
17. Esplendor Geométrico - Regeneración (34:00)
18. Interlude ("get a shot of protection, (chronical)-ly ill, the swine flu shot") (35:58)
19. Unknown instrumental cover of Ernesto Bonino - Non Passa Più, "thank you for not smoking" [U3] (36:22)
20. Boards of Canada - Untitled Remix (Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm, Imagination - Just an Illusion, Aquarius (Version 3)) (37:59)
21. Interlude (car rental ad - "anything, from an Astra to a Merc, and no mileage charge neither") (40:42)
22. Jupiter Prophet - 35.000 Feet (Challenger's Theme) (40:50)
23.  ? (drum, discordant noises) [U4] (42:10)
24. Interlude (Fausto Papetti - Un Homme Et Une Femme, Minute Maid Bing Crosby orange juice ad) (44:13)
25. Devo - Shrivel Up (45:43)
26. Stefan Zauner - Billy Miller (48:41)
27. Interlude ("here in the wind tunnel") (54:02)
28. These Trails - Garden Botanum (54:24)
29. Interlude ("here in the wind tunnel") (56:26)
30. Dreamers Cloth - The Coconut Pearl (B2) (57:03)
31. Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly (59:22)
32. Interlude (short wave radio scan) (59:43)
33. Alan Parker - The Free Life (B) (59:52)
34. Egberto Gismonti - Jardim de Prazeres (1:02:04)
35. Interlude ("mother goddess of the world"... "try to break, diagonal sideslip") (1:04:42)
36. Horrific Child - L'Etrange Mr Whinster (Frayeur, Angoisse) (1:05:08)
37. Severed Heads - We Have Come To Bless The House (1:06:45)
38. Morgan Page - Heartbeat (1:10:10)
39. Interlude (Casiotone 202 demo) (1:10:29)
40. Filmmaker - Crow Mask (1:10:58)
41. Suraiya - Ek Tu Ho Ek Main Hoon (1:13:58)
42. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Light in Darkness (1:16:13)
43. Hajime Tachibana ‎- XP41 (1:17:50)
44. Lena Platonos - Bloody Shadows from Afar (1:18:38)
45.  ? ("soon the queen will come our way") [U5] (1:21:54)
46. Sinking Ships - Strangers (1:22:43)
47. The Creed Taylor Orchestra - Heartaches (1:25:30)
48. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Osten Währt am Längsten (1:26:20)
49. Francis Rimbert & Frederick Rousseau - First Emotion (1:29:17)
50. Carl Matthews - Gura Ma (1:31:28)
51. Soul City Orchestra - Hot Day in Pimba (1:33:45)
52. Brian Chatton - Mood in Motion (1:33:52)
53. Christian Chevalier - Strange Pop (1:37:17)
54. Colourbox - Tarantula (12” Version 1) (1:40:36)
55. 33.10.3402 - Kanap (1:43:51)
56. Interlude (The Elegants - Little Star) (1:48:00)
57. One Foundation - Dance With Us Lord (1:49:59)
58.  ? (ambient) [U6] (1:51:45)
59.  ? (strings) [U7] (1:54:51)
60. Bruce Haack - Angel Child (1:55:23)
61. Christian Chevallier - Sea Cathedral (1:56:23)

Audio

MP3

sixtyniner provided two mp3s.^[1]

• 256kbps (NTS broadcast 2022-03-13)
• 128kbps (NTS broadcast 2019-06-23)

Soundcloud

Spotify

Note: due to the sheer amount of rarities included in this mixtape, not all songs are available on Spotify.

YouTube

2019 version

2022 version

Notes

• Track times are from the actual start of mixtape, excluding NTS indent.
• Artwork is a vintage 1970s photograph of a band playing at the Tomorrowland Terrace in Disneyland, California.
• The band in the photograph is playing under a coke sign, "Cement, Gravel, and Rock Co.", could possibly be the name of the act on stage.
• Track 43 was co-written by Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo. ^[2]
• Tracks 51 and 52 were sourced from Vinyl Factory Mix 10: Django Django (Library music special)
• [U#] marks unidentified tracks with their according numbers as used in community.

Lyrics

• Track at 1:21:54

On the hill starts a bright new day
Soon the queen will come our way
The hillside's a place to share
A place to grow, love and care

External links

• https://archive.org/details/WXAXRXP-NTS1/69.+BOARDS+OF+CANADA+-+SOCIETAS+X+TAPE.mp3
• https://soundcloud.com/user-481929878/boards-of-canada-societas-x-tape
• https://mega.nz/#F!qOZmGAQD!Ye7dE-2rl01VMKsO2QMScQ?TfBBVaLB
• https://www.nts.live/shows/wxaxrxp/episodes/boards-of-canada-23rd-june-2019

References

1. ↑ https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=304054#p304054
2. ↑ https://www.boojiboysbasement.com/product/m018/