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

Timestamp	Artist	Title	YouTube
0:00:00		Intro (short wave radio scan, "astrophysics, medicine, biology and technology")
0:00:32	Jasper Van't Hof	Associations	YouTube
0:03:31	coL	This Flat Earth	YouTube
0:06:27	Heldon	Une Drôle de Journée	YouTube
0:07:06		Interlude
0:07:09	[U1]	? (piano, drums, synth, choir)
0:09:20	Killing Joke	Unspeakable (Demo)	YouTube
0:11:47	Dolphins Into The Future	Dolphins Into The Future (A3, B1)	YouTube
0:13:49	Victrola	Maritime Tatami	YouTube
0:18:10	George Duke	Vulcun Mind Probe	YouTube
0:20:53	Flayer	Wanna Get Back Your Love	YouTube
0:24:30	[U2]	? (distorted electric guitar, Olson, Under The Coke Sign)
0:25:14	Doxa Sinistra	The Other Stranger	YouTube
0:28:26	Gershon Kingsley	WGBH Boston ident	YouTube
0:28:29		Metromedia 5 WNEW ident (Your choice is 5)	YouTube
0:28:44	Paul Hart	Prospect	YouTube
0:31:44	M. S. Subbulakshmi	Srimannarayana	YouTube
0:34:00	Esplendor Geométrico	Regeneración	YouTube
0:35:58		Interlude - 1976 Swine Flu Shot TV PSA	YouTube
0:36:22	Boards of Canada	Cover/sample of "Non Passa Piu", original artist Ernesto Bonino	YouTube
0:37:59	Boards of Canada	Illusion Remix (elements from Imagination, Grace Jones, Blue Aquarius, Boards Of Canada)
0:40:42		Interlude (car rental ad - "anything, from an Astra to a Merc, and no mileage charge neither")
0:40:50	Jupiter Prophet	35.000 Feet (Challenger's Theme)	YouTube
0:42:10	[U4]	? (drum, discordant noises)
0:44:13	Fausto Papetti	Un Homme Et Une Femme	YouTube
0:44:39		Minute Maid Bing Crosby orange juice ad	YouTube
0:45:43	Devo	Shrivel Up	YouTube
0:48:41	Stefan Zauner	Billy Miller	YouTube
0:54:02		Interlude ("here in the wind tunnel")	YouTube
0:54:24	These Trails	Garden Botanum	YouTube
0:57:03	Dreamers Cloth	The Coconut Pearl (B2)	YouTube
0:59:22	Pauline Oliveros	Bye Bye Butterfly	YouTube
0:59:43		Interlude (short wave radio scan)
0:59:52	Alan Parker	The Free Life (B)	YouTube
1:02:04	Egberto Gismonti	Jardim de Prazeres	YouTube
1:04:42		Interlude from The Man Who Skied Down Everest
1:05:08	Horrific Child	Frayeur, Angoisse	YouTube
1:06:45	Severed Heads	We Have Come To Bless The House	YouTube
1:10:10	Morgan Page	Heartbeat
1:10:29	n/a	Interlude (Casiotone 202 demo)	YouTube
1:10:58	Filmmaker	Crow Mask	YouTube
1:13:58	Suraiya	Ek Tu Ho Ek Main Hoon	YouTube
1:16:13	Yellow Magic Orchestra	Light in Darkness	YouTube
1:17:50	Hajime Tachibana	XP41	YouTube
1:18:38	Lena Platonos	Αιμάτινες Σκιές Από Απόσταση (Bloody Shadows from Afar)	YouTube
1:21:54	[U5]	? ("soon the queen will come our way")
1:22:43	Sinking Ships	Strangers	YouTube
1:25:30	The Creed Taylor Orchestra	Heartaches	YouTube
1:26:20	Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft	Osten Währt am Längsten	YouTube
1:29:17	Francis Rimbert	First Emotion	YouTube
1:29:17	Frederick Rosseau
1:31:28	Carl Matthews	Gura Ma	YouTube
1:33:45	Soul City Orchestra	Hot Day in Pimba	YouTube
1:33:52	Brian Chatton	Mood in Motion	YouTube
1:37:17	Christian Chevalier	Strange Pop	YouTube
1:40:46	Colourbox	Tarantula (12” Version 1)	YouTube
1:43:51	33.10.3402	Kanap	YouTube
1:48:00	The Elegants	Little Star (reversed)	YouTube
1:49:59	One Foundation	Dance With Us Lord	YouTube
1:51:45	[U6]	? (ambient)
1:54:51	[U7]	? (strings)
1:55:23	Bruce Haack	Angel Child	YouTube
1:56:23	Christian Chevallier	Sea Cathedral	YouTube

Audio

MP3

sixtyniner provided two mp3s.

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

Soundcloud

NTS Monday · Boards of Canada - Societas x Tape 230619

Spotify

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

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.
• Hajime Tachibana - XP41 was co-written by Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo.
• Hot Day In Pimba and Mood In Motion 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
• https://inverted-audio.com/warp-records-celebrate-30-year-anniversary-with-wxaxrxp-89-infinity/