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

#	artist	title	position
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	[U1]	? (piano, drums, synth, choir)	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	[U2]	? (distorted electric guitar, Olson, Under The Coke Sign)	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	[U3]	Unknown instrumental cover of Ernesto Bonino - Non Passa Più, "thank you for not smoking"	36:22
20	Boards of Canada - Grace Jones - Imagination	Untitled Remix - Slave To The Rhythm - 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	[U4]	? (drum, discordant noises)	42:10
24	Fausto Papetti	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	[U5]	? ("soon the queen will come our way")	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)	1:40:46
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	[U6]	? (ambient)	1:51:45
59	[U7]	? (strings)	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.

• 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.
• Track 43 was co-written by Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo.
• 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